What is "new" about the New Spirituality?

It is an interdenominational and non-denominational honoring of each person’s impulse toward the Divine without making others wrong for the way they are doing it. This approach to life and learning is at a core level a way to peace and fundamentally a "Civil Rights Movement of the Child's Soul."

The School of the New Spirituality (SNS) programs frame this renewed freedom in practical and concrete ways. How? First, by the attitude of love, we see the Divine in you as we see the Divine in ourselves – no matter what the age of the physical body. This fundamentally involves an active and supremely special kind of listening that allows young people an even-playing field to express, create and co-design their lives with their adult leaders. Secondly, our leadership facilitations honor and listen to others soul-to-soul, specifically to support and guide one another’s dreams into reality. Last, and by no means least or the end of this dialogue, SNS teachers and leaders are learners while they are facilitators, always.

As numerous SNS education prototypes blossom, you will see a variety of program "flavors." Communities are bringing forth book & movie clubs, after school and after hours classes, retreats, camps, and events within their traditions and cultures to meet local families' desires. SNS teammates strive to understand themselves deeply, and further to see that every person in any community possesses the ability to cross-empower one anothers' dreams. It takes focused attention and intention, and this is one of the main reasons the SNS exists

Formerly HeartLight Education, Inc., the School of the New Spirituality has a five-year education framework, grounded in the Conversations with God messages, which undergirds our programs. The full model is provided in SNS How-to Steps which comprise our Manual chockfull of lessons, templates, units and samples. Here are the educational application approaches in which we aspire:

We are Love, Joy and Wisdom in Human Form

Empower Everyone to Discover, Develop, & Express Who They Really Are

Honor & Express Everyone's Capacity for Leading Self-Directed, Self-Sustaining, Self-Renewing Lives

We Are One

There is Enough

There is Nothing You Have to Do, to be Who You Really Are

Awareness ~ Honesty ~ Responsibility ~ Gratitude

Heart-to-heart since 2002, the above practices and processes have been the foundation for numerous learning communities. In full-time day schools and part-time new spirituality enrichment programs for adults and children, SNS teams built learner-lead settings where students experienced being the captain of their learning ships – co-developing leaders of their lives!

SNS education embodies co-creation, which allows learners and facilitators to explore and enrich their life purposes, while expanding the skills and tools necessary to be peacefully conscious, creative, competent, collaborative, and compassionate global citizens.

Courses, camps, retreats, and after hours programs provide interactive learning and community projects with plenty of dialogue, questioning, and creative workplay. Answering the WHY, WHAT, and HOW of new spirituality concepts applied to life, SNS educational activities encourage completion with self-assessment and self-reflection. Youth programs may include a performance with self-evaluation, journaling, video or audio recording summary or discussions with other learning community members. This way of asking, "How did this experience work in my life?" applies the CwG principles to every day living.
 

Declarations of Who We Really Are as Citizens of the World: We are Unique, Loving Spiritual Beings We are Visionary, Innovative Explorers and Inventors We are Heartfelt, Trustworthy Communicators and Mentors We are Joyful, Talented Performers and Manifestors We are Forthright, Global Leaders and Stewards

The School of the New Spirituality (SNS) learning approach is based on five years of intensive groundwork by a team of education reformists, teachers, learners, parents and grandparents. Our professional education teams have facilitated launching both day schools and part-time programs in the United States and South Africa since 2002. Since 2006, SNS has refocused on part-time enrichment programs and the establishment of formal academically accredited university degrees (in process) and producing and publishing New Spirituality materials, interactive media, downloadable and hands-on kits, book sets and units, mini-lessons and fun discoveries!

Here are links to some of our New Spirituality learning materials:

Eyes Wide Open Media Store

 SNS How-To Steps Manual

SNS Multimedia Kits