Clinical Pastoral Education Units
The Center for Integral Spiritual Formation (CISF) offers three ACPE-accredited CPE unit types — a 16-week extended unit, a 26-week extended unit, and a 10-week summer intensive — with multiple term windows throughout the year, all delivered in a flexible online-hybrid environment.
What Every Unit Includes
All three unit types fully meet ACPE national standards for professional chaplaincy certification. Each completes a full 400-hour unit.
Weekly online synchronous seminars, verbatim seminars, didactic lectures, and interpersonal process groups.
Supervised pastoral care in your current hospital, hospice, parish, correctional, military, or community setting.
Bi-weekly individual supervisory sessions with ACPE Certified Educators focusing on your pastoral identity and growth edges.
Recognized nationwide across healthcare systems, military endorsers, and professional chaplaincy boards (APC, NAVAC, etc.).
Three Unit Types, One Standard
Choose the unit type that fits your season and pace. Each awards a complete 1.0 ACPE unit transcript on completion.
16-Week Extended Unit
Active chaplains and ministers who can sustain an accelerated clinical pace.
26-Week Extended Unit
Full-time professionals and career transitioners who want a sustainable rhythm.
Summer Intensive — 10-Week Unit
Students able to dedicate themselves to a full-time summer internship experience.
The CISF Learning Environment
CISF's educational culture emphasizes human-first formation, integration of spirituality, psychology, and embodiment, interfaith and interspiritual dialogue, and relational honesty in group process. Learning emerges not only from curriculum, but from the actual lived experiences, tensions, and growth edges present within the cohort.