Date: Saturday & Sunday, January 25 & 26th, 2020
Time: 9 am – 5 pm, Pacific Time (Lunch break from 12:30 to 2 pm)
Where: Zoom
Early Registration: $130 anytime prior to January 10 at midnight, Pacific Time.
Regular Registration: $150 when received on January 11 or later. Scholarships and discounts are readily available.
Your name will be added to the course list, and you’ll be sent an email when your registration is complete.
About 2 weeks prior to the Training, you’ll receive an email with information about the Guidance weekend, online adab, and making your computer a sacred space.
A complete class list and the Inayati Order Leaders Training in Guidance manual will be emailed to you the week prior to the course, Insha’Allah.
To confirm registration or ask questions, kindly email Aqdasi at aqdasn1@gmail.com or call 520-300-0086
If there is any source from where one can get the direction on how to act in life, it is to be found in one’s heart. The exercises of the Sufi help to get to the source where one can get the direction, the right direction, where there is a spark of the Spirit of Guidance. Those who care to be guided by the spirit, they are always guided. – Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, Sangatha II.
Murshid’s teaching is a rich and deep sharing of the fullness of the light of the Spirit of Guidance as it came through him in his life, which had in it a universality that resonates. Yet, each of our lives is different. So it is necessary to assimilate deeply what has been passed down to us, and at the same time to understand and honor the uniqueness of our own path of awakening. This Order is one in which we seek to maintain a balance between tradition, the method, rituals, prayers, services and wealth of teachings, which is in our trust to teach and maintain faithfully, treasured and preserved; and at the same time, we are not to imitate those who have come before but to glean from them, particularly Murshid, the taste of his communion with God. Let it quicken us and then enact that in our own lives. – Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Jamiat Khas, 2015.
You are warmly invited to attend the Inayati Order Online Leaders Training Module in Guidance. The Guidance Module is beautiful, deep, rich, and goes right to the heart of Guidance, steeped in our Murshid’s teachings. There will be training in practices currently in use in the Inayati Order to develop your attunement to the Spirit of Guidance within a retreat-like atmosphere, including teachings from Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat, and Pir Zia. This course offers comprehensive, interactive, and experiential teaching to help develop your ability to offer guidance to murids. Time is allowed in the Training for inspiring meditations.
During the weekend, one meets and joins in with an online community of friends. There will be time for dyads to share from the heart in a safe environment as well as for group subhat.
An online 94 pg. booklet, The Inayati Order Leadership Training Module in Guidance, for reference, home study, and a resource for teaching and guiding murids is provided, as well as a Certificate of Completion.
Pir Zia encourages all candidates for leadership positions to attend the Leadership Training Modules. Completion of these Modules is a requirement for appointment as a Representative in the Esoteric School of the Inayati Order; and, existing Coordinators and Representatives are encouraged to undertake this course of study as continuing education. This module is open to those in leadership roles, or training for leadership, in the other 5 activities of the Inayati Order, or in leadership roles in one of the member organizations of the Federation of the Sufi Message. Advanced murids are welcome to attend with their guide’s recommendation.
Aqdasi Newmark is an Inayati Order senior teacher and Retreat Guide. She is one of the developers of the Leaders Training Modules, teaches Online Inayati Esoteric classes, and mentors Retreat Guides, Coordinators, and Representatives. She has served as a mentor for Suluk classes and on the Steering Committee for the Online Suluk Class Nasim. Recently, Aqdasi helped to update the Esoteric School Leadership Training, compiling a detailed Mentor and Advisor Reference for current practices. With her partner, Hadi Newmark, she coordinates the Inayati Order Center in Half Moon Bay, CA. Aqdasi holds a doctorate in psychology and is a lifelong psychotherapist.
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