CPSP Little Rock Chapter

The Spiritual Care Collaborative sounds all the right notes when it comes to promoting and advertising the SCC as new breakthrough in collaboration between pastoral care and counseling organizations. High ideals expressed on paper sound good and make a good sales pitch but unless accompanied by serious results on the ground amount to nothing more than lofty words blowing in the wind. Rather than creating harmony in the midst of the pastoral care and counseling movement the SCC sound a jarring note of discord tainted by an exclusive elitism. The SCC recently admitted(1) that it has no developed mechanism for including other participating organizations in the partnership of collaboration. So much then for lofty ideals and claims of Collaboration mere code words used as cover for darker motives of control and monopoly. Note (1) NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE CPSP COMMUNITY RE. RELATIONS TO THE SPIRITUAL CARE COLLABORATIVESeptember 3, 2008 Notice to Members of the College of Pastoral Supervisio

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Mid-South Fall Pastoral Care Institute October 30-31, 2008 Little Rock, Arkansas Gather this Fall in Little Rock with chaplains, pastoral counselors, pastoral psychotherapists, and pastoral care givers from across the South for this educational event, beginning at Noon Thursday October 30th with workshops followed by a dinner and speaker that evening. The Institute continues with a day of educational seminars on Friday. Mark your calendars. More information coming soon! Presenters: Thursday evening, October 30 James D. Hester, Ph. D. ,is the Crawford Professor of Religion, Emeritus, from the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, where he taught for 31 years. He holds a doctorate in theology (DTheol) from the University of Basel (Switzerland), where he studied with Oscar Cullman, Bo Reicke, and Karl Barth. He is a member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and of the Society of Biblical Literature. He was a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and for 12 years directed the Rhetorical New Test

The Spiritual Care Collaborative has recently had to acknowledge to the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy that the SCC has failed to develop a means of including other clinical pastoral training and certifying bodies as members of the SCC. Sadly the admission of the SCC to CPSP that the SCC does not know how to revise its founding documents or whether it should reveals that it is more of a political power block than a truly collaborative organization. George Hankins HullCPSP Diplomate in Clinical Pastoral Education FROM THE CPSP GENERAL SECRETARY : SCC Unable to Act On Question of Whether to Invite CPSPWe applaud the Board of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) that last month unanimously voted in the affirmative to invite CPSP to join the Spiritual Care Collaborative. We also applaud the National Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) for taking the same action. However, neither CPSP nor any other organization should hold its breath waiting for an

The CPE program focuses on the development of self-awareness, formation of pastoral identity, professional functioning, and the ability to address issues from a competent clinical and pastoral perspective. The residency program is designed for the ordained person with a seminary degree and at least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. On occasion, a lay person may qualify for admission. CPE residents and interns serve as ecumenical chaplains, under supervision, to assigned areas throughout the UAMS Medical Center and clinics. The setting provides a rich base for clinical experience and opportunities for continued personal, professional and pastoral development. The UAMS Clinical Pastoral Training programs follow the standards set by the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy (CPSP), the accrediting organization. A typical unit of CPE requires a minimum of 400 hours of supervised ministry in a clinical setting. Stipend: 24,600 plus medical benefits: This training oppor

We are pleased to announce that Professor Arthur W. Frank will be the Keynote speaker at the at the 2008 Plenary Gathering of The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy. Arthur W. Frank is professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Alberta Canada. Dr. Frank received his undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University (High Honours, 1968), his M.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University (1975). He has taught at the University of Calgary since 1975. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of The Hastings Center, the preeminent U.S. bioethics institute, and also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, which is the highest honor that Canadian academics can receive. He is the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (Houghton Mifflin, 1991), the story of his 1985 heart attack and subsequent testicular cancer. The book has been translated into four langua

Two Great Reasons to Attend the CPSP 2008 Plenary 1 . The Pre-conference Workshops 2. Visit Little Rock's Places of Interest 1. Preconference Workshops: a. 9:00 a.m. Sunday – “Community Based C.P.E.” b. 10:45 a.m. Sunday – “There is No Suffering in the Hospital” c. 1:00 p.m. Sunday – “Chapter Life Workshop" 2. Visit these historic sites: a. The Clinton Presidential Library b. The Old Mill – site of the opening scene of “Gone with the Wind” c. Central High School – site of the “Little Rock Nine” historic school desegregation d. The Little Rock River Market e. Alltel Arena – site of 2008 NCAA regional men’s basketball tournament f. Villa Marre – the house on the sitcom “Designing Women” g. Heifer Project International Green Building h. MacArthur Museum of Military History i. Old State House Museum j. Arkansas Museum and Historical Restoration k. Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum/USS Razorback (WWII submarine) l. Arkansas Riverboat Queen m. River Rail Streetcars & Trolley Syst