Academy for Continuing Education

Gary Sartain, Academy Coordinator

The ACPE Academy for Continuing Education is organized to meet the following educational needs of the ACPE membership:

The Leadership Forum – for ACPE leadership, board, commission, committee members

The Center for Management Studies – for pastoral leaders and ACPE Supervisors serving as department heads, program managers, senior staff

The Center for the Teaching and Supervisory Arts – for Supervisory Education Students, ACPE Supervisors, Field Educators, Pastors, and Pastoral Theologians

Registration for the 2012 Webinars:

March 15, 2012 - Personal and professional integration in pastoral supervision
The Rev. Dennis E. Kenny, CPE Supervisor, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

April 19, 2012 - Personality Theories: A Post-Modern Approach
Dr. Tom O'Connor, Waterloo Seminary, Ontario, Canada

May 17, 2012 - Leading edge thinking in education and learning theory
The Rev. Michelle A. Oberwise-Lacock, CPE Supervisor, Yorkville, IL

June 7, 2012 - Leading edge thinking in pastoral theology The Rev. Wayne Lee Menking, S.T.D., CPE Supervisor, Fort Worth, TX

July 19, 2012 - Use of self in pastoral supervision
The Rev. Patricia A. Wilson-Cone, Director of Pastoral Care & CPE, Jackson Health System, Miami, FL

August 16, 2012 - Working with resistance in pastoral supervision
Dr. Gordon J. Hilsman, D.Min., CPE Supervisor Emeritus, Tacoma, WA

September 20, 2012 - Discernment and assessment in selecting supervisory education students
The Rev. Judith R. Ragsdale, CPE Supervisor, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH and The Rev. Marla Yvette Coulter-McDonald, Manager of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education, IU Health North Hospital, Carmel, IN

October 18, 2012 - There was a priest, a rabbi, and a minister: Interfaith clinical supervision from a social psychological perspective
The Rev. Dr. Dagmar Grefe, Spiritual Care Manager, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

November 29, 2012 - Tending to the evolving relationship between the training supervisor and supervisory student
Ms. Terri M. Bolotin, CPE Supervisor, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC

December 20, 2012 - Developing theory and supervision from an African-centered perspective
The Rev. Osofo Kwesi Atta, Director, Clinical Pastoral Education, Advocate Health Care System, Oak Brook, IL