There’s a local car dealership in Philadelphia that always ends its television ads with the owner of the dealership saying, “I’ve always been your dealer, even if you didn’t know it.” It may seem weirdly disjointed to summon a car dealer slogan for my inaugural newsletter entry as the new chair of the Psychotherapy Commission, but this slogan uniquely captures my sincere wish and desire: ACPE is your home for spiritually integrative psychotherapy. ACPE's Psychotherapy Commission wants to make sure you and other professionals in our field know it. |
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In 2017, I took what might have been the biggest risk of my professional life. I left a job and colleagues that I dearly loved to come work at ACPE. It was a time of great transition for ACPE, and I was excited about what I could bring to the role of supporting our educators and programs. We embarked on a two-year campaign to visit all our accredited CPE centers, to meet with stakeholders, answer questions about the changes, and build connections with the more centralized ACPE infrastructure. |
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Current contact information is vital to foster a well-informed and connected community. Please log in to the ACPE website to review your contact information in our database to ensure you receive important association news on time. While logged in, upload a picture. We would love to see your smiling face in the directory! |
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators who are working with Educator Candidates to join us for informal consultations.
For 2022 the first meting will be on February 7, 2022 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET.
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The deadline to declare for the Spring 2022 Certification Subcommittees for CECs in the "old" certification process is February 28. Anyone wanting to meet a subcommittee this spring for Certification must fill out the Letter of Intent/Appx 10. Sheilah Hawk will invoice you the $100 Meeting Fee upon receipt of the completed form. Email certification@acpe.edu with any questions.
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ACPE and APC invite you to support our efforts to provide this critical and dynamic educational program for our professionals in spiritual care. Your support will help us to bring the dream of healing this hurting world into reality, so that together we may create a better future for all. |
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Last week, the ACPE Foundation board held a half-day planning retreat to discuss how we might use our healthy endowment to positively support ACPE's commitment to becoming an anti-racist organization. Several exciting goals came from that meeting, and the Foundation board will work with the ACPE board, staff, and members to share and roll out these initiatives within the next few months. Stay tuned! |
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The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab is giving away copies of the forthcoming textbook Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century. Enter for a chance to win; copies will be shipped as soon as they are available from the publisher. |
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The ACPE Psychotherapy Commission is excited to announce its 2022 Psychotherapy Webinar Series! These webinars are provided free of charge to ACPE members, as a benefit of membership.
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The Foundation for ACPE Service Awards Committee invites you to nominate yourself or a colleague for recognition of outstanding contributions or service to ACPE, the field(s) of spiritual care, pastoral counseling, and/or psychotherapy.
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Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members.
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Carrie Newcomer was the keynote with Parker Palmer at our national conference in 2017. In addition to her catalog of folk music, she has written two collections of poetry. This blessing seems apt for the times in which we find ourselves: |
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Blessing
by Carrie Newcomer
May you wake with a sense of play,
An exultation of the possible.
May you rest without guilt,
Satisfied at the end of a day well done.
May all the rough edges be smoothed,
If to smooth is to heal,
And the edges be left rough,
When the unpolished is more true
And infinitely more interesting.
May you wear your years like a well-tailored coat
Or a brave sassy scarf.
May every year yet to come:
Be one more bright button
Sewn on a hat you wear at a tilt.
May the friendships you’ve sown
Grown tall as summer corn.
And the things you’ve left behind,
Rest quietly in the unchangeable past.
May you embrace this day,
Not just as any old day,
But as this day.
Your day.
Held in trust
By you,
In a singular place,
Called now.
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Some beautiful images from Thich Nhat Hahn’s funeral:
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This Week on the Calendar |
January 31
Birthday of Guru Har Rai (Sikhism)
Guru Har Rai (1630-1661) was the seventh of the 10 human-form Sikh Gurus. He is celebrated for his compassion for life and living things. Tradition says that at a young age, he was disturbed by the suffering of a flower after he accidentally damaged it in passing. This strong compassion continued throughout his life and his work
February 1
Imbolc (Wicca)
A celebration of beginning growth and the divine generative powers from which physical and spiritual harvests will come. Imbolc is often an initiatory period.
Saint Brigid of Kildare (Celtic Christianity)
Saint Brigid of Kildare lived from 451 to 525 C.E. and is one of Ireland's patron saints. She was an Irish Christian nun, and the founder of several convents including Kildare Abbey, one of the most prestigious abbeys in Ireland.
Lunar New Year (Confucian, Christianity, Daoist and Buddhism)
Also known as the Spring Festival, an important festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. The most important holiday for the Chinese, the New Year is a time to reflect on the past and celebrate the future. This is a 15-day celebration with each day having special significance.
February 2
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Orthodox Christianity)
Commemorates Mary and Joseph’s presentation of the child Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem, as required by Mosaic Law. In the Eastern churches, this day is known as the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord.
February 3
Setsubun-sai (Shinto)
A family celebration of the end of winter; beans are thrown into rooms of a house for good luck, with the shout, “Devils out, Fortune in!”
February 6
Mulk (Bahá’í)
Beginning of the eighteenth month of the Bahá’í year, the name “Mulk” means “dominion.”
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- ACPE Retired Educator Mary Carole Nelson died on January 16. More information will be shared as available.
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CHRISTUS Spohn’s ACPE Program in Corpus Christi, Texas is seeking an ACPE Certified Educator
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UAB Center for CPE is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 Residency Program.
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Other Educational Opportunities |
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ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education |
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ACPE is the standard for spiritual care and education. Our diverse membership includes Certified CPE Educators, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapists, Spiritual Care Professionals and Practitioners, Pastoral Counselors, Chaplains, Faith Communities, and Seminaries. Our multi-disciplinary, multi-faith, multi-racial community of professionals provides education, connection, and formation through continuing education, networking, and leadership development.
ACPE is the premier, Department of Education recognized, organization that provides the highest quality CPE programs for spiritual care professionals of any faith and in any setting. We do this through a rigorous accreditation and certification process for centers and educators that provide CPE.
The depth of our training enables students to realize their full potential to strengthen the spiritual health of people in their care as well as themselves.
ACPE members are actively engaged in a wide variety of professional development activities including communities of practice, conferences, spiritual care research, and informal networking. We are more than just an association: we are a movement committed to the transformation of the human suffering.Our opportunities for formation and community enrich our member's work of healing and transforming people and communities in the US and across the globe.
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