Our Foundation Board met in January to begin the work of prioritizing new funding opportunities. We discussed how to meaningfully use the expanded available endowment income of $175,000 annually to support our work, especially following through on our commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Former Board member Dr. Mark Constantine, President and CEO of the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, facilitated our discussion with great expertise. Our meeting concluded with a consensus to dedicate a large portion of available funds in scholarships for students from underrepresented communities. These scholarships can support tuition or summer housing for CPE students and training activities of certified educator and psychotherapy students.
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We are experiencing a minor thaw in my area. Chicago has been in the midst of a normal winter, with occasional snaps of cold bluster but nothing like I remember from my childhood when winds snatched children up, spun us around, and placed us back on the sidewalk with tears lining our eyes. Winters seem stronger from back then.
During this season and this thaw, I’ve negotiated a thick, stubborn slab at the back steps of my building. An annual stream of water fell from the gutters weeks back, froze in a long dazzling icicle, pooled and spread along the walkway, and has slowly begun to loosen. Me, Bryce, and Brooks have traversed the thickness with Bryce stepping out with all the confidence of middle school and with Brooks waiting with his kindergarten-sized hand extended as he waits for me to walk with him. In the last few days, the thickness had decreased and little bits of ice and smaller puddles of water are forming.
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Early bird registration is now open for the 2022 Joint ACPE/APC Conference! The conference theme this year is “Freedom, Wonder, and Liberation: Anti-Bias Practices of Spiritual Care and Education” and will feature dynamic plenary sessions from Dr. Linda James Myers, Carol Wayne White, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, and Erin Law.
For ACPE Members: To ensure that you receive the correct pricing, please use the email that was included in your invitation email. If you have questions, please email events@acpe.edu before registering.
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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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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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Dr. Lisa Miller will share research from the science of spirituality and mental health, with a focus on developmental depression as an "invitation" for spiritual growth and renewal. Based upon two decades of scientific research, Dr. Miller will highlight the inherent "hard-wired" nature of personal spirituality in all human beings and its role in psychotherapy, prevention, and development.
Register by March 1 to enter a drawing for one of 20 free copies of Dr. Miller’s latest book, The Awakened Brain.
Want to learn about all five webinars in the series? Click here.
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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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The Spiritual Assessment and Intervention Model (Spiritual AIM) has launched a new website! Spiritual AIM is a unique, dynamic, evidence-based assessment model that helps providers—chaplains, social workers, and others—engage in the relationships required to best meet the needs of those they’re serving. Developed from real-life examples of patient spiritual assessment, chaplain intervention, and patient-described outcomes, the model focuses on the initial assessment of a patient during a spiritual care encounter and provides concrete interventions based on that assessment. |
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While we cannot speak for individual experiences, after four years of hard work, we needed a minute or two to breathe after APC announced they would discontinue the merger process. We have shared a myriad of emotions, in waves, as we imagine many of you have: incredulity, denial, sadness, anger, frustration, despair, and even some joy, to be honest. |
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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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The Accreditation Commission is seeking additional Portfolio Reviewers to participate in the annual review of center portfolios. Serving as a Portfolio Reviewer is a great way to better understand portfolio requirements and to engage with other centers about the ways they run their programs.
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Ecumenical Theological Seminary (Detroit, MI) has a unique 2-year DMin program that has a special focus for ACPE CECs and CEs. For more information, contact Aarti Ahuja Director of Recruitment and Enrollment Manager at 313-831-5200 x224 or email: aahuja@etseminary.edu.
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As we come to the end of Black History Month, this poem seems appropriate. James Baldwin is known primarily for his essays and trenchant insights into America, but he also published several poems. This one invites deep reflection on the act of giving, the giver, the context of the giving, so much more: |
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The giver (for Berdis)
by James Baldwin
If the hope of giving
is to love the living,
the giver risks madness
in the act of giving.
Some such lesson I seemed to see
in the faces that surrounded me.
Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,
what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?
The giver is no less adrift
than those who are clamouring for the gift.
If they cannot claim it, if it is not there,
if their empty fingers beat the empty air
and the giver goes down on his knees in prayer
knows that all of his giving has been for naught
and that nothing was ever what he thought
and turns in his guilty bed to stare
at the starving multitudes standing there
and rises from bed to curse at heaven,
he must yet understand that to whom much is given
much will be taken, and justly so:
I cannot tell how much I owe.
James Baldwin, "The giver (for Berdis)" from Jimmy’s Blues. Copyright © 2014 by The James Baldwin Estate.
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Perhaps you are one of these good people. Perhaps you have a neighbor who has gone all in. Perhaps you’re wondering how this can even be real. That’s right - competitive chickens. They’re not just your neighborhood egg source. Here’s the trailer for the new documentary:
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Rev. Miguel Santamaria is a Certified Educator at Morton Plant Hospital and wrote the poems, "Hell, and Held" and "Un-numbing"
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This Week on the Calendar |
February 28
Lailat al-Miraj: Night of the Journey of Prophet Muhammad to Heavens (Islam)
Commemorates Muhammad’s night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, his ascent to heaven and return the same night, and his having received God’s commandment of the five daily compulsory prayers. This observance also signifies the importance of Islam as part of the monotheistic tradition.
March 2
Clean Monday (Eastern Christianity)
The beginning of Great Lent for Eastern Christian churches, which starts 40 days before Orthodox Easter (Pascha), counting Sundays. On this day, referred to as "Clean Monday," Orthodox Christians leave behind sinful attitudes and certain foods as they prepare for the Great Lent. This is a seven-week period of fasting to prepare for Orthodox Easter, the greatest feast of the year.
March 2 - 20
Fast of Ala (Baha'i)
The Baha'i calendar is comprised of 19 months of 19 days each. The fast of Ala occurs during the last month of the Baha'i year, when Baha'is fast from sun up to sun down. All healthy individuals between the ages of 15 and 70 participate in the fast, which is done in spiritual preparation for the New Year, Naw Ruz.
March 7
Meatfare Sunday (Orthodox Christianity)
Traditionally, this is the last day that Orthodox Christians eat meat before commencing their fast, which lasts until Easter.
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An opening for a contract Certified Educator
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Residency Opportunities in Central and West Florida
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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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