Whenever the earth shakes under our feet, we Californians hope it’s not the beginning of the “big one.”
In the past two years, we all have experienced a seismic shift in our social and personal lives: the pandemic has led to the loss of many lives, caused much grief, unveiled social inequality and racism, and contributed to increased mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, and loneliness. In many of the institutions we work in, especially in healthcare, staff are burned out.
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On July 29th from 12:00 PM EST to 1:30 PM EST, Rev. Dr. Beth Jackson-Jordan and Rev. Dr. Imani Jones will have a conversation about race in CPE curriculum, specifically about de-centering whiteness in our curriculums. They have graciously offered all of us to join—to listen in and then to engage them and each other as we consider how we can construct our curriculums to best serve the diversity of students in our programs as well as those who have yet to enroll in our programs. And even more importantly, we will consider how can our curriculum prepare those students for engaging in a world in which we hope to connect with others across differences? |
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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 September 23, 2022.
The following positions are elected by the membership:
Board of Directors:
Director (3 positions)
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Transforming Chaplaincy is pleased to announce a new online Research Literacy course designed for students in CPE residency programs.
In the Research Literacy for CPE course, learners will develop basic skills to articulate how primary research and research literature inform the profession of chaplaincy and one’s spiritual care practice. (APC ITP6) As a self-paced course, it can be completed in a 6-week timeframe identified by the ACPE Educator to accompany the existing CPE curriculum.
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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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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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So many record temperatures. Fires ravaging landscapes that were once homes, vacation spaces, nature’s preserves. This poem captures the devastation in words and images that remind us never to take for granted this precious world entrusted to our care:
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires
by. Forrest Gander
Green spring grass on
the hills had cured
by June and by July
gone wooly and
brown, it crackled
underfoot, desiccated while
within the clamor of live
oaks, an infestation of
tiny larvae clung
to the underleaves,
feeding between
veins. Their frass, that
fine dandruff of excrement
and boring dust, tinkled
as it dropped onto dead leaves
below the limbs. You
could hear it twenty
feet away, tinkling.
Across the valley, on
Sugarloaf Ridge, the full
moon showed up
like a girl doing cartwheels.
No one goes on living
the life that isn’t there.
Below a vast column of
smoke, heat, flame, and
wind, I rose, swaying
and tottering on my
erratic vortex, extemporizing
my own extreme weather, sucking up
acres of scorched
topsoil and spinning it
outward in a burning sleet
of filth and embers that
catapulted me forward
with my mouth open
in every direction at once. So
I came for you, churning, turning
the present into purgatory
because I need to turn
everything to tragedy before
I can see it, because
it must be
leavened with remorse
for the feeling to rise.
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Nick Cave was sent a letter by a woman asking him about grief after the death of his son. As a part of the Letters Live series, Benedict Cumberbatch reads the letter here:
(Have tissues nearby – it is simply beautiful.)
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Frosty Foothills: A Metaphor for CPE
It is difficult for me to describe my CPE journey as anything but that, a journey. At the same time, descriptions falter to depict the scenes I’ve seen. Words are insufficient. The hospital is filled with the ineffable. Yet, I’m reminded of a hike, in snowy Appalachia, trekking through a foot of snow to witness the glory of creation.
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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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Baptist Health South Florida is seeking a Director of Pastoral Care & CPE Educator
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Join our dynamic CPE program nestled in the majestic bluffs along the Mississippi River in La Crosse at Gundersen Health System 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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