California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education

Gauden University received approval to operate from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education (BPPVE) in 2005. The University was authorized by the State of California to offer divinity programs and degrees. The Bureau's approval means that the Bureau has determined that an institution meets minimum standards established by the Bureau for integrity, financial stability, and educational quality including the offering of bona fide instruction by qualified faculty and the appropriate assessment of student’s achievement prior to, during, and at the end of the program. This approval does not imply any enrollment or recommendation by the state or by the Bureau. In July, 2007 due to a legislative impasse, the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education became inoperative. For more information on the sunsetting of the Bureau, see http://www.bppve.ca.gov/sunset_updates.htm.

Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals

The energy bodywork practices Flow Alignment and Connection™ (FAC) and Physical, Atomic, Cellular Evolution™ (PACE) taught in the College of Divinity were recognized in 2003 by the Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP). ABMP includes FAC as a bodywork modality for membership and insurance purposes, and PACE is accepted as a continuing education modality for practitioners.

The Center for Supervision and Team Development (CSTD)

CSTD, based in Bath, England, is a worldwide leader in developing models and theories of supervision, and bringing supervision into a variety of helping professions—beginning with psychotherapy, counseling, and social work and branching out into marriage guidance, local government, probation, hospitals, education, coaching, consultancy, organizations, police, and complex multidisciplinary teams. Gauden’s Institute of Professional Development utilizes the CSTD approach to bring supervision/reflective practice into the helping profession of spiritual service work, as part of the outreach ministry of Gauden to support helping professionals who are on a path of light. In 2006 CSTD empowered Institute of Professional Development Dean Joseph Hiller and Gauden Founder Amy Skezas to conduct supervision/reflective practice trainings.

LuminEssence

The Ashland, Oregon-based meditation school LuminEssence is the creator of the Awakening Your Light Body, Radiance: Self-Exciting, and Radiance: Transmitting Light meditation practices taught in the College of Divinity. LuminEssence empowered Founder Amy Skezas to teach Awakening Your Light Body in 1989; to teach Radiance: Self-Exciting in 1993; and to teach Radiance: Transmitting Light in 1999 for training Light Body teachers to continue this lineage.

The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi

Gauden was chartered to operate as an interfaith light center by The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi, Ellijay, Georgia in 2005.