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Katherine Higgins Director of Communities of Practice |
One month into my new role as Director of Communities of Practice, I continue to be inspired by the creativity and commitment of our CoPs. Relationships are at the core of our work and tending to the collegial relationships we share with one another is lifegiving. We are only just beginning to understand the power of CoPs to shape these relationships and provide both practical and theoretical underpinnings for our life together. I want to tell you about two things in the world of CoPs that have been on my mind this week.
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Russell Siler Jones |
The past two weeks, we've introduced you to ACPE's new Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Program. The SIP Program is envisioned as
a multi-disciplinary, inter-spiritual, multi-racial community of persons gathered for education, connection, and formation in the work of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. It aims to teach spiritually integrated psychotherapy to mental health providers across a variety of disciplines and licenses and to rebuild a national network for training and formation.
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Marc Medwed
Associate Executive Director |
The Accreditation Commission is seeking additional volunteers to be portfolio reviewers. Interested volunteers can
sign up for a training session.
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Every year ACPE members fill out a form for Ethical Conduct Accountability. The online
form is now available. Please submit the form by February 14. Thank you.
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During our time together, ACPE with its partners will: share leading practices in research, professional development, and credentialing; strengthen professional relations; focus our time, talents and resources on those most vulnerable; and grow our practical and professional skills.
Early Bird Registration Rates end February 14th! Host hotels are already selling out!
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Thanks to the generosity of donors to the Foundation for ACPE, this opportunity provides funding support for ACPE students to attend the 2020 Joint Partners for Professional Excellence in Spiritual Care Conference, "20/20 Vision: The Future of Spiritual Care" in Cleveland, Ohio (May 11-14, 2020). ACPE students include Level I and Level II students, Psychotherapy Student Members, Chaplain Residents and Certified Educator Candidates. All ACPE Certified Educators and Psychotherapists should encourage interested students to apply for this opportunity.
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A good theory is key to achieving the goals of ACPE and the outcomes of CPE.
The goal of the training is to offer individuals an opportunity at the SCT® training level of "Exploring SCT®" for their own development, to learn the SCT® theoretical approach well enough to compare it to their own, and to use elements of theory and technique in their current CPE practice.
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Who? What? When? Images from ACPE's Past
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Do you recognize these folks or the event in the photo above? Send us a note at
webmaster@acpe.edu.
Last week's photo featured Carrie Finegan and Malu Fairley-Collins at the 2016 annual conference in Denver, CO.
Have any photos from your personal ACPE archive that you would like to share? Send them to webmaster@acpe.edu to be featured in an upcoming newsletter.
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Lisa Battle is a student member of the ACPE and a doctoral student at Grand Canyon University. She is looking for participants who may be interested in her study. The title of her research is Vicarious Trauma: A Descriptive Case Study of Pastoral Counselor Experiences. Your participation in this study can promote awareness and understanding of vicarious trauma in spiritual and pastoral counseling.
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Dr. David Hogue |
Insights from brain studies in recent decades have captured the public's imagination and touched on virtually every dimension of human experience, from love and friendships, to trauma and addictions, to our confidence in free will, to our experiences of the transcendent and our trust in reason. Increasingly the neurosciences are confirming and challenging many of our most cherished notions of what it means to be human. In this workshop, taking place on February 28, 2020, 9am-3pm, we will explore themes in recent brain research, including empathy, memory and trauma,story, ritual, and religious experiences.
ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. ACPE is solely responsible for sponsored programs, including the awarding of NBCC credit.
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The Editorial Board of
Reflective Practice is looking for a new editor, to begin work in the summer of 2020, for a three-year term. The primary task of the editor is to recruit, evaluate and edit essays for publication, to then organize the material, write introductory remarks, and oversee the publication of the annual volume. An editor should be familiar with the disciplines of pastoral theology, practical theology and clinical supervision in ministry, a member in ACPE or ATFE, and possess proven literary skills. A small stipend is available. If interested or if you wish to nominate someone, please contact
Leslie Veen. A full description of the editor's tasks is available upon request.
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Are you interested in spending a Southern Hemisphere summer (November - February) supervising in the world's most remote CPE Centre? Royal Perth Hospital has established an annual "International Pastoral Education Fellow" position in one of Australia's oldest and most innovative CPE programs. Michael Hertz (ACPE Certified Educator and ACPEWA Educator) is the Centre Director. Ted Hodge (ACPE Certified Educator) was our inaugural International Fellow (2019-20).
The hospital provides round-trip travel for two, a two-bedroom apartment with stunning views across the Swan River to the city skyline, part-time access to a car and a remote "Bush CPE" experience. CPE is part of RPH's nationally-acclaimed "Centre for Wellbeing and Sustainable Practice", which provides CPE-like experiences for hospital staff, including nurses, administrators and medical staff. Perth is a beautiful and culturally diverse city with unending white sand beaches, easy access to ancient forests, rugged coasts of the Southern ocean, historic Aboriginal sites, art, music, great food and more.
For more information visit the website.
If you are interested in considering this opportunity, contact
Michael Hertz
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Ted Hodge
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Cheers Mates!
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Thanks to support from the John Templeton Foundation, Duke University's Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health is offering eleven $3,600 scholarships to attend the university's 5-day workshop on conducting research related to religion, spirituality, and health. The workshop will be held on August 10-14, 2020. This incredible opportunity involves full scholarships that will cover the $1200 tuition, up to $1500 airfare for international travel, up to $500 for hotel accommodations, and up to $400 for meals and local transportation to the workshop. The scholarships are available only to academic faculty and graduate students living in developing countries in Africa, Central and South America (including Mexico), Eastern Europe and North Asia (Russia and China), portions of the Middle East, and Central and East Asia. The scholarships will be competitive and awarded only to talented well-positioned faculty and graduate students with the potential to conduct research on religion, spirituality, and health, and serve as research leaders in their part of the world. If you want to know more about this program, contact Harold.Koenig@duke.edu or visit the website.
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Join us for New Accreditation Process Q&A Sessions. The sessions are your opportunity to ask anything about the new process or building your center's accreditation portfolio.
Dates are currently posted through the new year. The sessions are 12:00pm to 1:00pm eastern time on the assigned days. The number of participants for each session is limited to ensure individual questions are addressed.
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Have you ever been out for a walk and watched a flock of birds suddenly descend on a tree, only to leave it just as suddenly, often filling the air with their raucous bird noises? While you wouldn't want to be parked under that tree or walking beneath it (things can get messy....), there is something about that moment. June Cadwallader Staub may have discovered what makes such a moment so striking:
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Turning
by Julie Cadwallader Staub
There comes a time in every fall
before the leaves begin to turn
when blackbirds group and flock and gather
choosing a tree, a branch, together
to click and call and chorus and clamor
announcing the season has come for travel.
Then comes a time when all those birds
without a sound or backward glance
pour from every branch and limb
into the air, as if on a whim
but it's a dynamic, choreographed mass
a swoop, a swerve, a mystery, a dance
and now the tree stands breathless, amazed
at how it was chosen, how it was changed.
TURNING by Julie Cadwallader Staub from Wing Over Wing. Paraclete Press, © 2019.
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In the continuing celebration of Black History Month, this amazing reading by multiple voices of Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" was pulled together by the folks at CBS news on the occasion of Angelou's death. It is worth the 1:26 of your day:
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February 10
Tu B'Shvat (Jewish)
New Year's Day for Trees, and traditionally the first of the year for tithing fruit of trees. Now a day for environmental awareness and action, such as tree planting. This day is known as the new year for trees, as it is the day that the age of trees is calculated for tithing. In tradition, fruit from trees may not be consumed in the first 4 years of life - as the first three years are forbidden, and the fourth year the fruit is for God. One tradition on this day is to eat from the seven species abundant in Israel: wheat, barley, grapes, pomegranates, olives, figs, and dates.
February 11
Our Lady of Lourdes (Christianity)
This marks the day in 1858 when St. Bernadette had her first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the city of Lourdes in southern France. She had 18 apparitions in all, one of which told her to dig for a spring. The water of this spring is said to have great healing powers, and Christians make pilgrimages to visit this spring and the church that was built on the property.
February 14
St. Valentine's Day (Christianity)
Pope Gelasius assigned February 14th as Saint Valentine's Day in 496 CE. This day commemorates the death of Saint Valentine of Rome, who, according to tradition, was martyred on February 14th ca. 270 C.E. Saint Valentine's Day was not associated with romantic love until the High Middle Ages, when legends and stories about Valentine were written and popularized by Geoffrey Chaucer and his circle.
February 15
Nirvana Day (Buddhism)
Celebrates the day when the historical Buddha achieved Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body. Sometimes celebrated on February 8. This day marks the Buddha's death and when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is the end to all wanting, and thus the end to all suffering that craving brings about. Buddhists who observe Nirvana day often do so by examining their lives, in order to make changes needed to help them achieve perfect peace. Observances sometimes take place in monasteries, where people read the Parinibbana Sutta, one of the Buddhist texts that describes the Buddha's final days.
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| Community of Practice Event Highlights |
Registration is now open for the following Community of Practice events:
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- Rev. Dr. Joe Boone Abbott died peacefully in his home in Birmingham, in the company of his high school sweetheart and life companion, Peggy, on February 6, 2020. Funeral services will be at Mountain Brook Baptist Church in Birmingham at 11:00am on February 10, followed by a visitation. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that gifts be made to the Parkinson Association of Alabama or Mountain Brook Baptist Church.
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This Week's Career Opportunities & Residency/CEC Openings
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Position
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Center/Organization
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Location |
Posting Date |
| Per Diem Variable Chaplain |
Stony Brook Medicine |
Stony Brook, NY |
2/7/20 |
| Part Time Night Shift Chaplain |
Stony Brook Medicine |
Stony Brook, NY |
2/7/20 |
| Spiritual Care Manager |
Mercy Health |
Muskegon, MI |
2/7/20 |
| Manager of CPE |
Lakeland Regional Health |
Lakeland, FL |
2/7/20 |
| Chaplain/CPE Educator |
Allina Health |
Minneapolis, MN |
1/31/20 |
| Director Pastoral Care - Chaplain |
Hoag Hospitals and Community |
Newport Beach, CA |
1/31/20 |
Chaplain Education Coordinator
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Nationwide Children's
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Columbus, OH |
1/24/20 |
| Chaplain Manager |
Indiana University Health |
Indianapolis, IN |
1/17/20 |
| Certified Educator |
University of California San Francisco |
San Francisco, CA |
1/3/20 |
| Pastoral Care Team |
Adrian Dominican Sisters |
Adrian, MI |
1/3/20 |
| Assistant/Associate Professor and Program Director |
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities |
St. Paul, MN |
1/3/20 |
| Staff Chaplain |
Gundersen Lutheran Health System |
La Crosse, WI |
1/3/20 |
| Certified Educator |
Sanford Health |
Fargo, ND |
12/20/19 |
| Certified Educator |
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University |
Baton Rouge, LA |
12/20/19 |
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Position
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Center/Organization
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Location
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Posting Date
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| 2020-2021 Residency |
Providence Health |
Torrance, CA
Burbank, CA |
2/7/20 |
| 1st and 2nd Year Residency |
WVU Medicine |
Morgantown, WV |
2/7/20 |
| CPE Residency |
Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center |
Toledo, OH |
2/7/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residency |
University of Kentucky HealthCare |
Lexington, KY |
2/7/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residencies |
AdventHealth |
Orlando, FL
Tampa, FL |
2/7/20 |
| CPE Residency |
Covenant Medical Center |
Lubbock, TX |
2/7/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residency |
University Medical Center New Orleans |
New Orleans, LA |
2/7/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residency |
UCSF Medical Center |
San Francisco, CA |
2/7/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residency |
CHRISTUS Spohn Health System |
Corpus Christi, TX |
2/7/20 |
| CPE Residency |
University of Colorado Hospital
Fort Collins CPE |
Aurora, CO
Fort Collins, CO |
1/31/20 |
| CPE Residency |
Parkland Health and Hospital System |
Dallas, TX |
1/31/20 |
| CPE Residency |
CaroMont Health
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Gastonia, NC
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1/24/20
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| CPE Residency |
Jackson Health System |
Miami, FL |
1/24/20
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| CPE Residency |
Harborview Medical Center |
Seattle, WA |
1/24/20
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Master of Science (MS) in Patient Counseling with CPE Residency
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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Richmond, VA
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1/24/20
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| CPE Residency |
UAB at Birmingham |
Birmingham, AL |
1/24/20 |
2020-2021 CPE Residency Program
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Community Regional Medical Center
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Fresno, CA
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1/17/2020 |
| Yearlong Residency |
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare |
Tallahassee, FL |
1/17/20 |
| Yearlong Residency |
Norton Healthcare |
Louisville, KY |
1/17/20 |
| CPE Residency |
Michigan Medicine |
Ann Arbor, MI |
1/17/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residency |
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health |
Lancaster, PA |
1/17/20 |
| CPE Residency |
WellSpan Health |
York, PA |
1/10/20 |
| 2020-2021 CPE Residency |
Kettering Health Network |
Dayton, OH |
1/10/20 |
| CPE Residency |
St. Mary's Medical Center |
Huntington, WV |
1/10/20 |
| Yearlong Residency |
Sutter California Pacific Medical Center |
San Francisco, CA |
1/10/20 |
| Residency 2020-2021 |
UnityPoint Health - Des Moines |
Des Moines, IA |
1/10/20 |
| CPE Residency |
BayCare Spiritual Care |
Clearwater, FL |
1/3/20 |
| Level 1/Level 2 CPE |
The Christ Hospital |
Cincinnati, OH |
12/20/19 |
| Summer CPE Program |
St. Cloud Hospital |
St. Cloud, MN |
12/13/19 |
| 2019-2020 Residency Program |
Mayo Clinic Health System |
Eau Claire, WI |
12/13/19 |
| Residency Program |
Ascension Seton |
Austin, TX |
12/13/19 |
| Residency Program |
Gundersen Health System |
La Crosse, WI |
12/13/19 |
| Residency Program |
East Jefferson General Hospital |
Metairie, LA |
12/2/19 |
| Residency 2020-2021 |
Mayo Clinic Hospital |
Rochester, MN |
11/15/19 |
| Yearlong Residency |
CHI Memorial |
Chattanooga, TN |
11/8/19 |
| Yearlong Residency |
Albert Einstein Medical Center |
Philadelphia, PA |
11/1/19 |
1st & 2nd Year Residencies
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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Cincinnati, OH
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9/13/19 |
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Event
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Location
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Date
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Conyers, GA
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February 20 - 23, 2020 |
| The Collective Soul Symposium |
Houston, TX |
February 21, 2020 |
| CPE and Emotional Intelligence |
Online |
February 25, 2020 |
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San Diego, CA
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March 18, 2020
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| Intensive Bioethics Course |
Houston, TX |
April 20 - 24, 2020 |
| Evolution of Psychotherapy |
Anaheim, CA |
December 9 - 13, 2020
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Transforming Chaplaincy
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Online |
Winter, Spring and Fall sessions |
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
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Online |
N/A |
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San
Francisco Theological Seminary/Online
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Rolling Enrollment |
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Online |
On Demand |
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ACPE members and centers may post "happenings" in the weekly newsletter. ACPE does not accredit, review, or endorse the events listed above. Send your "happening" to webmaster@acpe.edu.
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ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education
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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 is also the professional home of a growing number of spiritually integrated psychotherapists and pastoral counselors. ACPE supports Psychotherapist and Practitioner members through continuing education programs, networking, and leadership development.
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