Member Support & Education
Online licensing
Online practitioner licensing is well underway –thanks to all practitioners who have already gone online and renewed. Additionally, many ministers have successfully paid the new ministerial professional fee right from our website. For more information on renewing a practitioner license, contact Annie Glasgow, RScP (aglasgow@csl.org). For information about paying the ministerial professional fee, contact Nancy Mitchell-Edwards, RScP (nmitchell-edwards@csl.org).
Online registration for certificated courses
Our systems for online registration of certificated courses are still under development and we look forward to all the benefits that they will bring when they are up and running, including greater ease in getting accurately completed certificates to our students.
Education catalog under review
The Education Committee is also looking at the entire set of courses in the Education Catalog in order to continue to move us into the greatest delivery mechanisms for sharing the Science of Mind teaching with the world. We regularly receive great suggestions from all of you in the field and we hope you’ll keep them coming. While there is much work to do in ultimately re-tooling and redesigning the disparate sets of curricula that we inherited from our previous organizations, it is an exciting endeavor and with time it is sure to lead to educational programs that serve our 21st century world in much more dynamic ways.
Spanish curricula now on the website
The first set of our adult curricula courses have been uploaded to the csl.org internal website. You may find them right alongside the curricula in English. We are in the process of uploading even more curricula translated in Spanish, as well as updating new and improved versions of what’s already there.
Update on Holmes Institute L.A. campus
Holmes Institute has received proposals from three centers for hosting a campus in the greater Los Angeles area based on the RFP we issued in March. Those proposals are being reviewed and we will notify the proposing centers of steps to take for Phase II of the proposal. We will announce the location of the new campus by the end of June 2013.
Youth Happenings
By Michelle Lang, RScP mlang@csl.org
Youth Program Manager
Summer camp – There’s no place like “OM”!
Summer Camp is right around the corner! Now is the time to round up your teen group and get them fired up about going! Our Centers for Spiritual Living elected teen leadership team just attended a full weekend of “Workshop Planning” where they created all of the experiential workshops plus more exciting activities for camp! This year’s theme is, There’s No Place Like “OM.”
Share this video link with your teen group to announce the 2013 theme! 2013 Teen Camp Theme Announcement.
The dates for this year’s summer camp are July 13 – 20, 2013. Early Bird Registration costs for summer camp are $425. Final registration deadline is June 12, 2013. For more camp information please visit www.csl.org. Login with user name: member and password: Holmes.
We’re going green & offering electronic registration
We are excited to announce that our registration forms for this year’s summer camp are electronic! Having electronically signed camp registration forms has been a long time goal of the youth department. We have condensed the many pages of camp registration paperwork into an easy to fill out online form. We will have these electronic camp registration forms available to youth ministry program directors and camp advisors in plenty of time to meet the early bird deadline. We appreciate your support and understanding as we work to make the learning curve minimal. We are here to support you! For questions about the electronic camp registration forms please contact Rev. Keith Cox kcoxnbh@aol.com or Michelle Lang, RScP mlang@csl.org. For more camp information please visit our Youth page csl.org/youth-program.html. Login with user name: member and password: Holmes.
Certified Teen Advisor program launching
The Youth Department is excited to announce the launch of our new Certified Teen Advisor program. In an effort to honor the ongoing commitment our teen advisors demonstrate, we have implemented a training and recognition program. We acknowledge that many of our teen advisors are already well on their way to qualifying for a Teen Advisor Certificate. It is our desire to have more! Here are the benefits and requirements to become a Certified Teen Advisor:
Benefits of becoming a Certified Teen Advisor:
- Up-leveled commitment and dedication to Centers for Spiritual Living Teens
- Current and up-to-date trends through trainings on working with teens
- Discount for camp registration
- Official certificate and recognition from Centers for Spiritual Living
Requirements to become a Certified Teen Advisor:
- Be a member of a Centers for Spiritual Living affiliated center
- Be an active advisor in local teen program
- Have 2 years’ experience as a teen advisor in your center
- Have a satisfactory, current criminal background check
- Attend an Advisor Intensive Retreat a minimum of one time every 3 years beginning in 2013
- Provide 2 character references from local center (one from the Senior Minister)
- Must be at least 25 years of age
- Take yearly Certified Teen Advisor online training provided by Centers for Spiritual Living Youth Department
- Participate in Camp Advisor Training webinar every year
Advisor Intensive Retreat Dates:
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – May 3 – 5, 2013
- So. California, Camp Buckhorn, Idyllwild, CA – May 17 – 19, 2013
Details for registration and cost are available on the internal website csl.org/youth-program/teen-and-young-adult-events.html
Camp Advisor trainings available
Due to the evolution of our camp programs, we have made some changes to our Camp Teen Advisor training requirements in order better support our centers. A teen camp advisor must now participate in the Camp Advisor Training-Webinar every year they attend camp as an advisor. We have two of these Camp Advisor Training-Webinars scheduled right now to fit your busy schedules. It is a requirement that a teen advisor participate in one of these trainings prior to attending camp. Here are the benefits and requirements to become a Camp Teen Advisor:
Benefits
- Ability to attend Summer and Winter camps as Teen Advisor
- Commitment and dedication to Centers for Spiritual Living teen campers
Requirements
- Participate in Camp Advisor Training webinar every year
- Have a satisfactory, current criminal background check
Camp Advisor Training – Webinar Dates:
(Please book 4 hours and be aware that space is limited)
- May 22, 2013 – Wednesday, 3:00p.m., PDT
- June 1, 2013 – Saturday, 12:30pm, PDT
Details for registration and cost are available on the internal website csl.org/youth-program/teen-and-young-adult-events.html
