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Levels of Membership

Associate – a student, friend of the Guild or retired person who wishes to support the Guild but who is not practising any form of spiritual counselling.  (Membership letters: Assoc.WGMSC)

Member –  a practitioner of one of the “broad types of spiritual counselling” listed in this document. (Membership letters: MWGMSC)

Honorary Member – A person who is not practising any form of spiritual counselling but has been granted Honorary Member status by the Guild in recognition of services performed to the Guild or friendship of the Guild.  (Membership letters: Hon.WGMSC)

Fellow –  A person who meets criteria for Member status and who is also a graduate of an approved university. The Guild also may allocate Fellow status to other deserving persons. (Membership letters: FWGMSC)

Honorary Fellow –  A person who is not practising any form of spiritual counselling but has been granted Honorary Fellow status by the Guild in recognition of services performed to the Guild.  (Membership letters: Hon.F.WGMSC)

Life Member –  A person  eligible for Member status who is accepted by the Guild for Life Membership.  (Membership letters: MWGMSC) 

Life Fellow – A person  eligible for Fellow status who is accepted by the Guild for Life Fellowship.   (Membership letters: FWGMSC)

First Phase of Membership: Allocation of Lifetime Founder Memberships and Fellowships

Honorary lifetime founder memberships and fellowships are being offered to a select few individuals in a number of countries.  When that process is complete, a list of those founder members will be published on the website.  From that time on, further free founder memberships will be offered to the first suitable applicants in countries that do not already have founder members.

Life Memberships and Life Fellowships

Initially, all memberships and fellowships granted by the Guild will be Life Memberships/Fellowships and the first few such memberships in each country, as decided by the Guild, will not pay fees and will be known as Founder Members or Founder Fellows.

Life memberships are an experiment.  It will remain to be seen whether the Guild can sustain itself by issuing life memberships alone and not annual memberships.   This is felt to be the right move to attract as many people as possible and retain their membership without the administrative burden and high lapse rate of annual memberships in a new organisation.  However it might be necessary in the future to provide renewable annual memberships, but if so, any existing life members will still retain their life membership and there would be the option to convert annual membership to life membership.

All life memberships are for the lifetime of the member but also for the lifetime of the Guild and are depending upon its continuity. 

All life member and life fellow certificates remain the property of the Guild and may be used by the member as long as he or she remains in good standing, which means that no action has been taken against the member to cancel his/her membership due to any gross breach of the code of ethics of the Guild.

Duties of Members

Apart from abiding by the code of ethics, members have no other duties just by belonging to the Guild at any level.

Members may be sought to become involved in various tasks but this will be at their discretion, and individual tasks may be either voluntary or paid on a freelance basis as decided by the Guild from time to time.  Members may also be co-opted onto the Guild’s Executive Council.

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Membership Database Information

We have built an online database of individual and organisational members.  The table will be managed by an external database and sorted by country. 

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