Purposeful Pathways: Professional Practice and The Coach's Journey

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September 12th - October 24th

A Seven-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.

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.

Convening Faculty


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Meggan Hartman

Meggan Hartman, Ph.D., 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.

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Meggan Hartman

Meggan Hartman, Ph.D., 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.

Contributing Faculty


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Aftab Omer

Aftab Omer, Ph.D. is the president of Meridian University which offers degree and professional programs globally, emphasizing the power of transformative learning.

He is a sociologist, psychologist, developmentalist, and futurist. Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics of transformative learning, dialogic capability, developmental power, cultural leadership, civil society, generative entrepreneurship, and the power of imagination.

Aftab’s advising work focuses on team development and on leveraging the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller

Always driven by pioneering the new, Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller has been an entrepreneur for 35 years and an international Business Consultant, Coach, and Mentor for over two decades. Seeing how often the workplace feels disempowering, leading to people feeling disengaged and unfulfilled, and being guided by her personal purpose “The unification of love and power,” Christiane has specialized in new forms of organizing for 15 years, focusing on self-organization and purpose-guided work. Based on her many years of experience, Christiane is invited to deliver programs, and to speak at events and conferences all over the world.

Her main focus has always been to create, hold, and host spaces for the personal journey into this new way of being, doing, and becoming. She sees life as a spiritual journey, of which everyone's work in the world is a part and is, therefore, sacred - it is what wants to come into the world through each and everyone.

Christiane is a co-founder, partner, and member of encode.org, PowerShift Journeys, and EntheoWork, all enterprises that are part of the PowerShift™Ecosystem. She is the developer of the Language of Spaces Approach, a methodology for deep reflection and introspection in support of the learning journey into the new world of work. She also developed and teaches the JournaLogue Practice, a spiritual journaling practice for self-coaching in support of navigating the many challenges of our times.

Inspired by what she learned in the many years of exploring and experiencing this new world, Christiane decided to write her book: “New Stories of Love, Power, and Purpose; A Global Invitation to Experiment With the Unknown”, which was published in 2022.

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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.

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Khaled ElSherbini

Dr. Khaled ElSherbini, a faculty member at Meridian University, is a transpersonal psychologist and former aerospace scientist. As the visionary founder of "The Consciousness Academy", he dedicates his expertise to the realms of awakening, personal development, and transformation, while leading the Academy as its chairman.

With an eclectic academic background, Dr. ElSherbini holds advanced degrees in Psychology, Business and Innovation Management, Sustainability and environmental sciences, and Engineering. Beyond this, he is a credentialed ICF PCC coach, a Spiral Dynamics Integral practitioner, and an internationally recognized Enneagram Professional.

His global contributions include the creation of widely-respected programs such as "Awaken through Enneagram", "Integral Enneagram", and "Conscious Coaching". In these offerings, he masterfully blends various modalities, drawing from the Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics integral, the Integral Consciousness framework, contemporary psychological insights, and the profound teachings of Sufi spiritual philosophy and psychology, to shed light on the evolution and development of human consciousness.

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Martin Ucik

Martin is a NARM Trauma Informed Integral Relationship Author, Trainer, and Consultant who supports singles and couples in co-creating healthy integral love relationships that make the world a better place.

He moved from Germany to California in the 90s where he trained with Eckhart Tolle as a group facilitator and later became an avid student of Ken Wilber's Integral Philosophy. This allowed him to integrate his relationship experiences into his three books “Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men”, “Sex, Purpose, Love: Couples in Integral Relationships Creating a Better World”, and "Integral Relationship Practice: A Manual for Singles, Couples, Helping Professionals and Group Facilitators" which Wilber calls terrific and groundbreaking. Martin currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and California, and consults and teaches online and facilitates experiential workshops and trainings locally and worldwide.

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Course Structure

  1. Seven-week online course from September 12, 2023 through October 24, 2023.
  2. Six live 75-minute Zoom sessions with faculty held Tuesdays 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.
  3. Resources, networking, and emergent community outcomes.
  4. Content and collaboration via Meridian's social learning platform.
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Course Schedule

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Course Platform Opens

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First Live Course Session

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Second Live Course Session

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Third Live Course Session

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Fourth Live Course Session

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Fifth Live Course Session

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Sixth Live Course Session

Course Fees

$250

- Live video classes
- Access to recordings on course platform
- Course platform community and 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

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.

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.)

Live 75-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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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