Creative Life Spiritual Center



 

We are located at:

Suite 200
5326 Spring Stuebner Rd
Spring, Texas 77389
281.350.5157
CERTIFICATED SCIENCE of MIND® CLASSES
at Creative Life Spiritual Center

Introduction

Our mission and vision. The Science of Mind is a philosophy, a faith, and a way of life, dedicated to awakening the conscious experience and expression of every person's Divine Nature. Creative Life Spiritual Center is a spiritual organization committed to presenting the Science of Mind path clearly and effectively through prayer, community, teaching, the arts, and service to the world.

Our educational philosophy is to present the Science of Mind as an exciting, contemporary educational model through which learners may experience the spiritual reality of their being. This model recognizes that all aspects of life are spiritual, as the curriculum infuses the intellectual, emotional and physical aspects of contemporary living. The intention is to communicate in modern language, while providing teaching methods based on the best that is known about adult learning and consciousness development.

General notes. We offer the full curriculum of United Church of Religious Science [UCRS] coursework, including a foundational course (Heartfelt Living), ten intermediate courses, and a two-part professional practitioner training course. More intermediate courses are continually being added. Our courses range in duration from six to thirty weeks. Entrance into the professional practitioner training requires a total of 120 classroom hours, including Heartfelt Living, Treatment & Meditation (from the intermediate group), and any combination of other classes adding up to 120 hours or more. Courses are taught by CLC ministers and practitioners, and meet either weekday evenings or weekend mornings or afternoons. When there is sufficient demand, weekday classes will be added.

Certification. These courses are certificated by UCRS, which simply means graduates receive a certificate and a record of class hours is kept at our Home Office in Burbank, California. These courses are not accredited by any higher education accrediting body for use by any degree-granting institution, nor does Creative Life grant degrees. They are for personal growth and, in the case of the professional practitioner training, may lead to the opportunity to license with UCRS as a professional practitioner. If you interested in pursuing higher educational opportunities with these courses as a first step, the UCRS ministerial training program -- Holmes Institute for Consciousness Studies -- does offer a Master of Consciousness Studies program that is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council. More information on ministerial training and this degree may be found at www.holmesinstitute.org.

Prerequisites. The are no pre-set educational requirements to enter our coursework beyond basic literacy. Once enrolled, Heartfelt Living is a requisite to most future courses. Heartfelt Living, Treatment & Meditation, and a selection of 3-4 other intermediate form the prerequisite for admission into professional practitioner training. Two of our intermediate courses -- Financial Freedom and The Essential Ernest Holmes -- have no prerequisites.

Tuition and fees. Tuition for each course is based on its length, and specific tuition rates as of Oct. 2005 are shown below. All prices are subject to change. Most courses require one or more textbooks, and a course workbook, which are not included in the tuition amount, and are available from Creative Life Bookstore. Tuition may be paid be cash, check, Discover, Visa, Mastercard or American Express. Tuition payments may be spread out over the duration of a course, with the remaining balance due during the final class session.

Audits. Any student having completed a course at this or any other UCRS center or church, or its equivalent at any Religious Science International [RSI] center or church, may retake that course free of tuition, paying only for books and for re- certification, if desired. Audit students are expected to retake the full course, not just individual class sessions, and perform the same work as regular students.

Attendance. Typically, a student must attend 80% or more of the class sessions to receive credit. Special circumstances may be taken into account. Unless pre- registered, new students may not join a class after the conclusion of the second class session. Due to confidentiality issues, non-enrolled visitors are not permitted in any of our classes.

Child care. If you require on-site child care in order to be able to take a course, please let us know, as the Center has among its membership some babysitters available for a fee. Financial arrangements for babysitting are the parent's responsibility.

Children's Science of Mind courses. In addition to our regular Sunday morning classes for all ages of children, as well as our Wednesday night teen program, we recently offered a Heartfelt Living for Preteens class, facilitated by one of our practitioners. We will offer this and similar classes as often as there is a demand, free of charge to the children.

Our Basic Course

Heartfelt Living: The Science of Mind Foundational Course. The best of your life is about to begin! Here's the course that has helped hundreds of CLCers reclaim their joy. Learn how thoughts and feelings combine to form beliefs and shape your life's experiences... Discover how spiritual mind treatment (affirmative prayer) works in every area of your life... Gift yourself with a delightful, nurturing experiential playshop... Share your creativity in an artistic, musical or literary project at the closing celebration... Connect with a group of other like-hearted people to form lifelong friendships... Frankly, the course is pure magic: just ask any of the people who've taken it!
DURATION:13 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:45
INSTRUCTOR(S):Minister Jesse Jennings and a Practitioner
WHEN:Twice annually
TUITION:$235 plus books
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Our Intermediate Courses
with NO prerequisites

The Essential Ernest Holmes. Here's a certificated Science of Mind course created by Jesse Jennings, based on the book by that title which he edited (Tarcher/Putnam, 2002). The course reviews the best of our founder's writings, then ties them in with our "Declaration of Principles," affording a deepened understanding of the fine points of our teaching and how it evolved. Those hard questions you've asked?-they're here!
DURATION:6 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:18
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$100 plus books
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Financial Freedom. Come with us as we change our thinking, revolutionize our feelings, and transform our actions around finances, by teaching practical tools and strategies for reshaping the student's financial self, such as financial planning, budgeting, investing, and basic accounting-with spiritual principles to support them in a way that furthers true prosperity consciousness.
DURATION:8 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:24
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$150 plus books
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Our Intermediate Courses
with Heartfelt Living prerequisite

Treatment and Meditation: Spiritual Practice for Daily Living. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates focuses on creating a personalized spiritual discipline for yourself, including discussions and exercises on treating for others, perceiving wholeness with heart and mind, drawing on the infinite reservoir within, trusting life's process, and getting unstuck. Develop a rich, satisfying, ongoing prayer practice, while re-creating the camaraderie and deep learning of Heartfelt Living! This course is required for admission into professional practitioner training.
DURATION:10 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:30
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$200 plus books: Can We Talk to God?, Journey of Awakening, and a workbook.
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Bible Wisdom. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates introduces us to ways to interpret stories from the Hebrew Bible, as well as the short stories, called "parables," that Jesus later used to convey profound spiritual truths, which can charge our spiritual journeys with energy and our souls with light. Students engage in discussions, role-playing and problem solving exercises, as well as creative arts expressions.
DURATION:10 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:30
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$200 plus books
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The Body/Mind Connection. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates asks, do you believe that your thought is creative and can heal anything? We explore Ernest Holmes' explanation of this, as well as ancient healing systems based on this belief and its modern interpretation. Deepen your awareness of the Power within, as the healing agency for yourself and others.
DURATION:8 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:24
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$150 plus books
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Practical Mysticism. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates explores mysticism and provides a framework for living the mystical life here and now. Everyone is a natural mystic, "a spiritual being having a human experience." Here you'll learn four types of meditation, practice the Presence of God, discover "witness" consciousness, plus much more on spiritual mind treatment. The course is a combination of discussion and periods of silent and guided meditation, and ends with a very powerful and unique ceremony.
DURATION:10 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:30
INSTRUCTOR(S):Practitioners Kyle Nagle & Tammie Sheets;
WHEN:Tuesdays, starting July 3rd
TUITION:$200 plus books
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Principles of Successful Living. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates asks, how wildly successful have you imagined yourself? How wonderfully abundant have you imagined yourself? Here we'll focus on abundance, profitability, plenty, affluence, comfort, security, and having more than enough to share. Tools used will include guided meditation, purposeful visioning, vibrant visualizations, colorful and jump-starting journaling, movement to lift and stretch your laughter muscles, and most importantly, powerful prayer in teams.
DURATION:8 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:24
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$150 plus books
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Roots of Science of Mind. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates examines the profound awareness of New Thought pioneers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Holmes, Emma Curtis Hopkins and Thomas Troward...more than what they wrote, the Something they were listening to as they did so.
DURATION:10 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:30
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$200 plus books
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Self Mastery: The Emergence of the True Self. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates is about healing the perceived separation between personality and spirit. Socrates learned the maxim, "Know thyself," at Delphi, where it was inscribed over the entrance to the temple of Apollo, and believed that, "the unexamined life is not worth living." Through an active exploration of the creative nature of thoughts and feelings, beliefs and emotions, students revel in gaining mastery in the art of living as conscious, intentional beings, plus grow their sense of mutual support and encouragement.
DURATION:8 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:24
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$150 plus books
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Spirit in Motion: Thomas Troward's Edinburgh Lectures. This course experience for Heartfelt Living graduates is drawn from the writings of Judge Troward, one of the modern-era pioneers of our teaching, and a profound influence on Ernest Holmes. Troward so artfully describes the creative process of mind that you'll slap your head and say, "Now I get it!"
DURATION:8 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:24
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Annually, time/day to be announced
TUITION:$150 plus books
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Our Professional Practitioner Training

Overview. This training consists of two 30-week (90-hour) courses, each covering a full two-semester academic year, each beginning in September and ending in May, and each preceded by an orientation evening. The courses are designed to prepare the student for service to Creative Life Spiritual Center and the world as a licensed Religious Science practitioner. Each course involves much intensive inner work, academic study, field study, mentoring, and volunteer service to the CLC community.

Admission.

  • requires successful completion of Heartfelt Living, Treatment & Meditation, and any combination of other intermediate classes resulting in a total of 120 hours or more. Examples:
    • Possible pathway I: Heartfelt Living (45 hours) + Treatment & Meditation (30) + Self Mastery (24) + Roots of Science of Mind (30) = 129 hours
    • Possible pathway II: Heartfelt Living (45) + Treatment & Meditation (30) + Bible Wisdom (30) + Practical Mysticism (30) = 135 hours
    • Possible pathway III: Heartfelt Living (45) + Treatment & Meditation (30) + Financial Freedom (24) + Principles of Successful Living (24) = 123 hours
  • requires completion and submission of a student agreement form that outlines the specific course requirements and expectations

Professional Practitioner Training, Year One. The first year of practitioner training is devoted to advancing spiritual awareness and expanding the students' understanding of their relationship to the universe, becoming increasingly aware of how cause-and-effect has operated in their lives, exploring the patterns of belief and experience that have been the fabric of their lives, and taking appropriate responsibility for what has been felt, believed, and demonstrated, as a preparation for assisting others in doing the same. The course is divided into three terms, entitled, "How life gets to be the way it is," "Living the life of choice," and "Living life fully."
DURATION:30 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:90
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Begins each September
TUITION:$600 plus books
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Professional Practitioner Training, Year Two. The second year of practitioner training focuses on the consciousness, the skills, and the responsibilities of service as a licensed Religious Science practitioner, as well as the relationship of the practitioner to the principles we teach, to the client, to the process in healing, and to the spiritual community and the world it serves. The course is divided into three terms, entitled, "Professional skills and responsibilities," "Spiritual healing," and "Dedication, commitment and service." The last few weeks are spent in preparation for the written and oral licensing exams.
DURATION:30 weeks
CREDIT HOURS:90
INSTRUCTOR(S):CLC ministers/practitioners
WHEN:Begins each September
TUITION:$600 plus books, plus UCRS license application fee
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