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CPE in Baguio

This Summer there are 22 CPE trainees in the two CPSP-Philippines training centers in Baguio City. Supervisor Paul Tabon, working with Pines City Doctors Hospital, has 7 trainees. Supervisor Celia Munson, of Bukal Life Care, has 6 trainees. Additionally at Bukal Life Care, there are two SITs active. Vo Canoy has 5 trainees, and Edgar Chan has 4 trainees.

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Supervisor Paul with his CPE trainees

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CPE trainees with Bukal Life Care team on Quirino Province Mission Trip— Training of local pastors and layleaders in Pastoral Counseling.

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CPE Training via Skype with Chaplain Salvador Delmundo, APC certified, serving as head chaplain at the famed Menninger Clinic.

 

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CPE Commissioning for Bukal Life Care 2018 Summer Intensive

 

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Process of CPE Training

The following presentations provides a quick overview of the principles of training associated with CPE. The first one comes from the Bukal Life Care website. (Bukal Life Care is one of our accredited training centers.) The second is from CPSP-Philippines

 

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Welcome to Dr. Dickens

Dr. Doug Dickens, Diplomate Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education/Training with CPSP, has been with us here in Baguio for the last week. He has been teaching “Grief and Loss” at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. However, he has also been working with the CPSP-Philippine Supervisors and Supervisors-in-Training here in Baguio. He has been working to help us improve our supervision.

Presently, CPSP-Philippines has two training centers in Baguio City with 2 supervisors and 2 supervisors-in-training (and 22 trainees among them). We are thankful for his willingness to work with us.

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Dr. Dickens with Edgar, Vo, Celia, and Paul after one of our Supervision training sessions

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Grief and Loss Class

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CPE Groups

We don’t always have the latest updates regarding Active CPE groups, but we will share what we know when we know it.

Presently in Progress.

  1.  Dr. Paul Tabon has a group presently working at Pines Doctors Hospital in Baguio City.

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    CPE Partnership at Pines Doctors Hospital

  2.  Dr. Sim Dang-Awan Jr., and Chaplain Victor Layug have an extended CPE at Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila.
  3. Chaplains Celia Munson and Vo Canoy have two groups at Bukal Life Care, with Baguio General Hospital and La Trinidad District Jail as the primary ministry points.

Upcoming.

  1.  Chaplain Edgar Chan has a group associated with Bukal Life Care and Lutheran Theological Seminary starting in early April.
  2. Another group is planned for June associated with Bukal Life Care and Lutheran Theological Seminary.

Hoping to get updates of CPE at St. Lukes Medical Center, and Clinical Pastoral and Spiritual Care Training Center.

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Travel News

  1.  Dr. Merlita (Lyn) Montecastro is on her way to Oakland, California to represent CPSP-Philippines at the 2018 CPSP Plenary, March 19-22.
  2. Chaplain Violeta (Vo) Canoy will be travelling to Ghana in late May, and will hold at least one training related to pastoral counseling and chaplaincy.
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Membership Time

  1.  It is that time of year again. Time to update memberships. Please refer to the Financial Matters page on this website for information on how much and where to send it.  Click HERE.
  2. If you need a membership form to fill out, please go to the Documents page HERE.
  3. For other matters such as questions, or letting us know about your need for a certification board, or training center accreditation, please go to the Contact Us page HERE.

We expect to be having a certification board in Baguio in May. Please let us know if you are interested in this. We will most likelyhavea certification board in Manila later in the year.

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Addressing Theology in Suffering

Here is a quote by Howard Stone from “The Word of God and Pastoral Care”

Over the years, while making pastoral carecaution2bagainst2bbad2badvice visits and especially hospital visits, I have sadly encountered many people whose well-meaning friends and acquaintances have responded to their why questions with theological answers that left them terribly upset and proved actually to be destructive: ‘This is God’s punishment on you and for your sins.’ ‘This is God’s will; you have to accept it.’ ‘This has happened to bring you to the Lord.’ ‘God wanted your dear one with him in heaven.’ ‘If you hadn’t skipped out on your wife, this wouldn’t have happened.’ ‘If you had stayed home with your children where God wants you to be, they wouldn’t have started taking drugs.’

More recently I have also come across another whole class of answers — more psychological than religious — to theodicy issues: ‘You are responsible for your illness.’ ‘You are sick because of your destructive thoughts.’ ‘The cancer inside you is pent up anger; you’ve got to release it to get well.’ ‘You are what you eat; if only you had cut out salt and exercised more.’ Some people are so eager to give their answers that they scarcely wait for the questions to be asked. The results are often quite grim.

When I first began pastoral care work, I would have thought such pronouncements were rare, or occurred only in the more conservative denominations. Not so! Things such as this happen everywhere, regardless of the conservative or liberal orientation. Simplistic and damaging answers flow from well-meaning people at a time when their hearers are in considerable distress, vulnerable, and unable to talk back. I raise the issue here because if ministers care only for people’s emotional pain and do not respond theologically to the issue of theodicy, parishioners will inevitably get their theological education elsewhere, and it may not be the kind we would have wished for them. In other words, if ministers will not respond, sooner or later, to the vital questions of theodicy, neighbors and friends are likely to do so, and not always in a helpful manner.                                       –page 165

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BOT Meeting

January 20th, 2018 from 10 am to 2pm, we held our Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees. The officers and board members stayed the same, and all were present.

Dr. Paul Tabon                         President      (Diplomate:  PBTS-SEE Training Center)

Mrs. Jehny Pedazo-Caoagas   V. President

Mrs. Celia Munson                   Sec/Treas      (Diplomate: Bukal Life Care)

Dr. Simplicio Dang-Awan Jr.  Member       (Diplomate:  New Heights)

Dr. Ryan Clark                            Member       <Present by Skype>

Also present were three who are part of CPSP-Philippines but not on BOT:

Dr. Robert Munson                   Registrar

Mrs. Tina Dang-Awan

Mr. Edgar Chan

 

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Upcoming Board Meeting

The board of trustees of CPSP-Philippines will have its annual meeting on January 20th starting at 9am at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary (Baguio City).

An additional note: Dr. Doug Dickens will be returning to PBTS in May. He is a Diplomate with CPSP, and will assist the pastoral care program of PBTS, along with our work with CPSP-Philippines.