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Certificate in Personal Integration Studies
> Creative Life Series
Goals for the Creative Life Series are to:
· identify your life purpose and infuse creative thinking into major areas of
your life,
· master your body as an energy conducting system, a means of
communication and a product of your thoughts,
· create prosperity using universal principles of earning, spending, saving and
investing,
· change ineffective psychological and emotional patterns in your
relationships,
· expand realms of conscious awareness beyond your current reality,
· eliminate the major factors which undermine spiritual fulfillment
> Body Aliveness Series
Goals for the Body Aliveness Series are to:
· use your own body as a vehicle for mental, emotional and spiritual
fulfillment,
· expand your range of expression and ability to respond to life,
· identify body types and character in yourself and others,
· release held breathing patterns in self and others,
· apply the skills of body energy reading and releasing to your life work.
> Personal Effectiveness Principles
The Personal Effectiveness Principles training is a series of eight two and one half hour classes enabling participants to gain clarity about their life goals and success in achieving them.
Class members learn and practice:
· principles for thinking clearly,
· acting passionately and responsibly and obtaining fulfilling results in their unique way,
· how to help create an environment that will sustain ongoing positive life changes for themselves and others.
> The CORE Group
Goals for the CORE Group are to:
· effectively use goal setting and journaling as tools to self-knowledge and
spiritual growth,
· identify and remedy ineffective communication patterns in self and others,
· understand your own and others family systems,
· use basic breathwork techniques,
· measure your own belief systems and levels of consciousness,
· share emotional autobiographies and create a viable spiritual community in your own world.
Certificate in Integrative Leadership Studies
Requires you to apply the competencies learned in Personal Integration Studies in greater depth
to your life and work. Knowing your inner calling and having the courage to follow it in the world involves sharing healing skills with others and manifesting your
life goals in a demonstrable, integral fashion.
The elements of Integrative Leadership Program are:
> Transformational Psychology
In these eight sessions we will plan the development of the healing skills to which each person is attracted, exploring and practicing a variety of them. We will form a dream group, and develop mastery of our dream states. We will openheartedly and pleasurably share our leadership with others. Holistic Entrepreneurship is an aspect of this course that will assist you in finding your true purpose in the business of your life and in creating your operational holistic business plan for the year, as well as setting up systems to insure success.
> Practicum in Breathwork
The theory and practice of breathwork will be presented along with readings and techniques for integrating the practices into ones life and profession. Since the 1970s, there has been an explosion in the blending of ancient breathing techniques for health and spiritual awareness with contemporary growth and therapeutic practices. The result has been the evolution of powerful and incisive healing and consciousness changing modalities. This has given birth to the field of breathwork that has promoted significant advances in medical, psychological and spiritual domains. Adaptation to one's current professional service will be addressed. Should a practitioner choose to additionally complete all the Level 1 Breathworker requirements including direct supervision, certification at that level could be obtained. The recommended course text is: Morningstar, Jim (1994), Breathing in Light and Love, Your Call to Breath and Body Mastery. Wisconsin: Transformations Incorporated.
Course Objectives:
* Define breathwork as a healing art,
* Be conversant with the applications of breathwork,
* Create effective healing contracts,
* Identify healthy and unhealthy breathing patterns,
* Relate body types to breathing styles,
* Address resistance in a breathwork session.
> Group Facilitator Training
Learning how to facilitate group energy to bring out the best in each participant, create a spiritual focus and accomplish group goals is the focus for this class. Students will study group process from a variety of theorists including making contracts and effective contact, boundary setting, handling challenges and coming to completion. In addition members will construct a group relevant to their skills and interests that they will prepare to present in their community if they choose. Distance students will listen to recordings of six seminars and participate in exercises.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to:
* Define types of groups including a facilitated support group,
* Give and receive feedback on facilitator presentation qualities,
* Create effective healing contracts,
* Identify elements of an effective group opening,
* Handle issues of violation of respectful listening, non-participation, confidentiality, a plea for therapy, head tripping, favoritism,
* Facilitate closure for group members,
* Create and market a group.
> Holistic Counseling
In six seminars, the issues and techniques of holistic counseling are explored and developed. The Holistic Counseling Training is an opportunity to become more aware of how you give counsel to others and to consciously advance in your helping skills both personally and professionally. For practitioners and students who want to expand awareness and gain skills as counselors. Topics include personal purpose, successful contact and contracts, ethics, spirituality, diagnosis, establishing a practice as well as experience in current methods of effecting change in the whole person. Group and individual exercises in and out of class will enhance effectiveness as a non-intrusive change agent.
It is expected that caregivers will be able to assist their clients to:
a. Infuse creative thinking into major areas of life purpose through analysis, affirmation and effective goal setting,
b. Understand and use the body as an energy conducting system, means of communication and product of one's thoughts,
c. Work effectively with prosperity principles including earning, spending, saving and investing,
d. Recognize major psychological and emotional patterns in relationships and apply creative thought principles to change,
e. Explore realms of conscious awareness beyond consensus reality,
f. Address psychological factors that undermine spiritual fulfillment including birth trauma, parental disapproval syndrome and the unconscious death urge.
Certificate in Graduate Apprenticeship Studies
Designed to deepen mastery in your chosen life's work through mentoring, advanced spiritual practices with kindred souls and development of skills specific to your chosen path. Each apprentice will create a program for him/herself that will delineate specific goals, steps, and supports for the mastery sought in his or her life's work.
The elements of Graduate Program are:
> Living Your Purpose
Nine seminars to actualize spiritual potential within the life work and purpose which most serves your talents and abilities and fulfills your heart's desire, and to assist in completion of your Masters Project (a symbol of completion that is pleasurable and profitable for you).
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Students of Living Your Purpose will:
a. Clarify their experience of living purposefully.
a. Enhance personal and regular connection with their spiritual guidance.
b. Identify and strengthen their energy centres.
c. Develop advanced daily spiritual practices.
d. Complete a project that manifests their life purpose.
e. Use their career autobiography to help put spiritual principles into their chosen life work.
> The Sevenfold Path to Health and Happiness
The energy centers (chakras) that correspond to major nerve plexi in the body as well as how they positively or negatively influence consciousness every day will be explored in depth. Diagnosing the excesses or deficiencies in the centers which could lead to anxiety and/or depression and simple physical, emotional, mental and spiritual exercises to bring one's personal system into balance for maximum vitality, productivity and joy will be presented. Learning and practicing the techniques which best realign body, mind and spirit are a major focus. These include Biospiritual energetic, yogic, sound, and inner reflective exercises to get humming with harmony. This healing group is based on the clinical expertise of Jim Morningstar, PhD and references the wisdom of Anodea Judith, PhD foremost authority on the chakra system and energy work.
> Living with the Ascended Masters
The course is directed to investigate and open the doors of awareness to the guidance and support available to human consciousness from non embodied sources. Ascended Masters are reputed sources of such guidance and the student will be presented with tools to develop practical means of implementing these resources for personal and planetary Self-realization.
Course objectives:
* discover methods of communication with the Masters that are efficient and
meaningful,
* produce personal practices to implement support and guidance daily,
* create network of fellow researchers and practitioners to develop techniques and replicate results to share with the world,
* tap into non ordinary channels to fulfill personal life purpose and mastery.