Early in the COVID pandemic, ACPE staff member Katherine Higgins sent out a general invitation to interested persons to join a weekly gathering of like-minded persons for a one-hour weekly ZOOM gathering on Fridays at 12 noon ET.
Several of the current active members of the Friday Psychotherapist Community of Practice were part of that initial gathering and more have joined us since. The formal definition of who we are is: “persons who are members of ACPE (active or retired) who are, or were, practicing Psychotherapists or Counsellors and are, or were (pre-retirement), accountable to a Code of Ethics specifying the responsibility for safeguarding clinical case information.”
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The Commission has received a number of inquiries regarding the National Faculty process. This article is an effort to make it clearer and include links to places in the Certification manual to which members can refer.
It is important that everyone is aware that no one is required to become National Faculty. Any educator can choose only to work with Level I/II students. There is no shame in this choice and in fact an educator may have a variety of reasons why this choice is practical, ideal and perhaps appropriate for your center.
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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. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*. August’s statements are:
3. In relation to ACPE, members:
c. Speak on behalf of ACPE or represent the official position of ACPE only as authorized by the ACPE governing body.
d. Do not make any intentionally false, misleading, or incomplete statements about their work or ethical behavior.
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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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The ACPE national office is now virtual! Effective immediately, our new mailing address is:
ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education
We Work, Floor 4
120 West Trinity Place
Decatur, GA 30030
Please be sure to update all ACPE-related documents and materials with our new address.
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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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Author and change facilitator adrienne maree brown often speaks about trusting the process and trusting the people. Brown points us toward the natural world and what it teaches us about the mystery and chaos of change. Read more
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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. Read more
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Transforming Chaplaincy is pleased to announce a new online Research Literacy course designed for students in CPE residency programs. Transforming Chaplaincy is pleased to announce a new online Research Literacy course designed for students in CPE residency programs. 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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Amidst the heat and the waning events of summer, as children and families prepare for a new school year, as we savor those last summer fruits before the season ends, have you noticed that the days, too, are growing shorter? Perhaps not, but the darkness is growing longer each day. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. Francine Marie Tolf offers a lovely reflection on darkness, celebrating its gifts:
Praise of Darkness
We touch one another
with defter fingers
at night.
Rain sounds different,
its steady falling
a remembered wisdom.
What if the dark waters
waiting to carry us home
slept inside every one of us?
We were loved
before stars existed.
We are older than light.
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Tensions seem to be running high just about everywhere. How do we be more grounded, centered, when confronted with difficult people? Here are 15 strategies from the good people at The Mindful Leader:
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Stories...life happens.
I’m a listener of stories. A story viewer. My professions and my retirement post profession revolved and revolve around stories. In a recent pod episode of “The Moth,” a snippet of a storyteller said the following. “Life happens...and it is the job or us mere mortals to make meaning out of what happens.” It is not some cosmic fatalism, or god given event that some might prescribe to what happens, as well-meaning as those spoken words might mean when said to someone, thanks, but most times not helpful. Those times might just be more helped by sitting with someone and being present to them.
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- No news to report this week.
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The Director of Visitation will oversee the visitation ministry of the church including hospice, retirement home, and homebound members.View more
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UMCNO is proud to be a leader in medical care, research, and training as the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center. View more
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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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