Program Overview

The Institute for Spiritual Health and Wellness is intimately connected to the mission and vision of CHRIS 180 with a commitment to offering relevant, effective, Clinical Pastoral Education through the use of a student-centered, action-reflective, process model of learning. It is committed to providing an environment for learning that emphasizes human growth in pastoral formation, pastoral reflection, and pastoral competence. The learning environment at the Institute is relational, fostering mutual respect, openness, challenge, conflict, constructive confrontation, and dignity.

Position(s) Summary

As a student in CPE (Resident or Intern(, you will be invited to remember and intentionally reflect on your experiences offering spiritual and pastoral care to persons in crisis. You will create goals to aid your learning throughout the unit. You will be in a group of people who covenant to learn together through the exchange of honest feedback and critique. The learning process takes the care experiences you have as a chaplain, invites your reflection and the reflection of your learning community, and sends you back out to offer care again from a new vantage point gained through the learning process. We call this process the action–reflection–action – method of clinical learning.