CPSP Little Rock Chapter

The Class of 2011-2012 Clinical Pastoral Education Residents And Summer Interns University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences CPE Faculty: George Hankins Hull, Dip.Th., Th.M. George Buck, Ph.D Supervisors in Training: Susan McDougal UAMS Staff Chaplain Bill Briant, Staff Chaplain M.Th.    Read the Pastoral Report the online newsletter of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy 

Kimberly Garner, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.F.P. will be the Plenary speaker at the 2012 Gathering of the CPSP community. Dr. Kimberly Garner is a staff physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is also an assistant professor of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Garner is the medical director of the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System which is a specialized intermediate unit which provides an interdisciplinary team approach in an inpatient setting. The GEM specifically addresses relatively recent and potentially reversible loss of physical or cognitive function using a rehabilitation model. This involves a multidisciplinary, including occupational and kinesiotherapists, assessment. The primary goal is to promote functional well-being that allows re-entry into the community at the most independent and le...

George Hankins Hull Rabbi Eugene Levy Abrahamic Traditions Dinner The theme of the program was "Fasting in Abrahamic Traditions" since Muslims around the world observe the month of Ramadan in which they fast 30 days. Three speakers from three Abrahamic faiths; Rabbi Eugene Levy, George Hankins Hull, and Dr. Mehmet Ulupinar. This dinner was the first one in Little Rock and will continue to take place every six months for the members of the faith community.

The 2012 CPSP Plenary March 25th-March 28th 2012 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The 2012 CPSP Plenary gathering will take place at Doubletree Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh City Center. The hotel is situated in a prime location, which is right in the middle of Pittsburgh’s vibrant downtown. A block of rooms have been reserved March 24, -March 28, 2012. The special room rate, $119.00, will be available until March 4th or until the room block is sold out. You can reserve your room by clicking on the following link: Doubletree Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh City Center We look forward to seeing you in Pittsburg March 25th-March 28th 2012. Visit the Pastoral Report for more information about CPSP: Pastoral Report CPSP is committed to making Clinical Pastoral Training affordable George Hankins Hull CPSP Plenary Secretary

Representatives from the ACPE and CPSP met in Philadelphia on November 30, in an attempt to mediate their twenty-one year conflict. They used the services of JAMS, and in particular, retired federal court judge Diane Welsh who served as mediator. The results of this mediation exceeded our expectations, as you can see in the joint statement below. I want to thank the members of our delegation and to praise them for their wisdom and conciliatory posture. Our team consisted of Jim Gebhart and George Hankins-Hull who with me were mediators, as well as Perry Miller highlighting and Charles R. Hicks, our attorney, were also present and participated in the decision. (Our original six-person team of mediators and consultants was reduced to five with the death of John Edgerton.) On the ACPE side were Teresa Snorton, Sally Schwab, and Tim Thorstenson. If we succeed in living up to this agreement we will have marked a sea change in the clinical pastoral community. This will mean that ACPE and CPS...

I welcome the letter from the Association of Religious Endorsing Bodies that challenges the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy to work collegially together in the best interests of those they train. The Religious Endorsers are quite rightly concerned for their constituents who are caught in the middle of the rift between ACPE and CPSP. Challenging the ACPE & CPSP to put the professional wellbeing of those they train above the politics of self-interest is not only the right thing to do it would also be the best possible pastoral response. George Hankins Hull Read the Pastoral Report the online Journal of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

A MESSAGE TO THE CPSP COMMUNITY FROM RAYMOND J. LAWRENCE We are heartened by this public expression of concern by the Religious Endorsing Body representatives (REBS) meeting in Nashville last fall. They have the interest in the wider religious and therapeutic community at heart in this call to reconciliation. There is plenty of work to be done in the field of clinical pastoral supervision, chaplaincy, pastoral counseling and psychotherapy. No one organization can respond to the current public needs. The expenditure of time and money in efforts to undermine each other is wasteful and disgraceful. We in CPSP hope that this letter from the REBS signals the end of hostility between the various clinical pastoral organizations, and the end of triumphalism on the part of any one organization or group of organizations. Raymond J. Lawrence, CPSP General Secretary

"One of the public issues that deeply concerns us is the chasm between CPSP and ACPE." AN OPEN LETTER to CPSP and ACPE Association of Religious Endorsing Bodies P.O. Box 340007, Nashville, TN 37203-007 January 11, 2010 To: CPSP and ACPE From: Association of Religious Endorsing Bodies (AREBS) Dear Colleagues in Pastoral Care Ministry,We have been fortunate to be in conversation with all of the cognate groups in Nashville.These meetings have helped us to clarify our identity as endorsers. That search for identity continues to drive us to more clarity and to deepen our relationships with all the cognate groups. We thank you for your patience with us as we have learned about your organizations, your organizational requirements, and also, your help in clarifying our understanding of your identity. What we have discovered is that we share one thing in common and that is our dedication to the goal of providing the best in pastoral care. We all strive for excellence in that process a...

PARISH-BASED CPE RESIDENCY POSITION: Stipend $40,000. Rural Parish with Recreation Ministry; Contracted with the South Carolina Department of Corrections and the Midlands Area Pastoral Counseling Services, Inc. Program Accredited by the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (January 4 – December 31, 2010). Inquire at Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church, Box 170, Liberty Hill, SC 29074 Telephone: 803-273-9191 Gene Rollins, Supervisor: lhpc@comporium.net For more information about CPSP visit the link below: http://www.cpsp.org/ .

College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy TASK FORCE FOR THE FUTURE REPORT: Delivered at the 2009 CPSP Plenary By Luise Weinrich The late writer David Foster Wallace, a man of great soul who I believe would have loved a community like CPSP , told this story at Kenyon College's commencement: in 2005: There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and says "What is water?" (David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College commencement address, 2005). For over a year now, the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy's Task Force for the Future has been at work, talking with our members about your vision for CPSP . We've been seeking your views about where we are, and where we're headed in the future, finding out what the w...

Getting to Know Yourself by George Hankins Hull, Dip.Th., Th.M Self-awareness as a pastoral care giver is essential to good pastoral care. Issues of transference and counter-transference loom large in pastoral encounters. Therefore, it’s of vital importance for the pastoral care giver to understand the use of the Self in the pastoral role. In her book,  When Helping You is Hurting Me , Carmen Berry addresses the detrimental aspects of a lack of self-awareness in the person of the care giver in what she calls the “Messiah trap.” The “Messiah trap”, is defined as continued circumstances in which individuals are persistently putting their own needs aside in order to help others. Berry offers an important caution to all in the helping professions against becoming addicted to helping and then, like an addict, seeking out supplies for their fix. Further complicating the issue is what Berry calls the double-sided trap of helping: ‘If I don’t do it, it won’t get done’ and ‘Every one else’s nee...

Invitation... Come join us in Virginia Beach, Virginia at the Gathering of the Community for the Nineteenth Plenary Meeting March 29th-April 1, 2009 Sheraton Oceanfront Hotel Virginia Beach, Virginia Hotel Registration... Sheraton Oceanfront Hotel, 36th Street and Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Tel: 800.521.5635 -or- 757.425.9000 Registrants must contact the hotel, at the telephone numbers listed above, to reserve sleeping rooms. Special Conference Rate: $109-$119 +tax. This rate is guaranteed only though February 26, 2009, and for a limited number of rooms, on a first-come basis. The price of the room will vary according to the view. The hotel rooms are quite spacious and will accommodate three or four persons comfortably. You are urged to register as early as possible if you intend to stay at the Sheraton. Please Note: Registration Rate after February 26, 2009: $245. Meals/Refreshments for Non-Registered Companion or Spouse: $75. For additional information please go to our...

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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...

I just left Iloilo in the Philippines where I was guest of the School of Theology, Central Philippine University (CPU). The university was the first school and hospital established in the Philippines by the American Baptists a century ago. It is a very large and impressive complex. The university invited me to be a sort of visiting consultant with special attention to its clinical pastoral training program. Its program is accredited by CPSP. The dean, Dr. Limuel Equina, was very hospitable and attempted to meet my every need. I was astonished at my departure, when I rushed to an early flight at 5:30 in the morning, to find the dean and his wife at the airport to wish me a safe journey. His action relays something of who the dean is and something about the hospitality of the Philippine people. The person I most related to at the university was the Rev Daisy Basiliano who is the director of clinical pastoral education. She is conducting several training groups, and having observed them f...

Mid-South Regional Fall Chaplains Conference October 11-12, 2007 Delta Regional Medical Center Greenville, Mississippi Dr. Larry Burton to Headline Fall Mid-South Chaplains Conference Gather this Fall with chaplains from across the South for this educational event, beginning with dinner on Thursday night, continuing with a full day of educational seminars on Friday. Mark your calendars & register now! Schedule Thursday, Oct. 11 – 6:30 p.m.: Dinner Thursday, Oct. 11 – 7:30 p.m.: Workshop 1 When Religion Becomes an Ethical Issue Dr. Larry Burton, Past APC President & COMISS Chairman Friday, Oct. 12 – 8:00 a.m.: Continental Breakfast Friday, Oct. 12 – 8:30 a.m.: Workshop 2 Encountering the Sacred through Organ Donation Chaplain Phil Pinckard, Medical Center of South Arkansas Friday, Oct. 12 – 11:00 a.m.: Workshop 3 Internal Family Systems Walt Porter, Ph. D., Clinical Psychologist Friday, Oct. 12 – 12 Noon: Lunch Friday, Oct. 12 – 1:00 p.m.: Workshop 4 Turning Death in to Healing...