
7th & 8th July 2023 - VIC - Bentleigh East
Friday 7th & Saturday 8th July 2023
9.00am – 4.30pm
The Venue
Compass Church
Virginia Park, 5B South Drive, Bentleigh East 3165
(off East Boundary Road)
Cost: $150 for credentialed pastors and accredited chaplains, $250 for non-accredited participants
21st and 22nd July 2023 - ACT Life UC Canberra
Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd July 2023
9.00am – 4.30pm
Life UC Canberra – 46 Lhostsky Street Charnwood, ACT 2615
3rd and 4th November - NSW - Byron Bay
Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th November 2023
9.00am – 4.30pm
East Gate Church – 20 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay NSW 2481
Cost: $150 for credentialed pastors and accredited chaplains, $250 for non-accredited participants



QLD Professional Development for Chaplains, Pastors and Pastoral Carers
Care Essentials’ is designed to equip and assist pastors, chaplains & leaders caring for people experiencing personal and interpersonal challenges. Communicate to Connect teaches you how to build rapport and connect with people in deeper life issues. Establishing deep connections and conversations.
Date: Thursday 9th March
Time: 9am – 3:30pm
Location: Hope Academy, 2/31 Thompson St, Brisbane City
Cost: $100 pp, $50 for accredited Chaplains
Registrations Close: 7th March 2023
Click here to book into Module #1
Care Essentials’ is designed to equip and assist pastors, chaplains & leaders caring for people experiencing personal and interpersonal challenges. Building Resilience and Expanding Capacity Professional Development day equips you to understand the challenges of caring for self and others and how to foster resilience and wellbeing; physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
Date: Tuesday 4th July (In school holidays)
Time: 9am – 3:30pm
Location: Hope Academy, 2/31 Thompson St, Brisbane City
Cost: $100 pp, $50 for accredited Chaplains
Registrations Close: 1st July
Click here to book into Module #2
Care Essentials’ is designed to equip and assist pastors, chaplains & leaders caring for people experiencing personal and interpersonal challenges. Greif Bites Professional Development Training designed for people experiencing personal and interpersonal challenges resulting from grief, loss, and/or traumatic events.
Date: Thursday 7th September
Time: 9am – 3:30pm
Location: Hope Academy, 2/31 Thompson St, Brisbane City
Cost: $100 pp, $50 for accredited Chaplains
Registrations Close: 4th September
Click here to book into Module #3

Ceremonies for Life Intensive
Ceremonies are among the most significant and memorable shared events in our lives and remind us that we are truly human and deeply spiritual. As pastors, leaders, and chaplains, we are often invited into people’s most sacred ceremonies and sometimes asked to lead them.
This interactive intensive is an opportunity to enhance your understanding of funerals, weddings and other ceremonies and give you some practical tools to lead a ceremony with confidence and kindness.
We will look at what the Bible has to say about ceremonies and the important role they play in our relationships and our own spirituality. We will also look at how we can play a significant role in helping people have the ceremony they want, without compromising our own beliefs.
Ken and Mandy Fischer have been Pastors with ACC for almost 30 years, and both hold a Graduate Diploma in Counselling. In addition to pastoring, they have also worked bi-vocationally as Funeral Celebrants / Ministers in the funeral industry for the past 10 years. They believe the two roles work together beautifully!
Date: Friday 12th May 2023
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm
CA Members – $75
Non members – $90

NSW/ACT State Chaplaincy Conference
7th & 8th September 2023 – Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific
Join our 2023 conference and be inspired as together we envision The Road Ahead!