Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership
Now Enrolling for January 2011

Program Highlights

Whether you consider yourself a leader or simply want to be a catalyst for change, Tai Sophia Institute’s Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership will guide you to identify and manifest your talents, effectively address life’s perennial challenges, and create constructive change in relationships, the workplace, the community, and the world at large.

As a student in the Transformative Leadership program, you will awaken to the power of language and your personal presence. You will develop and apply innovative leadership approaches to your professional and personal passions through coursework, interactive classroom exercises, and daily practices that are grounded in nature, wisdom traditions from around the globe, and contemporary best practices.

Highlights of Tai Sophia’s Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership:

• Developed and taught by innovators in the field of transformative leadership
• Relevant to a wide range of professions and interests
• Designed for established and emerging leaders seeking an empowering and innovative path to enhance and build on existing competencies
• Presented in executive weekend format
• 12 graduate-level academic credits delivered over 9 months
• Eligible for federal financial aid
• Option to continue studies and earn a Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership and Social Change

Program Outcomes 

• Demonstrate self-reflective and self-monitoring leadership and gain clarity about commitment to professional and personal life paths.
• Challenge assumptions and certitudes about self, relationships and partnerships, organizations, and the wider world.
• Effectively use language and persuasion as tools to design strategies, execute visions, and produce results.
• Acquire skills to hone communication and listening in order to effectively resolve conflicts and enhance collaboration and partnership in team and organizational environments.
• Implement ways to take new ideas and visions into work, home, and the community to effect positive change.

Course Descriptions

TLSC 600: SOPHIA® (School of Philosophy and Healing in Action®)

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.

TLSC 610: Calling & Commitment: Gifts to Serve the Next Generation

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, re-animating the deep nature of professions, and embedding all in the context of service.

TLSC 615: Practicing Leadership

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.

Consolidation Weekend

The Consolidation Weekend provides the opportunity for review and integration of the work conducted during the previous courses. Consolidation weekends are a unique feature of the Transformative Leadership graduate certificate program and the Transformative Leadership and Social Change master’s degree program. Consolidation weekends are co-designed by students and faculty to ensure that learning is cumulative and effective.

Faculty (2010 Program Faculty. Click name to review bio.)

Anne Baker, M.A.
Tom Balles, M.Ac., L.Ac. (U.K.), Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM)
Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D., M.Ac. (U.K.), Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM)
Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac. (U.K.), Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM)
Susan Duggan, M.Ac.
John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Cheryl Walker, M.L., MCC

Why Study at Tai Sophia?

Founded in 1974, Tai Sophia is a premier, accredited educational institution dedicated to the art and science of healing and wellness. For over three decades, Tai Sophia Institute’s pioneering founders, world-class faculty, and exceptional clinicians have redefined health, wellness, relationship, and community, setting the gold standard for relationship-centered care, transformative leadership and social change, and self care.

Each of Tai Sophia’s programs is powerfully rooted in the wisdom of nature, teachings from the world’s great healing and wisdom traditions, contemporary knowledge, and cutting-edge science.

Whether your ultimate goal is to coach your patients and clients toward optimum health and vitality, integrate herbs into your clinical practice or home life, become a master practitioner of acupuncture, or be a more powerful and effective leader on the job or in your community, as a Tai Sophia student you will become a keen observer of your own body-mind-spirit and its innate wisdom, and learn to be a healing and transformative presence through your thoughts, words, and actions.

While you pursue your chosen course of study, in partnership with your classmates and instructors, you will reveal and develop your unique gifts and talents, achieve greater clarity about your passion and purpose, and gain a deeper sense of community and service.

Class Dates

TLSC 600: SOPHIA® (School of Philosophy and Healing in Action®)
January 3-7, 2011 (Intensive)
February 18-20, 2011

TLSC 610: Calling & Commitment: Gifts to Serve the Next Generation
March 25-27, 2011
April 29-May 1, 2011

TLSC 615: Practicing Leadership
June 10-12, 2011
July 15-17, 2011

Consolidation Weekend
September 16-18, 2011

Typical class hours are Friday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Saturday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. 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.

Admission Requirements

Prospective students must meet the following admission requirements:

• Have a minimum of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution and submit an official transcript.
• Submit official transcript of highest degree earned beyond a baccalaureate.

The Transformative Leadership graduate certificate program consists of the first three courses of Tai Sophia’s Transformative Leadership and Social Change master’s degree program. Graduate certificate enrollees must meet the same requirements as those in the master’s program and are simultaneously accepted into the master’s degree program. After earning the graduate certificate, students have the option to continue their studies to earn a Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership and Social Change.

Financial Aid

Federal financial aid is available for this program. To apply for federal financial aid, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Tai Sophia Institute’s school code for completing the FAFSA is G25784. A limited number of scholarships are also available. For additional funding options, such as private or alternative education loans, please contact Director of Financial Aid John Gay, Jr., at 410-888-9048 ext. 6628 or .

Tuition and Fees

Application Fee: $50
Matriculation Fee (due upon acceptance): $100
Tuition: $8,177

To learn more about Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership, contact the Office of Graduate Admissions at admissions@tai.edu or 410-888-9048 ext. 6647.