Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership

Now Enrolling for the January 2010 Class

The Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership, a brand new executive-format educational experience, is designed for established and emerging leaders seeking an empowering and innovative path to enhance their skills in order to create constructive change in the workplace, in the larger community, and within themselves. Students come from a variety of professional backgrounds and find this program highly relevant to their own unique settings.

The Transformative Leadership graduate certificate program consists of the first nine months of Tai Sophia’s Transformative Leadership and Social Change master’s degree program (formerly Applied Healing Arts). Graduate certificate enrollees are simultaneously accepted into this master’s degree program. After earning the graduate certificate, students have the option to continue their studies and also earn a Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership and Social Change.

Program Objectives

• Recover a new clarity, vision, and commitment to professional and personal goals
• Enhance skills for constructive change, personally and within organizations
• Learn leadership and life principles grounded in ancient wisdom and healing traditions
• Attain leadership skills to create a less stressful, more productive and positive environment

Program Outcomes

Upon completing the Transformative Leadership graduate certificate, you will:

• Challenge assumptions and certitudes about yourself, your organization, and the wider world
• Gain clarity about your own unique talents and skills and how they can best serve yourself and others
• Understand the power of language and listening
• Acquire skills to hone communication and to effectively resolve conflicts
• Have the skills and capacity to create an optimum healing environment in the workplace and your personal community
• Gain leadership skills to enhance collaboration and partnership in a team or organization

Course Descriptions

AHA 500
SOPHIA® (School Of Philosophy and Healing In Action®)
6 credits

Based on the cycles of nature, this opening intensive introduces the philosophical underpinnings of the Institute and includes the experience of chi, the rhythms of nature, life skills, language and theory. In the concluding weekend, students apply the healing functions to the smallest relational field: partnerships. Students learn how to see life as partnership and how to bring partnership to life more fully.

AHA 510
Revisioning a Sense of Calling and Commitment: Gifts to Serve the Next Generation
3 credits

Students are invited to share their personal and professional gifts in the context of the human story. The course sets the stage for selecting an area of emphasis. Structurally the course explores several themes: moving away to gain distance, a time to discover one’s gifts, and a return to share those gifts in new ways. The process involves reassessing personal goals, reanimating the deep nature of professions and embedding all in the context of service.

AHA 515
Practicing Leadership
3 credits (4 credits in 2010 only)

This innovative unit weaves together the wisdom of nature, language skills, and contemporary practices to create a unique model of effective leadership. In this interactive course students will begin to apply these skills to the larger relational fields of organizations and communities. On-the-job opportunities and challenges will be the source for developing leadership competencies.

2010 Academic Calendar*

*In addition to the course dates listed above, students are required to attend a Transformative Practice Group (TPG) meeting by phone or in person in between each class weekend.

Quotes from Tai Sophia Graduates

“This program deeply impacted my overall vision and how I relate to my everyday life.”

“Overall life-changing.... Every aspect of my life has been enhanced as a result of my participation.”

“Very deep and beneficial work.”