Three to six months
The twelve steps of the Initiatory Way to Peace
Six to twelve months
The training is essentially interactive and involves active participation on the part of trainees. It is all about exploring and discovering the Initiatory Way of Peace and focusing on what links the eminent personalities who have won world wide recognition by their actions and achievements for the cause of peace, beyond differences in the times they lived, their cultures, religion or sex. This training has an academic orientation as it is based on a comparative and empirical research.
One to two years
Long term training consists of profound teaching with a direct impact on the individual who works on his inner self. Beyond the mere awakening of consciousness, it is aimed at preparing the trainee to accomplish his mission on earth. The trainee must of course have grasped the fundamentals of the short and middle term modules. He goes deeper in the study of the lives of Peace Beings and Beings of Service. He is now able to implement a research program on one or more case studies with the help of his trainer.
This research is not a traditional one: its goal is to enable one to embody one or more of the chosen models by using Intelligence of The Real. This involves acting and not merely putting up with events and circumstances. At the same time one has to take account of the particular context in which one is evolving, without allowing oneself to be conditioned by it. When one becomes conscious that one belongs to the global family, one acts in this dimension.
The trainee will then experience the Initiatory Way to Peace. He will take the Initiatory Way defined by Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, a way which will take him to different places in Senegal and Mauritania.
The Research Institute for Peace Promotion and the International Sufi School will then hold a ceremony for the award of certificates.
One then becomes a treasure and a blessing for humanity.
A Diploma is awarded to each trainee who has followed one of these courses. The Diploma of “The Servant of Humanity” will be awarded to the individual who has followed the Long Term Training ( a two year program), and who will have worked for four years on a voluntary basis with group or organisation promoting social development and peace.
On this occasion, the International Sufi School will organise an award ceremony to which individuals who have worked for the promotion of peace and social development and eminent peace makers will be invited. Mutual experiences will be shared and the ceremony will be marked by festivities.
