Programs Overview of three pillar approach
Practical Education that infuses learning with awareness,
insight and compassion for oneself, others and the world
"As we struggle with the challenges that are our particular inheritance, we create the patterns for the solutions of the future. It happens in the present, with every thought and feeling we have and every action that we take. The responsibility we carry is no less than that." - Peter Merry
Educational Approach
Program Components
The educational elements will be delivered in an experiential and contemplative context, built on a solid foundation of contemporary theory and empirical research in a variety of disciplines. This contemporary knowledge will be woven together in a seamless whole with the deep wisdom resident in the great spiritual traditions, and presented in a format that utilizes the most effective approaches to create a transformative educational experience and to impart tangible skills. This approach will encourage participants to become highly effective in the world. The various streams of knowledge will be offered with an awareness of the inner and outer dimensions of human experience in mind.
The content of each of our programs will be offered in the light of the four Universal Program Contexts specified below, and will take place in the context of practical work experience and ongoing mentorship triads. The entire experience is bracketed by a comprehensive “storytelling seminar” where each participant retells their life story as it unfolds through past, present and future time as a part of the larger unfolding of nature, culture and an individual human life.
The four Universal Program Contexts include:
> Context 1 – Living Meaningfully, by Accessing Your Soul’s Full Potential through Practical Work Experience
> Context 2 – Creating a Socially Responsible Life with Integrity and Excellence: Making Decisions Together, Make a Living and Re-Generate the Planet’s Vitality
> Context 3 – Building Healthy Families & Relationships at Home and at Work: Communicating Effectively
> Context 4 – The Secrets of Vitality, Health and Longevity: Living Divided No More
Program Elements & Offerings
All of our programs weave together a series of elements into a single fabric that provides meaningful engagement for all those involved and supports personal evolution and creative social participation. This takes place through practical hands on work combined with experiential opportunities for reflection and learning.
These elements include:
(1) productive work in a socially responsible, creative business enterprise,
(2) personal, legacy mentoring by wise and compassionate elders,
(3) specific training in emotional and social intelligence,
(4) connection to nature and the ecosystem,
(5) effective citizenship education,
(6) a practical service project,
(7) communications and relationship skills,
(8) soul based career planning and
(9) hands on business training within
(10) a supportive community context and
(11) a practical education and work study environment for emerging adults (generally ages 19 to 29 and frequently recent college graduates)
These elements can be combined in a variety of different format offerings, each addressing a particular need and running for a particular length of time.
Our format offerings will include:
> a one week stand alone workshop or an “Alternative Spring Break”
> a two week residential intensive offered during mid term break in the 3rd or 4th year of college for two credits
> a six week summer apprenticeship program
> opportunities for extended apprenticeship
> a 9 month certificate program
> a 2 year Masters Program in Consciousness & Business (with various concentrations)
Apprenticeships are placed in a planet friendly, profit making enterprise.
The educational elements will be delivered in an experiential and contemplative context, built on a solid foundation of contemporary theory and empirical research in a variety of disciplines. This contemporary knowledge will be woven together in a seamless whole with the deep wisdom resident in the great spiritual traditions, and presented in a format that utilizes the most effective approaches to create a transformative educational experience and to impart tangible skills. This approach will encourage participants to become highly effective in the world. The various streams of knowledge will be offered with an awareness of the inner and outer dimensions of human experience in mind.
The content of each of our programs will be offered in the light of the four Universal Program Contexts specified below, and will take place in the context of practical work experience and ongoing mentorship triads. The entire experience is bracketed by a comprehensive “storytelling seminar” where each participant retells their life story as it unfolds through past, present and future time as a part of the larger unfolding of nature, culture and an individual human life.
The four Universal Program Contexts include:
> Context 1 – Living Meaningfully, by Accessing Your Soul’s Full Potential through Practical Work Experience
> Context 2 – Creating a Socially Responsible Life with Integrity and Excellence: Making Decisions Together, Make a Living and Re-Generate the Planet’s Vitality
> Context 3 – Building Healthy Families & Relationships at Home and at Work: Communicating Effectively
> Context 4 – The Secrets of Vitality, Health and Longevity: Living Divided No More
Program Elements & Offerings
All of our programs weave together a series of elements into a single fabric that provides meaningful engagement for all those involved and supports personal evolution and creative social participation. This takes place through practical hands on work combined with experiential opportunities for reflection and learning.
These elements include:
(1) productive work in a socially responsible, creative business enterprise,
(2) personal, legacy mentoring by wise and compassionate elders,
(3) specific training in emotional and social intelligence,
(4) connection to nature and the ecosystem,
(5) effective citizenship education,
(6) a practical service project,
(7) communications and relationship skills,
(8) soul based career planning and
(9) hands on business training within
(10) a supportive community context and
(11) a practical education and work study environment for emerging adults (generally ages 19 to 29 and frequently recent college graduates)
These elements can be combined in a variety of different format offerings, each addressing a particular need and running for a particular length of time.
Our format offerings will include:
> a one week stand alone workshop or an “Alternative Spring Break”
> a two week residential intensive offered during mid term break in the 3rd or 4th year of college for two credits
> a six week summer apprenticeship program
> opportunities for extended apprenticeship
> a 9 month certificate program
> a 2 year Masters Program in Consciousness & Business (with various concentrations)
Apprenticeships are placed in a planet friendly, profit making enterprise.