- Call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), 24/7.
- Text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line).
- In immediate danger, call 911.
- Reach a chaplain peer supporter or your own supervisor. You were made to be accompanied, not alone.
Choose your practice
All lanes are shown. Lanes you own are active; the others are dimmed until you add them.
Pick who you want to practice with. Each is a different field encounter.
Easy to difficult. This changes how guarded and complex the person is, not your pass bar. Practice as many times as you want at any level.
Before you begin: the scenario
How this practice is assessed
This is the assessment rubric for this issue - the exact items you are scored on, each at four levels: Attempts, Demonstrates, Applies, and Integrates.
It is built for this encounter, not pulled from a generic list. We generate it from the issue's own material: its assessed moves, the See / Hear / Sense / Learn encounter model, the six holistic dimensions of a whole-person read, and the lesson's handout teaching points, all grounded in the issue's research brief. No two issues share a rubric, and every cell is written for this one.
We do it this way for one reason: what you practice, what the evidence says good care looks like here, and what you are assessed on should be the same thing. The rubric is formative, not a gotcha. It names, in plain terms, how to grow from the Attempts level to the Integrates level on the skills that matter for this encounter.
How to practice
- Click Start Voice Call in the corner.
- Allow your microphone when your browser asks.
- Speak as the chaplain. The care recipient will answer aloud, turn by turn.
- Stay present. You do not have to fix anything.
- When you are done, tap End Call. Your feedback appears right away.
Before you start: acknowledge
This is a training simulation, not real care and not a crisis service. The person you speak with is an AI. If you are in distress right now, stop and call or text 988. Your practice call cannot start until you check the box below.
Acknowledged. Enter your name and a valid email above to unlock Start Voice Call.
The feedback you will get
When you end the call, a practice coach reviews how you showed up and gives you feedback in plain text, right on this screen, on a laptop or a phone.
Practice only. Not CPE. No hours, CEU, or clinical credit. This prepares you for and feeds CPEI's accredited process; it never replaces your human CPE supervisor.
It scores your pastoral functioning, not your exact words:
- Presence, not fixing. Did you accompany rather than solve?
- Open questions. Did you draw out the person's story?
- Reflection. Did you name back what you heard, after they named it?
- Held silence. Did you let the quiet do its work?
- The direct safety question. If danger surfaced, did you ask it plainly, never a euphemism?
- Turn-ratio. Did you let the person talk more than you did?
- No unsolicited advice, scripture, or self-disclosure.
You receive a score on each, your named strengths, specific growth edges to work on, and one reflective question: what did this stir in you? Practice again and it tracks your growth over time.
Unlock your practice-coach feedback
Tell us where to send it, then start your call. When you end the call, your practice coach's feedback appears right here. This is a free demo, limited to a few attempts.
Your practice coach
Reviewing your verbatim...
Your completed rubric, with the level you reached on every assessed item, the feedback for each, and your own words, is emailed to you as a PDF.
What you did well
What to work on
Practice only. Not CPE. No hours, CEU, or clinical credit.
You don't own this lane yet
This practice lane is not part of your current membership. Add it to unlock its issues, lessons, and Verbatim practice encounters.
Your briefing
Listen for a moment. The encounter begins right after this.
Keep practicing
Your call ended. Go straight into another - no forms, no sign-in again.