President's Message
Annual General Meeting November 2022
As an Executive we have met six times since the last AGM and our meetings have covered a lot of ground. I offer my sincere thanks to all members of the Executive – Jane Monk, Andrew Harper, Tom Rose, Andrew Somerville, Shirley Nash, Fran Prem, Anne Wieczorek, Allison Whitby, Lauren Mosso, David Glenister and Stephen Delbridge. Together we have worked hard, wrestled with decisions, ensured process is followed and shared the workload of all that needs to happen.
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Heather Somerville
President
ASACPEV Inc’s Mission
ASACPEV Inc exists to educate and accredit both lay and ordained women and men for their excellence in pastoral practice. These goals are achieved by providing supervised pastoral education, professional support and recognition of its members.
ASACPEV Inc’s Principles
- Recognition of Supervised Pastoral Education (SPE) in all its diversity while always drawing inspiration from the Association's main form of SPE in Clinical Pastoral Education.
- The continuity of education and learning through the cycle of action and reflection on the experience of pastoral practice and relationships.
- Reverence for and recognition of the potential of the human person for transformation, while also recognising the reality of evil and human fallibility.
- Rigorous professional standards and the application of these standards in the supervision and monitoring of pastoral practice.
- Recognition of personal responsibility for the taking up on one's own life and ongoing growth.
- Belief in the spirituality of each person and the fostering of personal freedom within the relationship between human beings and thier spirituality.
- Recognition of :
- the importance of the Association's Christian origins and values
- the welcome of interfaith membership of the Association.
- Furthering the integration of theological reflection in all spects of the life of the Association.
ASACPEV Inc’s Vision
ASACPEV Inc will be renowned and sought out for its outstanding ecumenical supervisory practices, promoting both established and leading edge pastoral practice whether to individuals, communities or institutions.
Functions
- Establishment and oversight of ASACPEV Inc's Standards and Code of Ethics
- Registration of Clinical Pastoral Education Centres
- Accreditation and reaccredidation of supervisors
ASACPEV Inc Committees
Executive Committee is responsible for decision making on behalf of the Association and reports to the Annual General Meeting.
Registration & Certification Committee is responsible for the processing of :
In 2003 ‘A Finger Pointing to the Moon’, a history of the Association for Supervised Pastoral Education in Australia 1967-2000 was published.
See History of ASACPEV Inc for details.
Registration & Certification Committee is responsible for the processing of :
- the registration of Centres
- appointment of Centre Directors
- recommendation to the Executive of accreditation and reaccreditation of Supervisors
- review of Standards
In 2003 ‘A Finger Pointing to the Moon’, a history of the Association for Supervised Pastoral Education in Australia 1967-2000 was published.
See History of ASACPEV Inc for details.
Vale Margaret Sangster
The Association for Supervised and Clinical Pastoral Education in Victoria Incorporated acknowledges with great sadness the news of the death of Margaret Sangster on December 2017. Margaret was accredited as a Pastoral Supervisor in 1991 and worked under the direction of David Stark at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for CPE, then at the Repatriation Centre for several years, with David Stark, Allison Whitby and Jenni Wegener. Jenni also invited her to co-supervise in several units at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the early 2000s until her retirement from CPE supervision. Margaret was important in the formation of many pastoral carers and offered her wisdom and collegiality to the supervisors with whom she worked. A tribute for Margaret Sangster is below.
| Margaret Sangster Tribute |
