In 2020, the Foundation for ACPE in partnership with the ACPE Research Committee launched the Research Grants Initiative and funded two research projects: one that explored the relationship between CPE and Emotional Intelligence ($54,987), and the other that examined the Impact of Covid-19 on CPE ($18,883).
You can learn more about the findings from those two projects below. Congratulations to the research team(s) for their stellar work!
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SAVE THE DATES for 2 Great Curriculum Resource Rooms in July! |
Both Curriculum Resource Rooms are open to CECs and Educators. Please mark your calendars and join us!
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Have you provided support to co-workers requesting a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine or been involved in reviewing exemption requests? If so, you are eligible to participate in a new research study. If not, but you know a chaplain who was, please forward this invitation to them.
Title of Research Study: Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Vaccine: Survey of Healthcare Chaplains: The Experiences of Chaplains Assisting and Evaluating Employee Requests
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The Leadership Development Committee (LDC) invites you to consider serving in one of the open leadership positions in 2023. Nominations are open now for ACPE’s fall election. The deadline to submit a nomination is August 1, 2022.
The following positions are elected by the membership:
Board of Directors:
Accreditation:
- Chair-elect (1 position)
- Commissioner (3 positions)
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Certification Fall Docket Dates 2022 |
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August 31, 22 – Deadline to Declare Intent to Meet Certification Subcommittee
- email Sheilah.Hawk@acpe.edu
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October 3, 2022 – Deadline to Submit Electronic Materials
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November 7, 9, & 10, 2022 – Subcommittee Docket Dates
Once the Letter of Intent is received in the National Office by email, the Aspirant will be invoiced for the $100 meeting fee.
Payment of meeting fee must be received on/before October 3rd.
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators who are working with Certified Educator Candidates to join us for informal consultations and conversations via Zoom. The drop-in meeting (no RSVP required) will take place on the first and third Mondays of the month, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET.
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In so many ways, I feel fortunate to listen to twenty-somethings wonder what ever happened to summer. They reflect on the days just a few short years in their past when school stopped for a while, where they filled their days with play, camps, sleep, and long hours with friends. Read more
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In 2019 a group of “Enneagram aficionados” around the county came together to form the “Enneagram in CPE” Community of Practice. We intended to exchange ideas on integrating the Enneagram into our CPE curriculum in various life-giving, educational, and spiritual growth-oriented ways. Read more
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It has recently come to the attention of the Accreditation and Certification Commissions that due to a variety of factors outside of anyone’s control, there are programs that are facing challenges in meeting the minimum of 3 students for a unit of CPE. Read more
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We are a special subgroup formed to take a special look at where bias around gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity impact our ACPE Community. We are looking at how our language, experiences, and learned stories impact the ethics, certification, and accreditation processes. Read more
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ACPE members are invited to participate in the Standard 6 educational sessions starting May 2. Please review the available slots and sign up. Thank you! Sign up
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This week, we’re offering a unique poem from Maria Popova, the creator of “The Marginalian” e-newsletter. She has taken lines from programs from each year that Krista Tippett’s On Being has aired and woven them into a poem. Each line is linked to the referenced episode: |
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Twenty Reasons for Being
by Maria Popova
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Can you recall a day in recent memory where you didn’t hear someone talk about how busy they are? Perhaps that is true for you as well. This article from “The Mindful Leader” invites a disciplined process of reflecting on time, how we use/fill it, and where we are in relationship to our calendars. It’s a quick read, but it offers what could be a life-changing practice:
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Juneteenth Reflection
by Rev. Dr. Trina Williams-Johnson
This year Juneteenth hit different. My first celebration since the pandemic shut everything down. My first celebration after the beginning of the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests. Here are some of my reflections.
Juneteenth is bittersweet for me
For it is both celebration and lament
This day, gave voice to the written words that granted freedom
Gave the last slaves hope for a new lot in life
On that day, freedom was theirs
They could come and go as they pleased
It is the days and years that follow that get me
For, they couldn’t have known that freedom did not mean equality
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This Week on the Calendar |
As a part of ACPE’s commitment to anti-bias practices in all dimensions of our work, a subcommittee of the Anti-Bias Work Group has recommended we stop publishing a “holy days” calendar, recognizing that all efforts will be inadequate and may unintentionally reinforce privileged perspectives for some while inadequately representing others. Instead, ACPE will focus on:
- Promoting educational inclusion and exclusion,
- Deconstructing the Christocentric history of the ACPE,
- The impact of how our US context is also predominantly Christian,
- the intersections among racism, xenophobia, and religiously based oppressions, and
- the implications of the increasing secularization/shift to pluralism and spiritual but not religious (SBNR) values in US society.
We encourage you to reference these and additional resources as both educational tools and when planning programs and events (note: careful reading of the tools at these links will illustrate the above points, but as such could foster good conversation within your programs and practices):
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- A celebration of life will be held for ACPE Certified Educator Rev. Dr. Peter Yuichi Clark on Thursday, July 21 from 2:00p-4:00p. Attendees are requested to wear a festive color to celebrate Peter's life and ministry. There will also be a Livestream of the service on ucsfspiritcare.org. To RSVP, click here.
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Chaplain Resident, Clinical Pastoral Education, FT, 08:30A-5P
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Three-unit residency runs August 23, 2022- August 20, 2023
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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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