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John Edgerton, CPSP President, announces that the CPSP Governing Council will meet November 4-5, 2010 in Raleigh, NC at the Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park. The meeting will convene at 7:00 PM on the 4th. It will re-convene 8:30 AM on the 5th and conclude at 12:00 Noon. Meals will be provided by CPSP.
Participants are to directly contact the hotel and make their own arrangements. Be sure, however, you request the CPSP room rate. There is a free shuttle service provided by the hotel that makes frequent runs to and from the hotel and airport.
The Governing Council has significant work before it as it provides leadership for CPSP's mission and its future directions. All Chapters are encouraged by John Edgerton to send their Chapter Convener or representative from the Chapter. He further reminds Chapters that it is important to establish, when needed, financial resources to help insure Chapter representation at meetings of the Governing Council.
To contact John Edgerton, click here.
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at 11:23 AM
The National Clinical Training Seminar (NCTS) is right around the corner.
The NCTS will meet October 11 and 12th, 2010. IMPORTANT: The event will be held in a new venue: Stella Maris Retreat Center located at 981 Ocean Avenue, Elberon, NJ 07740.
Our theme for the upcoming fall NCTS is: “On the Varieties of Courage: Anton Boisen, Daniel Berrigan, Frank Serpico and The Pursuit of Liberty and Happiness.
The featured presenter Joseph M. Kramp, PhD candidate Drew University will use Heinz Kohut’s theory as a framework for his presentation. Most of his presentation will focus on Anton Boisen's autobiography.
In preparation for the NCTS, please read the following works: Anton Boisen’s Out of the Depths (Anton Boisen’s biography), and Daniel Berrigen’s autobiography: To Dwell in Peace. Also, watch the movie Serpico with Al Pacino. Additionally, Heinz Kohut “On Courage” in Self Psychology and the Humanities, edited by Charles B. Strozier and Going Sane: Maps of Happiness by Adam Phillips will help prepare us for these presentations.
Important Downloads:
http://www.waterspirit.org/directions.html
This is going to be an exciting seminar. Plan to attend. Registrar now!. Registrations forms are available on this site!
Francine Hernandez,
NCTS, Coordinator
francine.angel5@gmail.com
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at 8:41 AM
Last week I visited Fort Hood in Texas to provide a consultation to the Family Life section of the Army’s chaplaincy corp. I was invited by Dave Scheider and Lance Sneath. Lance is on partial medical leave due to his debilitating Gulf War syndrome, one of 125,000 victims of flawed anti-radiation medicine. Dave is directing the training program for the time being.
The Family Life chaplains have an excellent facility, soon to be expanded. There are multiple counseling rooms with state of the art electronics that enable clinical supervisors to monitor the work of their trainees.
One of the remarkable aspects of Army chaplaincy is that they are currently much more advanced than the civilian sector in the matter of training their chaplains to work clinically with troubled families. The Army has integrated psychology and religion in a way that the civilian sector should emulate.
The clinical training program at Fort Hood, the largest military base in the country, the home of two divisions, is overall very impressive. Chaplains who go through the clinical training program simultaneously earn an M.S. degree in counseling awarded by Texas A&M University. This program is one of the most promising programs I have visited both in terms of the seriousness of the clinical supervision and teaching, and the quality of the trainees, as well as the infrastructure support.
On my visit I also consulted with the Lake Belton Chapter, which is made up largely of military chaplains based at Fort Hood. Some of their certified chaplains are currently and temporarily stationed in overseas bases and communicate with the Chapter by phone and skype for the time being.
I also made a visit to Utah and found a considerable amount of energy and enthusiasm for the expanding clinical training programs there. I was consultant to the clinical program at the Veterans Administration program in Salt Lake City. Chaplain Mark Allison supervises the program there.
I met with Gene Slade and his administrator. Gene is in supervisory training with Mark and conducting a program at Intermountain Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah. And I was happy to be part of a seminar reviewing the work of yet another of Mark’s supervisors-in-training, Jeff Price.
The population in Utah is majority Latter Day Saints(LDS), or Mormons. I found the religious environment to be quite ecumenical. It seems clear to me that the LDS enthusiastically promote an ecumenical spirit. The trainee population was a mixture of Buddhists, Indian shamans, and a variety of Christian groups, Roman Catholic and Protestant. The program was multi-racial and multi-ethnic.
As well as consulting the program, I attended and spoke at the graduation ceremonies of Mark’s most recent training group. It was a gathering of more than one hundred persons along with the media from television and the Salt Lake City newspaper, Deseret News. The hospital administrator also spoke.
While in Utah I also conferred with several Chapter conveners and reviewed the rapid expansion of CPSP work in Utah. Five years ago we no CPSP activity in the state. Now there are five functioning Chapters and discussion of new Chapters to be formed.
While in Utah I also met with Roger Keller and Michael Benedict who are conducting a training program in Provo supervised by Foy Richie. Foy has been the person who originally brought CPSP work to Utah and the fruits of his work are quite impressive.
See below the Deseret News photo of Arnold Thomas, a blind Indian shaman who during the graduation ceremony treated me to a native ritual, chanting and purifying me magpie tail feathers and fumigating me with the Indians’ mountain tobacco smoke. I’ve felt better ever since. (The Pastoral Report’s editor is incorrect in reporting that the shaman was chanting ‘off with his head.’)
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Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at 4:38 PM