Professional CPE Buddhist Chaplaincy Training

We are happy to offer fully certified professional training (CPE) through our partnership with Norwalk Hospital. The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care is accredited as an ACPE Satellite of Norwalk Hospital, an ACPE Accredited Center. It is open to those who have completed the first year Foundations in Buddhist Contemplative Care Training Program. Our CPE Training Program is a professional level training and is designed for people interested both in deepening their spiritual practice of caregiving as well as those interested in becoming professional chaplains.

Our Clinical Pastoral Education is interfaith professional education from a Buddhist perspective and practice for providing contemplative caregiving to anyone of any or no faith as a chaplain. Our Training brings students into supervised encounters with persons in a pivotal moment in their lives in the hospital. Coming from a reflective intimate involvement with people in their crisis or celebration, and the feedback from peers and teachers, students develop new awareness of themselves as persons and of the needs of those to whom they are with. In the Center’s Buddhist CPE program, we emphasize training in being with others as differentiated from doing or helping another. From deep contemplative practice and reflection on specific moments, students begin to acquire a new understanding of care giving. Within the interdisciplinary team process of helping professions, students develop skills in intrapersonal, interpersonal and interprofessional relationships.

Oversight for our Buddhist CPE Training is handled by our Pastoral Advisory Committee. This Committee is a group of interdisciplinary professional people who meet at regular intervals to provide advice and consultation on our Buddhist CPE Chaplaincy Training Program planning, development and program evaluation. This Committee's service helps insure that our CPE Training Program is well integrated within the organization and provides feedback for quality assurance.

Program Components

  • The 300 hours of clinical practice of chaplaincy to patients and staff
  • 100 hours of education in 10 monthly daylong trainings held on Fridays and one three day retreat
  • Detailed reporting and evaluation of that practice
  • Clinical Supervision
  • 10 Monthly day long trainings held on Fridays
  • Monthly peer meetings
  • Monthly readings and written papers

Areas of Focus:

  • Contemplative care of those facing the crisis of illness and loss
  • Spiritual assessment
  • Spiritual diagnosis
  • Transference and Countertransference
  • Archetypal Approaches to Contemplative Care
  • Spiritual Bypassing
  • Care of dying persons and their loved ones
  • Medical and spiritual ethics
  • Buddhology of suffering
  • Buddhology of contemplative care
  • Contemplative care in multicultural and multi-faith settings
  • Elective Study

To complement the training program, the New York Zen Center offers public talks, retreats, workshops, and other training programs. To view upcoming events, click here.

Location

Classes will be held at The Karpas Center, at the Beth Israel Campus, on the corner of 18th and 1st Avenue.

Scheduled Dates for 2010-11 Class:

Trainings are held primarily on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and there is one 4 day retreat in January 2011.

GROUP ONE: September: 1, 8, October:13, 20 (Combined Groups), November: 3, December: 1, 15 (Combined Groups), January: 13-16 Garrison Retreat, 19 (Combined Groups), February: 2, March 23-27: Association of Professional Chaplains Conference (recommended), March: 2, 9 (Combined Groups), April: 6, May: 4, June: 1, July: 6 CPE Combined Graduation.

GROUP TWO: September: 1, 22, October: 20, (Combined Groups), 27, November: 17, December: 15 (Combined Groups), 22, January: 13-16 Garrison Retreat , 19 (Combined Groups), February: 16, March 23-27: Association of Professional Chaplains Conference (recommended), March: 9 (Combined Groups), 16, April: 20, May: 18, June: 15, July: 6 CPE Combined Graduation.

GROUP THREE:
Two 24 Week Units

Unit One: September: *1, 2, 16, 24, October: 14, 20 (Combined Groups on a Wednesday), 28, November: 4, 18, December: 2, 15 (Combined Groups on a Wednesday), 23, January: 3, 13-16 Garrison Retreat, 19 (Combined Groups on a Wednesday)

Unit Two: Jan 27, February: 3, 17, March 23-27: Association of Professional Chaplains Conference (recommended), March: 3, 9 (Combined Groups on a Wednesday), 17, 31, April: 21, May: 5, 19, June: 2, 16, 30, July: 6 CPE Combined Graduation.

Guidelines for enrollment
Our Buddhist CPE Training Program is designed for people who have taken our Foundation Training. If there is space in our upcoming training, those with previous CPE experience and significant Contemplative Practice experience will be considered.

  • 3 Letters of recommendation: from a Buddhist teacher or someone who knows your spiritual practice, from an academic reference, and one from a personal reference.
  • An in-person interview.
  • Availability to do all your clinical hours in one of our partner institutions in New York City.
  • Please email: info@zencare.org for an application.

Tuition

  • The cost for the ten-month program is $2550 + retreat fee
  • A limited number of partial work-exchange scholarships may be available.
  • Space is limited. Applications will be reviewed as they are sent in. Admissions are rolling and on-going.

Accreditation:

The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.
1549 Clairmont Road, Suite 103, Decatur, GA 30033
Tel: 404.320.1472
Fax: 404.320.0849

www.acpe.edu


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