Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) provides professional clinical training for people from various traditions serving in a variety of settings with today’s religious and spiritual landscape in mind. While Clinical Pastoral Education is often hospital or institutionally based, CPE @ ChIME adapts the clinical process of training for trainees serving in community-based settings. CPE @ ChIME began in 2016 as Clinical Pastoral Training Center of Southern Maine and moved to ChIME in 2023

CPE  uses a process model of learning. The elements are the practice of care, reflection on care by trainee and cohort, and then practice again. This is a psychodynamic training that focuses on what is happening to the trainee

CPE is training for those who want to develop and deepen their ministerial skills, train in professional pastoral caregiving and broaden their skill sets. Ministers looking for professional development and an expanded community of clergy; parishioners who wish to develop skills for a visitation ministry; or counselors who want to add spiritual care to their set of competencies; are examples of those who would benefit from a unit or units of CPE.

Disclaimer

Clinical Pastoral Education International's programs are designed to provide a reflective and relational learning environment in which students are expected to increase in self-awareness, be self-directed, and explore one's theological understanding as it applies and is integrated into their abilities to practice competent pastoral care and pastoral supervision.

Completing a course(s) or one of the Certificate Programs does not guarantee employment or credentialing as a Board-Certified Chaplain or a Supervisor-Educator. Additional requirements are included in CPEI's Credentialing Manual.