Programs and Courses
Curriculum
Course Descriptions
Course
Descriptions
In
alphabetical/sequential order by course number. Within each subject
area, the preceding course is a prerequisite:
Counselling
COUN A-100-3 Basic Helping Skills
Module 1 - Year 1 (Counselling & Helping)
Course
Description: Theory and experiential exercises introduce the human
services field and the basics of integrative helping skills: such
as reflection, clarification, questioning, empathy and listening
skills.
Topics
Included: Are the helping professions for you?; Getting the most
from your training; The helper in the helping process; Values
and the helping relationship; Common concerns facing beginning
helpers; Self-exploration and personal growth; Managing stress;
Dealing with professional burnout; Ethical dilemmas; Effective
Counselling; Professional behaviour; The Counselling process;
The helping relationship; Interviewing skills; Empathy; Goal setting
and action planning; Working in difficult situations; and Assertiveness
Required
Texts:
2. Counselling Skills, Bob Shebib
3. Becoming a Helper, Gerald Corey and Marianne Schneider Corey.
COUN
A-101-3 The Basics of Counselling
Module I - Year 1 (Counselling & Helping)
Course
Description: An introduction to the field of counselling: client
issues, counsellor information, selected theories, useful forms
and phone numbers
Topics
Included:
Client Issues: such as Aging, AIDS/HIV, anger, anxiety, birth
order, parenting, boundaries, career counselling, child abuse
and neglect, death and dying, depression, divorce, domestic violence,
dreams, eating disorders, sexual orientation issues, personality
disorders, sexual abuse, substance abuse and suicide; Counsellor
Information: Case notes, consultation, couple and family systems,
developing your own approach, DSM-IV-TR use, ethics, genograms,
human growth and development, assessment, psychopharmacology,
social and cultural considerations, supervision and testifying
in court; Selected Theories: Overview, Adlerian approach, Behavioural
approach, Brief/ Solution-Focused Approach, Existential approach,
Gestalt approach, Person-Centered approach, Psychoanalytical approach,
Rational Emotive Therapy approach, Reality/ Choice Therapy approach
and Systems approach; and Useful Forms and Phone Numbers: such
as Case notes, consent for audio/ video taping, consent for communication,
disclosure statement, excuse from work or school, intake, internship
log, limits of confidentiality, for group counselling, no-suicide
contract, referral for services, release of information, report
for information, suicide assessment checklist, termination summary,
treatment plan, frequently called numbers and national hotlines.
Required
Texts:
1. The Counsellor’s Helpdesk, Travers
COUN A-102-3 Good Grief
Module I - Year 1 (Counselling & Helping)
Course
Description: An introduction to the five stages of grief and healthy
ways to deal with grief and loss.
Topics
Included: Preparing for death; Denial, anger, bargaining, depression
and acceptance; Complicated grief; Identifying bereavement resources;
Hope; Practical ideas for the different developmental stages of
kids, teens and adults; Loss as a catalyst for growth and understanding;
How can friends help?; Funerals; Letting go; and Resources.
Required
Texts:
1. Good Grief, Granger E. Westberg
2. On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
3. On Children and Death, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
4. Grief Counselling & Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental
Health Practitioner, J. William Worden
Recommended
Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
Resources from the Centre for Loss and Life Transitions highly
recommended:
1. Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens - 100 Practical Ideas,
Alan D. Wolfelt
2. Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids - 100 Practical Ideas,
Alan D. Wolfelt
3. Healing a Child’s Heart - 100 Practical Ideas for families,
Friends and Care-givers, Alan D. Wolfelt
COUN B-110-6 Basic Theories of Counselling
Module 5 (i) - Year 2 (Counselling)
Course
Description: An in-depth look at the major theories and principles
in counselling.
Topics
Included: Basic issues in a counselling practice - the counsellor,
ethical issues; In-Depth Look at Theories and Techniques of Counselling
- psychoanalytic theory, Adlerian therapy, existential therapy,
person-centered therapy, gestalt therapy, reality / choice therapy,
behaviour therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, feminist therapy,
and family systems therapy; and Integration and Application -
an integrative perspective, beyond eclectism; and Case illustrations
of an integrative approach.
Required
Texts:
1. Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 6th edition,
Gerald Corey
2. Student Manual for Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy,
6th edition, Corey
COUN B-111-3 Counselling Practicum
Module 5 (i) - Year 2 (Counselling)
Course
Description: An in-depth look the counselling process. The student
will work, under the supervision of the NTI instructor, with one
volunteer over six to ten sessions applying sound counselling
practices in a spiritual context as learned in COUNS B-110-6
Topics
Included: Making ethical decisions; In-take procedures; Initial
session and goal setting; Assessing the client’s needs;
Choosing the appropriate techniques and theories for the client’s
needs; Reassessing, implementing, and closing; Note taking; Liaising
with other human service professionals; and Writing summary reports.
Required
Texts:
1. The Counsellor’s Helpdesk, Phil Travers
COUN B-112-6 Issues in Counselling
Module 5 (i) - Year 2 (Counselling)
Course
Description: The in-depth study of common aspects, traits or symptoms
of frequent counselling issues such as: suicide, grief, sexual
assault, family violence, witness to family violence, sexual orientation,
relationships, etc. Brainstorming solutions and resources.
Topics
Included:
An introduction to human service counselling: Definitions, goals,
limitations, agency, private practice; Professional ethics checklist
- impact of counsellor values on ethics, ethical and legal issues,
sexual relationships, sexual harassment, fees, professional associations,
a model for ethical decision making, limits of confidentiality,
basic rights of the individual; Checklist on multiculturalism:
Defining multiculturalism in counselling, terms, characteristics
of effective multicultural counsellors; Professional assessment
for individual’s readiness; Other: Assessment and treatment
planning; Drugs, alcohol and gambling screen; Developing your
integrative counselling orientation; Foundations in theory; First
Aid Counselling: Crisis management, eclectic verbal intervention,
suicide intervention, brief counselling, the damage of abuse,
addiction counselling, grief counselling, eating disorders, and
understanding stress.
Required
Texts:
1. The Human Services Counselling Toolbox - Theory, Development,
Technique, and Resources, 1st edition, William A, Howatt
COUN B-120-6 Spiritual Counselling Internship in an Interfaith
Ministry
Module 9(ii) - Year 3 (Community Building)
or
2 credit units credit for each Certification in an Holistic Counselling
Therapies (sa NeuroLinguistics, Bioenergetics, Hypnosis, Reality
Therapy)
Course
Description: The student will be required to work with 6 clients
for 4 sessions each, with close supervision of both the NTI instructor
and a qualified supervisor in the student’s home community.
Part of the evaluation will include independent and anonymous
client evaluations.
Topics
Included: Beginning a counselling session; The therapeutic relationship;
Establishing therapeutic goals; Understanding and dealing with
diversity; Understanding and dealing with resistance; Cognitive
focus in counselling; Emotive focus in counselling; Behavioural
focus in counselling; An integrative approach to counselling;
Working with transference and counter transference; Understanding
how the past influences the present; Working toward decision and
behaviour change; and Evaluation and termination.
Required
Texts:
1. The Art of Integrative Counseling 1st Edition, Gerald Corey
2. Student Video and Workbook for the Art of Integrative Counseling
1st Edition, Gerald Corey, Robert Haynes
Ministering
MIN A-900-3 Volunteer Work Internship I
Module 2 - Year 1 (Spirituality & Ministering)
Course
Description: Each student will be required to volunteer in any
setting preferably doing spiritual/ pastoral work, for 30 hours.
A log of the hours (signed by the site supervisor) and a description
of and reflec-tion on the work will be an integral part of the
course.
Topics
Included: Teamwork, getting along; The joy in giving; Developing
or promoting a sense of community; and Note taking; etc.
Required
Texts:
1. Volunteer Journal & Log I, Rev. Sandi King
2. HRDC employment skills booklets
MIN B-911-3 Community Collaboration
Module 5(ii) - Year 2 (Community Building)
Course
Description: An exploration of which community agencies to deal
with, how to interact with them, what kinds of relationships to
form, which ones promote an interfaith philosophy, and identify
where people of different religions can go for help in the religion
of their choice.
Topics
Included: The student will develop their own community resource
directory identifying local interfaith, holistic wellness and
health/mental health resources.
Required
Texts:
1. Sample Directories
MIN B-912-3 Ethics of Spiritual Counselling in an Interfaith
Ministry
Module 5 (ii) - Year 2 (Community Building)
Course
Description: Explorations of the student’s own set of ethics
within the broader spiritual context laid out in SPR A-200-2.
Students will explore specific case scenarios as well as explore
ways to promote professionalism in the field through the development
of their own personal code of ethics.
Topics
Included: Ethical decision making, values and the helping relationship,
Boundary issues and multiple relationships; The nature of spiritual
counselling in an Interfaith Ministry; The spiritual counsellor’s
qualities and training; Spiritual counselling boundaries - distinction
between spiritual counselling and other helping professions, appropriate
referrals, physical and psychological boundaries in spiritual
counselling; The spiritual counsellor’s relationship - respect
for individual conscience, goals of spiritual counselling, environment,
confidentiality, exceptions to confidentiality, setting goals,
termination; Why spiritual counselling in an Interfaith Ministry?;
Relationship with other professionals and relationship to the
community; and Looking at different types of case studies.
Required
Texts:
1. Ethics in Action Student Workbook & Video, Corey, Corey
and Haynes
2. A Code of Ethics for Spiritual Directors, Thomas M. Hedberg
and Betsie Caprio
Recommended Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
1. Counselling Ethics Casebook, William E. Schulz
2. How to Give Nutritional Advice Legally, David W. Rowland
MIN B-913-6 Volunteer Work Internship II
Module 6(i) - Year 2 (Comparative Religion)
Course
Description: Each student will be required to volunteer in an
interfaith spiritual setting for 60 hours. The nature of the volunteer
activities and site location are to be pre-determined with the
instructor. In addition to a log of the hours (signed by the site
supervisor), a joint plan (between student and NTI instructor)
of the work and a reflection on the work will be an integral part
of the course.
Topics
Included: Employment skills in the work setting; Teamwork, getting
along; Resume; Interviews; On the job skills; The joy in giving;
Developing or promoting a sense of community; Note taking; Record
keeping; Job tracking; etc.
Required
Texts:
1. Volunteer Journal & Log II, Rev. Sandi King
2. HRDC employment skills booklets
MIN B-920-6 Elevating the Interfaith Ministry: Promoting Community
Change
Module 9(ii) - Year 3 (Community Building)
Course
Description: This course will give students the tools to positively
express to society the value of spiritual counselling and the
interfaith perspective as a helping profession. Students will
be required to develop and implement a plan to elevate the profession
within their home community. Selected student plans will become
part of future anthologies for the Ministry’s Guide Books.
Topics
Included: Guiding principles for change agents
The essential eight: An outline for community change; Promoting
purposeful change; and Twenty tips for taking action; The Rules
of the Game: Basic things to know; Countering obstacles; Using
power powerfully; Practice wisdom; and The change process; Things
to Know About Yourself: How you relate to people: How you look
at the challenge of change; How you relate to the change effort;
Ways to Approach Promoting Change: Improving your effectiveness;
Tactical considerations; Engaging resistance and developing support;
Create and fill key roles within the organization; and Strengthening
your organization; Things to Know About People: Most people desire
to be helpful; Recognizing the roles of acceptance and confidence;
Recognizing common human traits that must be taken into account;
Recognizing matters that lead to inaction; and Getting people
moving toward action and keeping them going; The Thirteen Commandments:
Thou shalt hustle; Thou shalt keep the cycle of empowerment rolling;
Thou shalt do thy homework; Thou shalt hit them in their self-interest;
Thou shalt have those who feel the problem play a significant
role in solving the problem; Thou shalt allow the situation to
dictate the strategy; Thou shalt have a quick initial victory;
Thou shalt prevent unintended consequences; Thou shalt keep thy
options open; Thou shalt do things on purpose; Thou shalt roll
with the punches; Thou shalt commit thyself to learning; and Thou
shalt laugh and PEA, and thou shalt be greatly relieved.
Required
Texts:
1. Rules of the Game: Lessons from the Field of Community Change,
Homan
MIN
C-921-3 Pastoral Counselling
Module MIN 1 (Pastoral Care in the Community)
Module 5(R-OM) - Regular Year 4 or
Module 5(C-OM) - Compacted Year 2
Course Description: Study of the special skills required for pastoral
counselling and ministrations.
Topics
Included: Why visit?; Focus on the patient; The visitor; The art
of creative listening; Your pastoral notebook; The use of prayer,
scripture and meditation; How to visit the dying; Ministry to
those who mourn; Ministry to the elderly; How to visit on the
psychiatric ward; Spiritual teams and hospital dreams; Natural
compassion; Who’s helping; Suffering; The Listening mind;
Helping in Prison; The way of social action; Burnout and Reprise
- walking each other home.
Required
Texts:
1. The Ministry of Listening - Team Visiting in Hospital and Home,
Donald Peel
2. How Can I Help? Ram Dass & Gorman
MIN C-922-6 Volunteer Work Internship III
Module MIN 3 (Leading an OIIM Interfaith Ministry)
Module 8(R-OM) - Regular Year 4 or
Module 8(C-OM) - Compacted Year 3
Course Description: Each student will be required to volunteer
in a leadership capacity in an interfaith spiritual setting, preferably
in an existing OIIM Chapter or is setting up an OIIM Chapter for
60 hours. The nature of the volunteer activities and site location
are to be predetermined with the instructor. In addition to a
log of the hours (signed by the site supervisor), a joint plan
(between student and NTI instructor) of the work and reflection
on the work will be an integral part of the course.
Topics
Included: Employment skills in the work setting; Teamwork, getting
along; Resume; interviews; On the job skills; The joy in giving;
Developing or promoting a sense of community; Note taking; Record
keeping; Job tracking; etc.
Required Texts:
1. Volunteer Journal & Log III, Rev. Sandi King
2. HRDC employment skills booklets
MIN C-930-3 Platform Decorum & Services
Module MIN 2 (Organization of Local OIIM Ministry & Religious
Services -
Mentored by a Senior Minister)
Module 7(R-OM) - Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C-OM) - Compacted Year 2
Course
Description: A course on proper dress, etiquette and procedures
for running a spiritual/ religious service/ celebration.
Topics
Included: Order of Service; Demeanour and Dress; Public Speaking;
Stage Presences and Blocking; Welcoming and Greeting Newcomers.
Required
Texts:
1. OIIM Interfaith Minister’s Guide, Revs. Barry and Sandi
King
MIN C-931-3 Platform Decorum Practicum
Module MIN 2 (Organization of Local OIIM Ministry & Religious
Services -
Mentored by a Senior Minister)
Module 7(R-OM) - Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C-OM) - Compacted Year 2
Course Description: A experiential course under the mentorship
of an OIIM Senior Minister on proper etiquette and procedures
for running a spiritual/religious service/celebration. Students
will be required to conduct, with the appropriate decorum, dress
and ethics, a number of religious services/celebrations. Students
will be formally evaluated with follow-up discussion after each
session.
Topics
Included: Order of Service; Demeanour; Public Speaking; Stage
Presences and Blocking; Welcoming and Greeting Newcomers.
Required
Texts:
1. OIIM Interfaith Minister’s Guide, Revs. Barry and Sandi
King
MIN C-932-3 Setting up an OIIM Ministry
Module MIN 2 (Organization of Local OIIM Ministry & Religious
Services - Mentored by a Senior Minister)
Module 7(R-OM) - Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C-OM) - Compacted Year 2
Course
Description: Exploration of the challenges and joys of getting
started.
Topics
Included: Getting a group of interested individuals; Having a
presence; Forming an OIIM Chapter Board; PR including use of OIIM
logo and literature; Getting incorporated; Charitable status;
Local Annual General Meetings; Yearly reports; OIIM Annual General
Meetings; Responsibilities of Chapters to OIIM, its ministers,
members, congregation and adherents; Responsibilities of OIIM
to its Chapters.
Required
Texts:
1. OIIM Guidebook for Chapters, Revs. Sandi & Barry King
MIN C-933-3 Setting up an OIIM Ministry Practicum
Module MIN 2 (Organization of Local OIIM Ministry & Religious
Services - Mentored by a Senior Minister)
Module 7(R-OM) - Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C-OM) - Compacted Year 2
Course
Description: Experiencing the challenges and joys of getting started
- setting up or contributing to an OIIM Chapter.
Topics
Included: The experience of: Getting a group of interested individuals;
Having a presence; Forming an OIIM Chapter Board; PR including
use of OIIM logo and literature; Getting incorporated; Charitable
status; Local Annual General Meetings; Yearly reports; OIIM Annual
General Meetings; Responsibilities of Chapters to OIIM, its ministers,
members, congregation and adherents; Responsibilities of OIIM
to its Chapters.
Required
Texts:
1. OIIM Guidebook for Chapters, Revs. Sandi & Barry King
MIN C-934-3Ceremonies: Weddings, Funerals, Blessings, etc.
Module MIN 3 (Religious Ceremonies Within the Interfaith Tradition)
Module 7(R1-OM) Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C1-OM) Compacted Year 2 or 3
Course
Description: Examination of how to perform interfaith religious
ceremonies such as weddings and funerals.
Topics
Included: Organizing and Conducting different Religious Services
such as funerals, weddings, baptisms, blessings, etc; Designing
personalized ceremonies; Developing a protocol for ceremonies
that allows for structured, reverend input from the participants;
How to Journey with the Dying; Assisting in Letting Go of the
Body; Creating Sacred Spaces with Sacred participants; Music for
Healing and Transcendence; Dying Alone; Ending Life Supports;
After Death and Until the Funeral; Personalizing Weddings through
rituals from many cultural traditions.
Required
Texts:
2. Till Death Do Us Part: An Interfaith Minister’s Guide
to Funerals, Rev. Frederick Cale;
3. OIIM Interfaith Minister’s Guide, Revs. Barry and Sandi
King
4. Sacred Dying - Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life,
Anderson
5. Weddings by Design
MIN C-935-3 Ceremonies Practicum
Module MIN 3 (Religious Ceremonies Within the Interfaith Tradition)
Module 7(R1-OM) Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C1-OM) Compacted Year 2 or 3
Course
Description: Experiential sessions exploring how to perform interfaith
religious ceremonies such as weddings and funerals.
Topics
Included: Organizing and Conducting different Interfaith Religious
Services such as funerals, weddings, baptisms, blessings, etc;
Designing personalized ceremonies; Developing a protocol for ceremonies
that allows for structured, reverend input from the participants;
How to Journey with the Dying; Assisting in Letting Go of the
Body; Creating Sacred Spaces with Sacred participants; Music for
Healing and Transcendence; Dying Alone; Ending Life Supports;
After Death and Until the Funeral; Personalizing Weddings through
rituals from many cultural traditions.
Required
Texts:
1. Till Death Do Us Part: An Interfaith Minister’s Guide
to Funerals, Rev. Frederick Cale;
2. OIIM Interfaith Minister’s Guide, Revs. Barry and Sandi
King
3. Sacred Dying - Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life,
Megory Anderson
4. Weddings by Design
MIN
C-936-3 Rituals and Symbolism
Module MIN 3 (Religious Ceremonies Within the Interfaith Tradition)
Module 7(R1-OM) Regular Year 4 or
Module 7(C1-OM) Compacted Year 2 or 3
Course
Description: Exploration of the roots and meaning of symbols and
rituals.
Topics
Included: The power of symbols; Symbols in ceremony; Symbols in
different traditions; and Comparative symbology in different religious
traditions’ ceremonies and rituals.
Required
Texts:
1. OIIM Interfaith Minister’s Guide, Revs. Sandi and Barry
King
iNtuition
/ Psychic Studies
NPSY
A-400-2 Basic Intuition
Module 4 - Year 1 (Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: Study of the recognition and use of intuition in
everyday life.
Topics
Included: What is Intuition; Types of Intuition; Intuitive Information
and Impressions; Establishing a Positive, Constructive Relationship
with Your Intuition; Daily Exercises to Develop Your Intuition;
Listening to Your Intuition; Interpreting and Understanding Your
Intuitive Impressions; Understanding and Releasing Fears about
Your Intuition; Understanding How Desire and Intent can Influence
Your Intuitive Impressions; How the Mind Can Influence Your Intuition;
Applying Your Intuition; Measuring Accuracy and Distinguishing
Between Intuition and Impulsiveness; Making Intuition a Part of
Your Daily Life; and Synchronicity; and Health, Money and Relationships.
Required
Texts:
1. Intuition Workout - A Practical Guide to Discovering and Developing
Your Inner Knowing, Nancy Rosanoff
NPSY B-410-3 Psychic Studies
Module 5(ii) - Year 2 (Community Building)
Course
Description: An introduction and overview of paranormal phenomena
and psychic studies.
Topics Included: Definition of Psychic (including glossaries of
terms and important bibliographies); Parapsychology - ESP (telepathy,
clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, psychometry, precognition,
the difference between precognition and premonitions, the Central
Premonition Registry, retrocognition); Parapsychology - Psychokinesis
(psychic healing, levitation and poltergeists); The Role of Skepticism
(dangers associated with parapsychology, endangering your spiritual
life and danger signs); The Critics of the Psychic (wariness of
science, attitude of the Church, cautions, and anything new is
usually opposed); The Contributions of Spiritualism (declaration
of the principles, what Spiritualism is and does, and interesting
notes); Parapsychology Through the Ages (birth of Modern Spiritualism,
the Ghost Society, the London Dialectical Society, the Psychological
Society of Great Britain, the British Society for Psychical Research,
the American Society for Psychical Research, A New Era Begins,
and Prominent People in the Field); Natural Law Does Not Preclude
Free Will; The Two Bodies of Being Human (the silver cord, out-of-body
experiences and near death experiences); What are Apparitions?
(Deathbed apparitions, hauntings, classic illustrations and auras);
The New Environment (the next dimension, we reap what we sow,
like attracts like); Life on The Other Side; Our Welcome to The
Other Side (the prime of life, thoughts are things, sudden or
violent death, suicide, recalling the past upon arrival and is
there a Judgement Day?); What About Hell? (Earthbound spirits
and rescue operations); What is a Medium? (Historically, two broad
classes of mediums - mental and physical, characteristics of a
medium and why communicate with the Spirit world?); Trance; The
Phenomena of materialization (ectoplasm, apport, psychic photography
and thoughtography); What is Automatic Writing? (Ouija board,
cross-correspondence and trivia); What are Book and Newspaper
Tests? (Difficulties in communicating, suggestions on how to sit
with a medium, not all persons should sit with a medium, great
mediums - past and present and personal testimonies); Possession
and Exorcism; Reincarnation (the cons of reincarnation, the doctrine
of karma and what is Deja Vu?); Interpreting Dreams; and Educational
Institutions (those devoted to research, those devoted to parapsychology,
spiritualism, publications and where to find books).
Required
Texts:
1. Introduction to Psychic Studies, Hal Banks
2. Psychic Facts, Peggy Barnes
NPSY
B-411-6 The Study of Consciousness and the Paranormal
Module 8(i) - Year 3 (Research)
Course
Description: Development of an understanding of the language of
the unconscious and super-conscious through interpretation of
sound, colour, symbols and dream interpretations, as well as paranormal
phenomena. Study of how a variety of tools can enhance the counselling
process and how to determine their appropriateness with specific
individuals: such as diaries, journaling, meditation, self-help
groups and books, dream and symbol interpretation, prayer, letter
writing, hypnosis, regression, bio-feed back, humour, mandalas,
aura readings for wellness and for healing, chakra or energy awareness
and alignment, affirmations, and RGI? PLUS will be explored.
Topics
Included:
The History of Consciousness Exploration: Shamanistic Traditions,
Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient India & Yoga, Ancient China &
Taoism, Ancient Greece & Oracles, Pythagoras, Democritus,
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Neoplatonism, Ancient Rome, Ancient
Hebrews and early Christians, Islamic explorations, Medieval explorations,
Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment; The Folklore of Consciousness
Exploration: Astrology, astral projection and out-of-body experiences,
healing (temples, mesmerism, animal magnetism, faith healing,
radionics, Edgar Cayce, psychic surgery, delusion and fraud, healing
at Lourdes, mental imagery, Omega techniques), spiritual anatomy
(thought-forms, aura, auric colours and their meaning, the vital
body, the chakras, Chinese acupuncture, William Reich and Orgone
energy, the Soviet concept of biological plasma, high-voltage
photography, the phantom leaf effect and Kurt Lewin’s field
theory); communication with higher intelligence (angels and guardian
spirits, the Master, Cabala, Emmanuel Swedenborg, psychophysics,
the Theosophical Society, the Course in Miracles, the Invisible
College); Other Worlds (UFO’s, Fatima, teleportation); Life
Within Death: Death within Life (survival of consciousness after
death, the Tibetan Book or the Dead, Spiritualism, Spiritism,
the Society for Psychical Research, apparitions and hauntings,
near-death experiences, mediumship, reincarnation); Unusual Powers
of Mind over Matter (D.D. Home, Sir William Crooke, Marthe Beraud,
psychic photography, Uri Geller, Poltergeist cases, lightning
striking, weather control, fire-walking); Practical Applications
of Psychic Awareness (harmful purpose, national security applications,
ancient history and folklore, accident prevention, dowsing, treasure
hunting, accuracy of information, psychic archeology, psychic
police work, journalism and investigative reporting, history,
precognition in business, public safety, education, creativity
in art, music and literature, agriculture and pest control, athletics
and sports, finding lost items, scientific discovery, weather
predictions and control, animal training and intuitive consensus);
The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness - intro, difficulties,
to err is human, illusions, ESP, J. B. Rhine, Hypnotherapy and
ESP, precognition, psychokinesis, psionics, proper scientific
controls for ESP experimentation, evaluating Psi research;
Theories of Consciousness: The biological perspective, the new
physics, the reflexive universe, a hyper-space view of consciousness;
and A Look at the Meaning of Symbols: A survey of the abundance
of types of human symbolic thinking, diverse cultural interpretations
of the same symbol, and an essential guide to interpreting symbols
through dreams and other visioning techniques.
Required
Texts:
1. The Roots of Consciousness - The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness
Studies revised and Expanded, Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.
2. The Herder Symbol Dictionary - Symbols from Art, Archaeology,
Mythology, Literature, and Religions, Translated by Boris Matthews
3. RGI?plus Guide Book, Revs. Sandi & Barry King
4. Green RGI?plus - Healing Meditation / Desiderata, Revs. Sandi
& Barry King
5. Yellow RGI?plus - Relaxation at Golden Pond / The World from
Above: Healing the Environment, Revs. Sandi & Barry King
Mediumship
* NPSY B-412-6 Mediumship
(*for elective “Intuitive” designation)
Module 8(M) - Year 3 (Mediumship)
Course Description: In-depth study of the process and therapeutic
application of mediumship from an interfaith perspective.
Topics
Included: The Hebrew Religion; The Christian Scriptures and Jesus;
Mediumship and the Christian Church; The Need for Continued revelation;
Spiritualism’s Principles; The Belief in Spirits and God;
The Psychic Practices of Ancient Nations; Psychic Dreams; The
Oracles; Psychic or Spirit Healing; Mysticism and Religion; The
Christian Bible; The Miracles of the Christian Bible; The Psychic
Phenomena of the Old Testament - Clairvoyance; The Psychic Phenomena
of the Old Testament - Prophecy; The Psychic Phenomena of the
Old Testament - Spirit Writing; The Psychic Phenomena of the Old
Testament - Trance and Materialization; The Birth of the Nazarene;
St. John the Baptist; The Man of Galilee; The Psychic Power of
Jesus - Materialization; The Psychic Power of Jesus - Healing;
The Mediumship or the Disciples; Saul of Tarsus; The Writings
and Mediumship of Paul; Bible Religions of the World; Spiritualist
Philosophy; The doctrine or theory of Spiritism; The relation
of the material world with spirits; The beings of the invisible
world; Exploration of the term ‘soul’ and its triple
meaning; Cause and effect and it relates to the soul and morality;
Vital principle and fluid; The pros and cons of Spiritist doctrine;
The many manifestations of Spirit; The communication of Spirits
and humans; Good and bad Spirits; Moral teachings of Spirits;
Intent and choices; The opponents of Spiritualism and Spiritism;
Action of Spirit on matter; Manifestations - intelligent, physical
and visual; Bi-corporeity and transfiguration; Laboratory of the
invisible world; Special mediums and actions of mediums; Evocations;
and Charlatanism.
Required
Texts:
1. Psychic Influences in World Religion, James F. Malcom
2. The Christian Bible, Its Prophets and Mediums, Peggy Barnes
3. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec
4. The Mediums’ Book, Allan Kardec
5. Prophets, Seers and Religions (Ancient and Modern), compiled
by Peggy Barnes
Recommended
Texts Bibliography & handouts included
Recommended Texts:
1. The University of Spiritualism, Harry Boddington
2. The Essenes and Their Ancient Mysteries, Robert G. Chaney
* NPSY B-413-6 Mediumship Internship II
(*for elective “Intuitive” designation)
Module 8(M) - Year 3 (Mediumship)
Course Description: An experiential course requiring the student
to provide ten individuals with an intuitive spiritual reading.
The student will also conduct 10 intuitive spiritual counselling
sessions with at least 5 individuals. Clients will send NTI an
independent & anonymous evaluation. Students & instructor
will dialogue after sessions.
Topics
Included: Developing a session protocol; Developing a positive,
constructive and uplifting interpretation of information and impressions
received; Cultivating discernment in receiving psychic impressions;
Learning how to give messages from Spirit ethically and legally;
and Learning to respect the limits and boundaries of the role
of the intuitive spiritual counsellor.
Required
Texts:
3. dialogue with instructor
4. taped sessions
5. client evaluations
Life
After & Before Life Studies
OSIDE A-600-2 Research on Life After Death I
Module 4 - Year 1 (Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: Exploration of the anecdotal and scientific evidence
of the survival of the soul after physical death.
Topics
Included:
The Phenomena of Death, the Experience of Dying: Ineffability,
hearing the news, feelings of peace and quiet, the noise, the
dark tunnel, out of the body, meeting others, the being of light,
the review, the border or limit, coming back, telling others,
effects on lives, new views on death and corroboration; Parallels:
The Bible, Plato, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Emanuel Swedenborg;
Common Questions; Alternative Explanations: Natural scientific
explanations, physiological explanations, neurological explanations,
psychological explanations; What to Do When You are Dead: You
Are not the Body; The Body of Light; Traveling in the Body of
Light; What to Do if You Leave Your Body; Meditation - Practice
for the Real Thing; Moving Beyond the Earth Plane; Thoughts Have
Wings; Spooks, Ghosts and the Earth Plane; The World Beyond the
Earth; the Journey to the Next World; the Experience of God; Your
Last Thoughts; The Cosmic Conscience; Judgement day; Angels Without
Wings; Ready, or Not; Suicide; Cosmic Sleep and Healing; Places
to Visit in the Afterlife; Pet Heaven; Children’s Heaven;
Angels and Devils; The Angelic Realms; Relationships; The Group
Soul; The Great Wheel of Birth and Death; Preparing for Rebirth;
The Causal World; and We are in Heaven Now.
Required
Texts:
1. Life After Life, Dr. Raymond Mooney
2. What to Do When You are Dead - Living Better in the Afterlife,
Craig Hamilton-Parker
OSIDE A-601-2 Angels, Spirit Guides and Helpers
Module 4 - Year 1 (Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: Explore the many forms and manifestations of Spirit
helpers.
Topics Included: The Treasure of Angelic Lore - Heavenly Hierarchy,
Hell’s Angels, Heaven’s Above and the Heresy; and
An Endangered Species - eye witnesses, ancient encounters, modern
encounters, archaic memories, the shining ones, heavenly hypotheses
and last judgement.
Required
Texts:
1. Angels, An Endangered Species, Malcolm Godwin
Recommended
Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
Recommended Texts:
1. A Book of Angels, Sophy Burnham
2. A Dictionary of Angels - including the fallen angels, Gustav
Davidson
3. Ask Your Angels: A practical guide to working with the messengers
of heaven to empower and enrich
your life, Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie, and Andrew Ramer
4. Touched by Angels: True Cases of Close Encounters of the Celestial
Kind, Eileen Elias Freeman
OSIDE B-610-3 Research on Life After Death II
Module 8(i) - Year 3 (Research)
Course
Description: Further explorations of the anecdotal and scientific
evidence of the survival of the soul after physical death.
Topics
Included: “Am I Both Caterpillar and Butterfly?”;
Evidence for Survival; Historical and Religious Writings; Deathbed,
Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences; Apparitions, Hauntings
and Ghosts; Obsessions and Spirits; ‘Spirit Doctors’;
Spirit Photographs; Materialization; Reincarnation; Space-Time
Relationships; Conservation of Matter and Energy; Communication
through Mediums and Telepathic Channels; The World of the Dead;
Two Children on the Third Plane; The Third Plane; Jacob’s
ladder; Reincarnation and the Consequences of Abortion; Heaven
and Hell; Instrumental Transcommunication (IT); Purpose of IT
Labs; The Origins and Path of Mark Macy’s research; Scepticism;
Science, Spirit and the Storm; and An American Seed Takes Root.
Required
Texts:
1. Conversations Beyond the Light - with Departed Friends &
Colleagues by Electronic Means, Mark Macy
2. Miracles in the Storm - Talking to the Other-side with the
New Technology of Spiritual Contact, Mark Macy
3. After You Die, What Then, by George W. Meek
OSIDE
B-611-4 Research on Life Before Life
Module 8(i) - Year 3 (Research)
Course
Description: Explorations of the anecdotal and scientific evidence
of the spontaneous memories of children about their conception
and choice of family and life circumstances.
Topics
Included: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth; Voices Preparing
the Womb; Waking Visions; Dreaming the Future; Pre-Conception
Intuition; Souls Lining Up for Birth; Dancing in Two Worlds -
Miscarriage; Conversations with My Unborn Child; Pre-Conception
Communications Down Through History; Golden Messages - Uncovering
the Hidden Meanings in Dreams; The Time Before Time Began; Near
Death Visions of Souls Seeking Birth; Light Attracts Light - Meeting
a Saint Prior to Conception; Children Born of Prayer; Investigating
Pre-Conception Worlds; The Great Mother’s Maternity Ward;
Travelers from the Light; Circle of Life - Buddhist and Yogic
Inter-Life Realms; Soul’s Orbit - Western Perspectives on
Inter-Life Realms; Indigenous Journeys; Near Death Visions of
the World of Souls; Cosmic Contracts - Individual Free Will, Cosmic
Will and Pre-Conception; Golden Books of Destiny; The Path of
Suffering; Souls in Training - Free Will and Karmic Lessons; Alternative
Destinies; Gifted Memory of Pre-Conception; The Illusion of Forgetfulness;
Piercing the Veil of Light; Contemporary and Historical Accounts
of Gifted Memory; Native American Seers; Cosmic Memory; Overcoming
Spiritual Amnesia; Angels in the Never Ending Schoolhouse; and
Recipes for pre-Conception Experiences
Required
Texts:
1. Cosmic Cradle - Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth, Elizabeth
M. Carmen and Neil J. Carmen, Ph.D.
OSIDE B-612-3 Visions of the Other Side
Module 8(ii) - Year 3 (Personal Experiences Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: Inspirational stories of transformational experiences
by those who have communicated with or visited the afterlife.
Topics
Included:
The Unveiling: the Medium, the Gift and Spiritual Helpers; Tragic
Transitions; Fatal Collisions; AIDS; Suicide; Loving Reunions;
Beyond Grief; Making Contact; and Meditations; The Journey to
the Other-Side: Death, the Way Home, the Spiritual Realms, the
Evolving Spirit, and Returning to Earth; Spirit Speaks: expectations,
guilt, fear, forgiveness and love; Remembering the Real You; Guiding
Our Children; Keys to the Higher Life; My Son Stephen: His Life,
Suicide, and After-life - ‘an incredible consolation to
any parent who loses a child....’ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
Required
Texts:
1. Stephen Lives - My Son Stephen: His Life, Suicide, and Afterlife,
Anne Puryear
2. Reaching to Heaven - A Spiritual Journey Through Life and Death,
James Van Praagh
3. Talking to Heaven - A Medium’s Message of Life After
Death, James Praagh
4. The Monsignor’s books
Recommended Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
Recommended Texts:
1. After Death Communication - Final Farewells - Extraordinary
Experiences of Those Mourning the Deaths
of Loved Ones, Louis E. LaGrand, Ph.D.
2. After Death - How People Around the World Map the Journey After
Life, Sukie Miller, Ph.D.
with Suzanne Lipsett.
3. A Search for the Truth - Unravel the mysteries of the universe
through these adventures in the spirit world,
Ruth Montgomery
4. Children of the New Millennium: Children’s Near-Death
Experiences and the Evolution of Humankind,
P.M.H. Atwater, LH.D.
5. Love Beyond Life - The Healing Power of After-Death Communications,
Joel Martin and
Patricia Romanowski
6. Reunions - Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones, Raymond
Moody, M.D. with Paul Perry
7. The Mystery of Death and Dying - Initiation at the Moment of
Death, Earlyne Chaney
8. The Way of the Sun - White Eagle’s teaching for the festivals
of the year, The White Eagle Publishing Trust
9. Threshold to Tomorrow - An astonishing guide to the strange
world of returned souls who inhabit the
bodies of living persons, Ruth Montgomery
10. Teachings from Silver Birch Series, Silver Birch Companion,
Edited by Tony Ortzen
OSIDE B-613-6 Matters of Spirit Dialogue (Thesis)
Module 8(ii) - Year 3 (Personal Experiences Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: An Internet forum amongst the current students and
the instructor for discussions relating to ‘Matters of Spirit.’
Students will be required to write a thesis (35-50 pages) exploring
some of the issues covered.
Topics
Included: Topics will be chosen by the students. It is expected
that students will ask questions about relevant experiences with
spirit, topics in their studies that they need clarification on,
or perhaps issues that come up during a practicum or internship.
Students will be expected to explore one theme through further
research and prepare a thesis on the topic.
Required
Texts:
1. How to Prepare a thesis
Comparative
Religious Studies
REL A-500-2 Many Paths One Truth ~ Love Thy Neighbour
I
Module 4 - Year 1 (Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: An introduction to the idea and philosophy of ‘many
paths, one truth...love they neighbour.’ A primer to the
interfaith movement.
Topics
Included: What is the Interfaith Ministry; The Spiritual path
is a Path of Questions; Who’s Life is It?; On the Topic
of Miracles; The Chaos of Life is an Illusion; What Gift Do I
Have? How Will I Be of Service?; Each day Is a Gift!; You Are
Changing the World; Today is the Tomorrow You Hoped for Yesterday;
The Cold Within; Why Am I Here?; On Death; and a Sample Interfaith
Service.
Required
Texts:
1. Many Paths, One Truth: An Affirmation of Spirit, Rev. Barry
King
REL B-510-6 Comparative Religious Studies
Module 6(i) - Year 2 (Comparative Religion)
Course
Description: Study of the world’s religions and exploration
of their commonalities.
Topics
Included: Hinduism; Buddhism; Confucianism; Taoism; Islam; Judaism;
Christianity; The Primal Religions; and The Wisdom Traditions.
Required
Texts:
1. The World’s Religions, Huston Smith;
Recommended
Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
Recommended Texts:
1. African Religion and Culture at the Crossroads, Edited by Nokuzola
Mndende
2. Huna - the Ancient Religion of Positive Thinking, William R.
Glover
REL B-511-6 Comparative Religious Practices
Module 6(i) - Year 2 (Comparative Religion)
Course
Description: Experiential understanding of how different religions
bring spirituality to the person through specific practices.
Topics
Included: Drawing on the wisdom of teachers from the world’s
great religions to deepen our appreciation of everyday routines
and abundant rewards; and Vivid descriptions of rituals from around
the world to help us find spiritual meaning in life’s key
passages.
Required
Texts:
1. Atman Project, No Boundary, and Brief History of Everything,
by Ken Wilbur
2. Gifts of the Spirit - Living the Wisdom of the Great Religious
Traditions, Philip Zaleski & Paul Kaufman
REL B-521-6 Many Paths, One Truth ~ Love Thy Neighbour II
Module 8(ii) - Year 3 (Personal Experiences Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: A more in-depth understanding of the interfaith movement
and examination of how that message can be translated into action.
Topics
Included: Ancient Insights and Modern Discoveries - new paradigms
for science and spirituality; The Quest for Primordial Tradition
- cosmic science and cosmic religion; A Crisis of Faith in the
Modern Flock - the primordial flame that went out; Recovering
a Lost Esoteric Christianity; Recognizing Our Essenian, Gnostic,
and Hermetic Forebearers; Precursors of the Cosmic Christ - prophets,
saints, magi and god-men in the major salvation myths of western
civilization; Jesus as Cosmic God-Man; Through ‘Death and
Resurrection’ to the ‘New Being’; Alchemy and
High Magick - theurgy in the church and sacraments; The Loss and
recovery of the Primordial Tradition; and Rekindling the Flame
from the Primordial Wick; and A Secret Report by the Anglican
Church with Positive Findings Regarding Spiritualism that was
Banned.
Required
Texts:
1. In Search of the Primordial Tradition & the Cosmic Christ,
Father J. Rossner
2. Heavenly Messages for the Soul, Rev. Barry King
3. Psychic Phenomena in the Bible,
4. Banned by the Church, The Secret Report on Spiritualism, Barbanell
REL C-530-6 Comparative Religious Scriptures
Module MIN 1 (The Interfaith Tradition)
Module 6(R-OM) Regular OM Year 4 or
Module 6(C-OM) Compacted Year 2 & 3
Course
Description: Reading and reflection on the similarities and celebration
of the differences of the worlds six major religious scriptures.
Topics
Included: Scripture Selections from: Hindu; Buddhist; Zorastrian;
Judeo-Christian ; Mohammedan; Confucianist; Taoist; and Other
religions or spiritual traditions.
Required
Texts:
1. The Portable World Bible, Robert O, Ballou
2. Comparative Anthology of Sacred Text, Internet Link from www.interfaith
ministry.com
Energy Work or Spiritual Healing?
SPHEAL
A-800-3 Energy Work / Spiritual Healing
Module 4 - Year 1 (Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: Exploration of spiritual healing and its relationship
to various energy healing modalities.
Topics
Included: The Transformational Process; Teachers - Marcel Vogel,
Kirlian Photography, Valerie Hunt, Uri Geller, Edgar Cayce, etc.;
Energy and Experiments; Dream Analysis and Telepathy; Energy Healing
and Transfer; Meditation and Breath Control; Exercises and Techniques;
Transformation; and Research in paranormal healing by Drs. Elmer
and Alyce Green, Sr. Justa Smith, Dr. Bernard Grad and Delores
Krieger.
Required
Texts:
1. Joy’s Way - A map for the Transformational Journey -
An Introduction to the Potentials for Healing with Body Energies,
W. Brugh Joy, MD
2. Video: The Therapeutic Touch - Healing in the New Age, The
Hartley Film Foundation
3. Purple RGI?PLUS - Temple of Light / Healing at Golden Pond
SPHEAL B-801-6 Intuitive Holistic Healing
Module 7 - Year 3 (Spiritual & Faith Healing)
Course
Description: A study of practical ways to use intuition and energy
sensing in the healing process and the ethical considerations
in providing guidance.
Topics
Included:
The Intuition Network: The truth about intuition, the intuition
of dreams, the brain, and memories in the brain and the body;
The Language of Intuition: Body language and the major chakra
centres / the meaning of health and dis-ease, blood and bones
/ helplessness and hopelessness, the sex organs and lower back
/ relationships and drive, the gastrointestinal tract / responsibility
and self-esteem, the heart, lungs and breasts / emotions, intimacy
and nurturance, the thyroid, throat and neck / communication,
timing and will, the brain and sensory organs / perception, thought
and morality, the muscles, connective tissues and genes / a purpose
in life; Kinds of Intuitive Intelligence; Your Intuitive Profile;
A New Language of the Spirit: Energy Medicine and Intuition; The
Sacred Truth in the Chakras; and a Guide for the contemporary
Mystic.
Required
Texts:
1. Awakening Intuition - Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight
and Healing, Mona Lisa Schultz,
MD, PhD
2. Anatomy of the Spirit - the Seven Stages of Power and Healing,
Caroline Myss
SPHEAL
B-811-3 Spiritual Healing Internship
Module 7 - Year 3 (Spiritual & Faith Healing)
or
Advanced certification in 1 Energy Work Therapy (s.a. Reiki III,
Registered Therapeutic Touch Practitioner, Touch for Health)
Course
Description: Work with 6 individuals using energy work. Discussions
and writings of experiences and sensations will make up an integral
part of the course grading.
Topics
Included: Looking at Identifying the spiritual issue associated
with the 7 major chakra centres; Dealing with Change; Using Affirmations;
Body Scan; Focusing and Directing Energy; Noting and Observing
Progress; Individualizing a RGI?plus.
Required
Texts:
1. You Can Heal Your Life, Louise L. Hay
SPHEAL B-820-3 Regression Therapy
Module 9(i) - Year 3 (Tools Unique to Interfaith Ministers)
or
Certification in Past Life Regression or Regression Therapy
Instructor:
Rev. Barry King, B.Sc. (Hon.), O.M., Ph.D.(T.C.)
Course
Description: A primer to understanding the theory and process
of hypnosis as a soulful process; how regression can be used as
a healing tool; and establishing the boundaries of a spiritual
counsellor.
Topics
Included: What is Hypnosis?; The Process; The Principles of Hypnosis;
Induction Techniques; Deepening Techniques; Overcoming Resistance;
The Role of Karma; Future Life Progressions; Angel Encounters
and Finding a Qualified Hypnotherapist.
Required
Texts:
1. New Age Hypnosis, Dr. Bruce Goldberg
2. Children’s Past Lives, Carol Bowman
3. Return from Heaven, Carol Bowma
4. Orange RGI?PLUS - Create Your Own RGI?PLUS / Meet Your Guide
Spirituality
SPR
A-200 -2 The Spirituality of Ethics
Module 1 - Year 1 (Counselling & Helping)
Course
Description: An introduction to the ethics of helping relationships.
Topics
Included: What is ethics?; Special considerations for non-ordinary
states of consciousness; Ethical issues pertaining to non-ordinary
states of consciousness; A model for examining our vulnerabilities;
How each of the energy centres (the 7 major chakras) relate to
client and therapist needs; Vulnerabilities to unethical behaviour;
Keys to professional ethical behaviour; Expanding ethical consciousness
in community building; and Creating personal ethical guidelines.
Required
Texts:
1. The Ethics of Caring - Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional
Healing Relationships, Kylea Taylor
SPR A-201-2 The Spiritual Nature of Being Human
Module 1 - Year 1 (Counselling & Helping)
Course
Description: A reflective process of considering the nature of
being human.
Topics
Included: The stages of growth toward full humanness; Some vital
views on the fully functioning person; Growing as a fully functioning
person; The challenge to your fully functioning personhood; and
Creating your own basic assumptions about the nature of who we
are as human beings.
Required
Texts:
1. Personhood, Leo Buscaglia
2. Healing Journal: Visions of Who We Are, Rev. Sandi King
SPR A-203-6 Personal Development from a Spiritual Perspective
Module 2 - Year 1 (Spirituality & Ministering)
Course
Description: Reflections on spirituality and how it can impact
the individual in their perception of their life and the world
they live in.
Topics
Included: An exploration of human perception beyond the five senses;
The values of the soul - harmony, co-operation, sharing and reverence
for Life; Authentic power - the alignment of the personality with
the soul; Discerning guides and teachers; Exploring why incarnations?
- its meaning and to participate in it wisely; Daily meditations
on living wisely; What is Spiritual Practice?; The Energy Wheel;
Conflict - stress, worry, anger and meditation; Stagnation - boredom,
failure and discouragement; Inspiration - ambition, money and
time; Forgiveness and quitting; Accomplishment - control, generosity,
gratitude and power; The Transformation of Work; and Visualizing
the Work Place as Sacred
Required
Texts:
1. Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav; The Road Less Traveled, Scott
Peck
2. Meditation in Daily Living, Rhoda Allen and Randi Petersen
3. Work as a Spiritual Practice - A Practical Buddhist Approach
to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job, Lewis Richmond
SPR A-204-3 Spirituality Thesis I
Module 2 - Year 1 (Spirituality & Ministering)
Course
Description: Exploration of the student’s personal spirituality
and its impact on the student’s Ministry, ability to be
of service and the focus of one’s Ministry.
Topics
Included: Writing a 15-25 page thesis, as a potential OIIM Lay
Minister or Minister, on “How May I Be of Service Within
OIIM?”
Required Texts:
1. How May I Help?, Ram Das
2. How to Write a Thesis
SPR A-205-2 Visualization & Affirmations - Thoughts
are Things
Module 4 - Year 1 (Connecting to Spirit)
Course
Description: Study of the healing process of visualization, guided
imagery, relaxation, deep breathing, affirmations and interpreting
symbols, colour and dreams.
Topics
Included: Deciding what you need; Asking to receive in a beneficial
way; Doing what is necessary to receive your needs; Visualizing;
Having faith; Having patience; Wisdom; Life principles; Living
these principles; The basics of creative visualization; Using
creative visualization; Meditation and affirmations; Special techniques;
and Living creatively
Required
Texts:
1. Riches for Today, Rev. Frederick Cale
2. Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain
3. Living in the Light, Shatki Gawain
4. Blue - RGI?plus - Sunlight Serenade & Mountain Meadow
5. You Can Heal Your Life, Louise L. Hay
6. Dynamic Thought, Henry Thomas Hamblin
SPR
B-210-3 Using Sound Group Processes in Spiritual Groups
Module 5(ii) - Year 2 (Community Building)
Course
Description: Hands on thoughtful strategies, skills, specific
exercises and examples for becoming an active group leader. Providing
an overview of group processes, including leadership roles, stages
of group development, therapeutic forces and purposes of groups
in a spiritual context.
Topics
Included: Introduction to groups, Stages of groups; Group processes;
Therapeutic forces; Purpose of groups; Planning - preplanning,
session planning and global planning; Getting started; Basic skills
for group leaders; Focus of the group; The role and goal of different
exercises; Dealing with challenging situations; Working with specific
populations; Issues specific to group counselling; Best practice
guidelines; and Principles for diversity-competent group workers
in an Interfaith Ministry.
Required
Texts:
1. Group Counselling Strategies and Skills, 4th edition, Jacobs,
Masson and Harvill
SPR
B-211-3 Spiritual Group Practicum
Module 5 (ii) - Year 2 (Community Building)
Course
Description: Following established group processes and building
on these, the student will be led through starting, running and
concluding a 6-10 week spirituality group. The focus will be decided
upon jointly by the student and their instructor.
Topics
Included: Identifying the major characteristics of each of the
stages of a group; Apply certain techniques in opening and closing
a group session; The importance of focusing on the here-and-now
interactions within a group; Understanding how past experiences
can be worked with in the present; How values affect you as a
group leader; The major tasks of group leadership at each of the
stages of the group; The major functions and roles of group leaders;
The roles and expectations of group members; Working with issues
of cultural diversity; The importance of building a climate of
trust in a group setting; Ways to formulate an agenda for each
group session; and Applying specific skills that help members
formulate personal goals in a group.
Required
Texts:
1. Evolution of a Group Video and Workbook, Gerald Corey, Marianne
Schneider Corey and
Robert Haynes
SPR B-212-6 Spiritual Counselling in an Interfaith Ministry
Module 6(ii) - Year 2 (Pastoral Counselling - Interfaith Perspective)
Course
Description: Exploration of how the addition of spirituality can
enhance the counselling and therapeutic process.
Topics
Included:
As You Think, So It Is: Thought and character; The effect of thought
on circumstances; The effect of thought on health and body; Thought
and purpose; Thought as a factor in achievement; Visions and ideals;
Serenity; and The Cosmic Dimensions of Consciousness; The Transcendent
Dimension: Awakening from personal consciousness; Spiritual Dimensions
of Emotion; Self- Concept strengthened when Aligned with Divine
Inheritance; To Become What I am; Creativity and Tapping into
the Universe; Cause and Purpose; Transformation; Working with
Energy; The Art of Personality; and Spirituality versus Religion;
Counselling and Spirituality: A Part of each Other? Or Apart from
each Other?; Existential Considerations; Transpersonal Considerations;
Archethemes that Unite Counselling and Spirituality; Evil and
Counselling; and The Story of Job and Human Suffering; Guilt and
Mental Health: Religion and guilt; The effects of guilt on mental
health; Guilt in the Judeo-Christian traditions; and Implications
for practitioners; Inclusion of Religion and Spirituality in the
Assessment Process: Approaches to religious spiritual issues in
assessment; Types of religious issues; Types of spiritual issues;
and Religious spiritual aspects of the counselling process; specific
Interventions: Assessing, blessing, confessing, disputing, forgiving
and releasing; Giving, guiding, praying and meditating; Referring,
relating, ritualizing, supporting and teaching; The Spirituality
of the 12 Steps; Counsellor Belief System Self-Assessment; Limitations
of some venues and of Words; Mantras and Meditations for Counsellors;
Client Assessment Form; Spiritual Competencies of the Association
for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counselling; Counsellor
Self-Assessment Exercise; and The Spiritual Wellness Inventory.
Required
Texts:
1. As You Think, James Allen - revised and updated by Marc Allen
2. Introducing Spirituality into Counselling and Therapy Pir Vilayat
Inayat Khan
3. Explorations in Counselling and Spirituality - Philosophical,
Practical,& Personal Reflections, 1st Edition,
Christopher Faiver R. Elliott Ingersoll, Eugene M. O'Brien, and
Christopher McNally
SPR B-213-6 Spirituality Internship II
Module 6(ii) - Year 2 (Pastoral Counselling - Interfaith Perspective)
Course
Description: An experiential course requiring the student to conduct
10 sessions with at least 5 individuals. Each individual will
send NTI an independent and anonymous evaluation. The student
and instructor will dialogue after each session.
Topics
Included: Using some of the forms, processes and guidelines in
the text, the student will be required to conduct spiritual counselling
sessions - reporting on the goals, impressions, outcomes and where
to go next.
Required
Texts::
1. Explorations in Counselling and Spirituality - Philosophical,
Practical,& Personal Reflections, 1st Edition, Christopher
Faiver R. Elliott Ingersoll, Eugene M. O'Brien, and Christopher
McNally
SPR
B-220-6 The Spirituality of Helping
Module 9(i) - Year 3 (Tools Unique to Interfaith Ministers)
Course Description: Exploration of the integration of Eastern
and Western counselling theories and approaches to help best discern
the right approach for each client based on the client’s
needs.
Topics
Included:
Background: Heuristic, integration, Paranjali, Ken Wilber, conjunctive
psychology, integrative helper;
General Approach: Integrative, NAMAP, eastern psychologies, cultural
differences, gender differences, conjunctive psychology, four
levels of being; Biological Variables: Evolution and learning,
genetics, maladies, biological cycles, electromagnetic radiation,
weather, pollution, drugs, traps; Bio-behavioural Therapy: Sensory
simulation, bodywork, breathing, relaxation, nutrition, Ayurveda,
life force, mindfulness; Behaviour: Operant learning, respondent
conditioning, two-factor theory, mindfulness, behavioural-biological
interactions; Behaviour Modification: Basic approach, learning
behaviour modification, biological applications; Behaviours of
the Mind: Cognitive science, meditation, concentration, attention,
attention disorders, biology of attention and concentration, mindfulness,
mindful meditation, reducing attachments; Conscious Personal Level:
Personal reality, self and will;
Transpersonal Level: Knowing, development, personal view, levels
of consciousness, self as subject, universal practice, art of
living; Integration and Themes: Relaxation, happiness, development
of self and chakras; The Discovery of the Unconscious Mind: Let
there be light, toward a science of the mind, hypnosis, Freud,
Jung, Adler, ego; Psychotherapy in America: William James, John
Watson and B.F. Skinner; Psychology on Trial - humanistic psychotherapy,
William Reich and Fritz Perls, Rollo May, Feminist Psychotherapy,
metaphysics, the psychology of empowerment; Non-Western Approaches
to Psychotherapy, The Tao in Silence: Embracing silence, Zen Buddhism,
Japanese psychotherapies of Morita and Naikan, self-regulation
therapies such as yoga and related practices, and ‘if you
meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!’
Required
Texts:
1. The Integrative Helper - Convergence of Eastern and Western
traditions, William L. Mikulas
2. Blue RGI?PLUS - Sunlight Serenade / Mountain Meadow, Rev. Barry
King
3. Talking Cures - A History of Western and Eastern Psychotherapies,
C. Peter Bankart.
SPR
B-221-4 Transformational Assessment Tools
Module 9(i) - Year 3 (Tools Unique to Interfaith Ministers)
or Certification in 2 Transformational Assessment Processes (s.a.
MBTI, Colour Code, True Colours)
Course
Description: Examination of the value of using tools such as:
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Colour Code, True Colours, the
Stress Map, and the Stress Profiler. The student will learn basic
assessment procedures and how to discern the appropriate type
of assessment procedures to use with individuals based on their
needs.
Topics
Included: Appropriate assessment tools for the Interfaith Minister;
Inappropriate tools for the Interfaith Minister; Doing the Stress
Map or Stress Profiler, Myers-Briggs and True Colours; Using the
results in your personal life; Honouring the four spiritualities
as expressions of self and of Spirit; A psychology of contemporary
spiritual choice; The journey of unity; The journey of devotion;
The journey of work; The journey of harmony; and Discovering life
keys, life gifts, spiritual gifts, personality types, values,
passions, life choices and being of service.
Required
Texts:
1. The Color Code, Taylor Hartman
2. Life Keys-Discovering Who You Are • Why You’re
Here • What You Do Best, Jane A. G. Kise,
David Stark and Sandra Krebs Hirsh
3. Four Spiritualities-Expressions of Self, Expressions of Spirit,
Peter Tufts Richardson
SPR C-230-3 Spirituality Dialogue with Mentor (Thesis)
Module MIN 1 (The Interfaith Tradition)
Module 6(R-OM) Regular Year 4 or
Module 6(C-OM) Compacted Year 2
Course
Description: An opportunity for student ministers to dialogue
with a mentoring minister on matters and issues of spirituality.
The goal is to more clearly define the boundaries of ministering
and address any challenges that the student comes across. An Internet
forum amongst the current students and the instructor for discussions
relating to ‘Matters of Spirituality.’ Students will
be required to write a thesis exploring some of the issues covered.
Topics
Included: Topics will be chosen by the students. It is expected
that students will ask questions about relevant experiences and
reflections with spirituality, topics in their studies that they
need clarification on, or perhaps issues that come up during a
practicum or internship or ministering. Students will be expected
to explore one theme through further research and prepare a thesis
(35-50 pages) on the topic.
Required
Texts:
1. How to Prepare a thesis
Holistic Wellness
WELL
A-300-3 Holistic Wellness
Module 3 - Year 1 (Wellness)
Course
Description: A general overview of the field of complementary
therapies and holistic wellness.
Topics
Included: The effects that environment and diet can have on our
health; Sensitivities; Environmental or multi chemical sensitivities;
The Total Load theory; Suggestions on how to reduce the presence
of dis-ease and achieve optimal health; Holistic insights to chronic
wellness issues; Holistic wellness choices for improved quality
of life; Alternative Medicine: Scientific Approaches - Conventional
Medicine, Naturopathic Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Vitamins and
Supplements, Diet and Fads, Homeopathy; The Healing Arts: Chinese
Medicine, Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Bodywork, Therapeutic
massage, Chiropractic, Movement Therapies, Cranial Osteopathy;
Body/Mind Medicine: Stress reduction, meditation, Yoga, Guided
Visualization, Biofeedback, Positive Thinking; Body-Oriented Psychotherapy,
and Spiritual Approaches; How to use Alternative Medicine; and
Recommendations by Illness.
Required
Texts:
1. Freedom to Fly - a journey toward wellness, Judit Rajhathy
2. The Alternative Medicine Sourcebook -A Realistic Evaluation
of Alternative Healing Methods, Steven
Bratman M.D,
Recommended Texts:
1. Complete Guide to Alternative Medicine, William Collinge, M.P.H.,
Ph.D.
2. Depak Chakra’s Books
3. Prescription for Nutritional Healing,James F. Bach, M.D. and
Phyllis A.Bach, C.N.C.
4. The Joy of Health - A doctor’s guide to nutrition and
alternative medicine, Dr. Zoltan P. Rona
WELL A-301-3 Vibrational Medicine I
Module 3 - Year1 (Wellness)
Course
Description: An in-depth look at energy work, therapies and research.
Topics
Included: What is Vibrational Medicine?
Vibrational Medicine and the Paths to Illness and Wellness: Nutritional
and environmental stressors, traditional Chinese medicine, chakra
dysfunction and the energetics of illness; The Multidimensional
Road to Wellness: Taking care of the physical body; The spiritual
body; The role of consciousness in wellness; Thought forms; The
higher self; and Our connection to the Divine Source; Healing
with Homeopathy: What is homeopathy?; How does it work?; What
type of health issues benefit from homeopathy?; Homeopathy remedies
for first aid; and A trip to the homeopathic physician; Acupuncture
and Chinese Medicine: An Ancient Approach to Vibrational Healing
- what is acupuncture and how does it work?; A look at the different
acupuncture approaches; What medical issues best respond to acupuncture;
and A trip to an acupuncture practitioner; The Art of Healing
with Flower Essences: The many forms of plant based therapies;
What are flower essences?; How do flower essences work?; The Bach
Flower Remedies; The many varieties of flower essences; and Flower
essence therapy; Healing with Colour and Light: Exploring light
and colour therapies and theories and the use of the mind in healing
with light and colour; Magnet-biology and the Art and Science
of Magnetic Healing: History of magnetic therapies; The role in
healing; The bio-mechanisms by which magnetic fields may produce
harmful or healing effects; Esoteric aspects of magnetism; Specific
magnetic approaches to healing; and Guidelines to personal use;
Radionics and Distant Healing: What is radionics: and Its history;
Hands-On Healing: Scientific studies of bio-energy healing; How
does it work?; The many varieties of laying-on-of-hands or healing
touch therapies; and Our own innate capacity to heal through touch;
Vibrational Medicine: Its Implications for Personal and Global
Spiritual transformation.
Required
Texts:
1. A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine - Energy Healing
and Spiritual Transformation,
Dr. Richard Gerber, M.D.
WELL A-302-6 Mind Body Processes
Module 3 - Year 1 (Wellness)
Course Description: An in-depth look at mind / body processes
and their effects on our well-being - body, mind and spirit.
Topics
Included: The Mind/Body Connection; The Relaxation Response; Exercise
and Its Role in Tuning Up Your Mind; Nutrition for good health;
Stress Management - how thoughts affect wellness, feelings, moods
and attitudes; Coping and problem-solving; Communicating; Humour
and joy; Special Issues - Improving Your Sleep, Infertility and
Women’s Issues; Behavioural Medicine and Cancer; Psychoneuroimmunology
and HIV; and Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Health.
Required
Texts:
1. The Wellness Book - the Comprehensive Guide to Maintaining
Health and Treating Stress-Related
Illness, Dr. Herbert Benson and Eileen M. Stuart
Recommended
Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
Recommended Texts:
1. Mind Over Mood - Change the Way You Feel by Changing the Way
You Think, Dennis
Greenberger, PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD
WELL B-310-3 Power Over Stress: Holistically
Module 7 - Year 3 (Spiritual & Faith Healing)
Course
Description: Exploration of the many holistic strategies for finding
the positive power in stress.
Topics
Included: Identifying Stress; Signs of Stress; Dis-Stress versus
Stress as a Motivator; Assessing Stress; Holistic Approaches to
Gaining Power Over and In Stress; Deep and Rhythmic Yogic Breathing;
Relaxation and Guided Imagery; Awareness of and Aligning of Personal
Energy.
Required Texts:
1. Teens Get Bummed Out Too, Rev. Sandi King
2. Red RGI?PLUS - Yogic Breathing / Progressive Relaxation
3. The Stress Map or The Stress Profiler
4. Science of Breath, Yogi Ramacharaka
Recommended Texts, Bibliography & Handouts Included:
Recommended Texts:
1. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook, Martha Davis,
Ph.D.; Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman,
M.S.W.; and Mathew McKay, Ph.D.
