Living Education: Levels of Certification

Level I

  • To understand the basics of Living Education
  • Be able to clearly describe the medicine wheel, and the educational dimensions of the four directions
  • To have experience in teaching
  • To be able to blend together two of the approaches within your teaching style

Level II

  • To have practiced Living Education for 1 year
  • 100 hours of teaching experience, using Living Education principles
  • To be able to blend in another discipline into class work, writing, music, dance, theater, healing, meditation, etc.
  • To have done a two day meditation retreat, or vision quest for 1-4 days, and having practiced meditation for 1 year
  • To be able to blend all 4 approaches within a class smoothly
  • Be able to organize a course, and lead it
  • To be able to introduce meditation to a group of people
  • Be comfortable in the wilderness

Level III

  • Two years of practice in Living Education
  • To have mastered another discipline, practice, art, etc.
  • Has led a vision quest, or equivalent
  • 3 years of meditation practice
  • Speak another language
  • Be able to play an instrument, do theatre act
  • Be able to ru a sweat lodge, and to build it
  • Know how to make a course plan for an 8-month long course
  • Run and organize a weekend course on your own
  • Have at least one piece of clothing that you have made, or designed
  • Run a level 2 Living Education course
  • Be able to smoothly disappear within a group
  • To understand the level of creation of a course or program, and be able to think creatively about creating one.