Centers for Spiritual Living Education Catalogue

48 Pages·2016·1.21 MB·English

2016

Education Catalog
Centers for Spiritual Living
International Home Office
2/1/2016
Centers for Spiritual Living
Education Catalog

February 2016

International Home Office

Centers for Spiritual Living
573 Park Point Drive
Golden, CO 80401
Phone [phone]
www.csl.org

Edited 2/1/2016
2015 CSL Education Committee

Dr. Michelle Medrano, Chair
Dr. Arleen Bump
Diana Bull
Dr. Deborah Gordon
Dr. Kim Kaiser
Rev. Barbara Leger
Rev. Mary Mitchell
Dr. Tom Sannar
Rev. Jeanette Vinek
Dr. Petra Weldes

2015 CSL Staff serving on Education Committee

Rev. Dr. John Waterhouse, CSL President, Leadership Council Liaison
Dr. Bob Deen, Manager of Professional Education (Practitioner and Ministerial)
Rev. Nicole Merges, Manager of Spiritual Development Education
Claudia Milner, Curriculum Development Coordinator

Edited 2/1/2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome Letter 5

Education Privacy Policy 6

Education Program 7
• Organizational Vision, Education Vision and, Our Mission Statement
• Purpose and Philosophy of Education Program

Ethics of the Spiritual Teacher 8-9
• Why a Section on Ethics
• Ethics for Science of Mind Classrooms

Teaching and Learning in Science of Mind Classrooms 10-11
• Teacher’s Responsibilities

SECTION I:

General Information about Certificated and Non-Certificated Courses 12
• Certificated Courses
• Non-certificated Courses

Authorized Professionals to Teach Certificated Courses 12
• CSL Ministers
• Spiritual Practitioners
• Online Courses Teacher
• Non-Certificated Course Teachers

Authorized Organizations to Teach Certificated Courses 12
• Member Communities

Authorized Organizations to Teach Certificated Courses Online___________________________________13

Suggested Tuition 14

Registration Policies__________ _ _ 14
• Registration Requirements
• Purpose of Registration Fees
• Class Registration Cost per Student
• Online Student Registrations
• Submitting Student Registrations

Registration Procedures________ _ 15
• Student Registration Form
• Courses for Credit
• Auditing or Reviewing Courses
• Reviewing
• Auditing
• Auditing and Reviewing Certificates
• Reprints for Certificates of Completion
• Transcripts

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED)

Time Requirement Policies and Recommendations 16
• Certificated Course Recommendations
• Time Requirements to Enter Professional Practitioner Studies
• Time Requirements during Practitioner Training
• Practitioner Licensing
• Responsibility for Adhering to Time Requirements
• Variances to these Requirements and Recommendations

SECTION II:

Certificated and Non-Certificated Science of Mind Curriculum 17
• Pathways of Education
• Professional Practitioner Studies Program

Prerequisite Coursework for Practitioner Studies 18

Description of Certificated Courses 19-31
• Foundations Level Coursework ____19
• The Essential Ernest Holmes Coursework 20
• History and Philosophy Coursework __ 20-21
• Consciousness Coursework __ 21-23
• Consciousness Electives ______________________________________________________________ 23-31

Certificated Courses Online 31
• Certificated Courses in Spanish

Spanish Curriculum ______________________ 3 1

Required Books for SOM Certificated Courses 32-35
Description of other Non-Certificated Courses 36-38
• Curricula for Small Groups ___ ___ ___ 3 6
• Life Enhancement Curriculum 37
• Advanced Studies Classes 37-38

SECTION III:

Global Communities Information (Including Canada and Mexico)__________ _ 39

SECTION IV:

Curricula and Registration Forms __________________ _ 40
• Curricula and Registration Forms
• How to Obtain Curricula
• Descriptions of Forms

Non-Certificated Classes Order Form _ 41-42

History of Certificated Courses 43

Student Registration Form 44-45

Practitioner I Verification Form 46-47
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WELCOME TO TEACHING SCIENCE OF MIND!

Welcome to the Education Catalog for Centers for Spiritual Living focusing on certificated education
from Foundational level courses through Practitioner Training. This document provides Centers and
instructors with the latest education information and procedures. This document will be updated
periodically and the newest versions will be uploaded to the internal website: www.ourcsl.org.

Centers for Spiritual Living is undergoing an education overhaul. There are many committees and teams
working on enhancing and enriching our educational materials, procedures and deliveries. The new
curriculum will be developed with a global and inclusive perspective in mind. I know that through our
collaboration we will offer the best of our intellectual and heart-centered materials to our
students. Our goal is always to offer the best of Centers for Spiritual Living to the world. Together
we take what began as a series of lectures by our founder, Ernest Holmes, in an auditorium in Los
Angeles almost 90 years ago and realize the greater vision of making this teaching available to every
person seeking it.

This catalog is a result of the collective efforts of the Centers for Spiritual Education Department staff,
the Education Committee and input from the field. The process of continuously enhancing and evolving
our curriculum and delivery is underway. This catalog provides up-to-date educational policies and
procedures, information to register students for courses, the education requirements for practitioner
training and instructions to obtain transcripts for licensing. All changes in Centers for Spiritual Living
Education policy and procedure will be published in this document.

The CSL Education Catalog complements the Centers for Spiritual Living Policies and Procedures Manual,
which is often referenced here. Together, the Education Catalog, the Policies and Procedures Manual,
and the individual course curricula are designed to provide Centers with everything they need to teach
Science of Mind to students in their respective communities.

Thank you for your consciousness and sacred service in offering these courses and for the redesign of
Centers for Spiritual Living Education. Please know that the Education Committee and the Education
Department of Centers for Spiritual Living are always here to serve the Centers and students of this
teaching.

Love and Gratitude,

Rev. Nicole Merges
Manager, Spiritual Development Education

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EDUCATION PRIVACY POLICY
(ADDED 2013)

This privacy policy describes how Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL) uses and protects any information provided by
students in the process of registering for, attending and completing a course offered by CSL in its Education
Catalog.

CSL is committed to ensuring that students’ privacy is protected. Information provided by students will only be
used in accordance with this privacy statement.

The CSL Department of Education collects the following information from each student when registering for a
course:
 Full name
 Contact information including postal and email address
 Center affiliation
 Date of birth

This information is required for the following reasons:
 Internal record keeping for CSL education administration and for Centers and Ministries where classes
are taken.
 The CSL Department of Education may periodically send registered students emails related to courses
they have taken or student history to keep our records current and when doing so will also copy the
Senior Minister of the center where the most recent course has been taken.
 The CSL Department of Education may, at students’ or their center’s request, send certificates or
correspondence to verify student history.

We are committed to ensuring that all student information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or
disclosure, we have suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the
information we collect.

We do not make any student information available for solicitation.

Students may request details of personal information on file with the CSL Department of Education under the
Data Protection Act 1998 by writing to:

Centers for Spiritual Living
Human Resources
573 Park Point Drive
Golden, CO, 80401

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EDUCATION PROGRAM

Organizational Vision: Centers for Spiritual Living is a global organization comprised of individuals and
communities committed to living consciously as expressions of God.

Education Vision: Centers for Spiritual Living provides education that transforms lives, igniting the potential of
each individual to connect with their True Self and to apply and express love, and facilitates personal and global
stewardship, healing and connection.

Our Mission: Our mission is to continuously create a profound, professional, and provocative curriculum with
emphasis on the consciousness as embodied and taught by Dr. Ernest Holmes. We produce curriculum that
includes the practices of Spiritual Mind Treatment, Meditation, and Visioning, and is consistent with the
philosophy of Science of Mind, while reflecting ageless wisdom and exploring new ideas from modern science,
quantum physics, and psycho-spiritual approaches to Truth.

PURPOSE AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION PROGRAM

The purpose of the education program of Centers for Spiritual Living is to provide the resources, structure,
awareness, methods and tools to support spiritual education to our world and fulfill the vision and mission of the
organization through transformative delivery of our courses of study.

The philosophy of the education program embodies the following tenets:

 Centers for Spiritual Living places great trust in its ministers to lead, teach, facilitate and oversee the
education programs in its member communities, and its practitioners to deliver the programs with the
approval and under the supervision of a senior minister.
 Our work as teachers is ultimately about supporting our students in transforming their consciousness. In
doing so, it is ultimately the consciousness of the teacher that is continuously expanding. Our daily
spiritual practice as teachers and the resulting expanded consciousness is ultimately what the teacher has
to offer the student. The education curriculum is designed to free the teacher to focus on expanding and
transforming consciousness.
 The Science of Mind teaching provides universal spiritual principles with which students may transform
their lives. It is not meant to be dogmatic; the greatest interest is in fostering students’ development and
growth along their spiritual path, and not to convince them to adopt the Science of Mind philosophy,
although many students will simply because of its powerful impact on our lives.
 It is a sacred honor to be a spiritual teacher, and with that comes great responsibility to treat students
with dignity, honor, respect and reverence. This need not be approached with fear but approached with
great humility and humbleness.
 The Education Department and Education Committee of Centers for Spiritual Living are here to support
the work of our ministers and practitioners as teachers of Science of Mind courses. While these two
bodies are entrusted with overseeing and implementing policies and procedures, their highest role and
intent is to facilitate the greatest possibility of offering the Science of Mind teaching in the most effective
way to our students around the world. Teachers are encouraged to reach out to the members of these
groups for support.

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ETHICS OF THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER
Why a Section on Ethics?
Ethics is a system of moral principles or rules of conduct or practice, recognized by a particular culture or
group.

An ethical act is one where we refrain from causing harm to others’ experiences or expectations of
happiness. Like a spiritual act, it fosters love, patience, and tolerance. The motivation for ethical acts moves
from a consciousness of caring and seeking to benefit others, rather than from self-interest. These acts make
for lasting rather than momentary, happiness and a sense of well-being.

The Dalai Lama (in Ethics for the New Millennium) suggests that those individuals whose conduct is ethically
positive are happier and more satisfied than those who disregard ethics. Yet, conducting ourselves ethically
means more than merely obeying laws and precepts. It means guarding against those factors which
obstruct inner peace and promoting those things conducive to inner peace (i.e., concern for others and a
high degree of sensitivity and feeling). A consideration of ethics is an invitation to consider inner
motivations and the consequences of one’s own actions.

Ethics for Science of Mind Classrooms

As Ministers and Practitioners, we are teachers and facilitators of learning environments for understanding
and practicing the Science of Mind teaching. We create teaching and learning environments and
experiences in which students who desire to discover and apply this philosophy in their lives may do so. This
is accomplished not only through the content of the material studied, but also the experiences they have
through what we model for them, and through what is shared by their fellow students.

Our intention is that students experience the following:

1. SPIRITUALITY: We model the practice of universal principles expressed by Ernest Holmes in his statement
“What We Believe.” That is, we look beyond materiality and invite ourselves and our students into
demonstrating an openness to the Unseen, as The Presence is ever seeking to express itself in new ways in
our daily lives.

2. LOVE: We allow the blessings of Spirit to flow through us and as us so students have an opportunity to
discover they are welcome, appreciated, valued, heard, understood, respected, guided, responded to, and
validated for the variety of ways which they express.

3. INTEGRITY: We honor our spiritual beliefs and are fair in our actions. Students have the opportunity to
see consistency between what we say and do. We refrain from any romantic or sexual relationship with our
students. Students experience the sacredness of the trust they place in the teacher.

4. CARING: We are concerned about, have affection for, and make a conscientious effort to ensure
each student has the best learning experience.

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5. COMPASSION: In all we say and do, we express kindheartedness and generosity toward all. Teachers
should be consciously aware of the impact of their words and actions on others’ wellbeing. This is
demonstrated in how assignments are recommended the way students receive feedback and the nature of
dialogue and discussion.

6. ACCOUNTABILITY: We are conscientious in fulfilling all course and education program agreements with
Centers for Spiritual Living and with the students. We enthusiastically seek opportunities to report to CSL all
that is requested, to explain students’ responsibilities and to fulfill students’ expectations as identified in
course descriptions.

7. TEAMWORK: We encourage students to learn and work together in harmony. At times students are in
positions where they follow, lead, engage in consensus and have the opportunity for individual choices.

8. OPEN COMMUNICATION: We create opportunities for teachers and students to express their own
thoughts and hear others’ authentic thoughts and points of view. Students and teachers discuss, dialogue
and explore meanings behind points of view and feelings expressed.

9. CONFIDENTIALITY: Students experience a safe environment where confidentiality around individual
sharing is agreed upon by all.

10. EDUCATION: We recognize the unique needs of adult learners. Our students have opportunities to
reason, discern, acquire knowledge, intuit, contemplate and prepare to live as spiritually mature and
enlightened individuals. They have opportunities to discover, think, talk, observe and create. They are
provided ways to practically apply universal principles and sacred stories to their personal circumstances and
to contemporary issues.

11. COMMUNITY SERVICE: We create opportunities for students to discover their internal motivations,
spontaneous expressions, and spiritual commitment as they anchor their spiritual growth through sacred
service in the local and global community.

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