Sage-ing® Leader Certification Program
You are invited to become part of the Certified Sage-ing Leader (CSL) Community! The purpose of the year-long program is to develop facilitators to skillfully and compassionately lead adult groups in Sage-ing work from a place of personal experience, integrity, spiritual maturity and respect for persons of all faith and belief backgrounds. This program requires a commitment to inner contemplative work, reading, study and providing small group facilitations during the internship year. Thus we describe the program as having both an INNER and OUTER curriculum.
a. Attend a Sage-ing International Signature Program: Awakening the Sage Within or Deepening the Sage Within. These programs are advertised in the Sage-ing International Bulletin and on the website sage-ing.orgb. Read the book: From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Millerc. Complete the Exercises for Sages in Training found in the appendix of the book.
Contact the Certification Program Coordinator if you have questions.
Overview
Over a 12-month period, in a small and intimate training group, the Sage-ing® Leader Certification Program provides participants a thorough grounding in facilitation skills – including use of the ZOOM platform – and the core concepts of Sage-ing® (including Expanding Elder Consciousnesses, Life Review, Life Repair/Forgiveness, Facing Mortality, Creating Legacy, and Discovering the Gifts of the Emerging Elder.)
This prepares them to present Sage-ing® events in their communities in a variety of formats (talks, classes, workshops, retreats, Wisdom Circles, and online/ZOOM events).
The Program Includes
Resources
As part of the Certification program you will receive all the resources that you require. Please see the list opposite.
Resources Provided
Benefits of Certification
In addition to mastering Sage-ing® content and facilitation skills, program participants receive copyrighted materials to help them create, market and present programs, classes, and workshops.
Each participant is assigned a Mentor to coach/give feedback on developing, marketing and presenting Sage-ing® events during their Internship.
People Who Will Benefit
Application Process
To apply for the Certification program, please
- Submit an application for the program.
- Participate in a Zoom or telephone interview with the Certification Program Coordinator.
As is true for all healing practitioners, we must first apply “the practical work of translating theory into practice in the laboratory of our own life.” Sage-ing® International faculty have concluded that the skills development, introspective inner work and the practice presentations required in the Certification program take about a year to complete.
For more information, contact the Sage-ing® Leader Certification Program Coordinator: Jeanne Marsh, j.marsh@sage-ing.org
STUDENT FEEDBACK
“The CSL program has been a wonderful blessing to me and has opened up so many opportunities for this next part of my life. It has given me an incredible community of elders to share it with”
“The CSL certificcation prepared me to facilitate conversations and joint inquiry with other elders about what it means to move toward wholeness in the latter chapters of our lives.”
“One of the greatest gifts of the CSL certification has been to get to know and work with the group of Interns, to share experiences, to feel supported and to be supportive.”
“The Certification Program provides a unique opportunity to be immersed in the fundamental concepts and life tools of Sage-ing®, and even more importantly to me, accelerated and focused my personal journey of aging in a consciously profound way.”
“The program gave me the knowledge and experience needed to teach Sag-ing to others, and greatly deepened my own Sage-ing® journey. The program itself was delightful and led by two wonderful women sages”
“Apart from deepening my own understanding and practice of the sage-ing® concepts, the program provided me with valuable resources, wonderful connections to like-minded individuals, and the skills and training to facilitate workshops and share these revolutionary concepts with others.”
PROGRAM FACULTY
Julia is a Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse and a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator. As she began her “refirement” years, she explored expressive arts for healing and self-discovery as an arts facilitator in hospice and published a guidebook, Art in Small Spaces. Julia brings creative expression, humor, and her perfectly-imperfect self to her facilitation of the Certified Sage-ing® Leadership program, guiding interns to “simplify and deepen” their journey.
After retiring from the corporate world in 2005, Jeanne received an MA from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Jeanne brings twenty-seven years experience in corporate Human Resources and Management Training and Development. Jeanne is also certified to administer and consult using the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator and facilitates “Connecting With Self” and Sage-ing® workshops in the Asheville, NC area as well as partnering with other Sage-ing® Leaders throughout the country.
