Our Philosophy

Reaching Your Potential—
Learning, Growing, and Transforming

Human beings develop along the same lines regardless of race, nationality, or culture. Just as some people can run further than others in a certain amount of time, some people develop more—they get more out of life. Some just keep learning the same lessons over and over, while some transform into their most radiant selves. Our philosophy aims to maximize that development.

We see education as coming from its Latin root, educare, to draw out. From this perspective, learning and growing are seen as the natural state of humanity, and it is the role of education to facilitate this. We see human beings as robust, adaptive, expressive, sufficient, whole and complete beings. We believe there is a native intelligence in all human beings that may be facilitated or blocked to some extent—an intelligence that can guide us unerringly to our highest possibilities in fulfillment and service if unblocked and consciously developed.

We have all had our growth stunted to some extent. It is the premise of this course that our job as adults is to continue our own development. In the process you will learn how to assess and meet your own needs and the needs of others in ways that maximize your satisfaction, success, and development, while serving fully and helping yourself and others to reach to their highest potential.

We believe that everyday human situations and problems present unlimited opportunities for personal growth and spiritual development. There is a highest truth of our experience in every moment that represents our personal cutting edge and, by following this truth, we are automatically confronted with our next lessons and opportunities and thereby drawn forward on our individual path. It is part of our purpose as human beings to learn unlearned lessons, resolve unfinished business, and develop our gifts in the service of humanity.

Plants grow better, faster, and healthier with plenty of sun, appropriate water, and nutrients. Without the correct mix of these, they become stunted or even die. Similarly, people need certain things in order to develop: physical care, interpersonal attention, room to express ourselves, and opportunities to flex our emotional and physical muscles, to commit, and ultimately to take full charge and responsibility for our lives, facilitating our transformation into fully conscious, responsible leaders of our world.