Sage-ing Leader Certification Program

Congratulations: Class of 2024 Certified Sage-ing Leaders

Please join the Sage-ing Community in welcoming and offering congratulations to the recently Certified Sage-ing Leaders (CSLs) who have spent the past year together integrating the core concepts of Sage-ing. They bring many gifts to this work and are eager to share them along with Reb Zalman’s message. You can connect with them through the CSL directory.

From left to right
Row #1
Jeanne Marsh (Faculty); Julia Riley (Faculty); Debbie Ellis (Hickory NC); Deborah Latham (Totnes, Devon UK)
Row #2
Nina Auerbach (Seattle WA); Dave Dupper (Knoxville TN); Elizabeth Morris (Gqeberha, South Africa);
     Judith Breier (Northhampton MA)
Row #3
Brenda Lyons (Panama City, Panama); Randi Winters (Mission Viejo CA)
The Certification Program for the Class of 2024-2025 will begin April 11th through March 2025.  If you have questions about the program, please contact Jeanne Marsh at j.marsh@sage-ing.org

Overview

Over a 12-month period, in a small and intimate training group, the Sage-ing Leader Certification Program provides participants a thorough grounding in facilitation skills – including use of the ZOOM platform – and the core concepts of Sage-ing (including Expanding Elder Consciousnesses, Life Review, Life Repair/Forgiveness, Facing Mortality, Creating Legacy, and Discovering the Gifts of the Emerging Elder.)

This prepares them to present Sage-ing events in their communities in a variety of formats (talks, classes, workshops, retreats, Wisdom Circles, and online/ZOOM events).

The Program Includes

  • Two training workshops (at the beginning and at the completion of the year) led by senior Certified Sage-ing Leaders (CSLs) in a small group setting with a high degree of individual attention.

  • Fifteen (15) hours of practicum, developing and facilitating workshops or classes, both in person and online.

  • One-on-one mentoring by a senior CSL throughout the year.

  • Monthly Wisdom Circle gatherings via Zoom with CSL faculty and fellow Interns.

  • Training in online video-conferencing skills designed to make one a more tech-savvy elder and presenter.

Resources

As part of the Certification program you will receive all the resources that you require. Please see the list opposite.

Resources Provided

  • Copy of the Curriculum Resource Guide.

  • Script, Resource Guide and other materials for Awakening the Sage Within: An Introductory Sage-ing Program.

  • One-on-one Mentor guidance.

  • Webinars on core topics led by senior Certified Sage-ing Leaders.

  • Master copies of copyrighted materials for use in workshops.

  • Sample flyers for programs.

Benefits of Certification

In addition to mastering Sage-ing content and facilitation skills, program participants receive copyrighted materials to help them create, market and present programs, classes, and workshops.

Each participant is assigned a Mentor to coach/give feedback on developing, marketing and presenting Sage-ing events during their Internship.

People Who Will Benefit

  • Adult Educators.

  • Clergy and Lay Leaders.

  • Social Service Professionals.
  • Health Care Professionals.
  • Counselors and Mental Health Professionals.
  • Senior Center Personnel.
  • Residential Community Leaders.

  • Anyone who wants to share the vision of Sage-ing in their community.

  • Anyone who wants to live as a Sage in the second half of life.

Application Process

To apply for the Certification program, please

  • Submit an application for the program.
  • Participate in a Zoom or telephone interview with the Certification Program Coordinator.

As is true for all healing practitioners, we must first apply “the practical work of translating theory into practice in the laboratory of our own life.” Sage-ing International faculty have concluded that the skills development, introspective inner work and the practice presentations required in the Certification program take about a year to complete.

For more information, contact the Sage-ing Leader Certification Program Coordinator: Jeanne Marsh, j.marsh@sage-ing.org

STUDENT FEEDBACK

“The CSL program has been a wonderful blessing to me and has opened up so many opportunities for this next part of my life.  It has given me an incredible community of elders to share it with”

Dennis Stamper, Class of 2020
“The CSL certificcation prepared me to facilitate conversations and joint inquiry with other elders about what it means to move toward wholeness in the latter chapters of our lives.”

Elizabeth Bell, Class of 2018

“One of the greatest gifts of the CSL certification has been to get to know and work with the group of Interns, to share experiences, to feel supported and to be supportive.”

Charlie Ivermee, Class of 2021

“The Certification Program provides a unique opportunity to be immersed in the fundamental concepts and life tools of Sage-ing, and even more importantly to me, accelerated and focused my personal journey of aging in a consciously profound way.”

Katie Lieberman, Class of 2020
“The program gave me the knowledge and experience needed to teach Sag-ing to others, and greatly deepened my own Sage-ing journey. The program itself was delightful and led by two wonderful women sages”

Randall Krause, Class of 2021

“Apart from deepening my own understanding and practice of the sage-ing concepts, the program provided me with valuable resources, wonderful connections to like-minded individuals, and the skills and training to facilitate workshops and share these revolutionary concepts with others.”

Fatema Dewji, Class of 2022

PROGRAM FACULTY

Julia is a Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse and a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator. As she began her “refirement” years, she explored expressive arts for healing and self-discovery as an arts facilitator in hospice and published a guidebook, Art in Small Spaces. Julia brings creative expression, humor, and her perfectly-imperfect self to her facilitation of the Certified Sage-ing Leadership program, guiding interns to “simplify and deepen” their journey.

Julia Riley, Faculty

After retiring from the corporate world in 2005, Jeanne received an MA from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Jeanne brings twenty-seven years experience in corporate Human Resources and Management Training and Development. Jeanne is also certified to administer and consult using the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator and facilitates “Connecting With Self” and Sage-ing workshops in the Asheville, NC area as well as partnering with other Sage-ing Leaders throughout the country.

Jeanne Marsh, Certification Program Coordinator