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Leadership Development Opportunities in ACPEJun 7, 2021
Having come to the end of our historic annual conference, I am reflecting on the talent among us, how that is nurtured and encouraged. What a gift to hear the voices of newer educators and particularly those who are pushing and leading us to make anti-racist commitments in our lives and ministries. I am also reflecting on the way that CoPs both already are and can become instruments to nurture new leaders and operationalize our anti-racist commitments.
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For your professional ethics edification in JuneJun 4, 2021
For June, instead of commenting on specifics about our ethics standards, I would like to share some resources for learning about professional ethics as well as, create a space where we might give attention to a question I have been grappling with, “Why, racism is ethically/morally wrong?”
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A Journey to Myself - A Resident Chaplain’s ReflectionJun 2, 2021
At the beginning of my CPE journey, I asked myself a question I am sure every CPE student has asked themselves in the past. Why am I doing this? I'm sure at the beginning we all have an answer to the question. Looking back from the end of my journey, my answer differs greatly than from the beginning. At the beginning the answer was shallow, because God called me to this. This was the answer I had heard my entire life from ministers, so it sounded like a reasonable enough answer. I didn’t know how wrong I was.
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Technology is best when it brings people togetherMay 28, 2021
Almost one year ago, ACPE launched a new database and new website. The technology upgrades provided us an opportunity to evaluate our association’s communication strategy. Our old website attempted to speak to many audiences – Certified Educators, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapists and Practitioners, Educator Candidates, current and potential CPE students, Center Administrators, Servant Leaders, Spiritual Care Providers, Donors, and many more. With so much information crowding the site, its effectiveness diminished. We realized we needed to seek new ways to communicate with ACPE members and the world.
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Foundation for ACPE and the Proposed Merger with APCMay 19, 2021
As we are pondering the proposed merger some of us may ask: “What’s going to happen to our money?” to which some others who are new to ACPE or just very busy would respond: “What money?” Indeed, we have some money.
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For your professional ethics edification in MayMay 13, 2021
Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members.
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Call for Nominations: Deadline to apply is July 8thMay 12, 2021
The Leadership Development Committee is now officially receiving applications to serve on the initial board of the new organization, IF the members approve the proposed merger between ACPE and APC by a super majority in the July referendum.
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We who believe in freedom cannot restMay 11, 2021
Bishop Teresa Snorton challenged us that though we will grow tired, we cannot grow weary. Dr. Emilie Townes noted we are already tired and weary. Throughout our annual conference, I can feel both among our members. Some are tired and laboring on. Some are too weary to take the next step. And yet most of us can hear “Ella’s Song” playing somewhere in the back of our minds: “We who believe in freedom cannot rest.”
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Mid-Conference Dispatch
May 7, 2021
As you likely know, we are currently one week in to our 2021 Annual Conference, Creating Room to Breathe. A courageous and visionary team of our colleagues have been working hard for over two years to develop this conference to give us the tools to have difficult conversations about race and our own racism and the space in which to have them.
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Like a Homecoming: Report from a SIP TrainingMay 3, 2021
Sometimes you don't know what you need until you receive it. ACPE's 30-hour Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) training was such for me. It felt like a homecoming, and it increased my sense of congruence, confidence, and commitment to my calling.
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An Association at WorkMay 3, 2021
With the virtual Annual Conference approaching, summer groups being planned, and fall programs on the docket, I imagine we are all busy. Sometimes I recognize that I’ve not come up for air to observe all that others are doing around me or taken a moment to absorb all that is steadily accomplished. This week, I received information from our commissions on their good work.
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ACPE Offers First Certifications in Spiritually Integrated PsychotherapyApr 24, 2021
Jennifer Macchia, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Caleb Pusey, of Asheville, North Carolina, are the first persons to complete the process for ACPE’s new Certification in Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy. Macchia met with a Certification Review committee on March 29, and Pusey met with a Certification Review committee on April 12.
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Doing the Work despite HesitationsApr 24, 2021
It sounded like a wonderful idea. A webinar series meant to underscore the realities of racism in healthcare, the origins of white supremacy and how that intersectional, socially constructed and maintained oppression met the experiences of educators and students in CPE, an intentional climb and invitation toward liberation and wholeness and better world-making. For a number of reasons, I was excited about joining colleagues in the work of gathering materials for the 8:46 Webinar series.
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We Want to Hear from Our Members: How Can the Foundation for ACPE Support a Student Equity & Access Initiative?Apr 23, 2021
What an exciting time to witness such historic transitions in our organization. We are poised to address multifaceted social upheaval in ways that provide a transformative, yet practical impact on our communities, even our world. What will we do as an organization to seize the opportunity presented to us?
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MissingApr 22, 2021
I feel hurt; I feel mistreated, wrongly accused and misunderstood. Being patient? I’m not in the mood It’s not my fault? This is too much! Why do I hear such big reproach? I was just trying to help I noticed your pain, I heard a yelp.
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8:46 LabsApr 22, 2021
Inhale... On April 20, 2021, the United States of America and the world waited with bated breath. The decision had arrived. Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer whose knee extinguished the life of George Floyd, would hear what the jury decided. After minutes that felt like hours, the judge read the counts and decision aloud… Guilty... Guilty... Guilty... Guilty on all counts.
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Amidst the Exhaustion, our Association Carries OnApr 14, 2021
Amidst the exhaustion we hear from many members from managing the pandemics that have plagued our world, nation, and communities, I thought it might be helpful to update the membership on some activities of our staff as we have worked to keep our association running, even from our home offices. I shared many of these items with the Board of Directors when they met on April 12.
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This is a time like no other
Apr 13, 2021
In preparation for the 2021 ACPE Annual Conference Creating Room to Breathe, ACPE has identified themes from the Anti-Bias survey of ACPE members. In the following weeks, ACPE will be publishing the themes that emerged from the Anti-Bias survey results.
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Key Theme #5 part 2: We are shaped by our history; shaping our future differently will require intentional changes in our present practice
Apr 9, 2021
In preparation for the 2021 ACPE Annual Conference Creating Room to Breathe, ACPE has identified themes from the Anti-Bias survey of ACPE members. In the following weeks, ACPE will be publishing the themes that emerged from the Anti-Bias survey results.
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Belonging
Apr 9, 2021
In his new book, After Whiteness, an Education in Belonging, Willie Jennings envisions the work of formation at the center of theological education as primarily a practice of belonging. Jennings knows theological education; he is a professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School, and the former dean of Duke Divinity School. In this book he brings together fragments – of poems and dreams, of stories from the academy, of theological scholarship across centuries – and demonstrates in real time how the fragments are the fertile ground of belonging, and the place of possibility. It is a beautiful and challenging book.