Steward Training Courses
for Gauden University Renewal Network

Transmitting the Golden Body: 24 hours live class plus seven monthly practice telephone conferences and long distance journeys —This nine month training course helps you achieve more stability and depth as a practitioner with the Golden Body energies taught by Athabascar. You learn to refine and expand your own inner work with the three golden balls and the golden energy fields they generate, creating even more harmony and usable energy for you in your healing, teaching, leading, and other service roles. You also learn to transmit the Golden Body as a teacher, to awaken the energies in others as practitioners of this energy body art. The training course is structured so that you receive instruction in two live, two-day seminars, separated by a practice period with monthly journeys and long distance phone conference call supervision. If you wish to be considered as a qualified live class teacher for Golden Body, you must attend all parts of this course and attend in person in March and September. Tuition: Total $1675; breakdown of costs March $400, Monthly journey/teleconference $125 x 7 months, September $400. Facilitator: Amy Skezas

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. Tuition: $775, includes one year membership in Renewal Network. Facilitators: Amy Skezas and Nancy Reuben

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.

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. 

After the Renewal seminar, students from the general publiic are eligible to apply to join the Renewal Network for ongoing peer-to-peer practice and learning, to explore personal and professional development in a Renewal triangle with the support and guidance of a Network Steward. This is the basic level of membership in the Renewal Network, and no continuing education is required beyond the attendance at a live Network gathering every two years, to stay current and in touch with other members and the wider community in a periodic residential learning environment.

Prerequisites: The prerequisites for attending the Renewal seminar are the Golden Body home study audio CDs, Volume 1: Heart Ball Introduction and Volume 2: Tones. These CDs provide an energy attunement to help you learn the golden energy skills that are the “Radiant” in “Radiant Reflection,” so that when you arrive at class and begin practicing in triangles you have a sufficiently developed golden energy base to benefit from the practice and to support your colleagues.

Radiant Reflection
Radiant Reflection is a particular kind of reflective practice that integrates inner, spiritual awareness of golden energy with supervision techniques suitable for a wide range of helping professionals. Building on the base of the Golden Body home study audio courses, practitioners learn in live classes how to move awareness back and forth between different points of focus in order to create a shift for healing and enlightenment in a reflective practice setting.

In each of the Radiant Reflection seminars below, the Golden Body energies form a base from which you learn to reflect light into your human helping relationships with individuals, groups, and organizations. As you reflect this light into the issues that are your places for growth, you liberate the potential that is held in the old patterns of lesser flow, and create opportunities for higher flow.

Each seminar intensive is valuable as a stand-alone learning environment, and for those students who choose to continue (the classes are optional), the series builds to create a rich body of professional development training.

These seminars build upon the basics of self-care, self-empowerment, energy mastery, spiritual counseling, spiritual relating, ethics, and community taught in the Renewal seminar. In addition to developing your Golden Body awareness, each seminar utilizes reflective practice material from Supervision in the Helping Professions by Robin Shohet and Peter Hawkins (3d ed.) and brings it into the context of spiritual awareness in a learning and development community.

Radiant Reflection Fundamentals : 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. Tuition: $600.

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. Tuition: $600.

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. Tuition: $600.

Diversity & Radiant Reflection: 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: 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. Tuition: $600.

Advanced Radiant Reflection: 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. Tuition: $600.

Community Development
This curriculum explores the spiritual paradox and temporal relationship flows of being incarnated as a separate individual, while belonging to an undivided Whole full of grace that expresses through each person’s unique individuality. The curriculum focuses this exploration into the living, group energy body of the Renewal community, as a gathering of individuals, and as something that grows beyond the sum of the individuals, to a coherent, evolving group consciousness.

At the individual level, making a commitment to contribute to each other consciously, with others who are also consciously committed, creates a rich environment for learning and growth. There is much joy available through that richness, through the connections that spontaneously arise as you come to better know yourself, know others, and be known by others.

When we combine with others in a group we create an energy field fabric far richer and more intricate than a single individual’s field. The group energy field is itself a resource, without anyone doing or saying anything particular, because in that shared field is a wider range of possibility for movement, depth, stillness, focus, and transformation than exists in a single field. The choice of an individual to join and be in a group is an act of creation.

In a learning and development community, members are concerned with their own individual development and with the development of the group body as a collective. You can enhance the synergy by noticing how your growth supports others and noticing the feedback to your development from the growth of others. This noticing or focus of awareness creates a nurturing space that allows more potential to be expressed and more conscious, intentional growth for everyone, through the shared energy field synergies.

Community Development I: 12 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: listening for what is next in a person’s development; contribution and appreciation; being on behalf of development; and beginning awareness of the community as a nurturing presence and group body. Prerequisites: Home study audio courses Golden Body Vols. 1 & 2, Heart Ball Introduction and Tones, and the home study audio single Life’s Work CD Commitment to Your Path. Tuition: $400.

Community Development II: 12 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore identity through the questions, ‘Who am I for you? With you? Who am I in the ‘we’?’ Build awareness of the community as a nurturing presence and group body. Prerequisites: the Community Development I seminar and the home study audio single Life’s Work CD Identity, Purpose, Flow. Tuition: $400.

Community Development III: 12 hours—Using the Golden Body energy base to stabilize, deepen, and sustain your luminous and creative awareness, explore: the nature of development to be holistic and integrative; synergy through individual and group flow; evolutionary call to higher purpose; and enhancing awareness of the community as a nurturing presence and group body. Prerequisites: the Community Development I and II seminars and the home study audio single Life’s Work CD Purpose and Inspiration. Tuition: $400.

Ordination
Along with the live classes and practice training of your Steward program, you will proceed with a parallel, home study ordination path:

Tzaddi eText courses: There are 14 eText courses that you purchase from the Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi and read at home, working through your process, answering the questions in a Word document, and contemplating your relationship with the Divine. The materials are divided into three parts: Introduction modules (3 short eTexts), Healer Counselor modules (9 more substantial texts), and Minister modules (5 texts, some shorter, some longer). This material includes instruction in interfaith service to a diverse population as a spiritual healer, spiritual counselor, and a minister. You have one appointment with a Gauden Ordination Mentor for each stage - Introduction, Healer Counselor, and Minister - of the studies, by telephone. In this appointment you can discuss your questions and concerns, dialogue about spiritual development, and explore together your unique spiritual gifts and talents and how they support your path of ordination.

Tuition, fees, and timing: The Tzaddi eText course materials cost $75 (registration fee is waived due to your long-time association with RoseLight), payable to the Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi (they are setting up PayPal). You will receive the material on a CD to read on your computer. Shipping is included. Please order these materials from Tzaddi when you enroll in the Steward program, and begin working on them.

You must purchase and complete the home study course Living as a Radiant Being: Practitioner's Ethics; this is required for all Tzaddi ordained personnel. You can purchase directly from RoseLight, from Tzaddi, or from a RoseLight Home Study Educator. The course is $99.98 plus shipping and, if applicable, sales tax.

The Ordination Mentor calls are 3 calls x $100/call, payable to Gauden University. You will be given a list of names of Ordination Mentors (this is a subspeciality of mentoring) and will make scheduling arrangements with the Mentor. Pay for these calls when you are ready to schedule your first call. You can also bring up ordination questions and issues at the live gatherings with your colleagues and Joseph and Amy, who will be happy to answer your questions. There is much to be gained from group dialogue on some of the points you may wish to discuss.

For any ordination, there is a $200 fee due to The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi. You will have two ordinations, so please budget $400 total for your ordination fees. These fees help cover Tzaddi's costs in opening your record; opening or maintaining contact with the state in which you live so that you are covered (USA; if you are outside the USA discuss with the Bishop) for your practice as licensed clergy; issuing your licensing card; and general maintenance of your status through their office recordkeeping. These costs are also partly covered by your annual dues as a Healer Counselor, due annually, of $90/year. When you are ordained as a Minister, your annual dues increase to $170/year. Each year you file an annual report with the Bishop and with Gauden as your sponsoring light center, reviewing the year's activities, your continuing education activities, any marriages or other sacerdotal functions you performed (Ministers), etc.

We will offer ordination ceremonies for those who are ready at Mariandale, at the March, June, and September 2008 and January and April 2009 gatherings. We suggest that because you have done so many years of work in spiritual healing and counseling already, that you aim for ordination as a Healer Counselor in March 2008 and Minister in April 2009, to get in some practice time in the interval between Healer Counselor and Minister ordination. Usually two years practice is required, but because of the intense nature of the practice in this program, and your longstanding work in RoseLight, this can be accelerated for those of you who are ready.