CPE APPLICATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
Please complete the following sections and submit your typed application:
1. Application Form
Fill out the electronic form and submit it together with your essay materials.
ESSAY MATERIALS:
2. Personal Life
Share your autobiography. A significant life events from your childhood to adulthood, and the influential people in your personal growth. Describe your family background, current family relationships, and key social connections.
3. Spiritual Journey
Describe your spiritual growth and development. Include your initial spiritual orientation, personal conversions, call to spiritual care, religious or spiritual experiences, and individuals or events that shaped your spirituality.
4. “Helping Incident”
Narrate an instance where you provided help. Explain the request, your assessment of the situation, your involvement, and actions taken. Offer a brief evaluation of your intervention and its impact.
5. Impressions on CPE
Share your understanding of CPE and whether it’s a requirement for you. State your learning objectives or issues to address in CPE. Describe how CPE can meet needs in your spiritual care practice or role in a values-based system. Specify current personal and professional learning goals and how CPE will address them.
6. Admissions Interview
An admissions interview is an integral part of your application process. We will contact you as soon as we receive your application materials.
7. Attach a Current Resume
8. Program Fees:
APPLICATION FEE = $25
CPE SEMESTER UNIT = $990