June 21st - August 2nd

A Six-Week Online Course with Meggan Hartman

Human well-being thrives on meaning and purpose. Integrating meaning and purpose together into a coherent livelihood and professional practice is a challenge. It is challenging to cultivate a practitioner habitat attuned to local worlds and practitioner frames such as coaching, psychotherapy, facilitating, managing, and entrepreneurship. To achieve meaning, purpose and livelihood, most professional practices require creating a generative entrepreneurial ecosystem. This course weaves together developing leadership competencies for professionals necessary for transforming the professions in ways that realign the professions to their deeper and sacred purpose. Finding one's true calling, one's sacred purpose, enables us to lead lives in which our passions and capabilities are forged into our livelihood.

Curriculum

Course Modules

Module One

“Take your longing to the limit”: Living a Life of Purpose

Desire, Longing, Yearning
The Creative Imperative: Enthusiasm and Momentum
Cohering and Evolving Through Difficulty
Rediscovering Purpose: The Journey Home
Being and Becoming: The Authorizing Function of Purpose
Weaving Together True Calling and Livelihood

Module Two

Kaleidoscopes of Well-Being

The Good Life as a Purpose Journey: Aliveness, Intensity, Commitment
Alchemy of Entelechy: Dynamics of Masculine and Feminine
Meaning Emerges: The Rhythm of Effort and Receptivity

Module Three

The Poetics of Development

Coherence and Complexity: Whole Person, Whole System
Narrative, Mythopoetics, and Ritual Theater
Needs and Beauty: Elaborating Uniqueness

Module Four

Wisdom Journey: Transformative Learning

An Integrative Ecology of Practices and Competencies
Embodiment and Mindfulness

Module Five

Sacred Purpose: From Vocation to Profession

The Shadow of Virtuous Professions
Work as a Cocoon of Purpose
The Ecstatic Imperative
Forcing Functions: The Force of Choice Amidst Infinity and Finitude
The Magic of Coherence
Purpose-Centric, Transformative Communities of Practicea

Module Six

Meaning and a Culture of Purpose: Local and Global Possible Worlds

Our Historical Moment: Climate, Species, Extinction, and Civilization at a Threshold
Loving the World: Impact through Attuning to the Context
Generative Entrepreneurship: The Purpose and Transformation Economy
Trust and Conflict: Navigating the Adventure of Democracy

Module Seven

The Power of Developmental Coaching

Transforming Worldviews: The Gift of Consciousness
Golden and Dark Shadows: Liberating Identity for Passion and Perseverance
Purpose as a Red Thread
Neuroscience of Focus and Mindfulness
Nesting a Coaching Practice within Practitioner Ecosystems
Accountability and Actualization
Practitioner Frames: Coaching, Facilitating, Leading
Professional Domains and System Levels

*Course modules are illustrative. Faculty build dynamic course content and class structure aligned with and beyond the listed modules.

Faculty

Convening Faculty

Meggan Hartman

Meggan Hartman, PhD, is a psychologist, educator, and Purpose Guide with a focus on transformative education. As a core faculty member at Meridian University, she serves as the Director of Assessment and Student Development. In her developmental coaching work, she helps individuals discover and actualize their life's purpose. Prior to her career in higher education, Meggan was a teacher and leader in outdoor education, including her time with Outward Bound. Her research interests encompass psychology, ecology, sociology, spirituality, and the impact of culture on mothering identity. Meggan is dedicated to fostering supportive communities and integrating transformative experiences with nature, learning, and reflection in her work. Currently, she resides in Western North Carolina with her family, nurturing a close connection to the natural environment.

Faculty

Contributing Faculty

Jean Houston

The Chancellor of Meridian University, Dr. Houston is a visionary researcher who has authored over 40 books and worked intensively in even more cultures, lectured in over 100 countries, and worked with major organizations such as UNICEF and NASA. She has been an advisor to numerous world leaders, and the past international consultant for the United Nations. Dr. Houston's book, A Passion for the Possible, was an expansive compliment to her inspiring PBS special of the same name. Dr. Houston has served on the faculties of Columbia University, Hunter College, Marymount College, The New School for Social Research, and the University of California. She holds doctoral degrees in both psychology and religion.

Jonathan Gustin

Jonathan Gustin, M.A, MFT, is the founder of Purpose Guides Institute. He guides people to find and embody their life’s purpose, as well as trains those who want to become Purpose Guides themselves. The guest faculty at PGI includes, David Whyte, Thomas Moore, Bill Plotkin, Sharon Blackie, Parker Palmer, Jean Houston, Michael Meade, Adyashanti, Stephen Cope and Joanna Macy. Jonathan has been a psychotherapist, meditation teacher and Purpose Guide for over 25 years. He is also a retired adjunct professor at JFK University and co-author of Purpose Rising with Ken Wilber, Erwin Laszlo, and Bill Plotkin. He has had the pleasure of co-teaching programs with luminaries such as Human Potential pioneer George Leonard, eco-activist Joanna Macy, eco-psychologist Bill Plotkin, and Non-Duality pioneer Adyashanti. Once a year in September Jonathan starts a new cohort for Purpose Discovery and Purpose Guide Training. Join us! purposeguides.org

Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci (she/her) is a Soulful Facilitator, Certified Purpose Guide™ and dynamic facilitator of nearly 1,000 transformational conversations using a unique Circle model she developed. Enjoying holding space for the emergence of group wisdom that leads to inspired action, she is passionate about facilitating soulful conversations that deepen connections, empower engagement, and grow healthier communities. Susan is also an enthusiastic editor who has midwifed many others' books, and a writer who has been published in 365 Moments of Grace and Purpose Rising: A Global Movement of Transformation and Meaning. This former lawyer's mission is to be part of creating an equitable and just world where everyone feels like they belong and fully expresses their purpose!

Brody Hartman

Brody is the founder of SoulTrue, a Purpose Guide™, a facilitator, an imaginal catalyst, and a teacher. Brody is a senior teacher at Purpose Guides Institute and leads the Integration and Embodiment programs. In addition, he's currently guiding interdisciplinary groups, which include CEOs, leadership teams, architects, land planners, and community stakeholders, in uncovering and expressing the vision, soul, and purpose of place-based projects such as public spaces, venues, and campuses. His ultimate goal is to facilitate a new model of development that is regenerative, equitable, rooted in beauty, and enriches all of life.Brody's creative journeys include: developing curricula and teaching a graduate program at the Academy of Arts in San Francisco that studied the power of art and design as a lever of social change; co-creating a children's book about wisdom featuring folks like Tom Hanks and Jane Goodall; facilitating vision, values, and mission work for corporate leadership teams and not for profits; designing a sculpture installation in the Presidio of San Francisco; developing strategy and creative for clients such as Whole Foods, The International Museum of Women, and the Olympics; and cultivating a 2-acre pocket farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife, two teenagers, 17 chickens, and two dogs.

Holly Woods

Holly Woods PhD is founder of Emergence Institute, a strategic coaching and consulting firm with a 35-year track record in helping founders create purpose-driven products and businesses that impact the world, create sustainable revenue and meaningful work. She has spent her life imagining a world where everyone can become who they're meant to be, awake and alive to express their innate and purposeful gifts. Holly is the creator behind the Purpose Flywheel™ and the Wild Beyonder™. She has served as faculty at the University of CO, University of Denver, Colorado Technical University, CO Mountain College and consulted with the University of California and companies large and small in many industries. Holly guides awakening visionaries to uncover their nuanced purpose, gain capacities and mindset to attain their unreasonable goals, and align products and systems around what matters most. Using a validated methodology and toolkit, this work facilitates visionary leaders to gain Inner and Outer Mastery and Co-create in the quantum field, so their innovations are sourced from purpose. Holly is the author of The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life. Learn more at EmergenceInstitute.net.

Format

Course Structure

Seven-week online course from June 21, 2023 through August 2, 2023.
Six, live, 75-minute Zoom sessions with faculty held Wednesdays at 10:00 am PT (Pacific Time) and recorded for participants who cannot join every session live. Note: There is no live class during Week One.
Reading resources, networking, and emergent community outcomes.
Content and collaboration via Meridian's social learning platform.

Schedule

Course Schedule

June 21

10 AM

First Live Course Session

June 28

10 AM

Second Live Course Session

July 5

Summer Break

July 12

10 AM

Third Live Course Session

July 19

10 AM

Fourth Live Course Session

July 26

10 AM

Fifth Live Course Session

August 2

10 AM

Sixth Live Course Session

Course Fees

$250

Live video classes
Access to recordings on course platform
Course platform community and written resources
Participant launch of ongoing Community of Practice after the course

Accreditation

Meridian University is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) - a higher education accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education. WASC is also the accreditor for Stanford University, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an Online Course?

Meridian's online courses are conducted via the University's own learning platform. Our online courses promote community learning, through strong interactive engagement with fellow students and faculty as well as live video sessions with faculty.

What technology do I need to take an online course?

You will need an email account, a high-speed internet connection, and access to a computer, iOS or Android device. If you are planning to attend the course video calls live, you will need a webcam and microphone for your device. (Course video calls are conducted with participants video-enabled.)

Do I need to be online at certain times for class?

Live 75 to 90-min video sessions with faculty and fellow students will be conducted throughout the course. Each week's live video call will be recorded and posted on the course platform. Video presentations, readings, discussions and learning activities will be accessible asynchronously and may be completed on participants' own schedule. Course resources and recordings will remain available up to 30 days after the close of the course.

What is Meridian's refund policy?

Full refunds are available until two (2) days before the course begins, by request via email.

Do I need to apply to Meridian graduate program to take this online course?

You do not need to apply to a Meridian graduate degree program to take this online course. This course is one of Meridian's open-enrollment courses.

How can I reach course support?

The course support team will be available to assist from start to finish. Please send your questions/requests/issues to ctl@meridianuniversity.edu

Who will teach each session?

Convening faculty generally lead each live session. Contributing faculty typically contribute in one of the live course sessions. Course resources address the work of both convening and contributing faculty.

Is financial aid available for this public online course?

Meridian has institutional and federal financial aid options for our graduate degree programs. This open enrollment course does not have financial aid or payment plans available.

Purposeful Pathways: Professional Practice and The Coach's Journey

A Six-Week Online Course with Meggan Hartman

Course Modules

“Take your longing to the limit”: Living a Life of Purpose

Kaleidoscopes of Well-Being

The Poetics of Development

Wisdom Journey: Transformative Learning

Sacred Purpose: From Vocation to Profession

Meaning and a Culture of Purpose: Local and Global Possible Worlds

The Power of Developmental Coaching

Convening Faculty

Meggan Hartman

Contributing Faculty

Course Structure

Course Schedule

Course Fees

Accreditation

Frequently Asked Questions