988 is now the new three-digit dialing code that routes callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. On July 16th, this dialing code was made available to everyone across the United States. Learn more here and share this information widely!
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One of the less visible parts of my role as ACPE’s executive director is to respond to senior executives in many of the centers we accredit or where psychotherapists practice. Their questions can be complex, and they often distill down to a simple question: “why should we pay for someone to provide spiritual care here?”
I’ve had more of these conversations lately. One senior executive framed the question: “My pastor is a volunteer chaplain at the fire station. Why can’t we use volunteer chaplains at our hospital?”
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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:
Director (3 positions)
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Over the past few years, COVID-19 has greatly impacted the field of healthcare and our CPE programs. Anecdotally, we have been hearing from some programs that are growing in number, from some programs that are having trouble filling their residency positions, and others that are finding it challenging to fill spots in their intern units. To gain a better understanding of what our centers are facing in light of the lingering impact of COVID, the current state of the economy, and multiple other challenges in our world, we are asking centers to share information with us about your programs. |
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This is a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting . . . The increased numbers, variety, and potency are staggering. As such, we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Yet, it is possible to find contentment and connectedness by keeping dopamine in check.
In this talk, Professor Anna Lembke will provide a practical, science-informed approach to addressing compulsive overconsumption of everything from food to sex, to video games. Q&A will follow Dr. Lembke’s presentation.
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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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It’s that time of year again…time to submit your CoP’s budget and funding request to the Professional Well-Being Committee. We are excited to see 2023 bringing us all back together after such a long pause. Read more
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SAVE THE DATE: Curriculum Resource Room in July! |
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. Read more
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You are invited to participate in a research study.
The purpose of the study is to investigate why many mental health providers have chosen not to integrate neuroscience into their clinical practice Read more
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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. Read more
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One of the beautiful gifts of poetry lies not in the words but in their sources. Michael Simms self-identifies as being on the autism spectrum. He writes the following about this poem: “My autism sometimes causes me to get stuck on a sentence, and I’ll repeat it again and again with minor variations. I was writing an elegy about the trees near my sister’s house, but I couldn’t capture the feeling-memory. Then, I realized what I needed was the past imperfect tense—a past action performed repeatedly—but English doesn’t have the imperfect tense. Later, I saw that my failed attempts to find the right phrase were themselves a small ode to imperfection.”
Imperfection
by Michael Simms
My native tongue doesn’t allow
imperfect tense, so it’s difficult
to say how something might used
to happen but no more. Elizabeth
used to walk among these trees.
She used to walk among these trees
but doesn’t anymore. Elizabeth
is no more though she used to be.
She doesn’t anymore but she used
to walk among these trees because
she used to be happy but only
for a short while before she descended
in despair. Elizabeth we could say
used to walk among these trees
because they made her happy.
Elizabeth used to be but no more.
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Feeling like we are at the end of days, edging towards apocalypse or anarchy? This video offers a little perspective
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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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- No news to report this week.
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Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida seeks an ACPE Certified Educator. View more
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Providence Alaska Medical Center is accepting applications for a 2022-2023 CPE residency. View more
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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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