Renewal & Renewal Teacher Training
June 23 – 26, 2008 at Mariandale, NY

Facilitators: Amy Skezas and Nancy Reuben

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Renewal: This seminar is recommended for FAC and PACE practitioners and for anyone who assists others as a healer, bodyworker, counselor, teacher, leader, etc. This seminar is the prerequisite for joining Gauden University's Renewal Network.

When you begin on the path of service, you embark on a journey of wonder and joy at the idea of being able to make a difference in the lives of others and in the world. You are manifesting your destiny, your higher purpose, imprinted in your body by the Light of your Soul as it comes through your heart. To keep your flame of joy burning bright and to stay connected with the flow of your higher life purpose, it is essential that you tend to yourself as an individual at the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.

It is sometimes easy or tempting to “drop out” of self-care, through busyness, a fear of being selfish, a tendency to focus more on others’ needs, and so forth, but this kind of lack of attention, over time, can result in depletion and can weaken the flame of joy in service and create disconnection between your higher purpose and the actions and choices you make. It is when you are fresh, vital, aware of your own needs and caring for them that you are most available to fulfill your purpose, to be in touch with your authentic self and destiny, and to most enjoy the life you are living, here and now. Even seasoned veterans of self-care can find new energies in this seminar, and beginners can receive a loving, clear induction into personal energy management and energy hygiene that can form an essential basis of your service work for years to come.

In this seminar Nancy assists you in bringing careful attention to personal energy management, helping you to be more present with yourself and others. In journeys and exercises, you learn to identify mental, emotional, and physical patterns through which you lose energy, and that act as obstacles to your joyful self-care and service. You explore ways in which you can gain energy by making self-empowered choices, aligned with your highest purpose and authenticity.

In this seminar Amy assists you in learning a beginning protocol for peer-to-peer Radiant Reflection and how to incorporate reflective practice into your self-care practice. You probably have already developed various methods of handling the responsibility of your work, but you can learn more about how to create a positive, appreciative learning environment around your personal issues as a world server. These teachings help you bring clarity to undigested issues and feed back positive, usable energy into your self-care and your service work. These are teachings in Radiant Reflection, in which you open your inner connection to the Divine, using the Golden Body energies as part of creating a light-based energy field for your Reflective Practice learning and play. 

Tuition for Renewal: $775, includes a one year subscription to the Renewal Network.

Repeat students: Your tuition is $375; Network subscription not included as anniversary subscription dates may vary.

You may attend in person only, no long distance.

Prerequisites: the Golden Body home study audio CDs, Volume 1: Heart Ball Introduction and Volume 2: Tones.

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Renewal Teacher Training: Prerequisites: Live seminars FAC Practitioner's Foundations and a solid period of practice with FAC or other light-based energy/transformative work; enrollment in Transmitting the Golden Body; a strong desire to continue personal exploration of self-care and energy mastery, and to help others in that exploration; feeling at home in the Golden Body energies; current membership in, or willingness to join, the Renewal Network and to stay in the Network as long as you are actively fulfilling the role of a Renewal teacher; willingness to cooperatively co-create in a Teacher's Association with other light workers who are teaching in Gauden, and with the Gauden administration; and a willingness to offer the Renewal course at least once a year in your geographic area, or somewhere else if you are invited to teach in another locale.

If you have these prerequisites and would like to teach Renewal, using the root audio and written materials from RoseLight from Amy and Nancy and following the course protocols, we invite you to attend the extra class meetings for Teacher Training. We will meet with you either before or after class daily to discuss the class and the energy skills we are using to teach, to help you prepare to be a facilitator for this wonderful, transformative work. To be eligible to teach Renewal in the first group of teachers, you must be a graduate of the 2007 Renewal and Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection courses, or, be enrolled in both those courses in June 2008. Tuition for Teacher Training: $375.

The Radiant Reflection Series

Renewal is the first course in a series of teachings on Radiant Reflection. As a graduate of Renewal you are eligible to continue training in the series, and to become an active member practicing Renewal in the Renewal Network of Gauden University.

Renewal: 24 hours—To renew means “to restore to freshness, vigor, or perfection; to make new spiritually; to regenerate; to begin again.” When you begin on the path of service, you embark on a journey of wonder and joy at the idea of being able to make a difference in the lives of others and in the world. You are manifesting your destiny, your higher purpose, imprinted in your body by the light of your Soul as it comes through your heart. To keep your flame of joy burning bright and to stay connected with the flow of your higher life purpose, it is essential that you tend to yourself as an individual at the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. It is sometimes easy or tempting to “drop out” self-care, through busyness, a fear of being selfish, a tendency to focus more on others’ needs, and so forth, but this kind of lack of attention, over time, can result in depletion. It is when you are fresh, vital, aware of your own needs and caring for them that you are most available to fulfill your purpose, to be in touch with your authentic self and destiny, and to most enjoy the life you are living, here and now. Even seasoned veterans of self-care can find new energies in this seminar, and beginners can receive a loving, clear induction into personal energy management and energy hygiene that can form an essential basis of your service work for years to come.

Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection: 18 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: boundaries, clear agreements, contracting, foci of reflective practice, the difference between reflective practice and therapy, mapping support systems, different levels of listening, open versus closed questioning, six category intervention analysis, linguistic clarity, self-disclosure, projection, transference, counter-transference, beginning awareness of cultural differences and antidiscrimination/oppression, and reflecting on how the here-and-now contains all that is needed in a session. Prerequisites: the Renewal seminar. Recommended for healers and helpers, teachers, and leaders.

Multi-Perspective Radiant Reflection: 18 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: how to skillfully focus, for transformative shifts, from seven modes or perspectives—client content/phenomena, supervisee’s interventions, supervisee/client relationship, supervisee’s reactions and assumptions, supervision relationship and parallel process, supervisor’s reactions and assumptions, and the wider systemic context. Prerequisites: the Renewal and Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection seminars. Recommended for healers and helpers, teachers, and leaders.

Group Radiant Reflection: 18 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: listening and hearing at different levels in a group while interacting at the personality level; sensing projective identification and working consciously with it in the group; increasing awareness of the shared unconscious material in relationships and groups; discerning and articulating group themes; ability to get straight at themes, rather than stories; clarifying roles and responsibilities; creating warmth and inclusiveness; being responsive and appropriate to group situations; confidentiality in group settings; the seven modes in group settings; holding time and structures for a group; multi-tracking individuals and the group as a whole; and listening for growth and development on behalf of individuals and the group body. Prerequisites: the Renewal, Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection, and Multi-Perspective Radiant Reflection seminars. Recommended for healers and helpers, teachers, and leaders.

Diversity & Radiant Reflection: To be offered 2009: 18 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: differences of culture, learning style, abilities, rank, and purpose; increasing awareness of and respect for differences and their implications; discerning how to respond to differences with peace and acceptance; and utilizing appropriate bridging. Prerequisites: the Renewal, Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection, and Multi-Perspective Radiant Reflection seminars. Recommended for healers and helpers, teachers, and leaders.

Teams & Organizations Radiant Reflection: To be offered 2009: 18 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: systems thinking; intentionally and consciously fostering team and organization development; stages of organizational development; ‘the useful questions’; the differences between purpose, values, vision, strategy, standards, and behavior; group dynamics as an asset; systemic issues and empowerment; hierarchy of conflict and conflict management cycle; and culture in the organization. Prerequisites: the Renewal, Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection, and Multi-Perspective Radiant Reflection seminars. Recommended for teachers and leaders, and any healers and helpers who interface with teams or organizations.

Advanced Radiant Reflection: To be offered 2009: 18 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, examine more closely the reflections of your unconscious patterns and how they are impacting the delivery of your service; refine your skills and abilities, including your ability to verbally discuss what you perceive about your own process and key it into your growth and service. This is a very personal “looking again” or re-visioning into your own places of flow and not-flow. Prerequisites: the Renewal, Fundamentals of Radiant Reflection, and Multi-Perspective Radiant Reflection seminars. Recommended for healers and helpers, teachers, and leaders.