About Mentorship

Being a guide for others

After taking class with Prosperos instructors, using the techniques in their own lives, and participating in audio group study, some students desire to take the next step on the path of unfolding the experience of Ontological instruction in their world : being a guide to others.

High Watch

The first step in this process is the High Watch degree (H.W.), which acknowledges that the student understands the fundamental techniques taught by The Prosperos®, Translation® and Releasing the Hidden Splendour™, well enough to explain them to another person. This degree is often compared to a Bachelor of Arts in Ontological Studies, and a perusal of the High Watch Reading List, a curated reading list for students seeking the H.W. and advanced certification, demonstrates that this is not a frivolous statement.

Members of the High Watch support other students by :

  • committing themselves to "keep the High Watch" - i.e., to look beyond materialistic circumstances in their personal lives and in the political life of their communities to reveal the eternal and boundless reality always present in the midst of "things"

  • participating in the High Watch Translation Service, using Ontological principles to see through the appearance of problems that others have brought to their attention

  • presenting workshops to help students better understand and use Translation and Releasing the Hidden Splendour

  • serving as observers for audio study groups

  • undertaking tasks to support the ongoing operations of the School that permit the instruction to be presented around the world.

Intern

When a student decides that she would like to begin presenting class material and working more actively with other students, the next step is to apply to the Executive Council to begin the process of becoming a Mentor by beginning an internship (H.W., m.). The internship is performed under the guidance of the Dean and the supervision of a Mentor who is appointed to work with the intern. Award of the H.W., m. certification is approved only when the student has demonstrated increasing levels of responsibility within her community; it is considered comparable to a Master of Arts in Ontological Studies.

Interns hone their skills by :

  • providing leadership for students in their communities, developing involvement of fellow students, and organizing group activities

  • making themselves available to counsel students with particularly troublesome issues that can be approached using Translation® and Releasing the Hidden Splendour™, under the guidance of the consulting Mentor

  • working with the Dean and their consulting Mentor to acquire robust counseling skills appropriate to the environment of Ontological studies

  • learning platform skills essential to presenting the instruction in an interesting and compelling way, in accordance with the curriculum established by the Executive Council

Mentor

When the Dean and the consulting Mentor agree that the intern has mastered the skills required by his internship program the degree of Mentor (H.W., M.) is conferred. Mentors, legally speaking, are ordained ministers with all the rights and privileges of clergy.

Mentors develop and promulgate the instruction by :

  • providing counseling services

  • providing guidance to students in their community, including those who wish to become H.W. or H.W., m.

  • regularly offering class material and encouraging the formation and continuation of audio study groups

  • hosting social events

  • working with the Dean to develop new materials appropriate to the community in which they live

This overview is intended to explore, very briefly, the categories of Mentorship developed over the years. The Mentors Association has developed a Mentor's Handbook which gives much greater detail regarding the expectations for interns and Mentors.

For more information, please contact one of our Mentors listed Below.

Mentors

Heather Williams, High Watch, Mentor 

I am Heather C. Williams. I grew up in Wisconsin and have always been curious about the world around me. When I was 19 years old, I sat at my dorm desk and wrote this question: “Is there such a thing as TRUTH or is it all opinion?”  I asked this because my mother was Lutheran and my dad was Catholic and my mother was Republican and my dad was Democrat. They both loved me and my sister. This question guided my life in many ways.  In 1970 I graduated from college with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Humanities and I flew to San Francisco in June 1970 to search for a Gurdjieff Teacher to help me wake up to the deeper TRUTH of life. Fortunately, I found Thane Walker and The Prosperos School of Ontology in September 1970. (Thane had been a student of Gurdjieff!) 

I lived in Mt. Shasta and Santa Monica for the next 10 years - studying intently and practicing the tools of Translation and Releasing the Hidden Splendour. In 1980 I became an Art Apprentice to a Norwegian Master Artist - Jan Valentin Saether. He taught me a whole new way of seeing that really opened my mind and greatly improved my drawing skills. He called it “Seeing without an Object”. I teach it in my weekly online Drawing-as-a-Sacred-Activity class. This is another way of Translating appearances back to Principle.

In 1985 I told Louise Hay that I wanted to teach art to people with AIDS. She was offering a community service program for people with AIDS in Hollywood every Wednesday evening. Then, she hired me to lead drawing exercises for her International Teacher Trainings around the world (USA, Canada, Mexico, Italy, England, Ireland, Australia).

In 1990 I moved back to Wisconsin and met my life partner, Cynthia Wright. In 1997 Louise Hay inspired us to move back to California and we moved to Vista, CA and lived there for the next 22 years. During this time I was an Art and Special Education Teacher for high school and middle school students in the Vista Unified School District. Cynthia was a Masters Degree Registered Nurse teaching nursing students at California State University, San Marcos. In 2019 we retired and moved back to Wisconsin. Then, in 2024 we moved to Tullahoma, Tennessee to serve humanity as AI rapidly rolls out.

Associations with The Prosperos:  HighWatch, Mentor, Volunteer, Student, Trustee, Life Member, etc…

Classes That I have Taught: Translation, Advance Seminar, Releasing the Hidden Splendour, Self Encounter, Supracargo, Cosmic Intention Therapy, Workshops, Sunday Meeting Talks and Facilitation of our Audio Tape Groups. 

Contact Info:

Email:  Heather@TheProsperos.Org

Phone: 760-213-6060

Other Interests and Pursuits:

Weekly online drawing class: https://www.drawingtogether.com/drawing-classes

Weekly online WORK CHAMBER (we read and discuss books about awakening to our True Self) https://www.drawingtogether.com/workchamber

https://www.instagram.com/heathersdrawing/  

https://www.facebook.com/artist.awaken 

My Prefered Method of Communication, is Heather@TheProsperos.Org