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  • ACPE 2023 Annual Conference

    Feb 8, 2023

    Join us on May 21-May 25 in New Orleans, LA!

  • For your professional ethics edification in February

    Feb 5, 2023

    Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*.

  • Our Good Work

    Feb 5, 2023

    Anne Lamott in her 2012 piece Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers writes: You say, “Thank you” when something scary has happened in your beloved and screwed-up family and you all came through (or most of you did!), and you have found love in the intergenerational ruins (maybe a lot of love, or maybe just enough).

  • A Personal Reflection from our Interim Executive Director

    Feb 5, 2023

    Every Sunday morning, I rise early to send out a scripture accompanied by a brief meditation to my family (my four sisters and two cousins). They are, in many ways, my congregation. I am grateful for them and the ways we nurture and care for each other. When I awakened on Sunday morning, January 29th, I struggled to find words of comfort for myself and my family.

  • A Reflection from the On-Call Room

    Jan 30, 2023

    I met God in the hospital last night In the great wind Of a newborn baby’s breath, heralded by Brahms’ lullaby over the PA Of a team providing CPR Of the rush of people coming and going, blown from one place to another, perhaps unsure how they even landed here

  • For your professional ethics edification in January

    Jan 23, 2023

    Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*.

  • Accreditation Updates

    Jan 16, 2023

    Happy New Year! It is my pleasure to be writing to you as the new chair of the Accreditation Commission.

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    Towards Our Beloved Community

    Jan 16, 2023

    As a daughter of Atlanta, Georgia, the place dubbed “The City Too Busy To Hate,” I grew up with the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a towering backdrop to my experience as a middle-class African American millennial raised in the South.

  • Happy New Year!

    Dec 31, 2022

    Happy New Year, ACPE members and friends! The page turns from 2022 to 2023, and we are reminded once again of the passage of time, the gift of a vital mission we share, and the possibilities our transformational work brings. This time in ACPE’s life attunes me to generative energy. Here is why I say that:

  • ACPE Board of Directors announces Rev. Robin Brown-Haithco as Interim Executive Director

    Dec 31, 2022

    ACPE Board of Directors is pleased to announce ACPE Retired Educator Rev.Robin Brown-Haithco as Interim Executive Director, effective January 1, 2023.

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    This Work Matters

    Dec 19, 2022

    As we approach the final days of 2022, I want to express a big “THANK YOU” to all our donors, supporters, and friends for your incredible generosity of time, talent and treasure this year. It has been my honor to serve as the Foundation for ACPE’s Board Chair these past two years, and I am grateful for all that we have learned and accomplished.

  • For your professional ethics edification in December

    Dec 15, 2022

    Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*.

  • Thank you, ACPE!

    Dec 15, 2022

    As most of you know, poetry is one of the most important sources of life for my soul. As this is my final article for ACPE, I want to offer two pieces I love from Julia Fehrenbacher. The first echoes my reflections on my time with you:

  • International CPE Community of Practice Retreat Report

    Dec 12, 2022

    The International CPE Community of Practice held a hybrid retreat from December 2nd until December 4th. Seventeen people attended in person, seven attended virtually, and 11 countries were represented. The intention of this retreat is to cultivate the relationships that we have not been able to achieve during the COVID pandemic, and it is also to experiment with CPE practice that can be culturally relevant to various cultural contexts.

  • A Season of Transition

    Dec 5, 2022

    November was a dynamic month at ACPE. The ACPE Board, Commissions, and Committees met in Atlanta in mid-November to do the work of the association. Information on those respective meetings will be posted online following the ACPE Board’s ratifying of the minutes at our December board meeting.

  • Simple Foods at Thanksgiving

    Nov 30, 2022

    The weather was unseasonably warm at Bethany Beach, DE, this time of year, and we were able to walk on the sand every day under a clear blue sky. The sight and sound of the waves and birds, strangers greeting one another, and children biking filled in the spaces generally reserved for howling wind or rustling leaves in November.

  • November 29, 2022 is Giving Tuesday!

    Nov 28, 2022

    GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.

  • Executive Director Article: Exploring the Concept of Trust

    Nov 18, 2022

    Recently, I've been reading Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together and Might Drive Us Apart by Rachel Botsman. Botsman, a professor at Oxford University’s business school, is a leading expert on trust. In this book, her research leads her to several important insights.

  • Board of Directors Announcement of Executive Director Resignation

    Nov 11, 2022

    After almost a decade of service to ACPE, Trace Haythorn has announced that he will depart his role as Executive Director, effective December 31, 2022

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    For your professional ethics edification in November

    Nov 4, 2022

    Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*. November’s statements are: