Verbatim Seminar.
The focus of this seminar is on the Verbatim Report, a word for word rendition and analysis of a pastoral conversation.  From formally reviewing the Verbatim Report with one’s peers, one developing the interpersonal, pastoral, and clinical conversation skills utilized in pastoral conversation.  As the year progresses the foci of spiritual assessment and pastoral care plan are added.

Worship Seminar.
Hospitalized people and their families bring unique concerns to public worship. In this seminar residents review videotapes of hospital worship services from the perspective of worship being an event of pastoral care.

Didactic Seminar.
Formal presentations on a variety of relevant subjects made by persons who have expertise in the area. This is the most academic component of CPE.

Interpersonal Relations Group (IPR).
IPR is an open agenda seminar that provides participants an opportunity to discuss critical issues related to ministry, one's clinical work, and oneself in ministry conjointly with one's peers and supervisor.

Individual Supervisory Conference.
Weekly, hour long individualized consultation.

Ethics Seminar.
Ethical issues that arise out of caring for medical patients are reviewed from the perspectives of Biomedical ethics and theology. The discussions may focus on either medically based dilemmas or pastoral/professional behavior. The emphasis will be on the contributions theology makes to ethical behavior and the decision making process.

Operationalizing Theology.
In this seminary theological definitions of spiritual attributes such as hope and despair, acceptance and shame, grace and guilt are studied vis-a-vis behavioral expressions in people. From the dialogue between textbook and living human document, operational definitions are formulated for spiritual assessment.

Origins of Personal Theology.
The structure and dynamics of family serve as the context and environment where the foundations of one's theology are learned during the early developmental years. Values and attitudes that inform one's belief system and shape one's spiritual life and its expression have their roots in family experiences. Using the genogram as the base of discussion and reflection on one family history and personal development, the roots of one's theology are explored.

Dream Seminar.
From ancient times dreams have been understood as communication from the Divine. Using the combined understanding of the disciplines of theology and the behavioral sciences, the purpose of the Dream Analysis Seminar and the its written analysis is to acquaint chaplains with the importance of dreaming and the information available from dreams.

SECOND YEAR

Medical Specialization.
Residents in their second year are assigned to an area of medical specialization of their interest. They will serve on the treatment team in this area the entire year. Working closely with a Physician and an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner as adjunct supervisors, the resident will become familiar with the disease processes, the unique disease related spiritual issues of these patients, and become skilled in providing informed, focused, in-depth spiritual care.

Clinical Project.
To further understanding of the interactive effect of spirituality and a disease process, the clinical project is designed to track the course of a disease and the corresponding spiritual issues faced by patients. The knowledge that arises from the project will become suggestive of spiritual care plans for these patients.

Spiritual Assessment Seminar.
A seminar designed to assist the resident in conceptualizing and organizing the spirituality of their patients for the purpose of doing spiritual assessment and Spiritual Services planning.

Case Studies Seminar.
This is a holistic considering a patient's medical, psychological, social, cultural, and religious background. The purpose of this seminar is develop an appreciation for the complexity of a person's life situation and to development the ability to understand the many roots that feed spiritual issues.

Spirituality & Health Journal Club.
Sr. Residents rotate assuming the responsibility of leading the Department of Spiritual Services in its monthly Spirituality & Health Journal Club.  Each month a research article related to spirituality and health from a scientific journal is select and reviewed at a brown bag luncheon meeting.  The purpose is to acquaint residents and staff with the growing body of scientific study into the relationship of spirituality to health and healing.

Interpersonal Relations Group (IPR).
IPR is an open agenda seminar that provides participants an opportunity to discuss critical issues related to ministry and oneself in ministry conjointly with one's peers and supervisor.

Individual Supervisory Conference.
Weekly, hour long individualized consultation. During the second year, supervision will be augmented by regular sessions with a physician and a nurse who expertise is in the resident's area of specialization.