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The Inayati Order Emergent Leaders Program follows the same rubric as Suluk Academy, with each session focused on a key theme, as well as on Concentration, Contemplation, Meditation, and Realization, but this time from the perspective of a teacher and guide. Here is a snapshot:

Session I: Concentration (Pir Zia Inayat Khan & Naima Brown)

What does it mean to represent the esoteric teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan?

Overarching Themes

• Relationship between Guide and Murid
• Types of Murids
• Stations on the Path
• Divine Names for Life Situations and the Art of Personality
• Concentration Practices
• Initiation and Guidance Meetings

Session II: Contemplation (Taj Inayat & Gayan Macher)

What does it mean to “guide” another person?  What are the techniques specific to our path?

Navigating the Territory–the Unique Lived Experience–of the Path

Overarching Themes

• The Flame of Motivation
• How do we know if we should serve as a spiritual guide?
• What can a Guide offer?
• The Art of Contemplative Listening
• How do we hone intuition/guidance? How do we help another to do this?
• What are Mujahida (effort) and Mushahida (presence)?
• What does it mean to be present? To behold another person?
• What You Experience as Guide and Teacher
• What questions and challenges tend to arise?
• How do the spiritual and psychological interrelate?
• The work of psychological purification for guides
• How do we work with projections and boundaries?
• What are typical pitfalls? How do we prepare for such challenges and approach them when they arise?
• Unfolding the Inner Dimension of Spiritual Practice
• Learning a mode of knowing outside the mental
• Going deeper into the heart practice—beneath concepts, and what “should” feel
• How the heart comes to contemplate it’s own nature
• Fana—Baqa: Navigating the process of letting go and change in its various forms
• What is the terrain of Fana-Baqa? How do we help others work with Fana and Baqa within themselves?
• What are the passages of a soul? How do we support each stage?

Session III: Meditation (Himayat Inayati & Kainat Norton)

What does it mean to be a spiritual teacher for another person or a community? What are the proven techniques, innovations, challenges and questions that arise?

“The dervish brings a living God into the market place.” — Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Overarching Themes

• The Teaching of Meditation (An Overview)
• The Process of Self-Disclosure
• Self-knowing, Allowing, Aware Presence, Detachment, Independence, Knowing the Divine – Witnessing, Tasting, Intimacy, Unity,
• Awakening in Life
• Listening to the Spirit of Guidance
• Inner and Outer as One Being
• Mediation on the Path of Love and the Path of Light
• Exploring Different Paths of Meditation
• Feminine, Masculine, Sensory, Visual, Auditory
• The Teaching of Meditation (Summary)

Session IV: Realization (Pir Zia Inayat Khan & Naima Brown)

What does it mean to serve as a representative of the Message in the World?

Overarching Themes

• God
• The Need of the Time
• The Six Activities
• Divine Names for Spiritual Development
• Practices from Murshid’s Instructions for the Murshid
• The Adab and Ethics of representing the Inayati Order

Please contact Jennifer Alia Wittman, alia@inayatiorder.org, with any questions about the Inayati Order Emergent Leaders Program and it’s curriculum.

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