I want to thank the conference planners for putting together a powerful tapestry of offerings. The conference speakers bring psychological and theological theories that give grounding for our deepening work as an anti-bias organization. As I’ve done some pre-conference reading from our speakers’ bodies of work, I realized the planning committee has knit together content that helps stretch us in our learning and more deeply integrate what we’ve known. For example, Linda James Meyer’s Optimal Psychology presents a personality theory that includes an overt spiritual dimension for all people. We are mind, emotion, body, and spirit equally treasured and beloved. What does this universal truth mean for how we understand our work as Psychotherapists, CPE Educators, and ACPE.
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Once a month the Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*. May’s statements are:
In relation to other groups, ACPE members:
- Maintain professional relationships with other persons in the ACPE Center, institution in which employed and/or the community.
- Do not directly or by implication claim professional qualifications that exceed actual qualifications or misrepresent their affiliation with any institution, organization, or individual; are responsible for correcting the misrepresentation or misunderstanding of their professional qualifications or affiliations.
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As members of the Board of Directors and the Professional Well-Being Committee, we know that all of us have been through a great deal in the last two years. The last time we were together as an association was May 2019. It feels like ages ago. Now our world watches as Russia attacks Ukraine, we hear concerns about the rapid growth of the new COVID Omicron variant BA.2, and we endure the exhaustion wrought by the isolation so many of us have felt in our work and daily lives. So, we want to hear you. We want to know how you are doing in your work, in your practice, in your daily life. We want to find ways to connect us, and we want it to be in ways that can feel meaningful, even if through a screen.
Over the next several weeks, the Board and the Professional Well-Being Committee (PWB) will host several "listening sessions." As we seek to lead the association, we want to make sure our decisions are lining up with your needs. We will limit each group to 20 people so we can really talk, a member of the Board and a member of the PWB will facilitate. Please sign up for one time while we try to make room for everyone. We will be exploring more opportunities as we look to the coming months.
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Register for the 2022 Joint ACPE/APC Conference. Here are 5 reasons why you should register TODAY:
4. Networking opportunities
5. Content available for 90 days post-conference
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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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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Thanks to the support of our faithful donors, in 2020, the Foundation for ACPE granted $21,000 in Innovative Program Awards to support “Taking CPE to the Streets,” an initiative led by ACPE Certified Educator Danielle Buhuro and Eden Theological Seminary Dean Sonja Williams. This project created an ACPE accredited CPE program in a context where seminarian CPE students could learn in a community – justice-oriented context. In doing so, they engaged the multiple pandemics of COVID-19 and police brutality as well as addressed the systemically biased based oppressions of urban communities made of people of color. |
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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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The Telechaplaincy Community of Practice is hosting a series of trainings and knowledge-exchange events. We invite chaplains, scholars and interdisciplinary team members to contribute to these events by proposing case study presentations, vignettes and didactics. The due date for submission is May 10, 2022. Read more
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On a recent episode of “Poetry Unbound” from On Being, Padraig O’Tuoma shared the following reflection: “Hannah Emerson is a nonspeaking autistic poet from New York State. And you can get a real sense of the interests about her work from the titles of her books, You Are Helping This Great Universe Explode and The Kissing of Kissing. There’s a way within which the intimacy of her poetry is present in “kissing,” and being present as a speck in an expanding universe is also present throughout her work.” Here's a samples of her work:
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“Keep Yourself at the Beginning of the Beginning”
by Hannah Emerson:
“Please try to help me go to the joy that is trying
to go to the beautiful helpful helpful beginning
of the beginning of the very trying freedom
that we make our great great great light
that is nothing but the laughter that is
fooling us into believing that we go
to the trash bin that is your life
that become the treasures
that live in the bottom
of the bin that is
your life yes
yes yes
yes –
please
try to dive
down to the
beautiful muck
that helps you get
that the world was made
from the garbage at the bottom
of the universe that was boiling over
with joy that wanted to become you you
you yes yes yes – please try to go to the colors
that kiss you great great great person of the light
that is becoming you you you yes yes – please
try to keep yourself in the bottom of the bin
yes yes – please try to go to the kissing
muck that is very true to your life yes
yes – please try to meet me there
yes yes – please try to bring
your beautiful nothing
there yes yes”
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We celebrated another Earth Day on April 22, even as fires rage across New Mexico, storms grow in intensity across the world, and wars bring the kind of environmental devastation that is completely unnecessary. In this lovely piece, Laura Loescher invites us to construct “earth altars,” places where we can celebrate and honor this earth, knowing how precious and precarious nature can be:
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This Week on the Calendar |
May 2
12th Day of Ridvan (Baha'i)
Beginning on April 21 and concluding on May 2, Baha'is celebrate the period when the religion's founder, Baha'u'llah, resided in a garden in Baghdad. Baha'u'llah called it the Garden of Ridvan, as Ridvan translates to paradise. It was during his time in the garden that Baha'iuíllah proclaimed that he was the messenger of God for this age.
May 2-3
Eid al-Fitr: The Feast of Breaking Fast begins at sundown (Islam)
This festival marks the end of Ramadan and usually lasts two or three days. It is both an occasion of joy at the successful subordination of physical instincts and needs to morality and religion as well as an opportunity to commiserate and share with the poor and needy.
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ACPE Members in the Dallas-Fort Worth area gathered on April 22, 2022 to celebrate Melissa Walker-Luckett’s time as the Board Chair. |
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Fulton State Hospital, a 408 bed, TJC accredited forensic psychiatric facility in Fulton, Missouri is seeking a Spirituality and Compassionate Care Coordinator.
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2022-23 Residency program July 18, 2022 - June 3, 2023 (3 CPE units)
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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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