WHAT IS CPE?

CPE is professional education for ministry. It is an action-reflection model of adult education based on the interaction between a student's ministry and reflection within a supervised peer group. Those to whom one ministers are "the living human documents," the textbook for the course so to speak. Through their reflection on ministerial encounters peers and supervisor provide helpful feedback to the student in developing self-awareness as a minister. This allows the ministry to speak in a formative way. The CPE environment challenges the student to reach out in new ways and to take risks in an educational environment that is safe and conducive to learning and growing in pastoral identity.

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