1001: Course Facilitator Training, Part I —
This training will qualify you to facilitate the Pathways of Light courses for which you are certified, anywhere in the world, in groups or through correspondence. You will be developing your skills in the following areas:
1. How to promote inner-directed healing when working with a group, one-on-one facilitating or with personal relationships.
2. How to develop a feeling of trust and security in which people can relax, open up and be themselves without fear of judgment.
3. How to help people recognize where they are and where they want to go.
4. How to gain a greater understanding of the growth process, what pitfalls to avoid and how to make growth a fulfilling experience.
5. How to create an empowering environment that makes it easy for people to release limiting concepts they no longer need and want.
6. How to bring through the Mind of calm and inner peace — our eternal Spirit.
7. How to turn anger, hostility or resistance which may come up in the course into a healing experience.
8. How to promote your courses and follow Spirit’s lead to connect with people in your spiritual work.
9. How to allow yourself to accept greater peace as you follow the lead of your inner Light.
Course 1001 includes a binder containing extensive materials, including sample brochures and fliers, logo masters, news release letterhead, promotion guidelines, facilitator notes and handouts for presenting the 2-hour Introduction to Pathways of Light.
A portion of this course is done in teleconference with other students and facilitators to provide the opportunity to practice facilitating a group.
Prerequisite: Must be certified in Pathways of Light Spiritual College course steps 1 through 3 of the Pathways of Light Spiritual College ministerial training courses.
Ministers have the option to be included on the Pathways of Light web site with a photo and the services they offer. Pathways also provides professionally designed and personalized fliers, brochures, business cards and other materials to help you inform others about your services as a minister. In addition, advertising in printed publications and on the Internet help attract students who are ready to accelerate their growth and help others do the same. These students are referred to ministers in their area. Our extensive web site with over 600 pages attracts thousands of visitors every week who are interested in spiritual growth, learning more about A Course in Miracles, or looking for services such as counseling or wedding officiating.
Facilitators receive payment for their services. For example, with correspondence course 132, which requires 2-3 hours of facilitator time, the facilitator receives $50 (total correspondence fee is $99). If the student wants additional time, compensation is arranged directly with the facilitator.
Credentialed Correspondence Study: (6-7 facilitated hours plus up to 3 hrs in teleconference). US$250.00 plus shipping. Click here to order course 1001.
1101: Spiritual Awakening Group Facilitator Training — This course will prepare you to facilitate effective Spiritual Awakening Groups in your community. Your training will enable you to:
• Create a sense of security, safety and trust within the group which supports the shared awakening process. • Explain and guide the experiential processes which help participants integrate the study material and practice it in their daily lives. • Bring out the wisdom of the participants, creating “ah-ha’s” that are empowering.
As you lead groups, you will notice that your mind healing is reinforced. Your communication with inner Guidance becomes stronger and you gain more insight from the material. As you share your experience in the group setting, it becomes easier to release the limiting concepts you no longer need. You begin to express your unlimited potential more fully. Old, limiting habits and beliefs gradually dissolve, and you create a more abundant, peaceful life.
Topics covered: 1. Accepting Abundance 2. Opening to Inner Guidance 3. Going Gently
4. Transforming Your Life 5. The Awakened Perspective 6. Accelerating Your Growth 7. Building Your House of Light 8. Divine Play.
Prerequisite: Must be certified in Pathways of Light Spiritual College course steps 1 through 3.
This course includes all materials needed to facilitate this 8-week group, including a binder with Group Facilitator Manual, Group Workbook, Self Awakening Meditation and promotional materials.
Credentialed Correspondence Study: (6-7 facilitated hrs) US$200.00 plus shipping. Click here to order course 1101.
1002: Course Facilitator Training, Part II — Hands-on facilitating practice sessions will give you valuable experience. Receive direct feedback and tips to help you refine your facilitating skills.
1. Give guided meditations with a skillful blend of timing, tone of voice, background music and flowing with Spirit.
2. Effectively guide discussions to draw out the wisdom of the participants.
3. Let go of self-interference to be your true, relaxed self.
4. Slow your inner tempo to consciously link with Spirit in a relaxed and natural manner.
5. Practice mindfulness by monitoring your tension level and thoughts to recognize when you are interfering with the flow of Spirit.
6. Set the tone with your voice, mannerisms, body movements and pace to enhance the growth experience of the group.
7. Reduce the attitude or perception of greater and lesser which may occur between “facilitator” and “participant.”
8. Expand a sense of openness and trust in the courses you facilitate.
9. Create a sense of flow, cohesion and focus which enables people to go further in their awakening process.
A portion of this course is done in teleconference with other students and facilitators to provide the opportunity to practice facilitating a group.
Prerequisite: Course 1001.
Credentialed Correspondence Study: (2-5 facilitated hrs plus up to 3 hrs in teleconference) US$200.00 plus shipping. Click here to order course 1002.
1102: Healing Inner Child Group Facilitator Training
— This course will prepare you to facilitate 8-week Healing Inner Child Groups in your community.
Experience the joy of helping your own healing and the healing of others. Feel the fulfillment of releasing limiting fears and returning to Love. The shared experiences and activities provide a rich opportunity to release limiting fears and bring more unconditional love into your life.
Topics covered: 1. Nurturing Your Inner Child 2. The Inner Critical Parent 3. Inner Child Baggage 4. Connecting with Higher Self 5. Transforming Fear 6. Stop, Look & Listen 7. Healing Relationships 8. Simple, Uncomplicated Love
Course 1102 includes all materials needed to facilitate this 8-week group including Group Facilitator Materials: A binder with Group Facilitator Manual, Group Workbook, Healing Your Inner Child with Love Meditation tape and promotional materials.
Prerequisite: Course 1101 and 1001.
Credentialed Correspondence Study: (6-7 facilitated hrs) US$200.00 plus shipping.
220: Spiritual Ceremonies — This course is specifically designed for participants in the Ordained Ministerial Counselor training curriculum. Learn to conduct weddings, memorial services and other spiritual ceremonies acknowledging transitions in people’s lives.
In addition to these ceremonies, you will learn the key elements of any effective spiritual ceremony. With this foundation, you will be able to help people create personalized ceremonies for important spiritual events in their lives. These ceremonies will help them affirm and validate their beliefs, goals and commitments related to these special events of growth and transition.
As part of this course, you will receive a minister’s reference notebook giving many examples of spiritual ceremonies, including weddings, memorial services, candle lighting services and other transformative ceremonies of celebration and transition.
Credentialed Correspondence Study: (4-5 facilitated hrs) US$139.00; Self-Study: US$69.00. Plus shipping. Click here to order course 220.
901: Introduction to Miracles Practice — A Course in Miracles is all about forming and reinforcing the practice of receiving and extending miracles. This is the journey Home. This is the core of our reawakening to the strength and peace of God that has never left us. We have just temporarily covered It up by putting our faith in the false ideas of believing in bodies. Accepting the miracle, which is the correction of our perception, comes with our willingness to receive the truth of our true Identity in God as universal, undivided Love. This means being willing to let go of the idea that we are separate from the oneness of God. The miracle is what we receive in our mind as we let our belief in weakness, limitation and separation be replaced by our eternal reality as Love.
This program is all about allowing ourselves to form and reinforce the daily practice of receiving and extending miracles. With the Holy Spirit, we allow ourselves to see the false ideas for what they are and allow Him to bring us the vision of true perception. In forming this daily Miracles practice, we allow our confused minds to be healed of our belief in weakness, limitation and darkness. We are persistent and diligent in continuing and strengthening this daily miracles practice. We want to return Home and we have the means to do it.
Credentialed Correspondence Study: (6-7 facilitated hrs) US$129.00 plus shipping. Click here to order course 901.
2000: Accessing Inner Wisdom Counselor Training — The training for this one-on-one spiritual counseling process helps a person look at a perceived problem, apprehension, distress, or painful feeling, and take it to Inner Wisdom (the Holy Spirit) for a new perspective. The purpose of the spiritual counseling is to help us change our minds about how we see or experience the world, and to receive the vision of our true Self. Thus, we do not try to change the ‘outside’ world, but rather, we recognize that what we focus on in the world is giving us a clue to the unconscious guilt hiding within our mind. As we are guided to let go of our projections, we get in touch with our innate innocence.
There are two stages to this process. First, we need to recognize the thought cluster (or confused thinking) that is the basis for the problem. This thought cluster may manifest in many forms: We may feel we are the victim of attack from others; we may feel a lack of love or self-worth; we may feel unfulfilled in a relationship or job; we may feel angry or defensive; we may feel guilty or depressed, or we may feel sick and tired.
Once we have recognized the confused thought cluster, we must be willing to take these thoughts to the Light within, our true Self. As we are ready and willing, we will be helped to see a new way of thinking. Gradually, our true Self will help us make the transition in our mind from thinking we are isolated and alone, to recognizing our unity and oneness with our Source — our true Self.
Prerequisite: You must experience the counseling and be certified in all other courses in the ministerial curriculum.
Credentialed Study through teleconference: US$400.00. Click here to order course 2000.
Step 4 Prepaid Discount Package: Ordained Ministerial Counselor Training — This package includes courses 1001, 1101, 1002, 1102, 220, 901, 2000.
Credentialed Correspondence Study Step 4: (With facilitator, 26-31 hours plus teleconference training) 7-Course Prepaid Package, $70 discount: US$1448.00 plus shipping.
Click here to order Step 4 Prepaid Discount Package.
Steps 1 through 4 Combination — Free shipping in the US when you purchase all four steps at one time. That's an additional US$42.00 savings over purchasing individual steps. International orders receive an equivalent discount on shipping. This Combination package includes all 22 courses in the Ministerial Training Curriculum.
Combined Tuition for Steps 1 through 4 22-Course Prepaid Discount Package: $2876. (Additional shipping for international orders.)
Total savings with purchase of Steps 1-4 combination: US$262.00.
Click here to order Steps 1-4 Combination Discount Course Package.
Step 5 — 2010: Spiritual Relationships Counselor Training
This in-depth training provides understanding of the procedures and processes used in effective Spiritual Relationship Counseling.
You will learn tools you can use to help the partners: • Identify the key areas which need attention in the relationship. • Set achievable goals for the kind of relationship they would like to have. • Develop effective listening and communication skills. • Recognize defensive thoughts which become barriers to love and lead to conflict in the relationship. • Dedicate ample time to the relationship to share with and listen to the needs of both partners. • Become nurturing and supportive to each other in their process of awakening to their true potential.
Included in this course is an in-depth program to guide your clients into a spiritual relationship.
Reports on 11 texts are required to receive your certification as a Spiritual Relationships Counselor. These 11 texts are not included in the course fee.
Prerequisite: Current Ordained Ministerial Counselor.
Credentialed Correspondence: US$450.00 (12-15 facilitated hrs). Click here to order course 2010.