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ACPP’s Vision
ACPP exists to support and promote the practice and guiding principles of Core Process and Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy. The intention is to foster a creative and open engagement with all accredited practitioners, who constitute the main part of the association, and with students and trainees working towards accreditation, who choose to become members.
Compassion in Mindfulness Psychotherapy
The Association of Core Process Psychotherapists (ACPP) was founded in 2001 and exists to support and promote the practice and guiding principles of Core Process Psychotherapy and other Mindfulness-based psychotherapies that share our values and ethics. We currently have more than three-hundred registered practitioners.
Our intention is to foster a creative, open engagement with all accredited practitioners, who constitute the main part of the association, and with trainees working towards graduation and/or accreditation and who choose to become members.
Contemplative awareness and compassion in relationship are the foundations of Core Process as a psycho-spiritual psychotherapy. It is through the heartful connectedness of its practitioners that these qualities and principles are nurtured and enriched, both within the work and in wider society and community involvement.
Accreditation, Development, and Community
The ACPP has responsibility for three inter-related functions:
- UKCP registration, re-registration, accreditation, and re-accreditation of practitioners.
- Providing impetus and opportunity for continuing professional development and promoting Core Process Psychotherapy and Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy within the wider psychotherapeutic field.
- Providing a forum for spiritual community, connectedness and support between practitioners.
Embodying Mindfulness and Healing
The Association is formed around the fundamental Core Process principles of self-responsibility and warm respectfulness of others. There is also a deep trust in the healing that arises from the experience of mindful open heartedness in relationship. In its structure and its activities, the Association seeks to embody and promote these qualities.
Diversity Statement
The Association of Core Process Psychotherapists (ACPP) seeks to actively embrace difference and diversity. We offer a framework for the practice of Core Process Psychotherapy that celebrates the diversity of our community and welcomes the full range of ideas and perspectives on what it means to be human, holding these with compassion, curiosity, and respect.
Our approach to diversity and inclusion derives from the Buddhist roots that underpin the practice of CPP: a profound respect for the dignity and worth of all beings and a recognition of the mutuality of suffering.
As psychotherapists, we hold a deep ethical commitment to recognising the social and relational systems that can silence or exclude people, and to examining with honesty our own role within those structures. In doing so, we aim to hold the therapeutic space as one of genuine curiosity, dignity, and compassion — where every dimension of a person’s humanity is met with care.
We seek to address issues of discrimination of any kind — whether on grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, class, religion, spiritual belief, political opinion, or any other aspect of a person’s identity or circumstance. This applies to how we treat our members, how we expect members to treat their clients, and how we function as an organisation.
At the same time, we recognise that our membership holds a wide range of personal, spiritual and philosophical perspectives. ACPP does not require adherence to any ideology or set of views. Our commitment to inclusivity extends to the diversity of thought and belief within our own community. We keep our policies under regular review and welcome feedback from members and the wider community.
What does ACPP do?
- UKCP re-registration and re- accreditation of practitioners.
- Facilitates interconnectedness and support among practitioners via the web-based forum, CoreTalk.
- Promotes Members’ Practices to the public through its ‘Find a Therapist/Supervisor’ section on our website.
- Organises, promotes and supports Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for members within our community.
- Holds meetings for members.
- Keeps up to date with professional best practice and offers guidance for individual members and the Association as a whole.
- Supports members who are experiencing difficulties such as a potential complaint or an ethical dilemma.
- Promotes Core Process/Mindfulness- based Psychotherapy to the wider profession and the public.
- Represents the interests of Core Process/Mindfulness-based practitioners at professional bodies such as HIPC/ UKCP and across the wider professional field.
Join ACPP
If you are engaged in Mindfulness Based Core Process Psychotherapy training with the Karuna Institute, are already a qualified CPP therapist, or have undertaken another UKCP accredited Mindfulness-based psychotherapy training, you may be eligible to join the ACPP as an accredited practitioner.
