Courses

Charting your biography in the fashion of the Sacred Self-Healing Method offers a way to understand your life as a meaningful, rhythmic unfolding rather than a series of random events. This approach views human development in roughly seven-year phases, helping you recognize recurring themes, turning points, and intentions that shape your path over time. By mapping experiences alongside emotional, spiritual, and developmental shifts, biographical charting brings coherence to both challenges and gifts, revealing how periods of crisis often precede growth or reorientation. The process fosters self-compassion and insight by reframing life events as purposeful stages of becoming, allowing you to engage with your past with greater clarity and consciously participate in shaping your future.

This class covers:

• Writing your Advance Directive
• Coming to peace with your relationships using forgiveness
• Knowing how death works and what is coming next
• Using ritual to honor your legacy

This class is appropriate for adults of any age and for anyone who wants to feel more prepared for a good death.

Course Format

This class includes six sections: An Introduction and five sections covering a variety of topics related to end-of-life. The class can be completed in your own time.

Course Materials

The materials needed for this class are:

• A working internet connection on a computer, tablet, or laptop to access some of the material
• A pen/paper
• A printer, if you want to print out the Health Care Directive forms.

The course, “Using Creativity for Transformation,” is a self-study course created by Betsy Leighton, M.Div., focused on the Creative Collage Process for personal healing and transformation. This technique uses creative collage to access the unconscious mind, process difficult emotions, memories, and patterns, and bring about change. The class includes lessons on the creative process, guided meditations, guides for using collage with the seven main chakras (Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown), a forgiveness practice, and the option for one-on-one check-ins with Betsy Leighton.

Course Format

This class includes a PDF workbook with lessons on using this creative process, guided meditations to access your unconscious mind through creativity, guides to using the creative collage process with each of the seven energy centers (chakras), and a forgiveness practice to transform complex issues or feelings.

Course Materials

The materials needed for this class are:

• A working internet connection and a computer, tablet, or laptop to access the course PDF
• Paper, scissors, glue or tape, paint, magazine clippings, photographs, and any other art supplies or objects you want to use on your collages
• A printer, if you want to print out the chakra templates

Part One Curriculum

Part One of the Sacred Self-Healing Certificate Program covers the principles of the Sacred Self-Healing Method and includes:

• Discover how to open Sacred Space, stay grounded and centered, and set and maintain healthy boundaries.
• Learn tools for connecting with your physical, emotional, and mental bodies.
• Study the archetypes and start a forgiveness practice.
• Connect with your inner guidance, learn how to protect your medicine body, and work in a resonant field.
• Cultivate your inner sight, work in Sacred Space, work with Sacred Self-Healing Teams, and clear negative energies from individuals and spaces.
• Gain tools for self-regulation and addressing pain, and support for ideation and decision-making.
• Explore sleep health and your dreams, core limiting beliefs, and how ritual works.
• Learn about healthy communication, healer ethics, and how to support caregivers.
• Discover Sacred DeathCare practices and how to offer soul care for the dying and their families.
• Do guided meditations and experiential exercises to deepen the topics
• A total of three hours of check-in time with Betsy to support your learning and deepen your integration of the material.

Included in this course:

• A downloadable 195-page PDF copy of the Sacred Self-Healing Method (2024).
• 25 instructive videos on Betsy’s YouTube channel to deepen your understanding of the material.
• A one-hour check-in time with Betsy over this course. You can divide this however you like, into several remote sessions or a couple of longer remote check-ins. Check-ins may include a guided meditation tailored to your progress in the curriculum, time for Q&A, reflections on your journey, and a chance to share how you’re applying the material in your life. You may schedule additional optional check-ins if desired at Betsy’s one-hour rate of $100 per hour.

Part Two – The Supervised Practicum

Part Two of the Sacred Self-Healing Certificate Program is optional for those who wish to develop their own Sacred Self-Healing practice, and includes:

• Requires completion of Part One of the Sacred Self-Healing Certificate Program
• A supervised 3-month practicum in Sacred Self-Healing
• A total of three hours of check-in time with Betsy to support your learning and deepen your integration of the material