The Twelve Modules

To live a purpose-driven life, creating a purpose-friendly environment is essential. In this opening session, we explore ways to prepare for crossing the threshold between the life you live now, and the life that is calling YOU.

You will learn

• How to cultivate a "Miracle Morning" ritual that prepares you for living a life that harmonises with your Soul
• How to clear space in your life, so that something utterly new, mysterious, and generative may appear
• How to construct a "purpose altar" in your home to become an axis mundi for your purpose journey
• How to identify the most frequent traps and detours that occur on the road to a purpose-driven life
• How the purpose of evolution and the purpose of soul are identical — to midwife more goodness, truth, and beauty
• How life is an evolving process, and your soul-work is part of that never-ending development

To live a purpose-driven life, understanding the layout of the journey is essential. In this session, we lay out a road map so you can see where you are headed.

You will learn

• How to recognise your own soul right now and begin to let it animate your being
• What it means to practise soul-embodiment right now, and how this differs from ongoing preparation for purpose awakening
• The eight facets of your Soul's Purpose — Vision, Values, Powers, Essence, Giveaway, Task, Message, and Delivery System
• The three worlds of consciousness, which correspond to the triple purpose of life — to Wake Up, Grow Up, and Show Up
• Why we get so disturbed by life's vicissitudes, and how to transform everyday disappointments into spiritual turnarounds

The purpose that moves your life forward, when you are not living from soul, is your default purpose — a combination of bequeathed values from your upbringing and the defensive mechanisms you learned during childhood. A default purpose leads you away from your authentic purpose, whereas the Soul's purpose draws YOU forward into living your destiny. As long as your strongest driving desire comes from a default purpose, your ability to fulfil your destiny is thwarted.

You will learn

• To distinguish between the two types of purpose that propel you — Default vs True, Defensive vs Evolutionary, Inherited vs Revealed, Socially Conditioned vs Soul Conditioned, Unconscious vs Intentional, Scarcity Based vs Love Based
• How to identify your specific default purpose that veils your True Purpose
• How to practise moment-to-moment attention in order to recognise the interactions, self-talk, and behaviours that are rooted in your default purpose
• How to practise Purpose-Inquiry effectively — asking "What would Soul do?"

When seeking your purpose, there are two approaches — direct and indirect, or inductive and deductive. The indirect path to purpose engages your mind's intelligence to detect or infer what your true purpose is. In this module, YOU employ multiple deductive methods for discerning your purpose.

You will learn

• To discover soulprint hints from your history
• How your emotions — especially your passions, devotions, and fervours — provide clues to your destiny
• To find the hidden evidence pointing towards your deepest purpose in your fantasies, aspirations, daydreams, and the ways you wish to be remembered
• To look for soul clues in your readings, movies, hobbies, and even the people you have been looking up to

You have been creating from the past and present, but not from the future. Aristotle coined the term "entelechy" to describe the full actualisation of a life form. He said that the entelechy of an acorn is an oak tree — it is the entelechy of the acorn that guides its development. This theory is sometimes called the acorn theory of soul. It proposes that YOU already possess the full potential and potency of your Soul, and that the task is to fully actualise it. In this module, we listen to the wisdom of the future as you meet with your soul's highest potential — your thousand-year-old Entelechy.

You will learn

• How the dictum "you can be anything you want to be" is dead wrong
• How your calling is inborn, and your mission is to follow the imperatives of your Soul
• How to use the Entelechy Process for listening to the oak tree of yourself
• How Soul speaks to us in a language beyond regular words — through symbols, images, dreams, metaphors, sensations, and feelings
• How to use Soul-Encounter technologies to activate your connection with the Imaginal Realm and receive guidance from your deepest self, beyond the mind

The SoulQuest is a daylong solitary ceremony in nature, where you will fast and pray for a Vision of your purpose. You might ask, "Why would I want to leave the comfort and security of my home to go into wild nature to explore my soul's purpose?" Humans have always gone to nature to find their calling — the Buddha awakened under a tree; Jesus went to the desert; Mohammad was fasting and praying in a cave when the Koran came to him; Moses went to the top of a mountain to bring a vision for his people.

You will learn

• An ancient nature-based ceremony that has been practised throughout the ages
• How to allow wild nature to mirror your wild soul back to YOU, revealing undiscovered layers of depth in your being
• The three universal elements of the SoulQuest — immersion in nature, fasting from food and company, and transformational practices
• How to prepare for SoulQuest — what to bring, how to stay safe
• How to become an open vessel capable of being filled with your Soul's sacred calling

There are parts of yourself that resist living your deepest purpose — the Critic, the Sceptic, the Controller, the Rebel, the Achiever, the Protector, and the Image Consultant. When one of these parts exhibits resistance during your attempts to embrace your soul's purpose, you may experience tension, anxiety, paralysis, fear, or find yourself in a state of constant distraction.

You will learn

• That resistance to your Soul's deepest purpose is natural
• Both the real and imagined risks of living your true purpose from the perspective of the voices of resistance
• How to uncover the authentic concerns of these parts of yourself
• How to work with your voices of resistance so YOU can live your life's destiny
• To use the Ocean Cave Meditation to awaken hidden dimensions of your Soul

Your objective is to embody your soul's gifts, so you can freely share them with the world. Native peoples named this gift the Giveaway. The Giveaway is a contribution that adds to the development of another person, and is sometimes referred to as your unique transformational process. Performing your Giveaway is both deeply fulfilling and an impassioned response to the world's needs. The theologian Frederick Buechner put this eloquently:

You will learn

• A guided meditation that takes you to the place where the present meets the future
• What your High-Definition Giveaway is, specifically:
  • Who are the people for whom your Giveaway is meant
  • What circumstances are your people in when they come to you
  • When is the optimum time to meet your people and perform your Giveaway
  • Where will your Giveaway happen
  • Why does performing your Giveaway have personal and evolutionary significance
  • How do you perform the Giveaway — what are the progressive steps of the ladder of your Giveaway

The SoulQuest is a daylong solitary ceremony in nature, where you fast and pray for a Vision of your purpose. This is the module where preparation becomes practice — where the road map becomes the road, and YOU walk it alone.

You will learn

• To perform an ancient nature-based ceremony for eight hours on the land, out in wild nature
• How to allow wild nature to mirror your wild soul back to you, revealing undiscovered layers of depth in your being

Upon completing your daylong ceremony on the land, the incorporation phase of the SoulQuest welcomes you back into your soul-infused community of fellow questers and into your new life. The return from a SoulQuest is often a time of great energy and delight, honouring the wholeness YOU have found. You will share your story in council while I honour and mirror back the insights and gifts you have recovered from your journey.

You will learn

• A technique for living purposefully immediately
• The wisdom of authentic failures
• How to re-enter your former life, bringing your unique gifts to your people
• How to keep the flame of your Vision alive in the midst of an often indifferent world
• Practices for protecting your Vision from fading into a memory
• Practices for deepening and embodying your purpose in your relationships, work, and ordinary life

Discovering your purpose is a momentous event. As Mark Twain noted:

The challenge before you is to live a life in accordance with the deepest truths you have been graced to know at the core of your being. As the poet David Whyte wrote:

You will learn

• How to re-enter your former life, bringing your unique gifts to your people
• To construct purpose statements that accurately distil the essence of your purpose
• Practices for deepening and embodying your purpose in your relationships, work, and ordinary life

Module twelve is the point where you switch your focus from discovering your purpose to living your purpose with wild abandon — as a demonstration of love and service to Life.

You will learn

• Practices for deepening and embodying your purpose in your relationships, work, and ordinary life
• How to craft a unique myth that captures the essence of your soul's unfolding story in this life