Steward Training
for Gauden University Renewal Network

Frequently Asked Questions

• How Does Being a Steward/Training for Stewardship Fit In With Other Network Trainings?

• How Can I Enroll in Steward Training?

• Is There An Advanced Service Training for Me If I Do Not Feel Called To Be a Steward, But Would Like To Be Involved in a Service Role With the Renewal Network?

• What Are the Details of the 2008 - 2009 Steward Training Program?

• List of Live 2008 – 2009 Steward Training Program Courses

• What Are the Details of the Practicum?

• How Will I Get Ordained?

• What Do the Skills Assessments Cover?

• Can I Get Advanced Standing?

• What Are The Benefits of Renewal Practice For People In The Network? — i.e., What Am I Choosing to Support For My Stewardees Through My Becoming a Steward?

• Renewal Triangle Directives

• How Will the Healers in the Network Connect With Other Healers Who are Not In Their Triangle? Teachers With Teachers? Leaders With Leaders? — The House System

• What Are The Study Materials for Steward Training? – Master List of Study Materials November 19, 2007

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• How Does Being a Steward/Training for Stewardship Fit In With Other Network Trainings?
Gauden offers a three level certificate training program for Renewal Network members who want to develop their skills with the subtle energy/personality transformation techniques of Radiant Reflection and Community Development. In your Steward Training program you will traverse all the course work for those certificate programs so that you are at least "one step ahead" of the Network members ad the Network opens and gets rolling, and you will complete a supervised Practicum encompassing the session work required for all three Certificate programs. As a Steward you will be a graduate of all three Certificate programs, certified in all three levels of Renewal work. You can be in these Certificate programs without making the commitment of being a Steward, which would be something "beyond" the three levels of Certificates in terms of the energy development.

• How Can I Enroll in Steward Training?
The Steward training program consists of a number of courses and activities. You can enroll in these courses and activities without committing to becoming a Steward, and, if you begin the Steward training program and prefer to complete it at a later time, that is also all right. The courses in the Steward training program have value unto themselves, for your practice as a lightworker and a helping professional. The programs offered in Petaluma are for people who want to be Stewards and will be run with that focus.

When you are ready to commit to becoming a Steward, or want to discuss the possibility of becoming a Steward, simply email amy.skezas@gauden.org and joseph.hiller@gauden.org and be sure to include:
1) Your name and contact information,
2) The name of your live class teacher for FAC and when and where you graduated,
3) What your experience with practicing FAC is, or other light-based energy/transformational work you have experience with - how many sessions do you typically do in a month, how many years have you been practicing - whatever your details are, in the form you practice,
4) Your educational history, including all degrees awarded, and
5) What you hope to receive from the Steward training, and what you hope to contribute to the group of Stewards and the larger energy body of Gauden University.

• Is There An Advanced Service Training for Me If I Do Not Feel Called To Be a Steward, But Would Like To Be Involved in a Service Role With the Renewal Network?
The Renewal Network is getting ready to open. We are preparing to train teachers of Renewal, which is the gateway to the Network, just as we are training Stewards to serve the triangles in the Network. You may wish to train to be a Renewal teacher as well as, or instead of, a Steward; please read about it at Renewal & Renewal Teacher Training. Unlike the Steward training, which is a big commitment of time and energy, the Renewal teacher training is quick and direct, a smaller commitment of time and energy, for a different end result of energy awareness and facilitation. Renewal is the energy gateway into the Renewal Network and we are being guided to make it as widely available as possible, with local facilitators to work with the root materials provided by Amy and Nancy. As a Renewal teacher, you will be a gateway through which people pass with less intensity and focus than in your role as a Steward. Both service roles are wonderful, and have different energy shift points that you as the facilitator are holding for your group. You may be called to do both. Ask your guides to help you discern the highest direction for your fulfillment and contribution.

• What Are the Details of the 2008 - 2009 Steward Training Program?
There are 12 live courses, plus home study reading and listening/meditating, plus practicum sessions, plus skills demonstrations, that make up the Steward training program. You must be an active, participating Member in the Renewal Network. Ordination, first an interfaith Healer Counselor, and then as an interfaith Minister, is part of the program for those who are not already Tzaddi Ministers; the Stewardship is an interfaith service or ministry to people of many different backgrounds, grounded in the Golden Body work of Athabascar, helping people access more deeply their own internal relationship with Divine Flow.

If you've gotten a "head start" and already taken some of these live courses you do not have to repeat them unless you wish to review. The courses are listed below in "topical" order – not calendar date order – to see them that way, please look at the RoseLight teaching calendar. We've grouped some of the live courses together to make travel easier and more efficient for you. If you've already taken Renewal and Fundamentals in 2007, you can make all these live course trainings in 5 date sets, i.e., if you are traveling from overseas, 5 trips for the live courses (January '08, March '08, September '08, January '09, April '09). They are offered on both east and west coasts so that people on one coast have less travel to manage. If you have not yet taken Renewal and Fundamentals, you'll have 2 additional date sets, adding June '08 and October/November '08 to the list above in order to be able to get everything you need in sequence, and you won't come in January '08, so the total number of date sets for you is 6.

The total cost for tuition and fees for the program, if you are "starting from scratch" and have not done any of the course work, been ordained, etc., is $8,510. This does not include travel, lodging, study materials, or other incidental expenses. This breaks down to: Renewal '08 $775 + one year additional Network membership fee $125 + Radiant Reflection courses 6 x $600 = $3,600 + Community Development courses 3 x $400 = $1,200 + Transmitting Golden Body $1,675, or a total of $7,375 for tuition and fees for courses and Network practice for the period of your training. Ordination fees are $775, plus annual dues and if you have not studied it, the Ethics course. You can see the detail of the courses, and you can enroll, on the page of Course Descriptions. You will pay as you go through the training, step-by-step, for each course. There will be some home study materials and books to buy along the way as well (see study materials list further down on this page). Tuition fees for the seminars are set at the price level for Network Members, discounted from the price level for the public.

After you complete the Steward training program, the development work on behalf of the group body and your own next steps will continue through reflective practice teleconferences in triangles in the Network, and through attending the yearly in-person Network gathering. When you are contemplating becoming a Steward, please contemplate your commitment to be in relationship with other Stewards and the Dean of the Institute, Joseph Hiller, to manage and co-create the development issues that arise as a community. Many times, you will be able to manage the development through energy work, teleconferencing, and other virtual communications. Some of this exploring will happen at the yearly Network in-person gathering, which we hope you will attend more often than the "minimum" of every other year, which is what is asked of your stewardees/Network members. What we are asking is that you are committed to holding the group energy and exploring together how the development can arise in the highest flow.

The work flow for Stewards is going to depend entirely on the demand generated by people joining the Network and the need for triangles to be supported. This is a matter of larger flows. If you complete the training, qualify by passing your skills demonstrations, and there is not any work, you will be waiting until there is demand before you can begin.

• List of Live 2008 – 2009 Steward Training Program Courses

1. Renewal $775— June 23 - 26, 2008 at Mariandale Retreat Center (If you attended summer 2007, you do not need to come again unless you wish to review or you wish to be a Renewal teacher)

2. Radiant Reflection Fundamentals $600 — June 27 - 29, 2008 at Mariandale Retreat Center (If you attended summer 2007, you do not need to come again unless you wish to review or you wish to be a Renewal teacher)

3. Multi-Perspective Radiant Reflection $600— January 9 - 11, 2008 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only - OR - September 17 - 19, 2008 at Mariandale, open to the public as well as Steward trainees. Prerequisites: Renewal and Fundamentals

4. Group Radiant Reflection $600 — January 12 - 14, 2008 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only - OR - October 31 - November 2, 2008 in Petaluma, open to the public as well as Steward trainees. Prerequisites: Renewal, Fundamentals, Multi-Perspective

5. Diversity and Radiant Reflection $600 — January 2 - 4, 2009 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only; it will be offered to the public at a later date. Prerequisites: Renewal, Fundamentals, Multi-Perspective

6. Teams & Organizations Radiant Reflection $600 — January 5 - 7, 2009 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only; it will be offered to the public at a later date. Prerequisites: Renewal, Fundamentals, Multi-Perspective

7. Advanced Radiant Reflection $600 — April 2 - 4, 2009 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only; it will be offered to the public at a later date. Prerequisites: Renewal, Fundamentals, Multi-Perspective

8. Community Development I $400 — March 13 - 14, 2008 at Mariandale, open to the public.

9. Community Development II $400 — January 8 - 9, 2009 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only; it will be offered to the public at a later date.

10. Community Development III $400 — April 5 - 6, 2009 in Petaluma for Steward trainees only; it will be offered to the public at a later date.

11. and 12. Transmitting the Golden Body $1675 – Year-long course offered to the public: Part 1, March 15 - 16, 2008 at Mariandale, long distance journeys/teleconferences monthly May - December 2008, Part 2 Live September 20 - 21, 2008 at Mariandale. This year-long course is required for Steward training, as well as for anyone who wants to be a Renewal teacher.

Click here for Course Descriptions of the above live courses and to link to enrollment for the courses.

• What Are the Details of the Practicum?
One turn in a Renewal triangle is achieved by playing the role either of observer, presenter, or facilitator, for a case presentation of 30 minutes, for a total minimum time with feedback of 45 minutes for that triangle turn. Three turns = one triangle round, in which you have played all three roles once. The Practicum for each of the 3 Certificate levels is 24 rounds or 72 turns in Renewal triangles, and you will do all 3 levels, for a total of 72 rounds, or 216 turns. For the second and third certificates, 8 group reflective practice sesssions are required, 2 turns each, for a total of 16 group sessions. The protocols for these sessions will be explained in the program; they are all done with peers, by telephone conference. The Practicum gives you the seasoning of experience to ground the learning from the seminars into real-time, solid practice. You will be continuing your Practicum for some time after you've been qualified to begin Stewarding, as it takes time to log the sessions in an organic way; once every two weeks is a good schedule to keep moving, without getting overloaded, with the practice.

• How Will I Get Ordained?
There are requirements for study and practice for ordination that you will find posted on the Gauden web site when the program is finalized. In general, there is spiritual healing and counseling study and practice, and ordination study. Many of you have already completed the hours requirements through courses such as FAC and Renewal. For the ordination study itself - You will study the 3 (Introductory) + 8 (Healer Counselor) + 5 (Minister)= 16 Tzaddi etext modules, and discuss them in three telephone sessions with an Ordination Mentor, one for each level, as well as ongoingly with Joseph and Amy as related issues come up in your live classes and practice. Ordination in this program is a commitment to service with the Divine with love and joy, in all the roles that you express as part of your service or ministry on Earth; Stewardship is part of this, but not all of this, because you have many different ways you express yourself as a light worker. To practice as a Steward, you must remain in good standing as a Tzaddi Minister, paying your yearly dues, abiding by the Code of Ethics and Behavior, and filing your annual activities report with the Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi and Gauden. If you would like to know more about ordination before committing to the Steward training program, email Amy at roselight@roselight.com with your questions.

• What Do the Skills Assessments Cover?
The Skills Assessments will allow you to demonstrate your subtle energy body skills, skills with reflective practice, skills with community development, and integration of the energies.

• Can I Get Advanced Standing?
If you've already taken any of the live courses, you do not have to repeat them unless you want to; you can receive Advanced Standing for that course. If you are already ordained, you have met that requirement. If you have already logged some hours since the Renewal seminar in June 2007, if you have documented the session work using the forms provided after class, that can count toward your Practicum hours requirement. Please contact Dean Joseph Hiller if you feel you are eligible.

• What Are The Benefits of Renewal Practice For People In The Network? — i.e., What Am I Choosing to Support For My Stewardees Through My Becoming a Steward?
In any helping relationship, your purpose is to serve; you are a fiduciary, a person in whom others place their trust. Yet, you have shadow as well as visible, “praiseworthy” motivations for helping; you have unhealed parts and unmet personal needs, no matter how accomplished or skilled you might be, because you are alive and on Earth in order to learn and to grow yourself as well as to serve.

In Gauden, we believe that our capacity to give quality service depends upon our own clarity, vitality, and integrity. Thus, Renewal becomes a priority, a way to ground ourselves in community through self-care, self-empowerment, energy mastery, spiritual relating, spiritual counseling, ethics, and reflective practice.

Reflective practice goes beyond open-ended reflection: it is having a regular place and time in which you are accountable to yourself and to colleagues to reflect upon what is happening in your service work. Mastery comes with revisiting personal territory and plumbing beautiful depths with partners over time.

In an ordinary professional supervision or reflective practice session, the spiritual dimension of being is not usually called out. Gauden offers unique education about integrating spiritual light and flow into the personality level. Reflective practice is enriched by including subtle energy awareness, and specifically Golden Body, as part of the energy field of the inquiry and transformative work. The “Radiant” in “Radiant Reflection” is meant to convey that this form of reflective practice is grounded in a spiritual reality, accesses it, and intentionally brings it into the experience.

Gauden’s leaders see a growing awareness of the importance of connection as one of the fundamental shifts that will be occurring in our society in the next 50 – 100 years. Bringing an active, conscious, curious awareness to the subtle energy in reflective practice helps you cultivate a more active, living awareness of the principle of the web of life and provides a support to help transform denser energies. And, by working in a learning and development community, you gain benefits of synergy that are not available when you work alone, or in a single triangle. You are part of a group energy body that is real, rich, full of positive feedback, and that supports the flowering of your individual destiny while growing in understanding of connections and community.

• Renewal Triangle Directives
The shared goal and purpose here is to renew—“to restore to freshness, vigor, or perfection; to make new spiritually; to regenerate; to begin again.” To that end:
• Be willing to change and grow, to be altered through connection and communication with other people.
• Engage with people from a foundation of goodwill.
• Be committed to your own and others’ learning and development. Notice how they are connected.
• Affirm that you have the potential to make a contribution. This is true for everyone.
• Support empowerment and self-responsibility in yourself and others, rather than trying to fix people, or expecting others to fix you.
• Seek a fulfilling, appropriate balance between support and challenge, and between active and receptive states in your interactions in your triangle.
• What occurs in your renewal triangle is entrusted to you for a focus of care and honoring. Respect your and others’ privacy by not discussing it casually outside of the triangle.

• How Will the Healers in the Network Connect With Other Healers Who are Not In Their Triangle? Teachers With Teachers? Leaders With Leaders? — The House System
The Renewal Network is a community of individuals from a wide range of professions and service capacities. We use the term “helping professionals” to describe our members, by which we mean “those who are dedicated to the betterment of life through service,” whether or not they are paid in money for their work, or have an official title or degree. To further learning and development within the Network, some groupings of kinds of helping or service work suggest themselves where professionals in each area can focus more specifically on the issues and interests common to that grouping. The Network has three such areas, called Houses, for connection and professional exploration:

Practitioners’ House: This is the House for healers and helpers, people who generally work one-on-one or in small groups. This includes counselors, therapists, energy workers, social workers, doctors, nurses, acupuncturists—anyone with a client practice providing a helping service. This House is also open to those giving care who are not paid in money, who are dedicated to helping and healing in service, for example, someone at home caring for a terminally ill family member or someone who assists at an animal shelter.

Teachers’ House: This House is for those who pass on or develop knowledge and training, overseeing the growth and development of others as they learn and take on the new skills and awareness of the practice being taught. Public or private school teachers, public speakers, Reiki masters, meditation teachers, corporate trainers, and university professors are some examples. This House is also open to those teaching in volunteer work, for example, through literacy programs, or Big Brother/Sister programs.

Leaders’ House: This House is for the people who are exploring aspects of leadership in their lives. They could be in a position of power in an organization or they could be aspiring to step more solidly into a leadership position in some area of their life. The focus for leaders often includes holding a vision for what is possible for a group or organization. Leaders often need a place to talk openly about their values, their ways of “being” and the challenges they encounter. Some examples of people in this house might be a minister, a not-for-profit or corporate executive, a community organizer or an elected official. This House is also open to those leading in volunteer work.

The role of the Houses, as they interact with the triangles, is still developing. We invite you to join us on the inner planes to play in golden flows to support the birthing of the highest potential to unfold.

• What Are The Study Materials for Steward Training? – Master List of Study Materials November 19, 2007
Alphabetical, by title, within categories: title, author(s), location of publication, publishing company, date of publication. This list may change as the program development continues and as we see how people are getting the energy shifts.

Books
Conscious Loving, Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. & Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D. (New York: Bantam Books, 1992)

Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives, Theodore Zeldin (Mahwah: HiddenSpring, 1998)

Leadership & The New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Margaret J. Wheatley (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999)

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1991)

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion, Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Encinitas: Puddledancer Press, 2000)

The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships, Kylea Taylor (Santa Cruz: Hanford Mead Publishers, 1995)

Supervision in the Helping Professions, Robin Shohet & Peter Hawkins, 3d ed. (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2007)

The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, M.Scott Peck, M.D. (New York: Touchstone, 1987)

The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry, 2d ed., Sue Annis Hammond (Bend: Thin Book Publiishing Co., 1996)

Topical readings as assigned by facilitators.

Etexts
Administration for All Tzaddi Ordained Clergy, The Executive Board of the Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D., and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Ceremony & Ritual, Caridwyn Aleva, D.D., Janet R. Nagy, D.D., Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Death and Bereavement For Ministers , Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Ethics Code & Standards of Conduct, Janet R. Nagy, D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Legal & Tax Matters for Healer Counselors, Janet R. Nagy, D.D., Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Legal & Tax Matters for Ministers, Janet R. Nagy, D.D., Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Lineage and Authority, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Ministry, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Janet R. Nagy, D.D. (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Ordination, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Resources for Healer Counselors, Janet R. Nagy, D.D., Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Resources for Ministers, Janet R. Nagy, D.D. and Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Sacerdotal Functions and Services , Founding Bishop Amy Kees., D.D., Co-Founding Bishop Dorothe Blackmere, D.D. and Various Tzaddi Personnel (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Spiritual Counseling, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Spiritual Healing, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Understanding Tzaddi, Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).

Virtue, Ethics, & Reflective Practice, Janet R. Nagy, D.D., Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. and Bishop Marion Lamb (Ellijay: The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, 2007).