| This course presents a systematic and complete understanding of the psychological, emotional, and physical transformations that occur as an individual develops full enlightenment.. This course explores the concept of sacred paths and covers the Hindu, Buddhist, Jainism, Sikhs, Confucianism, Taoism, and Japanese Faith Traditions. This course covers Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity (including Greek, Eastern, Gnostic, Catholic, Protestant) and Islam (including Sufi and Druze) and Baha'i. This course focuses on contemporary issues facing religion as a result of serious scholarship over the past 50 years. This course looks at the common spiritual wisdom found in the five most significant world religions. This course explains why philosophy as a subject is important to religion and in particular this course focuses on the concepts and development of atheism. This course gives an overview of ethics and its importance to religion. This course explores the psychological basis of religion, the religious basis of psychology, and the interaction between the two. Does our psychological makeup determine our beliefs, or do our religious beliefs determine our psychology? Do they change with fashion or are they part of our very makeup? Reading will include many of the great books. Class work will focus on both academic understanding and personal experiences. Officiating at Interfaith events with Rituals & Ceremonies such as Weddings, Renewal of Vows,, Commitment Ceremonies, Baby Welcoming, Naming & Blessings, Sermons, Memorial Services, Funerals and othe Life Event Celebration Rituals are very important part of your life as a Clergy. Learn how to start, learn to develop your technique and how to deliver powerful memorable ceremonies. This course introduces the intellectual treatment of atheism and its importance to religion. This course examines the historical developments in the Middle East just prior and after the beginning of the Common Era. This course explains gnostic beliefs, especially during the early Christian period. In the past 60 years, there has been a growing scholarly treatment of Christianity that calls into question traditional Christian dogma. this course addresses this area of scholarship. This course introduces students to what religious scholars call the spiritual wisdom literature. This course looks at the history of the Jewish people,faith and traditions. Musical sound has been a part of human experience and expression throughout all time. The science of music was a means to greater knowledge in all ancient oriental cultures. The art of music has always been integral in the ritual life of all cultures. For all who have breath, music connects us to spirit.
This class will be interactive among all participants, exploring and discovering how music has been a part of our spiritual journeys. This course explores a means to address Emotional Stress and How to focus a distracted mind. The emphasis will be hands-on-training-not discussion. We will practice relaxation, focusing attention and accepting life as it comes to you. The course introduces the subject of mystical Judaism. This course explains the legal aspects of religion. What are the similarities and difference between these three fundamental concepts? Do they overlap? Are they independent of one another? In conflict with one another? Did the Great Teachers who represent the foundations of the Great Religions intend to establish religions or merely to teach spirituality and humanism? Did their followers eventually corrupt and convert their teachings? Is the path to God and Self found through religion? Through spirituality? Through humanism? All three? None of them? Are the three concepts compatible and complementary or mutually exclusive? Belief in a higher being is common to all human societies. Yet most cultures have their own (often unique) image of God, expressed in their religious traditions and myths. What are the similarities and differences in these myths and the many and varied images of God? The work of Joseph Campbell will be used extensively in this course. Are religion and science compatible? Complementary? Co-dependent? Independent? Mutually exclusive? This course will explore the writings of leading scientists, some deeply religious and others not. Some argue that religion is important and others think it is dangerous. This course explores the debate on what some call the Crisis in Religion. This course explains how to lead and manage nonprofit organizations so that they can better serve humanity. This course explains accepted proper personnel and leadership practices that should exist in nonprofit organizations. This course explains proper budgeting and financial management that should exist in nonprofit organizations so that budgets balance, corruption is prevented, and the board policy guides the activities of the organization. This course explains the various ways that nonprofits can be effectively organized to accomplish their missions. This course explains how to effectively write grants, how to otherwise raise money, and how to become an IRS recognized nonprofit organization. This course explains the importance of and how to achieve proper ethics in nonprofit organizations. This course covers probability and descriptive and inferential statistics and hypothesis testing. It begins with tabular, graphical and numerical methods for describing data statistically. Then it introduces methods of probability, discrete and continues probability distributions, and sampling and sampling distributions. Next is interval estimation, hypothesis testing and various methods of statistical inference. It ends with regression analysis and nonparametric methods. This course explains the concepts of research methods and evaluation that are important to nonprofit organizations. This course explains constitutional and basic laws (except administrative law) that is important to how an nonprofit is managed. This course explains what way administrative law is significant to nonprofit organizations. This course explains the importance of public policy to nonprofit organizations. This course is introduced with the dimensions, importance, challenges and current issues in nonprofit marketing. Then it sets the path with mission focus, strategic objectives, differentiation, positioning, unique value proposition, branding and segmentation. It proceeds with research, strategic marketing analysis and planning, offers in product, place, promotion and price. Finally it discuss direct marketing and strategic approaches to donors and volunteers, special events, social marketing, cause-related marketing and other collaborations with the business sector. This course explains accounting processes and procedures important for nonprofit organizations. This course explains the useful technology that is available for nonprofit organizations. This course will explore the dynamics of small groups, stages of a group’s development, characteristics that define group behavior, and the group’s effect on individual members. Understanding the nature and the dynamics of a small group as it forms and performs is a useful – often critical – skill for all of us, and particularly for pastors, counselors or group leaders. Readings will include both academic and pastoral material. Of the many leadership styles, “servant-leadership” is among the most effective. Such leaders focus on the needs of their colleagues and those they serve and, as humble stewards, achieve results that bond groups and bring the best out of members. While the concept is ancient, it remains vital and effective even in today’s high pressure world. This course helps the student link his or her courses with the practical world of nonprofit organizations. At the end of the program of study, this course gives students the opportunity to craft directed reading in particular areas. Permission of instructor required. This course introduces the basic theories of counseling including Psychoanalytic Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Behavioral Therapies, and Postmodern Approaches. The course covers listening and interviewing skills, parameters and limitations of the treatment relationship, client-counselor contracts and understandings, stages of clinical treatment, referral and termination. This course explains the stages of family and couple relationships, overview of family systems theories, principles of working with couples and families. This course introduces the principles of leading groups, objectives of group counseling, and group therapy theories. This course explores the psychological, relational, and theological dynamics of loss and grief including attachment theory and the role of hope in the context of counseling The course introduces the current understandings of the etiology, neuro-biology, and treatment of chemical and substance abuse including the spiritual dimension. The course introduces ethics from both a secular and spiritual understandings. Attention will be given to the AAPC Code of Ethics with emphasis on setting appropriate therapeutic boundaries, legal issues, understanding the scope of spiritual counseling, and knowing when to make appropriate referrals. The course explores the cultural factors present in counseling including the impact of gender, age, class, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, physical and cognitive differences, and religious beliefs. This course introduces the theories of human development and spiritual development over the course of the life cycle, including those of Erikson, Piaget, and Fowler. More important than “what we do” in the counseling relationship is “who we are.” This course helps us to discover and articulate our identity as a spiritual guide in the context of our particular theological understanding and spiritual practices. This course explains how to and what to cover in helping individuals to grow spiritually. This course is a survey of the formal and informal assessments such as testing, observations, and interviews. Test construction, validity, procedures, and interpretations will be covered. This course is an introduction to the diagnosis of major categories of mental disorders based upon current DSM and ICT criteria and an understanding of abnormal behavior and its impact on society. This course introduces occupational choices and career decision-making and the life-long processes that influence work values. We will explore patterns of work adjustment, career identification, integration of occupational roles and the factors that give meaning and satisfaction to life’s work. This course introduces research design and evaluation methods. In addition the course covers some statistical tools such as data analysis as well as reading and interpreting research. This course explains basic statistical analysis and how it can be helpful in counseling. Pre-Requisites: Marriage and Family Counseling; Counseling Theories
This course provides an overview of the Prepare / Enrich materials and their use in pre-marital preparation and marriage enrichment. This course introduces the basic theories of counseling including Psychoanalytic Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Behavioral Therapies, and Postmodern Approaches. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Grief and Loss Counseling; and Psychopathology
This course is an in-depth study of depression and anxiety disorders, current understandings in related neuro-biology, and the role of spiritual counseling in the treatment of these disorders. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Chemical and Substance Abuse Counseling; and Marriage and Family Counseling
This course explores the family dynamics leading to and / or resulting from chemical and substance abuse of any member of the family system. It will also look at genetic factors of substance abuse in families, how a family history of substance abuse can be disrupted and healed and the role of spiritual counseling in that process. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Marriage and Family Counseling
This course is an in-depth study of the factors leading up to a crisis in couples” relationship and the role of spiritual counseling in working through that crisis in a way that leads to spiritual growth for both members of the couple. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Human Development and the Life Cycle
This course is an in-depth study of human sexuality, normal sexual needs including heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered sexuality, sexual identity, and abnormal sexual functioning, including sexual addictions. This course will explore the role of the 12-step programs as a treatment for sexual addictions and the role of the spiritual counselor in the healing process. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Human Development and the Life Cycle; Grief and Loss Counseling
This course is an in-depth study of the factors such as loss and grief that accompany the aging process in particular and the adjustments to those losses of health, mobility, and functioning that must occur for healthy life transitioning in later years. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Marriage and Family Counseling
This course is an in-depth study of the effects of divorce, how to help a couple achieve a health divorce, and the understanding of self in relationship that must be worked through to effect a healthy remarriage. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Marriage and Family Counseling; Human Development and the Life Cycle
This course points out that while coupling is the norm in our society, many persons live a single life by choice or necessity. This course explores the role of spiritual counseling in helping the single person avoid isolation while living a single life and maintaining healthy and nurturing connections to others. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Marriage and Family Counseling; and Human Development and the Life Cycle
Adolescence and the teen years can represent the biggest life transition and challenge of life. This course is an in-depth study of these years and the role of parenting a teen through this transitional period, including how to set appropriate limits while remaining a non-anxious presence in the teen’s life. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Human Development and the Life Cycle; Grief and Loss Counseling
This course is an in-depth study of the effects of chronic illness on the human psyche and the role of spiritual counseling in coping with chronic illness with hope and finding meaning in unavoidable suffering. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Psychopathology; Spiritual Development – the Person of the Counselor; 100 hours of clinical conseling
This is an advanced course in Jungian Psychology and its application in spiritual counseling. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Counseling Techniques; Psychopathology; Spiritual Development – the Person of the Counselor; 100 hours of supervised clinical counseling
This is an advanced course in transpersonal psychology and the theories of Roberto Assagioli (psychosynthesis) and their application in spiritual counseling. Pre-Requisites: Counseling Theories; Counseling Techniques; Marriage and Family Counseling; 100 hours of supervised clinical counseling
This is an advanced course in family systems theory as described by Friedman and Bowen and the application in spiritual counseling. Students will learn how to create and use genograms to understand multi-generational family dynamics and patterns. Pre-Requisites:Counseling Theories; Counseling Techniques; Cultural Diversity; Human Development and the Life Cycle; Grief and Loss Counseling; 100 hours of supervised clinical counseling
This is an advanced course for those working with AIDS patients and others with stigmatizing diseases to help normalize their experience through spiritual counseling. Pre-Requisites:Counseling Theories; Counseling Techniques; Human Development and the Life Cycle; Family Systems Theory and Genograms; 100 hours of supervised clinical counseling
This is an advanced course that explores the special world of children and adolescents with challenging life situations and the ways that spiritual counseling can be of benefit to their healing. Pre-Requisites:Counseling Theories; Human Development and the Life Cycle; Grief and Loss Counseling; 100 hours of supervised clinical counseling
This advanced course deals with death and dying through the stages of Elizabeth Kuebler-Ross. We will explore the role of spiritual counseling to bring about meaning to the life that has been lived and to one’s unavoidable suffering, acceptance of death, and hope in living out the remaining moments of life. These a talks / discussions given every Sunday by Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Lynch and the faculty of the Academy from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. They are held at Priv de la Aurora #5, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico.
| This is to be the online course location for the International Academy for Interfaith Studies. Courses will begin in 2010.
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