Update from our Spiritual Leader Greetings from Ukraine! My wife, Dr. Deborah, and I have had a delightful, eye-opening, experience attending the 6th Annual Ukraine Science of Mind Conference from September 13 - 19. We enjoyed the magnificent hospitality of anOM study group in Kiev, which consists of about 20 wonderful, well-trained, students. We also spent an evening with a group enjoying a traditional Ukrainian welcome with dinner, dancing, and vodka at a restaurant and farm in a small village just north of Cherkasy. One of our highlights included teaching Thomas Troward to a Cherkasy group of eight students, a beautiful cross-cultural experience as they spoke Russian and we spoke English.
From 14-hour train rides to visiting a Temenos class on the Edinburgh Lectures given in Russian, Dr. Deborah and I had an amazing time in Ukraine. Thank you, Rev. Barbara Leger, for such a beautiful experience. To learn more about the great work that is being done in Ukraine, visit www.scienceofmind.org.ua/eng/ Blessings, Update from our President
As we prepare for our Spiritual Living Convention in February, an early piece of business is for all Community Members, including Teaching Chapters and Focus Ministries, to complete their 2013 Annual Report. In the next couple of days, an email message will be sent to all community leaders with the information necessary to complete this task. There are three reasons why we do this: First, because we all agreed to do it as part of our affiliation with Centers for Spiritual Living. Second, because this information about our ministries and preferences helps the organization provide us all with better programs and services. And third, because completion of our Annual Report is the method by which the number of representative delegates are determined for voting during our Convention in February. Without completion of this report, a Member Community cannot have delegate voting rights. Also different from last year, this year’s Annual Report includes our 2014 Committed Giving information, which is essential to our annual budgeting process and helps the organization in its stewardship of the money that we all contribute. In our first year of operations, the committed giving process was done by mail. This will be a seamless method of providing our financial intentions within a confidential report. In the next day or so, community leaders will receive an email from Home Office, which will contain two important links.
A mailbox has been set up for you to contact staff with a request for assistance, the address is elections@csl.org The report itself will not take more than a few minutes to complete if you have gone through the report in advance and collected all the pertinent information. Fortunately, if you begin the survey online and find you still need to collect more information, you can exit the survey and return to complete it later by following instructions on the first page of the Annual Survey. Thank you for completing your reports as soon as possible. So many blessings! Member Support & Education Update
Education Q&A Q: Who do I contact with education questions now that Dr. Lynn Connolly has retired? Q: When will the Practitioner Year 2 curriculum be available? Q: What are the requirements for entering practitioner training? Q: How does one enter ministerial training? Applicants to ministerial training must first be licensed practitioners. Applicants do NOT need to have a bachelor’s degree to enter ministerial training. Those students who do have a bachelor’s degree will be eligible to earn a master’s degree through their ministerial training. We are also currently conducting final review and approval for proposals submitted for a regional center in Los Angeles. Q: How can ministers teach in the ministerial training program? You may find many more details on the current design of our education programs in the Policies and Procedures Manual, section 10 (found on the internal website under Business and Administration). The Education Committee will meet face-to-face on October 30-31 to synthesize the various ideas that are emerging from the field, the Growth and Development Commission, the Leadership Council, and its own visioning and planning efforts. We encourage you to email us with ideas you’d like us to consider for the future of our education programs. You may email Dr. Karen Kushner, Education Committee Chair at :revkarenk@aol.com or me at gtoole@csl.org. Licensing and Credentialing We are proud to announce 21 new Centers for Spiritual Living ministers! These ministers recently passed their licensing panels at Asilomar. Join us in congratulating the following:
World Ministry of Prayer World Ministry of Prayer has been providing loving support to individuals all over the world for more than 80 years. Professionally trained ministers and practitioners use affirmative prayer to help you to turn away from the condition causing distress and realign your thinking with the Spiritual Truth that you are never alone and are always provided and cared for by Life. World Ministry of Prayer has recently established a 24-hour telephone number that provides recorded prayer support. That number is 720-496-1369 and is for you to call when you desire to listen to recorded prayers covering a variety of topics like abundance, relationships, prosperity, peace of mind, and more that you may choose from a menu. In addition, if you would like email prayer support or would like to connect with a World Ministry of Prayer practitioner for telephone prayer support, please visit us at http://www.csl.org and click the ‘Prayer Request” button. We are here for you. Upcoming Regional Ordination Panels For licentiate ministers who have recently been approved for an ordination panel, here is the schedule of our upcoming panels for your planning purposes:
The exact dates of the California and Colorado panels will be announced soon. If you are intending to participate in one of these panels, you must contact our office to be scheduled at least 30 days before the panel dates. All path to ordination requirements must be met and your panel approved by the Ministerial and Practitioner Licensing Committee before you can be scheduled for a panel. Any questions or to request to participate in a panel, please contact Nancy Mitchell-Edwards at 720-279-8983 or via email at nmitchell-edwards@csl.org Love & blessings, |
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Practitioners: Protect Yourself and Your Clients with Liability Insurance Now there is a simple, inexpensive way to protect yourself – Practitioner Liability Insurance (Life Coach Policy) offered by Centers for Spiritual Living Insurance Department. For a low, yearly payment of only $249, you, your home, the center that holds your license, and Home Office will have up to $1 million in coverage! When you insure your practitioner practice through Centers for Spiritual Living, you are benefiting yourself and our organization. We have partnered with WAVE Financial Partners, an insurance brokerage firm that has access to 38 major carriers, to make sure you are receiving the best rate available for your insurance coverage. And, when you buy your insurance through Centers for Spiritual Living, you are helping fund services and programs to our member communities. Liability insurance for your practice is a smart idea; buying it from Centers for Spiritual Living is even smarter! To find out more, click here. Thank you for your continued support. Blessings, The Unassuming Donor and a $2 Million Bequest – Heart-felt relationships set the foundation for your center’s endowment program.
We have just signed up for a new service called MiFlyer - a text-based electronic flyer that allows us to communicate events and happenings to anyone who texts 70000 to Spiritual. This is a great new way to provide information quickly and easily. We will have more information available soon. If you haven’t yet downloaded the Spiritual Living Resource App, you can now do so at either the Apple App Store or Google Play. We are working to populate the app with like-minded businesses in every market. To do that, we are investigating sponsorships for conferences that service the vital Cultural Creative and LOHAS markets. If you know anyone who would be interested in having their business listed on the app, please urge them to sign up at app.csl.org. Centers for Spiritual Living recently participated in the Conscious Life Jam, a three-day social media event to benefit Spiritual Living Radio Network. We participated along with some of the biggest names in our movement, and featured our Orlando Convention, our publications, and the new insurance program being offered by Centers for Spiritual Living. Thanks to Horton Interactive Media and Spiritual Living Radio Network for providing such an interactive and informative forum! Have you checked out our Principles of Spiritual Living blog recently? Always thought-provoking, recent topics include parenting with the power of I Am and the amazing power of choice. Find it here: www.patheos.com/blogs/theprinciplesofspiritualliving. How does Home Office communicate with you? The primary way that Home Office communicates to the field is through Net Community. This method takes email addresses from our database and sends information directly to your inbox. This is one-way communication, and you can identify these emails because the sender is identified as “Home Office.” For ministers and practitioners, this is the ONLY way we communicate important information, such as licensing renewal requirements, policy changes, and organizational updates. Although there is an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the page, if you unsubscribe from this email, you will be completely removed from all communications from Home Office. For ministers and practitioners, there is a second communication format, and that is the Google Group. This is a chat-format, and consequently is interactive. The Google Group is completely optional, and anyone of the appropriate standing (i.e. minister or practitioner) may join or unsubscribe from his/her particular Google Group at any time. We are looking for new members to join our IT Committee, specifically people with background in database management, systems integration, and enterprise resource platforms. If you’re interested in serving in this way and have expertise in these areas, please contact me at jmorley@csl.org. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Love & blessings, Convention & Retreat News – Save money by signing up now for the 2014 Spiritual Living Convention; our only gathering in 2014. Early Bird Registration is open! Creative Thought is in Our Future! Let’s stay in touch!
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This past summer the Leadership Council created a personnel committee whose job it became to look closely at how we are doing what we are doing, measure it against the Organizational Design Model (ODM), and then make adjustments. We started with our president, Dr. John Waterhouse, and spiritual leader, Dr. Kenn Gordon. Tracy Brown, RScP, combed through the ODM and wrote questions to measure how effectively each one was doing at his job. In addition to the Leadership Council, six senior ministers were asked to participate in the evaluation. Three were chosen by the Leadership Council and three were chosen by the person being evaluated. Then we compiled the data and I provided feedback to our two leaders. We then shared a summary with the Leadership Council. I believe a self-evaluation of the entire Leadership Council will be done in our face-to-face meeting in October. It was a very interesting process for us and for me personally. I have never been evaluated as a minister or in my former life as a teacher. Can we measure consciousness?
The Minister Council is completing plans for our first Centers for Spiritual Living Ministers’ Gathering. To date, we have 158 registered attendees.
The Laity Council will use the remainder of 2013 to focus on continuing to expand the regional networks, communicating our goals across the centers, and preparing for an exciting organization meeting in Orlando. 
