Mental health crisis. It's all over the news. People are exhausted and leaving their positions. Nowhere near enough counselors to meet all of the needs. No real pipeline to bring new people into the field. The tracks that people used to follow have broken down, and it will take years to rebuild them. Suicide rates are off the charts with several different subgroups.
With this in mind, I had the opportunity to spend four days of training with Navy chaplains (two on the east coast, two on the west coast), focused primarily on reducing suicide rates among sailors, getting upstream, and addressing the issues. I also spent time on the phone last week with an educator working with a team to help develop spiritual care professionals' role in workplace violence. Y'all, it's been a minute.
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Reminder: Strategic Planning Survey Closes Friday, August 26
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On Friday, August 12, ACPE sent out a strategic planning survey to our members seeking their input into a multi-phase strategic planning process. The Strategy Team will use this input to first identify ACPE’s strategy, and then develop plans to effectively implement the strategy.
To increase ACPE’s chances of strategic clarity and success, multiple opportunities for member input have been designed into the process before a strategy is adopted by the Board of Directors.
The survey will close at 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Friday, August 26, 2022. If you are an active member and did not receive the survey, please email us at webmaster@acpe.edu.
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The 2021 ACPE Year in Review is now available. Take a look back at the year that was 2021 and see why "This Work Matters!"
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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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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 update your ACPE-related documents and materials and inform your institution’s financial departments of this change. Phone numbers, emails, and web addresses will remain the same.
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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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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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*. 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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Our nation, perhaps the world, is in a mental health crisis, and the resources to meet the needs of an aching public are nowhere near the demand. Lauren Alleyne penned this poem in memory of her friend, Fay Bothom, who “lost her battle to depression in 2021.” The title of the poem is so striking, and the words that follow deepen their impact:
How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, by Lauren K. Alleyne
the way it ricocheted—a boomerang flung
from your throat, stilling the breathless air.
How you were luminous in it. Your smile. Your hair
tossed back, flaming. Everyone around you aglow.
How I wanted to live in it those times it ignited us
into giggles, doubling us over aching and unmoored
for precious minutes from our twin scars—
the thorned secrets our tongues learned too well
to carry. It is impossible to imagine you gone,
dear one, your laugh lost to some silence I can’t breach,
from which you will not return.
for Fay Botham (May 31, 1968–January 10, 2021)
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Sometimes, perspective can help us move out of the doldrums, or at least create a crack to let some light in. Over the coming years, the Webb telescope will likely open us to perspectives we could never have imagined. Here are some recent photos of spiral galaxies – and they are simply breath-taking:
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- ACPE Certified Educator Jan McCormack requests prayers as she recovers from a series of health challenges over the summer.
- Congratulations to ACPE Certified Educator (LTC) Kevin J. Park on his upcoming promotion to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves on Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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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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Accepting inquiries and applications for four 1st-year and two 2nd-year ACPE residency positions for the training year beginning August 22, 2022. 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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