Co-founder's Message
Co-founder Gord Riddell
This year we celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the College. What an honour it has been to be of service to the thousands of students who have attended our school and witness the spiritual growth of so many wonderful souls.
With passionate enthusiasm, we launch our 2011/2012 Calendar and the leading edge programs we offer. Having started the College in 1988, it is very rewarding to have greatly surpassed our vision of creating a unique educational venue, combining ancient wisdom and contemporary mysticism and spirituality. We have grown from offering part-time psychospiritual courses to professional post-secondary education in the Spiritual Psychotherapy and Holistic Health fields which cultivate personal and spiritual growth in a nondogmatic environment.
Each year, the College welcomes many students from Canada and around the world to study and be guided in developing a spiritual value system distinctive to each individual. Many of our graduates have created successful careers as Psychotherapists, Holistic Practitioners and Coaches led by their spiritual values and assisting others to discover their own.
Co-founder Kathy Ryndak
What a challenging, unprecedented journey it has been over the past decade to witness our world go through the ‘Great Turning’ or ‘Shift.’ Whether it is corruption being exposed, natural disasters or financial crisis, it is all part of light meeting dark so our planet can transform and evolve to a higher way of being. There has been much cleansing and purging for individuals and society so that we may go to the next level of spiritual development. Things can seem to get worse before they get better in order for true transformation to occur. Many spiritual tests have been passed resulting in greater spiritual learning and soul strength and stamina. At the same time, tremendous progress has been made in the evolution of humankind’s consciousness and awareness. The liberation of Egypt ‘by the people’ and the awakening of the Arab world has been a momentous global turning point. We have become the Global Village and know that we are all interconnected. Together we will co-create the ‘New Earth’ based on justice, truth, love and compassion.
The butterfly has not yet emerged from the chrysalis but when this happens it will be magnificent! The ‘Sacred Human’ is being born through the opening of the ‘Global Heart’ resulting in love and respect for all of humanity, regardless of race or creed, for Mother Earth or ‘Gaia’, all of her species and her sacred ecology. We honour and see the Divine in all living things.
Our Calendar cover depicts the Sacred Human or ‘Earth Angel’ as we come into alignment with the ‘Shift’ experiencing more divine energies, harmony and beauty on Earth as we rise to the next level.
We know that in these great times of global transformation, love, light truth and justice will prevail. Transformational Arts continues to serve as an institute of higher spiritual learning and a sanctuary that holds this energy while we navigate through the transition. We welcome you to join the thousands of individuals who have walked this luminous path of self-discovery, healing and transformation.