Announcing the 2026 ACPE Annual Conference
ACPE is pleased to announce our 2026 ACPE Annual Conference titled “Elevating Community, Deepening Practice.” This year's event will take place October 10-14, 2026 at the Gila River Resort in Phoenix, Arizona.
The conference serves the full ACPE community: spiritual care educators, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and the educator candidates who represent the future of this field. This year, we welcome Tricia Hersey, Dr. Bilal Ansari, and Dr. Myron Krys as featured speakers, bringing voices that challenge, ground, and expand our understanding of spiritual care, formation, and the communities we serve.
This year's programming meets you where you are. General sessions dedicated to the updated Accreditation Standards and processes will give educators the grounding they need to move forward with confidence. Every ACPE committee and commission will lead workshops within their areas of expertise, and pre-conference offerings provide dedicated formation spaces for educator candidates, psychotherapists, and pastoral counselors before the main conference begins on Sunday evening. From international partnerships and sustainable program development to peer review practice, this conference is designed to send you home with more than you arrived with.