Iona Collaborative & The CFLC Join Forces

CFLC began with a question: What might happen if we adapted Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and made it accessible for everyone? How might the landscape of church leadership–not to mention chaplaincy and spiritual care–change as a result? And who might have access to the vocation of chaplaincy that otherwise might be excluded, because traditional CPE requires the privileges of advanced degrees, and an abundance of free time and money? 

Over the past four years, CFLC has worked to adapt the traditional CPE curriculum making it more accessible, while retaining CPE’s transformational model of action-reflection-action, structured through case studies and feedback from colleagues.

This fall, CFLC and the Iona Collaborative are joining forces to take our adapted CPE curriculum and offer it online. This venture is an exciting experiment to help us learn more about how we might adapt our curriculum for a wider audience.

If you’d like to participate, you will need a context where you can offer pastoral/spiritual care for a couple hours each week. It can be your home parish, a food bank, or another community service provider. Also, total class time is four hours each week, for ten weeks.

While there are some outside assignments, our adapted curriculum is focused on utilizing digital resources (video and sound recordings) instead of being centrally focused on reading/writing, to make the work manageable. Trainees are expected to present at least two case studies drawn from this practice of spiritual care during the ten-week course.

The Cohort begins October 5th and ends December 14th. For more information email us at - info@thecflc.org!