Continuing the Work of the Association

I want to thank the volunteers who accomplish the work of our Association on a week-to-week, month-to-month and year-to-year basis. Our Leadership Development Committee works to bring persons together from all represented communities in our Association, with particular attention to underrepresented groups.

This year individual Association members have been busy regardless of the coronavirus pandemic. The Board of Directors, our standing and Board appointed committees and commissions number 130 persons. Our Accreditation site reviewers are 120 members. Ninety members served on Certification subcommittees. We have 22 members serving on taskforces for specific initiatives. The Psychotherapy Commission has 39 Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) trainers. We have had thirteen members serving in the merger/consolidation talks. My calculator indicates that there are 576 members in leadership for our Association. While there may be a few who have more than one responsibility, most of these folk are filling one role in leadership. 

We currently have 2026 individual members, including student members. In general this means that 28% of our membership is active in the business of ACPE.  That is basically one third of the membership leading us.

We must also consider that our Organizational Members represent an additional 529 groups who are at work in their environment to empower and participate in ACPE’s future. These groups include Accredited Centers, Accredited Systems, Component Sites, Faith Groups, Institutions, Pre-Approved Centers, Provisional Centers, Satellites and Seminaries. With this additional 529 member groups, our total Membership is 2555.

We are about to have elections for many of the individual spots of responsibility and leadership. I hope you will take this opportunity to vote for our leadership. Be deliberate in considering the persons on each slate. Vote for our next leaders and support them as they do the work we depend on them to accomplish. Your votes in the election determine who we will lead us in the coming years.

These are good folk. They have each agreed to serve if elected and will continue to serve in their institutions and programs when elected. Support and encourage them as we move forward. And, we are moving forward, regardless of having to do meetings via ZOOM, or conduct units of CPE in socially distanced ways. We are not free of the constraints of the medical peril in which many of our centers are practicing. Our ACPE Psychotherapists have experienced curtailed opportunities to be in close proximity to clients. And yet, we will continue to do the work of the Association for the good of the discipline of Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy.

Vote with the work of the Association in mind.