Community Ministry Certificate
13-month non-professional self-study with assigned faculty mentor
You are doing the hard work of serving your community – now earn your Community Ministry Certificate to fill in learning gaps and receive guidance towards your ministry goals.
13 month-long program introduces: Ethics; Pagan history and theology basics; Creating and leading ritual; Diversity & cultural understanding; Personal spiritual development; Serving people at various life stages; Group leadership; Family dynamics; Addictions; Domestic violence issues; Teaching and presenting; Developing your allies & more.
No live class meetings – all readings, web resource links and written assignments in our online classroom, periodic meetings with an assigned Seminary faculty mentor. With good internet access you can do this from anywhere in the world, any time of the day, 24/7.
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Rewilding the Soul Ecospirituality Certificate
March to February certificate, live meetings
The ReWilding the Soul EcoSpirituality Certificate guides participants in rediscovering their sacred connection with the living Earth and developing earth-based spiritual practices that transform both personal life and community engagement. Through seasonal modules aligned with nature’s rhythms, participants cultivate deep ecological relationship, embody earth wisdom, and emerge as grounded spiritual practitioners capable of guiding others into reverent relationship with the more-than-human world.
This transformative journey moves participants from disconnection to deep belonging, from spiritual seeking to embodied earth practice, and from personal healing to community service—all while honoring the ancient wisdom that we are not separate from nature, but intimately woven into the sacred web of all life.
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Spiritual Direction (SpiDir) Certificate
24-month professional certificate, live meetings
Spiritual direction is a process which has been offered within faith traditions as a part of formation for religious professionals and selected lay leaders.
During the last fifteen years training has shifted from small, independent programs to comprehensive programs housed in or affiliated with learning institutions such as Cherry Hill Seminary. Our program equips students to practice with seekers of a variety of (and no) spiritual identities. This CHS program is an opportunity to deepen and grow as a human, expand and clarify your faith formation, and level up as a spiritual care provider.
Participants receive their Spiritual Direction Certificate upon successful fulfillment of the requirements of the 24-month program. Upon completion of the program, participants will be credentialed Spiritual Companions, able to ‘hang out a shingle’ as a qualified and professionally recognized spiritual director/companion. Participants can list themselves on the Spiritual Directors International directory and upon completion of the program, participants with UU affiliation (UUSCM or other) also meet the criteria for becoming a part of the UU Spiritual Direction Network.
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Writing as a Spiritual Practice Certificate
12-month non-professional, live meetings
Is writing your chosen creative expression? Want to explore how it can also be your spiritual expression?
The Certificate of Writing as a Spiritual Practice is a year of developing your writing in all the ways it is rooted in and reveals itself spiritually: Nature writing, short fiction, poetry and prayer, playwriting for ritual, and writing for children.
Students have weekly individual meetings with the instructor as well as group critique meetings. By the end of the course, each participant will produce at least one piece suitable for publication in a Cherry Hill Seminary Anthology of Spiritual Writing.
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