Oh great.
Here we go again.
“Dear Pastor,
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Kintsugi Trauma-Informed Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Program, designed specifically for Northern California Conference pastors.
This innovative program integrates traditional CPE training with Kintsugi Resilience—a spiritually grounded approach to healing, formation, and pastoral growth. It transcends professional development; it invites personal renewal.
Program Highlights:
400 hours of supervised clinical ministry per unit
Trauma-informed care, theological reflection, and spiritual formation
Small group format (5-member cohort)
Led by certified CPE supervisors
CPSP-accredited through Community Care Chaplains
Dates: August 11 – December 15, 2025
Format: Weekly Zoom (3.5 hrs) + occasional in-person gatherings
Cost: $775 per unit. Utilize your $500 CEU allowance. Monthly installments available.
You will acquire the following skills:
Cultivate deeper resilience and spiritual self-awareness
Provide trauma-informed pastoral care with wisdom and grace
Embrace your own healing journey and lead others with compassion
Navigate crisis and conflict through theological clarity and emotional strength
Apply Now: https://ccchaplains.org/cpe-application-form/
Whether you seek to strengthen your ministry, care more effectively for others, or heal from your own pastoral weariness—this program is tailored to your needs.
Should you have any questions or inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
Ron Yabut, DMin., BCC
Associate Ministerial Director
Northern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists”
Commentary
What is the Kintsugi Trauma-Informed Clinical Pastoral Education Program?
“The Kintsugi Resilience Training & Certification Program is a psycho-spiritual and trauma-informed formation experience rooted in the philosophy of Kintsugi—embracing brokenness as a path to beauty, growth, and purpose. Designed for chaplains, spiritual caregivers, and lay practitioners, this Bible-centered program integrates theological reflection, pastoral care principles, and evidence-based practices such as REBT, narrative work, and Gestalt-informed exercises.”
Since when has ‘spiritual formation’ been a good thing for Seventh-day Adventist pastors to engage in? We were warned about ‘spiritual formation’ in 2014-2017 by Operation Iceberg. Please know, the warnings given back then are even more relevant today.
It's no secret that the neo-pagan progressive spirituality movement wants to compromise the church by incorporating their practices into the body of Christ. The business world and SDA health institutions have been consistently exposed to New Age / Integral spirituality concepts to bring about cooperation and productivity in the workplace. On the other hand we find dangerous spiritual practices being incorporated into the body of Christ. At this particular time the progressive mysticism movement has found an open door into the Adventist church; I would like to see it shut.
A “Gestalt exercise” is an emotional and psychologically moving encounter – a unifying of opposites – it is thought this is needed for planetary or personal wholeness.
This is the kind of world we have entered into. Instead of going to the Bible to see what it actually is teaching, the rigors of such study can be avoided by consigning the matter to spiritual experience. Doctrine is downplayed as divisive, and interfaith mystical experience is elevated as the universal solvent that dissolves the problems of life. Their mantra is “I’m spiritual, but not religious.”
So what does this Pagan spiritualism want to say? What is its good news?
God is presented as the father of totalities, and God wants to join all things together. The god of spiritual formation wants to join the opposites. Thus God is often revealed in female form as Sophia, the goddess, he/she states “I am androgynous. I am mother and father.” This seeks to express the mystery of everything finally being one. The word for that is non-binary (or One-ism). By seeking to eliminate distinctions between Creator and creation, male and female, One-ism becomes the final resting place of Isaiah 5:20.
Save your money.
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"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name [Jesus Christ] under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4: 12).