Spirituality Forward
Spiritual directors, chaplains, pastors, formation leaders and theologians.
Theology-forward, wholeness-making as sōzō.
NRI for Practitioners
NRI Certification
A 30-hour professional certification in neurospirituality, training you to facilitate wholeness-making, the neuroscience of integration and spirituality, in your own life and your professional field.
Choose from three tracks.
Neuroscience Forward
Therapists, coaches, human resources, OD and DEI, culture and team leaders.
The neuroscience of integration and natural human spirituality for the workplace.
Enneagram Forward · Hybrid
Enneagram coaches and type-informed leaders.
Standalone, or layered onto the spirituality or neuroscience tracks, adopting that track's language.
One of a Kind
A first-of-its-kind certification teaching the neuroscience of integration and spirituality as one living model.
Evidence-Based
Grounded in interpersonal neurobiology, polyvagal theory, systems thinking and neurotheology.
Accredited and Transferable
Optional
Northwind Institute accreditation · CEU eligible · graduate credit into MSMin and DSMin.
Learn moreLicensed to Practice
Graduate as an NRI Certified Practitioner with a licensed tool-kit to carry into your work.
We are living in evolutionary mismatch, and in deconstruction.
Our inherited biology evolved for slow, small-group life, not 21st-century speed. At the same time, the systems we inherited, from religious traditions to organizations rooted in mechanistic thinking, are being deconstructed faster than we can rebuild. The mismatch surfaces as chronic overwhelm, burnout, reactivity and fragmentation in people, teams and whole living systems.
NRI grows people through every cycle: disintegration back into integration.
Wholeness-making is not a one-time move. Drawing on the neuroscience of integration and transdisciplinary research, NRI helps people return, again and again, from disintegration back into integration, growing and evolving through each cycle. Where mechanistic systems come apart, NRI offers a living-systems paradigm to grow from: a recursive practice of second-order, adaptive change.
The Curriculum
- P1
Naming the “Problem”
- P2
Culture and Environment
- P3
The NRI Model
- P4
The 7 Integration Skills
- P5
Wholeness-Making Spiral
- P6
Liberation and Power
- P7
Core NRI Definitions
From enrollment to certification.
Enrollment and Onboarding
Complete before Module 1 begins.
- Sign your NRI Practitioner Certification agreement
- Confirm your track
- Receive your foundational reading and syllabus
Module 1 · Pillars 1–3
Interactive Research and Encounter
Name the problem, read the culture, meet the model.
- Pillar 1Naming the “Problem” · architecture of fragmentation
- Pillar 2Culture and Environment · cultura and the four soils
- Pillar 3The NRI Model · the three brains (introduced)
- Assignment 1 and Teach-Back
Module 2 · Pillars 3–5
Immersive Mapping Experience
Map the model, the 7 skills and the Spiral onto your life and work.
- Pillar 3The NRI Model and Venn · mapped live
- Pillar 4The 7 Essential Integration Skills
- Pillar 5The Wholeness-Making Spiral · recursive navigation
- Reflection Assignment
Module 3 · Pillars 6–7
Applied Practice and Emergence
Power dynamics, core definitions and applied integration.
- Pillar 6Liberation and Power Dynamics · systemic co-regulation
- Pillar 7Core NRI Definitions · locking in the learning
- Case Study Capstone
The Finish
NRI Certification
Graduation
- Assignment 1 and Teach-Back → Reflection → Capstone
What you'll be able to do
In Your Life
- Recognize fragmentation early and return yourself to coherent flow.
- Regulate your own nervous system under pressure with the 7 integration skills.
- Live integrated (Mind ~ Body ~ Spirit) as a daily practice, not a performance.
- Practice wholeness-making as an ongoing, recursive way of being.
In Your Work
- Facilitate integration for clients, teams, congregations and communities.
- Read the nervous-system state in the room and respond, never a one-size script.
- Analyze power and culture as biological drivers of integration.
- Carry a licensed, evidence-based model and tool-kit into your field.
Say yes to this if…
- You already guide people as a coach, therapist, chaplain, pastor, consultant, or leader.
- You want an evidence-based model that honors both neuroscience and spirituality.
- You're ready to move beyond quick fixes toward second-order, adaptive change.
- You want a credential and a licensed tool-kit to carry into your work.
- You believe wholeness is a practice, not a performance.
- You can commit ~30 hours across three flexible modules.
Meet Dr. Kendrick
Culture and Human Development Consultant & Neurotheologian
Dr. Shaleen Kendrick's work synthesizes established scientific fields with process philosophy and relationally attuned ethics to create a highly accessible approach to culture and leadership development. Her work serves as a bridge, translating raw data into practical, lived experience and organizational flow.
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Step onto the road from fragmentation to integration, in your life and your field.
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