Zen leadership Instructor

You’ve experienced the flips of Zen Leadership or the power of resonance, or perhaps you’re oriented toward embodied leadership and are just now finding this pathway. If you’re sensing it can take you further than any other, you’d be right.

Become a certified Zen Leadership Instructor, qualified to teach Zen leadership in your work, expand our curriculum through your expertise and join the pool we draw from in staffing our programs.

In addition to Practitioner pathway courses and FEBI certification, Zen Leadership Instructor certification requires regular attendance at our annual Master Class and instructor-level training with our sister organization, Chosei Zen, including at least two intensive 4-day sesshin or keishin (i.e., online training). 

Who is it for?

• You’re a teacher, facilitator or leadership development professional who wants to help leaders break free of ego-based limitations
• You’re motivated to train in Zen and want to integrate Zen and Zen leadership principles into your teaching or facilitation
• You’d like to qualify for paid teaching work with IZL

Prerequisites:

Experience in teaching, facilitation, leadership or leadership development.
Ask us if you have questions about qualifying.

How does it work?

The Zen Leadership Instructor pathway includes the Zen Leadership curriculum (ZL1, ZL2, ZL3 or HEAL equivalents) and FEBI Coach Certification (FEBI-4U, FEBI Certification). It then adds personalized guidance from instructors, opportunities to teach ZL, regular connection to the IZL community, instructor-level Zen training with Chosei Zen and regular attendance at IZL’s annual Master Class.

There was the usual boisterous chatter
among the tangled roots
of the Tree of Fear.

When unexpectedly,
Not Enoughness – who is always cowering in a small nook, taking up as little space as possible –
puffed up and piped up in a sufficiently audible voice:
“Is that so?”

Suddenly,
like the hara breath-sword that cuts through neurotic thought,
the chatter
fell
silent.

– Kelly Bannister, Biocultural Ethicist, ZL Instructor

choose your fee for the entire pathway

When registering, select the pricing level that fits your circumstances. When you register for the Zen Leadership Instructor Certification pathway, we honor your commitment with an additional discount over individually priced programs. The rates below cover all 6 online courses: ZL1, ZL2, ZL3 (or HEAL equivalents), FEBI-4U, FEBI Certification, and one Master Class.*

• $1299 – Scholarship rate (e.g., student, limited income, international low currency)
• $1999 – Supported rate (e.g., part-time or self-employed, non-profit)
• $2599 – Regular rate (e.g., full time, government or corporate)
• $3599 – Benefactor rate (e.g., able to contribute to support another)      

After you register for the Zen Leadership Instructor Certification pathway, we will contact you about which programs you want to enroll in this year. Please contact us with any questions or if you would like to set up a 3-part payment plan for this pathway.

*In addition to program requirements, one must demonstrate proficiency in teaching ZL and IZL reserves the right to determine when this proficiency has been demonstrated; all training with Chosei Zen is offered on a donation basis.