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Approved Business Plan
of the
School of the New Spirituality
SNS Mission:
"To ReCreate the World Anew Through New Spirituality Education."
| The "New Spirituality" is a new way of honoring our natural impulse toward the Divine without making others wrong for the way in which they are doing it." |
| ~ Neale Donald Walsch ~ 11 April 2006 |
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Board of Directors:
* Bill Griswold,*
President & Treasurer
Seattle, Washington
*Anne-Marie Barbier*
Secretary
Toulon, France
*Rose Wolfenbarger *
St. Petersburg, Florida
*Neale Donald Walsch *
Founder & Emeritus Member
Ashland, Oregon
*Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M.*
SNS CEO
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
The following action plans involve shifting the world through education within the 501C3 non-profit education organization called: The School of the New Spirituality (SNS). These first SNS goals will be pursued simultaneously within the next six to eighteen months. The individual plans are listed here in order, though the goals will be achieved simultaneously and have been underway since mid-March 2006 as SNS, and since 2002 through HeartLight Education, Inc.
A#1
Abundance and Right Livelihood, "Fundraising"
SNS teams actively discuss the New Spirituality and thus magnetize like-hearted and like-minded people when they reach out and share the messages in the Conversations with God books and other New Spirituality leaders' works. Fundraising, self-sustaining processes and full responsibility for programs sustainable from the start involve knowing key best practices that will be part of the SNS How-To Steps. The SNS Steps, when fully downloaded, comprise the first SNS Manual. The first materials are free: the booklet "Part of the Change" (www.PartofTheChange.com) and SNS Step #1 are available on the SNS website, to jumpstart one's own SNS enrichment education program co-creation.
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SNS Manual
SNS Steps 2-100 are downloadable How-To Guidance and will be offered for a small fee each ($10). These are meant to help in the development of SNS education enrichment programs with proven processes and sound guidance. The downloading of the 100 Steps and enrichment supplemental materials will create personal copies of the "SNS Program Manual." Step #1 and the "Part of the Change" booklet are indispensable and powerful first steps to opening an SNS Program. They take time and inspire individuals to move into action now through study and active application of CwG principles into one's life and within one's home community.
B
SNS First Curricula
CwG "Units" are being created to use in 1st SNS enrichment education programs (during after work and after school time frames) for adults and/or young people. They will mirror the messages in the three Conversations with God books, Communion with God, Friendship with God, and Home with God texts, as well as, integrate numerous spiritual leaders' works from across the globe. This SNS Curriculum will encompass several dozen units by 2007. CwG leaders who have documented and organized coursework are encouraged to submit their work for SNS consideration as SNS supplemental curriculum materials.
C
SNS Programs and First Certifications
Call to Action: homeschoolers, families (children, parents, grandparents, and caregivers), young adults, and adults all wishing another way of learning! Ashland is SNS's first locale for an SNS program prototype and will model the SNS Steps in active creationing. This "Call to Action" will appeal to other communities, present CwG Centers' and Humanity's Team groups; two possible SNS locales are evolving in New York and France. Certification of SNS leaders will be encouraged. The present certification steps are:
a) Implementing the SNS Steps with soundly experienced local business or school leaders
b) Utilize the "SNS Course Units" in an adult or children's enrichment program
c) Taking the LEP SNS Course
d) Sponsoring a Founding Family Workshop (cover expenses for an SNS Leader- currently SNS Executive Director Linda Lee Ratto- to jumpstart training of founders)
e) Understand and be willing to update and refresh founders' certification when SNS creates deeper leadership trainings. Life = Learning = Life.
| If you are in full alignment with the SNS Course of Action Plan for
generational legacy assurance that new spirituality education will remain a vital part of our
children's and grandchildren's future and wish to further financially support SNS right now, please go to our
sister organization for a special philanthropic program: www.TheGroupof1000.com
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The School of the New Spirituality Programs are by definition meant to align, refresh, replenish, and enrich the very leaders of the New Spirituality. The lifelong success of the SNS enrichment programs is based on best practices and chosen community leaders who are themselves lifelong learners. SNS will continue to evolve and refine its certification process not to exclude any one, but to bond, align and continually evolve its leaders of the new theology.
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"The Home School Kit"
SNS materials and lesson units (Goals A and B) plus marketing materials, (photos/poster material on CD, with a training DVD), plus SNS website exposure will be offered in a "kit" to folks wishing to open an SNS enrichment program. All sales will sustain the School of the New Spirituality.
E, F, G
SNS University - College of Philosophy & Theology
From CwG Practice to CwG LEP Coursework to SNS Training with resulting certifications, college degrees and eventual Doctorate in the New Spirituality Theology, the SNS team will be crafting a new college with the major spiritual leaders of the world today, who will serve as professor co-leaders. More will be documented and shared as SNS partnerships emerge.
| The Dalai Lama, is quoted in Violence and Compassion: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, by Jean-Claude Carriere. His Eminence states, "I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. This new concept ought to be elaborated alongside the religions in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it. We need a new concept, a lay spirituality. We ought to promote this concept with the help of scientists. It could lead us to set up what we are all looking for -- a secular morality."
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E
CwG LEP SNS Course
The Conversations with God Foundation offers the Life Education Program (LEP) for personal education; the next session will be in December, 2006 (www.cwg.org click under LEP). To afford those wishing a more personal guidance relationship as they build local SNS founding teams to open an SNS education enrichment program, people may take the SNS LEP Course, beginning December 2006. Please go to LEP to register for any of the CwG LEP courses. The SNS Course will follow the SNS Steps on the SNS website with personal founder's team conference calls and workshop in the founder's group community (travel expenses must be paid by the founding group).
NOTE: If colleagues presently serve the New Spirituality through a CwG Center or Humanity's Team group, fast start options will be customized to embrace established programs through personal contact with Executive Director Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M. Interview discussions and co-created next steps will apply.
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SNS Masters Program
Neale Donald Walsch is in concert with numerous spiritual leaders who desire to pass on their lifework to the serious theology student of the New Spirituality. NDW's partnership discussions have centered on co-creating an accredited Masters Degree in the New Spirituality. The full parameters of this program will be announced within one year. A New Spirituality practical requisite to this Masters program will be the building of an active, sustainable SNS education enrichment program the Masters student has created with the SNS materials and team. Note: if the student has begun the SNS program before the Masters curricula is secured, this SNS program will be credited.
There will be significant progress reported as each SNS spiritual professor partnership is established. In the meantime, the School of the New Spirituality encourages (specifically through Plans A#1, A and C ) advocate leaders to start now. Processes and information are available to implement the New Spirituality. Do not wait to gather people together. Our collective energies count - and in the case of children - they are growing up. SNS will require a strong leader group be established in one's community to start any SNS enrichment education program for adults or for children. Please notice that all SNS processes build upon one another and are meant to empower local groups.
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PhD Program
The profound messages within the writing and teaching accomplishments of today's spiritual leaders offer the world's citizens a plethora of material to study, implement, discuss, apply, and model in our lives. For the dedicated New Spirituality person, the SNS University will offer an accredited Doctorate in the New Spirituality Theology. This program will include and showcase many varied and accomplished spiritual leaders of our day in personal seminars, on-line and telephone experiences, with guided reading and practical apprenticeships implementing messages in NS leaders' works. This program will evolve out of the SNS Masters Program and will be established in the next two years.
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Endowment for the Next Generations
The Board of Directors of the School of the New Spirituality is actively involved in the establishment of an SNS legacy endowment fund. Any individual wishing to pledge, donate and otherwise become a New Spirituality philanthropist will have numerous creative investment opportunities through the SNS 501C3 non-profit, USA tax-exempt corporation structure. Any specific needs or financial programmatic input proposals (including incremental asset donation plans) to build the SNS legacy may be directed to Linda Lee Ratto via linda@schoolofthenewspirituality.com.
Scholarships for young people and/or adults will be available. Personal "Mentor/Pen Pal" options for donors and young folks will be offered with options for age-specific connections. Coordination of this program will be established at each SNS program site as soon as possible. The children are growing-up, now is the time.
Look for specifics on:
The School of the New Spirituality's Creative Investing Fund
"Legacy Endowment Fund"
"Scholarship Fund for Young People"
"Pen Pal Mentor Financial Support Targeted Fund"
"Scholarship Fund for Adults of all Ages"
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