Graduate Certificate in Transformative Leadership
Now Enrolling for January 2012
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
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"Throughout my career I have been privileged to take many courses in management and leadership with very prestigious institutions, and have found none as effective and long-lasting as the Transformative Leadership program at Tai Sophia Institute. It is an elegant and holistic approach to self-improvement, awareness, and teamwork. I highly recommend it to those who are tasked with leading and motivating both small and large teams in today’s challenging business environment."
Hamed Faridi, Ph.D.
Vice President of Research and Development
McCormick & Company, Inc.
Dr. Faridi is a member of the board of trustees of Tai Sophia Institute and participated in a customized program in Transformative Leadership.
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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
APP 600: SOPHIA® (School of Philosophy and Healing in Action®)
This intensive course introduces the philosophical underpinnings at the core of Tai Sophia Institute’s academic programs. Drawn from the timeless teachings of global wisdom traditions and the rhythms of nature, and grounded in powerful transformative language practices, this rich course teaches students to be more self-aware, to develop life skills, and to become adept at navigating personal and professional challenges. Through a high level of stimulating discourse and experiential exercises, students begin to think, speak, and act more broadly, more creatively, and more interdependently.
TLSC 610: Revisioning a Sense of Calling and Commitment in All the Ways We Lead
Students embark on an in-depth exploration of their personal and professional talents and capacities for the purpose of creating positive and sustainable change. Students work together to re-inspire professional commitments and personal goals, embedding all their work in the context of innovative leadership, in the workplace, the community, and in family life. For master’s degree students, this course sets the stage for the individualized Project of Excellence, a capstone service project to be delivered in the workplace, community, or other arena at the conclusion of their program.
TLSC 615: Practicing Leadership
This innovative course combines contemporary leadership best practices, transformative language skills, and teachings from global wisdom traditions to create a unique model of effective leadership. During this course, students will develop leadership competencies and begin to apply these skills to organizations and other communities using on-the-job opportunities and challenges. Students will learn to redefine and manage organizational paradoxes such as: success and failure; leading and following; acting and reflecting; and holding steady while being flexible.
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 (Click name to review bio.)
Anne Baker
Tom Balles
Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D.
Bob Devlin
Robert M. Duggan
Susan Duggan
John Sullivan, Ph.D., J.C.D.
Cheryl Walker, M.L., MCC (Program Director)
Transformative Practice Group Leaders
Robert Gordon
Nancy Takahashi
Jill Wardell
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
APP 600: SOPHIA® (School of Philosophy and Healing in Action®)
January 3-7, 2012 (Intensive)
February 17-19, 2012
TLSC 610: Revisioning a Sense of Calling and Commitment in All the Ways We Lead
March 30-April 1, 2012
May 4-6, 2012
TLSC 615: Practicing Leadership
June 8-10, 2012
July 20-22, 2012
Consolidation Weekend
September 14-16, 2012
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
Tuition Deposit (due upon acceptance): $500
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.