Board of Directors

The Board of Directors

ANZACPE business is overseen by a Board of Directors consisting of the Association’s:

elected officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar and Professional Standards committee Chair), AND
a representative from each Member Association.

President – Leanne Jenski (SANTACPE)

Jenski is passionate about holistic Spirituality and she describes herself as a very unreligious Rev. She has been a Rev for 23 years now but has spent more time working on the edges of the Uniting Church in Chaplaincy rather than as a Minister in a church.

Jenski has been part of the CPE network for over 10 years and is a Pastoral Educator. She is the Centre Director for the St Andrew’s Hospital CPE Centre in Adelaide. She also oversees the CPE units run in Darwin.

Vice-President – David Glenister (ASACPEV)

Melbourne western suburbs born and bred, David now lives in the east near Mt Dandenong…though on outskirts it is a manageable commute each day on the express to Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he is Manager of Spiritual and Pastoral Care and Director of the CPE Centre. David has been there over 12 years and built the team up to nearly 6EFT. David had been president of the Victorian CPE association ASACPEV and has been an SCA board member for over three years…

David and wife Anja, a music therapist and mindfulness teacher, love bush walking, music, and skydiving.

Secretary – Susanne Schmidt (NSWCCPE)

Susanne works as a Pastoral Care Manager at a Canberra Hospital and is also a Clinical Pastoral Educator. In a previous life she was a primary school teacher and also worked in a Catholic parish in pastoral care. She holds qualifications in Education and in Pastoral Supervision. She has interests in research and in modern spiritualities and has been published and presented at conferences in these areas. She is married to Neil and a parent to young adults and loves to read and travel and do puzzles. Her family enjoy raucous conversations around the dinner table doing the weekend quizzes from the newspaper and debating politics and trying to out-joke each other.

Treasurer – Cathy Brown (QICPE)

Cathy Brown has been a CPE Supervisor since 2008 and a volunteer Pastoral Carer since 2004. As an accredited CPE Educator for the Queensland Institute of Clinical Pastoral Education (QICPE Inc), Cathy conducts CPE units at the Prince Charles Hospital, Logan Hospital, Gold Coast University Hospital and in Townsville. She enjoys being able to help the ANZACPE committee in a very practical way through her treasurer duties

Registrar – Peter Brown (NZACPE)

Peter Brown is a CPE Supervisor with the New Zealand Association. He is a member of the Wellington group. He is an Anglican priest. His qualifications include M.Sc., Ad.dip. Theol., Cert.Ed. Though now almost retired his professional life was spent variously as a teacher (theology and philosophy), high school senior leader and Chaplain in U.K. and N.Z. Latterly he has been responsible for the management of hospital chaplains in New Zealand’s lower North Island.

Chair of Professional Standards Committee – Helen Vester (ASACPEV)

Helen is a Provisional Clinical Pastoral Education Consultant based in Perth, offering online CPE to participants from around the country. She has a background in pastoral care in both hospitals and prisons. Her former career was as a High School teacher. Passionate about pastoral care, education and supervisor training, she also offers opportunities to CPE supervisors in training from different associations . In her spare time Helen enjoys hiking and travel.

Claire Davies (ASACPEV)

Claire works at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne as a Spiritual Care Practitioner, CPE Supervisor and Educator and recently became Centre Director of the Peter Mac CPE Centre. She is credentialed at Level 3 with Spiritual Care Australia and came to spiritual care after a 20 year career in critical care nursing. Claire is passionate about professional issues around spiritual care and CPE in the hospital setting and when not working, can be found with her family or swimming in (outdoor) pools or the ocean with her friends.

Amy Finiki (NZACPE)

Amy Finiki is a Clinical Pastoral Educator from the Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand Centre. She is a Spiritual Pastoral Therapist at Porirua Hospital working in Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disabilities Services. Amy began her CPE career in 2007 at a Level 1 Trauma Centre in New York. Her qualifications include: Associate in Arts for Humanities, Bachelor of Science in Religion and Master of Divinity.

Barbara Hall (NSWCCPE)

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Paul Hueston (TASPE)

Paul has been a CPE supervisor since 2011 and is currently the Centre Director at the Tasmanian Centre for CPE, based at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH). Paul is the current president of the Tasmanian Association for Supervised Pastoral Education and is coordinator of the RHH Chaplaincy Services. Paul has been at the RHH since 2011 and before that was working as Chaplain at Liverpool Hospital Sydney. Paul has degree qualifications in Theology and in Aviation Technology and is passionate about pastoral care supervision and training, especially in the health care context.

Annie Baker (QICPE)

Bio to be supplied