Class Description

This four-weekend course, taught by Char Sundust, is offered for those who wish to deepen, expand, and strengthen their mentoring and leadership skills. There are those of us who are called to lead, or even are directly asked, but we just don’t believe in our leadership abilities. There are those of us in leadership positions who want to lead well, love well, and learn well. Leadership and mentorship, like any work in the world, has its risks and blessings. As mentors and leaders we have the holy privilege to collaborate to address the spiritual, relational, and professional wisdom of an individual, organization, family, or community.

In The Tao of Leadership, author John Heider says, “We mentor someone when what we have to offer meets the needs of someone else.” We all have gifts and experiences that have given us a way to give clarity and perspective to those who ask.

This program offers instruction in the Do’s and Don’ts of mentoring, passion and compassion in leadership, practice ethics, the guiding questions of the mentor, roles and ground-rules of the mentor/mentee relationship, strengthen and deepening the talents of the mentee, and bringing leadership skills home in a way where everybody wins. It is a great honor to be a mentor and to be a mentee, to share what is good about life, and to be a guide in the currents of challenge and stillness of love. It is a great gift with clear requirements.

This course is open to everyone. This course is a requirement for all Sundust Oracle Institute TA’s.

Location

Seattle University (details will be provided to registered participants)

All SOI classes and workshops are hybrid, giving everyone the option to arrive to class in person or via Zoom.

Dates

The next Mentoring + Leadership circle will begin in October 2024. The course format is four Clinic Weekends (Friday from 7:00-9:00 PM, Saturday + Sunday from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM) on the following dates:

October 18-20th, 2024
January 17-19th, 2025
April 25th-27th, 2025
May 23-25th, 2025

All students are required to attend all dates and all four weekends.

Price

This is a tuition-based course. All dates are required attendance.

The cost of tuition for Mentoring + Leadership includes four 3-day workshops and homework assignments over the course of approximately 10 months.

Total cost $2,700

Alternative Financing

A payment plan is available for those in need. The payment plan requires a $150 initial deposit and 10 monthly payments of $255 billed in the first of each month.

There are alternate rates available for those re-taking the course, and for full-time Bastyr students and alumni. Scholarship and work study opportunities may be available to those in need as well. Please contact the SOI office at (206) 440-8886 or by email at sundustoracle@gmail.com to enquire.

Questions?

Reach out with any other questions about this course via our contact form, call (206) 440-8886, or email sundustoracle@gmail.com.