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Personal Wellbeing

Transformational Change Specialist

Holistic Living Specialist

Global Spirituality Specialist



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Personal Wellbeing
Certificate Only

Program Summary
The program goal is to provide in-depth instruction and experiential learning related to personal wellness.

Focus will include a thorough understanding of the relationship between medical, wellness, self-care and personal growth models of holistic living.

Graduates will be able to develop a comprehensive and flexible wellness plan for themselves and be able to provide wellness oriented support and guidance for loved ones and their social network.



Required: Courses - Retreats - Learning Modules
Facilitation and Leadership Skills
Overview Holistic Living - Personal Wellness

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Transformational Change
Specialists
Certification or Degree

Program Summary
The program provides the training, skills and experiential knowledge to organize, develop, and facilitate programs related to change and personal transformation.

Specific program themes are: curriculum design, event administration, marketing and presentation and facilitation skills.

Presentation venues might include: In-patient medical and/or psychiatric and outpatient services and social service organizations, corporations, government agencies, educational venues and public and community forums.



Required: Courses - Retreats - Learning Modules
Facilitation and Leadership Skills - Counseling and Consulting Skills
Overview Holistic Living - Personal Wellness
Livelihood and Finances - Growth and Integration

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Career Opportunities 
Transformation Change Facilitator
Personal Coach - Counselor for Consultants
Group Facilitation - Ritual Facilitation





Holistic Living Specialist
Certification or Degree

Program Summary
The courses work provides the skills to manage, direct, and present holistic oriented educational, counseling and facilitation services.

The program includes management style and leadership, administrative skills and the ability to design a variety of curriculum.

Additional aspects of the program include advanced training in specific disciplines of holistic health, community wellness and personal growth.



Required: Courses - Retreats - Learning Modules
Facilitation and Leadership Skills
Overview Holistic Living   -   Personal Wellness
Livelihood and Finances - Growth and Integration
Public Policy/Ecology  -   Counseling and Consulting Skills

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Career Opportunities 
Transformation Change Facilitator
Personal Coach - Counselor for Consultants
Group Facilitation - Ritual Facilitation
Community Organizing - Ecology Educator/Consultant
Intuitive Counselor - Political Information Specialist
Curriculum and Creativity Specialist







Global Spirituality
Specialist
Certification or Degree

Program Summary
The program goal is to harmonize intuitive and scientific methods and to explore the connection between physical sight reality and metaphysical disciplines.

Considerable effort is directed toward providing the skills to link, integrate and communicate the ethereal and the unseen to the everyday realities of existence.

Training, research, and career options include human tissue investigation, soul/body integration, telepathic communication and planetary evolution.

Professional options are:  counseling, education and facilitation and developing experimental protocols and course curriculum to encourage the ability to communicate effectively with media and public relations personnel.


Required: Courses - Retreats - Learning Modules
Facilitation and Leadership Skills
Overview Holistic Living - Personal Wellness
Livelihood and Finances - Growth and Integration
Public Policy/Ecology
- Counseling and Consulting Skills
Science and Investigation
- Harmony: Mystery and Science

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Career Opportunities 
Transformational Change Facilitation
Personal Coach - Counselor for Consultants
Group Facilitation - Ritual Facilitation
Community Organizing - Ecology Educator/Consultant
Intuitive Counselor - Political Information Specialist
Curriculum and Creativity Specialist

RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATIVE INQUIRY 
MetaPhysician - Intuitive Information Specialist
Planetary Evolution - Planetary Research



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Career Opportunities


Individual Counseling: 3 Options
Transformational Change Facilitation
Personal Coach - Counselor for Consultants



Business and Organization Consulting: 7 Options
Group Facilitation Specialist - Ritual Facilitation Specialist
Community Organizing Specialist - Ecology Educator and Consultant
Intuitive Counselor - Political Communication Specialist
Curriculum and Creativity Specialist



Research and Investigative Inquiry: 4 Options
MetaPhysician - Planetary Research Specialist
Intuitive Information Specialist - Planetary Evolution Specialist






























Individual Counseling: Option 1 of 3
Transformational Change Facilitation


Career Overview
The transformational change process affirms the healing possibility, provides a safe atmosphere and develops a plan for implementation. 
A healing atmosphere in addition to safety includes: worthiness, a sense of acceptance, support and on-going reinforcement. 

Skills and Techniques
o Symptoms Interpretation:  natural remedies, internal body messages, intuitive guidance, stress and pain interpretation. 
o Mind/Body awareness and integration:  bodywork, energy techniques; movement, exercise and fitness. 
o Relaxation - Support - Play:  acceptance, visioning, imagery and intention; positive self talk, affirmation, faith and support for healing change. 
o Voice - Breath - Expression:  conversation, listening skills, inner voice dialogue and intimate relationship dialogue. 
o Lifestyle:  life scripts, habits, behaviors, attitudes, addictions and food and nutrition dynamics. 
o Emotions and Feelings:  revisiting the past; money, finances, and business; gender dynamics, self image, belief systems and closely held truths. 
o Selection of professional experts:  medical, wellness, healers, intuitives and group facilitation.  




Individual Counseling: Option 2 of 3
Personal Coach


Career Overview
Coaching provides feedback, support, perspective and encouragement related to ideas, plans, dreams, career and job search guidance, time management and problem solving.

Skills and Techniques
o Encouragement and Caring:  feedback without bias or prejudice, being client centered and providing continuous support.
o Problem Solving and Goal Setting:  intention, reality assessment, focus and keeping on track, homework assignments and clarification of recurring themes.  
o Career Counseling:  assessment of personal values and career opportunities, planning and guidance for job search, written communication skills, appearance and presentation style, negotiating and interviewing skills.  
o Awareness and Sensitivity:  body language, posture, breath, voice, shifts in focus and stuck positions. 
o Knowledge, wisdom and experience requirements:  livelihood issues; money and wealth, career and workplace dynamics; business, marketing and life skills. 
o Relationship Skills:  expression and communication, intimacy and commitment, family and parenting dynamics. 





Individual Counseling: Option 3 of 3
Counselor for Consultants


Career Overview
The personal service industry is growing dramatically.  Examples are:  technology and computer support, massage therapy, financial planning and counseling practices. 
The business consultant provides supportive dialogue regarding personal assessment, planning and project options, personal values, and social and family responsibilities.

Skills and Techniques
o Livelihood Issues:   money, wealth, investment management, workplace and career issues, marketing and sales techniques, business operations and planning. 
o Communication Skills: client retention, teaching and speaking skills, time management, event planning and public and media relations.  
o Self Image and Communication:   confidence, personality style, expression, conversation skills and dialogue techniques. 
o Focus:   visioning and intuitive skills, goal setting and the decision making process. 
o Healthy stress:  relaxation and rest, emotions and feelings, workaholic tendencies, retirement and life passages. 
o People Dynamics:   personal and business network, core buddies and relationship dynamics. 






Business and Organization Consulting: Option 1 of 7
Group Facilitation Specialist


Career Overview
The facilitation process can have a dramatic impact on attitudes, emotions, group cohesiveness and the decision making process. 
The key facilitation assumptions are:  Every person present influences the group and their presence contributes to the group process. 
Venues include:  social or business, a small group or a full auditorium. 

Skills and Techniques
o Facilitation Focus:  creating a positive atmosphere for group decisions and team building.  Specific activities:  problem solving, conflict resolution, networking connections, social time and the formation of affinity groups. 
o Facilitation Skills:  focusing the group and establishing group commitment related to guidelines, procedures and intentions. 
o Planning:  focusing on process goals, moving the process forward, making decisions and segment flow.
o Interactive Skills:  emotional integration, humor, encouraging participation, softness of tone, showing vulnerability, being actively engaged and being detached from the outcome.
o Balance focus, structure, fluidity and creativity. 
o Flexibility:  transitional breaks, discussion options, segment dynamics and issue clarification.





Business and Organization Consulting: Option 2 of 7
Ritual Facilitation Specialist


Career Overview
A ritual specialist has a sense of process, pageantry and the dramatic.
The specialist has the ability to transform a presentation or procession into a heart felt experience.

Ritual Dynamics
o Ritual Situations:  ceremonies and special occasions, confirmation, marriage, retirement, testimonials, memorial service, divorce, unity events, seasonal celebrations, religious holidays and spiritual celebrations.
o Ritual Segment Options:  welcome, guidelines, overview; statement of intention; being present and open, setting the tone, inclusion and feeling safe, discussion and sharing, transitions, attunement and farewell.
o Intention Possibilities:  level of drama, themes and topical discussions, emotional release and healing, growth and integration and personal connection and intimacy.

Skills and Techniques
o Assessment Skills:  assessment of participant comfort zones as related to expression, sharing, movement and interactive participation.
o Procedural Flow:  leader focus, participant expression, dialogue intention, personal intimacy, spiritual connection and/or religious experience.
o Creation of Safe Space:  participant check in, sense of group inclusion, intention and guidelines and interactive dialogue, singing, movement, mingling and/or hugs.
o Voice Dynamics Techniques:  utilization of air flow, breathe and sound techniques.
o Creative Flexibility:  transitional breaks, discussion options, segment dynamics and issue clarification.




Business and Organization Consulting: Option 3 of 7
Community Organizing Specialist


Career Overview
A community organizing specialist plans and facilitates neighborhood and community projects. . 
Special emphasis includes encouraging citizen involvement, assess and prioritize and develop an action and implementation strategy. 

Skills and Techniques  
o Group Dynamics:  encourage a community involvement attitude, a helping hand perspective, and a “we can do it” action plan. 
o Advocacy Awareness:  the power of privilege, prejudice and minority rights, the dynamics of differences and aid to persons in need. 
o Personal Involvement Issues:  balancing self and service, giving back to society, service as a means for personal growth and spiritual fulfillment. 

Projects Options  
o Community Activities:  youth, athletics, research, historical records, long term community planning, personal connections and cultural events.  
o Special Needs:  social services priorities and providing a helping hand to persons in crisis.
o Economics and Livelihood:  business development, job creation, housing and community beautification. 
o Political Involvement:  candidate selection and support, political organizing and election day activities, candidate accountability and public policy development.




Business and Organization Consulting: Option 4 of 7
Ecology Educator and Consultant


Career Overview
The environmental specialist develops educational programs and environmental strategies for school systems, corporations, government agencies and citizen groups.  The central focus is identifying community values, priorities and environmental concerns. 

Educational Themes 
o Earth Awareness:  natural cycles, the earth’s rhythmic patterns and the awareness that all natural systems are interdependent and connected. 
o Eco-Involvement:  earth advocacy, earth dependency, community concerns and developing an eco-mind set. 
o Eco-Living:  self-reliance, voluntary simplicity, personal and shared values and a earth friendly perspective.  

Project Possibilities  
o Focus and Intention:  community visions, needs assessment and defining quality of life issues. 
o Hands On Projects:  permaculture and sustainability, earth-friendly product and eco living demonstrations. 
o Housing and Economics:  co-housing, appropriate economics and green business development. 
o Community Planning:  sustainable cities, energy recycling, land use planning and green space design.





Business and Organization Consulting: Option 5 of 7
Intuitive Counselor


Career Overview
When decisions are less definite, intuition can be beneficial.  Excess thinking, over analysis and intensity can block the flow of action and ideas. 
Intuitive counseling incorporates symbols, perceptions, instinct, life experience and cognitive reasoning.

Counseling Possibilities 
o Staff Counseling:  employee and/or executive counseling, habits, attitudes and lifestyle assessment, addictions and life script analysis and personal integration.
o Organizational Planning:  business cycle interpretation, strategic planning and balancing intuitive and cognitive decision making. 
o Business and economic cycles:  research and development, career and professional assessment, product development and marketing and growth, stagnation and refocusing business. 

Skills and Techniques 
o Symbol Expression:  cycle dynamics and interpretation, directional flow and patterns, grid dynamics and human interface.
o Archetype Sensitivity:  polarities, spectrums, grids and paths. 
o Group Dynamics:  ritual, ceremony, metaphors and energy vibration. 





Business and Organization Consulting: Option 6 of 7
Political Communication Specialist


Career Overview
The political relations specialist represents citizen groups, corporations, business associations, educational organizations and/or social service institutions.  Core responsibilities include:  issue framing and planning strategies and encouraging productive dialogue with government agencies. 

Skills and Techniques
o Access to:  policy makers, the decision making structure, government institutions and attunement to all levels of authority. 
o Institutional Awareness:  knowledge as to appropriate projects for specific government agencies. 
o Organization and Communication:  issue development and core group organizing, communicate and build support for public policy positions, lobbying activities and strategies, issue campaign planning and media and public relations activities.
o Political process expertise:  candidate selection, campaign involvement, election day dynamics and electoral media and political organizing. 







Business and Organization Consulting: Option 7 of 7
Curriculum and Creativity Specialist


Career Overview
This discipline includes the ability to vision, plan, produce, direct and participate in all forms of creative holistic expression. Possibilities may include: workshops and training; certificate, certification and degree programs; ritual, pageantry and drama.


Skills and Techniques
o Administrative Skills:  Clear expression of vision, operational guidelines and the commitment required. Focus on process goals, time management and deadlines; public and media relations and the ability to identify and resolve crises situations.
o Interactive Skills:  emotional integration, humor and the ability to encourage and reinforce participation, a sense of confidence in personality style, expression, conversation skills and dialogue techniques. 
o Staff Assessment Skills:  the target audience, facilitators, performers and administrative staff
o Procedural Flow:  vision and implementation of event sequencing and coordination of event segment transitions.
o Symbol Expression:  Symbolic imagery to communicate abstract, ethereal and grounded messages which includes a sensitivity to archetypes, polarities, spectrums, grids, metaphors and energy vibration. 









Research and Investigative Inquiry: Option 1 of 4
MetaPhysician


Career Overview
A client based healing discipline utilizing aspects of:  science, mechanics, holistic health, intuition, imagery and visualization. 
Harmonize the fluidity of client, researcher, experimentation and the healing process. 

Skills and Techniques
o Scientific Skills:  attunement to the micro elementals, the skeletal generation process, tissue regeneration, the synthesis of nano physics, metaphysics, mechanics and the human cell.
o Holistic Health:  elimination of waste and toxic materials and unhealthy stress, distress and disease. 
o Interdisciplinary Skills:  biology, chemistry, physics, quantum physics and metaphysics. 





Research and Investigative Inquiry: Option 2 of 4
Planetary Research Specialist


Career Overview
Research and exploration to understand linkage and symbolic and intuitive structures which support physical reality.  The investigative process integrates:  verbal, visual, auditory, symbolic, intuitive and vibrational energy. 

Skills and Techniques
o Research Goals:  develop predictable felt sense grids related to:  thought, emotions, feelings, elementals, physical structures and form. 
o Vibration and telepathic communication:  animals, plants, elementals, humans, androids, galactic and planetary dialogue and space-time dynamics.  
o Daily Living:  involvement and investigation of community practices, economic and financial cycles, gender and family structures, society and governance and privilege and minority issues.
o Target Clients:  large organizations, government advisory agencies and special project situations. 




Research and Investigative Inquiry: Option 3 of 4
Intuitive Information Specialist


Career Overview
Provides communication and dialogue which relates to intuitive and metaphysical analysis of current events. 

Skills and Techniques
o Publications:  books, articles and professional journals. 
o Public Relations:  public speaking and community rituals, group leadership facilitation and networking and project administration. 
o Entrepreneurship:  holistic business development, social services projects, workplace and career expansion and economics and financial projects. 
o Public Policy Dialogue:  lifestyle options, health and wellness issues, parenting practices, military options, economics and investments, sustainability and environmental concerns. 





Research and Investigative Inquiry: Option 4 of 4
Planetary Evolution Specialist


Career Overview
This profession utilizes acquired skills to effectively plan and influence events which promote planetary healing, wellness and harmony. 

Skills and Techniques
o Awareness and Focus:  event tracking and interpretation in relation to the on-going conditions of self, society, planetary, and cosmic evolution. 
o Emanates a Sense of Harmony:  Empathy, flexibility and the power of presence to influence behavior, balancing the dynamics of:  force, resistance, counseling, leadership, presence and doing nothing. 
o Attunement:  awareness of the cycling processes related to: the environment, culture, community service, advocacy, governance, economics, mortality, morality, rituals and faith, holidays and celebrations and the practices of daily living. 


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