Coming Home: An Integral Christian Practicum
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Welcome to discovering the Kingdom of God within you…
A Christianity that holds everything you are, and everything you’re becoming!
Please join us for this exciting process of Christian discovery, practice and community. Coming Home is an innovative, 12-week audio web course led by Leslie Hershberger that we’ve designed to help you investigate, embody, and share the radically transformative teachings of Jesus. It’s our latest and deepest offering to help you create a new vessel for your Christian faith. Informed by Ken Wilber’s Integral vision, this curriculum recognizes how you’ve evolved since your relationship with Jesus’ teachings began, and includes everything that’s touched you along the way. By harnessing the evolutionary power of radical, self-emptying love, these teachings help you grow into your deepest, truest self. And it all begins with the question: who are you, right here, right now?
We’re all on a spiritual journey. As we mature as individuals, we may find that the spiritual containers that once held and inspired us no longer quite fit. Many of us seek out new traditions and practices as we move beyond our childhood religion. Or perhaps we stay in one lineage, struggling to make room for our evolution within it. As our inquiry gets deeper and broader, we may long for a community that nurtures every stage of our growth. Many of us feel lonely as we work to revitalize our Christian faith for who we are now. As we attempt to bring the teachings of Jesus and the church into our 21st century awareness, we find ourselves seeking a new, shared reality with others. That’s why we have created this comprehensive web-based audio course, “Coming Home: An Integral Christian Practicum” with Leslie.
As you engage with the Coming Home curriculum, you will discover how…
… your personal story and struggles can open up new potentials for transformation within Christianity, and don’t have to estrange you from this rich tradition.
…to engage the transformational Christian path of radical, self-emptying love, hidden in plain sight.
…the wisdom teachings of Jesus far surpass the patriarchal, conflict-ridden church that you may have struggled with.
…the pulse of modernity—both in the world around you and within yourself—doesn’t render Christian wisdom obsolete, but rather reveals ever deeper levels of awareness for your Christian practice.
… classical, arcane teachings like “The Trinity” can be translated anew, revealing practical tools for contemplation and compassionate action.
…the Bible and other ancient Christian texts can expand your perspectives of what it means to be Christian in the 21st century.
…the feminine face of God completes the more masculine aspects of traditional Christian faith—even as we recognize that ultimately, the divine is not limited by gender.
…your revitalized Christian faith can help you make better sense of the challenges facing and within Christianity today.
… your personal Christian practice invites you to deeper, more fulfilling relationships—with others, God, and yourself.
And that’s just what’s covered in the first half of the Coming Home curriculum.
In the second half, Leslie and your fellow participants will help you use all you have discovered during Part 1 to craft a new, personal, practical vessel for experiencing the Kingdom of God within you and in your relationships with others. While your own practice will be uniquely your own, the Coming Home web course will provide you with suggestions and company on your shared path of continuing Christian discovery.
Each of the 12 Audio Modules includes:
- Leslie’s teaching on a specific aspect of Integral Christianity;
- A meditation practice to guide your embodiment of the teaching;
- Supplemental readings, videos and audios to broaden and bolster your understanding;
- Suggested topics for personal journaling.
The supplemental materials for Coming Home help situate this inquiry in a wider context, one that’s grounded in Christianity but also informed by wisdom from many traditions. Ken Wilber’s Integral vision is a powerful tool for making our spiritual lens as broad as possible while also cherishing Jesus’ unique contributions to spiritual practice. The extra audio, video, and text resources Leslie has selected for each module will help you dive even more deeply into the teachings of Coming Home. This ancillary material features books and teachings of many teachers and artists who inspire us in along our Christian path, and include works from Ken Wilber, Rev Cynthia Bourgault , Father Richard Rohr, Marcus Borg, Pema Chodron, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Rollie Stanich and Maya Angelou.
Here’s a snapshot of the Coming Home Audio Course Curriculum:
Part 1 – Expanding Your Perspectives of Christianity
Session 1: Four Perspectives of God – Spirit comes to you disguised as your life
Session 2: Re-Imagining the Trinity – A new translation of the classic Christian teaching
Session 3: What Manner of a Man – Considering the historical Jesus
Session 4: Broadening Your Circle of Care – Christian Love and Compassion
Session 5: Exploring the Feminine Face of God – Jesus and the women
Session 6: Jesus in Contemporary Global Culture – Unpacking the relevancy of Christianity.
Part 2 – Shaping a New Vessel for Your Christian Faith
Session 7: Jesus as Spiritual Teacher – Wisdom Master
Session 8: The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You
Session 9: Kenosis: The Path of Self-Emptying Love
Session 10: Jesus’ Life as a Template for Transformation: A Cosmic Perspective
Session 11: Crucifixion and the Great Feast
Session 12: Integral Integration – Who Do You Say That I Am?
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Coming Home on Facebook
Where two or more are gathered in My name, there is love!
Community is at the heart of the Christian practice. Because Coming Home participants span the globe, we’re offering an easily accessible social space: an on-line Facebook discussion forum.
The Coming Home Facebook community welcomes all to share inspirations, inquiries, questions and their favorite audio, video and images that inspire them as Integral Christians. It’s a place to share any triumphs, difficulties, or inquiries that arise as you explore this new way of Be-ing Christian.
This revolutionary curriculum is the next step to help you embody Christian wisdom. No matter where you are on your spiritual journey, this course is designed to meet you. Whether you have your own contemplative practice already or not, whether you feel alienated by the church you grew up in or still feel perfectly at home there, this Practicum will offer you more understanding, depth, and connection.
The Format
Because this material holds the potential for such rich transformation and growth, we’ve worked hard to create a format to help maximize your experience. We’ve carefully crafted a curriculum that unfolds week by week so you’ll have time to let one lesson sink in before delving into the next one. Weekly email reminders will help you hold your own commitment and engage most fully. Our member support team is also always available for any technical assistance you might need. We’re convinced our format is the best way to assimilate this material; yet we also recognize that we all have different learning styles. So once your weekly lesson is delivered, you’ll always have access to it, so you can revisit it anytime you like, whether that’s several weeks later or many years. The flexibility of this online format makes this course the most manageable, portable, and robust way to engage this material deeply amidst your busy schedule.
Everything that’s included:
- 12 modules, each with lecture and meditation
- Suggested supplemental materials
- Flexible, online framework that maximizes your engagement
- A deeper, richer embodiment of the Christian spiritual path
- Email reminders to keep you on track
- Customer support
- Payment plan option
How to Register
To register, click the button below to register now. You’ll be taken to a secure order form where you can sign-up for one payment of $295, or 3 monthly payments of $105. As soon as you complete this simple registration step, you’ll receive an email that will give you instructions for accessing the pre-course materials. We’ll then email you again on the following Sunday, and each subsequent Sunday with links to access each of the Session materials.
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Risk Free Guarantee
If within 30 days, you’ve worked with the materials in the sessions and don’t feel that it’s a good fit, just contact the Member Support team and you’ll receive a 100% refund.
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About Your Teacher, Leslie Hershberger
Leslie is a Christian Teacher and founder of Integral Women of Greater Cincinnati which facilitates women’s movement through midlife transition in all 4 quadrants. Education: B.S. in Education, University of Cincinnati; M.A.in Theology, Xavier University; Certificate Integral Theory, JFK University; Certified Teacher in the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition. “I found Ken’s work when I was in graduate school in theology. His post-metaphysical spiritual understanding was congruent with insights I was gaining through my study of contemplatives and mystics across the traditions. The Integral map (with its elegant inclusion of states and stages) helped me sort through my endless questions and for that, I am grateful to him. In August 2006, I attended Integral Contemplative Christianity with Fr. Thomas Keating, Brother David Steindl-Rast and Ken. The teaching gave me a template for translating Christian practice as it moves along the conveyor belt. I felt abundant gratitude to sit in the presence of wisdom teachers who embody compassion and openness with humor and grace. Perhaps what struck me most deeply is that the room was full of practitioners from various tradition and we all were able to cross doctrinal boundaries and practice Presence together.” |
Leslie has been facilitating groups in Integral Christianity for a number of years, to rave reviews. Discover what her students have to say about her:
“Leslie attracts students whose commitment to transformational work is sincere, and her own fierce commitment to continued spiritual growth is a touchstone for all of us. I am delighted that she will have an opportunity to share her gifts with a larger community.”
-K.S.“Leslie’s deeply spiritual, intellectual, and authentic approach encouraged our own inner journey to God, self, and one another. It was exhilarating and life-giving.”
-Laura Rupp“Leslie’s Integral women’s groups have changed my life. I learned to embrace my authentic self. I learned to pause, observe, and move beyond my habits of mind. I learned to develop an awareness practice which gives me real peace and the ability to hold compassion rather than get caught up in stories. And, through the integral groups, I have been able to bridge the gap in my mind between the Church’s sometimes seemingly inflexible and outdated teachings and my own personal beliefs and how I practice these. Learning about stages of faith has been an important tool for me to move to a space where judgments can fall away. Leslie is an amazing teacher, I am so grateful for her.”
-Diane Habel“Leslie Hershberger’s teaching has re-defined and opened up my perspective of Christ in my life…Leslie’s knowledge and presentation skills of these concepts spoken in our current cultural language is a gift to all on the journey home.”
-Sue Jones
“This is the first group I have had the privilege to be part of that provided a safe, nurturing place to truly explore my personal feminine faith.”
-Darnelle L.“Leslie Hershberger is an excellent teacher and compassionate ‘companion on the journey’ who offers a curriculum that integrates the historical, psychological, philosophical, and spiritual elements of Christianity together into a container that evolves into a specific creation of faith for each individual.”
-Mary Jo B.