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Rai Jordan-Toole, RScP
Awaken & Live Your Destiny: A Personal Visioning Workshop

Are you ready to realize and live a higher vision for your life? Are you called to start a ministry, start an organization, or entrepreneurial venture? Are you seeking to know the next steps for something you are working on or going through?

Visioning is a powerful spiritual practice. It is different from visualization. It comes from Source rather than the individual mind. This powerful process is used by many of the most successful, fulfilled and spiritually evolved people on the planet to bring their dreams and visions into reality. Come birth your vision. Learn how to realize your dreams and aspirations. Experience this simple 4-step method of manifestation. Deepen your commitment to your purpose; awaken divine clarity and insight. Join us for an afternoon of insights, clarity and revelation!

Biography
Rai Jordan-Toole, RScP, is the Vision Core Coordinator for United Centers For Spiritual Living, overseeing our organization’s Vision Core and certified Visioning Facilitator program. She is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Higher Vision Center for Conscious Living, a UCSL Teaching Chapter based in Alameda, CA dedicated to transforming lives through visioning and affirmative prayer. Raiis a dynamic, compassionate, and powerful presence with an innate gift for empowering those she works with to access their inner wisdom, articulate their purpose and live a life of greatness. Her passion for visioning and authentic living is infectious. Rai has maintained a thriving teaching and healing practice for 10 years.

The world we live in demands many things of us. Our focus can shift from day to day as dictated by the challenges we may face allowing us to get off course from our true purpose. Our ability to define our purpose depends upon our mind's ability to keep things in balance - and in perspective - and for our priorities to be in order so that we may find joy and harmony in living our lives the way we desire. Health - mental, physical, and spiritual - demands our attention fully each day of our lives so that we may access the benefits of our best efforts to live a life of peace and fulfillment. It is in attempting to achieve balance in these critical areas of life that we can become masters of our world. This workshop is designed to put these key elements in clearly understandable terms and give you REAL tools for maintaining your health as you grow through your life, enabling you to live a life of passion, joy and fulfillment.

Biography
Nick Prukop is a fitness professional, trainer, teacher, author, and speaker. He has been practicing the principles of science of mind since he first attended the church in Huntington Beach, CA in 1985 where Peggy Bassett taught him to "live in the question" in order to find his own path to a happy and rewarding life. He has written his first book entitled "On Turning 60: Defining My Life From Now On - A Personal Trainer's View of Aging Healthfully" and is currently specializing in designing programs for people of all ages in order to enable them to age healthfully. He has been a certified personal trainer and lifestyle and weight management consultant since 1992 (through the American Council on Exercise) and is a recognized Master Trainer by the IDEA International Health & Fitness Assn. He is currently a credentialed ACE trainer for the AARP personal trainer program and has developed his first website in 2007 - www.healthyhappyfit.com.

Imagine God designing an activity that would result in total faith that God is your Source – and in the feeling of joy, freedom, and ever present ABUNDANCE?   Tithing is that activity!  It’s the primo spiritual prosperity practice!  In this playful workshop, we’ll look at the “what, why and how” of tithing, unravel fears, discover benefits, and play with ways to experiment - without nervous breakdown or financial disaster! 

This workshop is designed principally for enhancing the quality of relationships between couples without regard to sexual preferences. It has been offered in several Summer Retreats of a church and at the San Diego Gathering with great success

The techniques employed have equal application to relationships between congregations and practitioners, church boards (or CORE Councils) and ministers as well as any combination of these (e.g. practitioners and ministers, etc.).

Essential elements of the workshop are:

1. Indicators of success – “This relationship will be a success if…”
2. Challenges – Actions by my partner(s) that cause problems and suggestions to overcome them.
3. Opportunities – Actions by me(us) and commitments to avoid them
4. Relationship Covenant – A mutual promise for continued relationship building.

If between church groups, a pledge to carry back to parent churches the results of workshop dynamics.

Biography
Rodney L. Stewart has born and reared in Albuquerque, New Mexico and graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1951. He was ordained to the Ministry in 1949 and served as Pastor, Bosque Farms Baptist Church for two years before beginning a thirty year career as a line officer in the US Navy.

Upon retirement as a Captain in 1981, Rod began his second career as professional speaker. He discovered Religious Science at the Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living in 1999 and became a Licensed Professional Practitioner in 2003.

Rod now serves as a practitioner with his wife, Rev. Gale Stewart, at the Rio Abajo Center for Religious Science and Spiritual Living in Belen, NM. He is Vice Chair of the CORE Council, United Centers for Spiritual Living and also represents the CORE Council on the Practitioner Core.

Mindfulness, an apt tool for healthy relationships, allows us to be fully present without the trappings and restrictions of personal ego. Join Rev. Jane Beach as we explore the five central qualities of love and support: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection and allowing that make room for us to be who we are. Based on How to Be An Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo.

Rev. Bernardo Monserrat,
“Healing and Expanding Our Lives”
Have you wondered why some of your prayers are more effective than others? Dr. Holmes was emphatice about our mind's capacity to overcome any obstacle to its creativity. This workshop explains how your mind works and how to best maximize its creative potential.

He is the author of Faith It ‘Till You Make It and Genesis, a two year curriculum which emphasizes the psycho-spiritual development of the individual. He is the youngest recipient of UCORS “Living Treasure Award.” He has been married to Dr. Catherine for over 30 years. They have two children and three grandchildren

Rev. Dr. John B. Waterhouse,
“The Art of Personal Responsibility”

Deep within the fabric of American culture there is a common behavior that most everyone accepts as normal and appropriate.  Yet, when we look more deeply at this behavior, we find a pervasive pathology that all too often causes us to shirk responsibility for many of the things we do.  What is it?  You’ll be amazed to find out.  I will tell you that our purpose together is to begin reframing how we communicate with one another in healthier, more meaningful and more responsible ways.  You can expect this workshop to be filled with interesting and lively discussion.

Biography:
Rev. Dr. John Waterhouse is founding co-minister with his wife, Rev. Barbara Waterhouse of the Center for Creative Living in Asheville, NC.  He was ordained by Rev. Terry Cole-Whittaker in 1988, holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and is the author of Five Steps to Freedom: An Introduction to Spiritual Mind Treatment.  His service to Religious Science includes having been Dean of the Mid-Western Campus of Holmes Institute, Chair of the UCRS Strategic Planning Team, Ecclesiastical Representative to Service Area 6 (Southeastern US), President of the UCORS Clergy Council, a member of the 2007 Community Gathering Team and twice as a member of the Asilomar Committee.

Billie Frances, RScP
“Guiding Mindful Change”

Are you a practitioner looking for ways to augment your counseling sessions?  A minister looking for new leadership approaches?  A congregant looking to better your life, live the principles or get “unstuck?”  This workshop is designed for you!

Spiritually-based mindful coaching methods are proven to empower one-to-one support, improve leadership effectiveness and enhance community building within spiritual communities, families and worksites.  Mindful coaching encourages transformation through discovery, discernment, feedback, action and accountability. 

You will walk away wit

1. methods you can use every day to empower your prayers and actions
2. tools to develop participation and collaboration
3. greater clarity plus strategies for powerful action

This workshop is designed for ordained ministers desiring to serve as mentors for new and affiliating ministers.  Additionally, all ministers are welcome to attend this exploration of how to stand in the role of mentoring another.  Special attention is given to defining roles and responsibilities, providing  empowering listening, and encouraging healthy balance in ministry.

Biography:
Rev. Joyce Duffala is honored to serve as Assistant Minister to Dr. Edward Viljoen at  the Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa.  Prior to ministry, Joyce was president of Corporate Scenes, providing arts-based interpersonal communication training for businesses, and Executive Director and teacher trainer for the American Working Theater.  With a Multicultural Education doctorate, Joyce continues 30 years of university teaching by teaching part-time for the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Holmes Institute.  Her favorite accomplishments include co-authoring Seeing Good at Work with Edward Viljoen, and being invited by Rev. Grace Lovejoy to be her mentor.

Biography:
Global Heart Practitioner Sheila Star Coulbourn is a passionate seeker of knowledge and an impassioned teacher of all that she learns. Her ministry, StarLight Training, is the culmination of over two decades of spiritual exploration, apprenticeships, classes, retreats, and workshops, guidance from personal mentors, independent study and challenging life experiences.  Sheila has taken advanced training courses for facilitating the Fear to Faith and Co-Creation processes and the Financial Freedom class. Her path has led her to a profound understanding of the integration of Spirit, mind and body in all aspects of healing. Sheila’s training in New Thought/Ancient Wisdom spans Religious Science, Unity, native Shamanism, past life and rebirthing exercises and body/energy work.

For thousands of years stories have been told of a supernatural vessel that healed all illness, bestowed riches, and granted the deepest desires of anyone who possessed it. In Arthurian stories it became the Chalice, and the Quest for it is legendary. Learn how the Chalice, and the people who served it, are profoundly relevant to the fulfillment of your life in the 21st century. We are each called to the Quest. Learn to heed your soul’s requirement for spiritual commitment, action and participation. This workshop is enlightening, experiential, and will motivate you to commit to a life larger than your fears and more amazing than your dreams.

Biography
Dr. Marlene Morris is a dynamic and inspiring speaker and spiritual storyteller. For nearly 20 years she served as the senior minister at SpiritWorks CRS in Burbank, CA. Today she is sharing her gifts with a wider audience through her books, workshops and retreats. She is the author of several books, including: In the Company of the Chalice: A Personal Quest for Success and Fulfillment in the 21st Century. Her latest book Becoming God(s) has just been released.

Joanne O’Brien,
“Illuminate Your Soul, Let Your Spirit Fly!”

A workshop that explores ‘where you play small in order for others to feel big… and then what?’

Through Composer Steven Schwartz’ tale, ‘Meadowlark’, we will investigate with journaling exercises, sharing and meditation where we walk away from opportunities that could challenge us, fulfill us and reveal our whole God-selves for the sake of another.

Who are you protecting…them or YOU?

We will consider how we deny ourselves, as well as another, the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Embrace the principle “What Blesses Me Blesses Everyone.”

Biography
With a degree in opera/vocal performance from The University of The Arts, Joanne O’Brien has shared her gift of song with audiences in over 300 cities across the United States. Joanne has been the opening musical inspiration for best-selling authors Marianne Williamson, James Van Praague and Dan Millman. Her first solo recording received rave reviews in BILLBOARD Magazine. Her Broadway CD has sold over 3000 copies and her newest collection of inspirational songs is due out in August of 2008.

Joanne is a Religious Science Practitioner and A Ministerial Student at The Holmes Institute.