Events Calendar

ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACPE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • Freedom, Wonder and Liberation: Anti-bias Practices of Spiritual Care and Education

    Save the date for the 2022 joint annual conference presented by the Association of Professional Chaplains and ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education. The 2022 conference theme, “Freedom, Wonder, and Liberation: Anti-Bias Practices of Spiritual Care and Education” invites the engagement of all community care professionals, 1st Responders, and all our organizational members by facing the urgency of this moment. We need the collective wisdom of our chaplains, our educators, and our psychotherapists as we continue to face into the interlocking pandemics of bias, injustice, and COVID-19. ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACPE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • Pastoral Care Specialist Training

    The Pastoral Care Specialist (PCS) Training Program is a new curriculum developed by the Psychotherapy Commission of ACPE and provides the knowledge and skills pastoral caregivers in churches and faith communities need to help others effectively, ethically, and safely. The training is also applicable to pastoral counselors, spiritual directors, and chaplains who work in community health and private practice settings. This event is not eligible for NBCC CE hours.

  • Confianza y Corazon: Exploring Spirituality and Contemplative Practices in the Clinical Care of Latinx Clients | Daniel Gutierrez, PhD, LPC, CSAC

    Daniel Gutierrez is the Vera W. Barkley Associate Professor of Counselor Education at William & Mary and Co-Director of the Thrive Research and Intervention Center. He is author or co-author of over 50 articles and is President of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC). ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACPE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • DOPAMINE: A Practical Approach to Compulsive Overconsumption in a Reward-Overloaded World | Anna Lembke, MD

    Anna Lembke is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of "Drug Dealer MD" (2016) and "Dopamine Nation" (2021). She appeared in the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma" and on NPR’s "Fresh Air". ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACPE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • Pandemics & Politics in the Transference: Decolonizing the Therapeutic Space | Danjuma Gibson, PhD, LPC

    Danjuma Gibson is Professor of Pastoral Care at Calvin Theological Seminary and a Trainer in ACPE’s Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Program. He is author "Frederick Douglass, A Psychobiography: Rethinking Subjectivity in the Western Experiment of Democracy" (2018), and is co-editor of the "Journal of Pastoral Theology". ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACPE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.