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From the SNS Executive Director, Linda:

Enrichment after hours programs termed "Schools" under the umbrella of the School of the New Spirituality opened their doors!  And we are not too soon. Amid the news and media stories grounded in ancient quotes and old paradigm reactions, leaders of New Spirituality book clubs, classes and year long courses that comprise the School of the New Spirituality are stepping into their calling, their leadership. Peace education is a way to lead our children into a brighter future. Discussion about the Divine are stimulating, intriguing and vital to open minded spirit-building education.

Here are a few updates, given in the spirit that more will be shared as agreements develop into fully attended programs. We trust you'll be moved to 
sign into our database now and get involved in your part of the world. You could tele-help by e-mailing/writing SNS mini-lessons, UNITS and grants. You may contact the links below to see how you may assist. If you live or frequently travel near an SNS site locale, please visit and become a tangible supporter or even member of their founding teams. Lastly, and by no means least, consider registering for the first SNS Course #1 where I will walk individuals and groups through the process of creating an enrichment program for children or adults right in your own backyard.

The Group of 1000 (G1K)
We praise the coordination, communication and international fundraising this extraordinarily inspired and deeply spiritual group of people have accomplished in less than six months! Applause and gratitude are sent to each G1K member. Get involved. Become a member, too. Hop onto their website for more information www.TheGroupof1000.com

Canada
Countrywide
SNS Prospectus is under review for a multi-location after school enrichment program for young people.

Ontario
Our webmaster extraordinaire, Paige McIvor, M.Div., has become an integral part of the SNS Team. If you like what you see on our website, send us your comments and of course any upgrade suggestions. We've been working diligently to bring you an easy-access portal to New Spirituality materials and venues to build a strong and generational global collaborative!

France
Toulon (30 miles from Nice)
Bliss Yoga Center - Anne Marie Barbier & SNS Board of Trustees Member
Chopra certified teacher teaches primordial sound meditation, yoga and plans a CwG Book Club

Finland
Irja Peltola, a devoted New Spirituality student, is a professional who is also a consummate researcher. Irja wrote a "concordance" of the Conversations with God book material for use in practically applying the specific New Spirituality principles and topics clearly addressed in the first three CwG books. The first of the three CwG indexed compilations is no available on the SNS website under Media Store. What a gift to the world, Irja. These indices will serve as highly valuable learning tools for all ages. 

South Africa
Port Elizabeth 
HeartLight Learning Community offers all ages New Spirituality training courses. Since 2002 John Ryan, a HeartLight South African Trust leader and Christine Ryan, a HeartLight volunteer, have been implementing the New Spirituality. We are discussing a next phase of collaboration with SNS and will be meeting/visiting together in Atlanta in October. One collaborative effort already underway is encouraging and assisting the Humanity's Team Education Committee in Pretoria, South Africa, lead by the fabulously committed-to-children leader, Elmi Duvel.

Pretoria
SNS Unit author and Humanity's Team Co-Leader, Elmi Duvel, is visioning an education program with the Humanity's Team Education Committee. More on this enrichment program for children as it develops; collaboration and guidance locally with John Ryan and the HeartLight Learning Community some 800 miles away in Port Elizabeth. The world is a tiny place when like-hearts work together.

India
New Hampshire resident and businesswoman Nilanjana Krishnan has a 2-3 year plan to establish SNS India with her educator sister. Nilanjana and I have collaborated on many planning levels thus far including an SNS UNIT called "Every Truth Resides in YOU" (posted for download under Steps). Nilanjana flies to Atlanta for the CwG Movie premiere and further SNS training in October). 

USA

Georgia
Atlanta
Inner Space Learning Center - Sherry & John Henderson
"SNS Atlanta" has a fifteen-member teacher team offering the first Saturday of the month: Wows ! -- "A Taste of SNS in Workshops on Weekends" for ages 9-14; an after school program is planned when the baseline quantity of students are registered. An SNS prototype after school program and international teaching center envisioned. Click "Programs" and see the Atlanta scheduled offerings in action already. Local SNS Director: Christina Semple. A student article on SNS's inclusionary process will be posted soon.

Atlanta area: Woodstock
A group of women under the co-leadership of Deborah Ingersoll & Pat Keegan has established a twice monthly New Spirituality Book Club; presently deciding on which book to place into practical life-application first: CwG Book 1 + Workbook or Part of the Change book + workbook, followed by a group consent

Tennessee & Georgia  
Karnen's family land owned land was the scene of a first collaborative meeting by New Spirituality leader and teacher Karen Coffey of Atlanta and John and Christine Ryan from the HeartLight Learning Community in South Africa who will join me in co-hosting students in the coming years. Please send your prayers and positive, peace-filled energies to us as we seek to shift the lives of South African and American youth in this special foreign exchange vision. Focused attention on SNS intentions is a concrete way you may actively assist our enrichment education programs.

California

Oakland 
Matthew Fox & Professor Pitt are introducing "The A.W.E. Project." Creation-Spirituality scholar and multi-book author Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox is one of the committed SNS University FOUNDINGPROFESSORS who will teach an NS course this spring. www.matthewfox.org. His Oakland, California inner city after school program is enumerated in his new book: The A.W.E. Project. SNS after school programs will be continually in collaboration with The A.W.E. Project as they network across the globe. Plans are to submit grant applications and develop a strong venue for scholarships for all of our programs. We need grant-writing volunteers. Email us now atBrian@SchooloftheNewSpirituality.com 

San Bernadino
Arvel and Bobbie Chapell and "The Metaphysical Institute" (TMI) have taught metaphysics Masters and Doctorate level students for over a dozen years. SNS and TMI are poised to collaborate by featuring in the SNS web-store "Eyes Wide Open" a powerful chakra/bell meditation CD meant for all ages created by the Chapell's. More cooperation and possible leadership co-training are in development between TMI & SNS.

New York
An anonymous NYC attorney has pledged pro bono to apply and obtain SNS trademark ™ and servicemarks SM in the next months. This is a legal "branding" process implementing inspired words in vision, mission and aim statements, tag lines, and specific phrases that depict the Essence of SNS and its mission in the world. 

"Recreating the World Anew through Education."


The trademark/servicemarks will be utilized in our evolving SNS certification processes. If you wish to input on this process, fill out our TM and SM survey.

Texas
SNS Dallas
Long-time CwG center leader and educator Louise Kimbrel is heading this team with Angel Carlton and have many programs for families. Louise flew to Atlanta for custom SNS training and attendance at Neale's Movie debut in that city.
FREE2BU Kits are now for sale in E-form ! Contact
 
Virginia
Virginia Beach
As a result of my visit in August to the Edgar Cayce Library, the Association of Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) team comprised of leaders in Youth, Education, Conferences and Development have pledged to collaborate with SNS to serve children in a broader program. Collaboration will help enlarge and embrace possibilities for families across the world! See what this foundation has already in place for children: www.edgarcayce.org A.R.E. celebrates 75 years of profound New Spirituality work, based on the gifted intuitive, Edgar Cayce, (1877-1945), whose research explored transpersonal subjects such as holistic health, ancient mysteries, personal spirituality, dreams and dream interpretation, intuition, and philosophy and reincarnation. 

SNS Scholarships
The first donation arrived for the SNS Atlanta students from a generous donor. We have developed a process for gifting 10 students SNS WOWs ! -- Workshops on Weekends -- which offer a Taste of SNS programming, to build a student body for the SNS Atlanta after school program. Fundraising dinners and Neale Donald Walsch salons are planned to generate scholarship funding and will be part of the Atlanta events surrounding the CwG Movie premiere in Atlanta Oct 10 and 11th. Info:snsatlanta@yahoo.com
Spiritual education leader Louise Kimbrell (SNS Dallas)
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visits and co-trains with Linda in Atlanta






 

Press Release                                             June 1-3, 2005

BakuRepublic of Azerbaijan

Russia's neighbor, on the Caspian Sea 

Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M. was a keynote speaker at the first annual “Integration of Children with Disabilities” Conference sponsored by World Vision and the Center for Innovation in Education.  Mrs. Ratto was also honored at a booksigning and reception at the USAmbassador Reno Harnish and his wife Leslie’s home in Baku.  In addition, hundreds of teachers from across Azerbaijan attended Mrs. Ratto’s workshop on how best to utilize the story and messages in her children’s chapter storybook: WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE, ages 7-12 years. 

“Teaching 300 post-soviet teachers how to participate in a workshop was a new challenge for me.  I have keynoted in countries with translators before, but the Azerbaijani post-soviet citizens are highly intelligent and unique.  They have been raised not to think independently, nor with a great deal of creativity. Comprehending the participatory aspect of a workshop, rather than the customary attending of a lecture, was the first growth spot for the teachers and me! Fourteen Azeri teachers were asked to lead small groups of 10-20, reading aloud the first few pages of WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE’s fourteen chapters. Next I asked them to collaborate by doing one of the numerous activities provided in the Azeri translation of my teacher guide.  Finally, a leader from each of the groups was to come on stage and summarize -- in a couple of sentences-- their chapter and speak about their activity. This is where their past soviet training was a hindrance – all but two teachers simply retold the chapter at length. No one had time to talk about the activities associated provided for each chapter because they repeatedly, one-by-one, just retold the chapter.  Nonetheless, we ended the two hour workshop well, with all of the teachers deeply knowing the story WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE and having done select activities. They are prepared for teaching the book in August when they will begin school year 2005-06, even though the workshop format was new to them.”

Educator, former principal, CEO, and author Ratto also appeared on national television with three high school English students who readWHERE DREAMS COME TRUE in English with their English teacher,Elmira.  The hour long TV discussion centered around the challenges of integration and also the three students’ impressions of the book. Though WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE is a younger read, the three students, age 15-16 thought the book brought home deep understanding of the need to allow children of all abilities to attend school throughout Azerbaijan.  (In this country all children with disabilities are placed in institutions or stay at home with little or no education provided.)  Mrs. Leslie Harnish, who serves as the Children’s Program Director for World Vision and is the US Ambassador’s wife, joined in the television show and shared the Education Conference’s success stories of the first year of “Integrating Children with Disabilities.”

The week-long education conference and book tour took Mrs. Ratto to a school for children with severe disabilities and a private meeting with Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva, MD the President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Azerbaijani President’s wife. After numerous booksignings, meeting dozens of ambassadors, directors of oil companies (the largest oil pipeline in the world opened on the Caspian Sea in Baku in May 2005), and heads of state, Mrs. Ratto and her husband of thirty years David traveled to Newcastle, England to meet with the co-author of another of her books.

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