Participants are welcomed into a learning environment whose structure is designed to heighten their awareness of their own untapped capacities. They connect with four inner centers of knowing, discover a time-tested system for transformation, and are invited to consider rich possibilities available for their choosing. 

Without a clear, coherent identity, adults flounder, often creating lives of addiction or despair. This course is an educational antidote for unfulfilling lives. Multiple carefully chosen exercises affirm participants’ life purposes, values, preferred energy patterns that, when taken together, offer solid footing to live their dreams across all fronts including having rewarding relationships, creating enjoyable work and that contributes to society as it meets their needs for time and financial well-being. 

We are relational beings who hold the capacity to either destroy or to affirm one another. Regardless of our past learning, we can unlearn old habits and develop new patterns for relating with  one another. This course presents a framework for developing interpersonal relationships that counter loneliness, aggression, violence, or other self-destructive types of decision-making and relating.

Every decision is about power. To be alive is to be entrusted with power. But too often we have learned ineffective ways of expressing our power. We even become afraid of our own power. This course remedies this dilemma as it offers a model of empowerment that can be learned and practiced in one’s daily decision making and behavioral choices. 

Perhaps creativity, more than any other human capacity, defines a person’s level of freedom from boredom or conformity. To live a life of joy and fulfillment, creativity, innovation, and service to something beyond one’s self is essential. So why is it that people often say, “I’m not creative.” During this course, participants discover their blocks to creativity and then engage in exercises to stimulate their creative forces. The class concludes with a whole-class shared creativity, innovation, and service project. 

Have you ever wondered why ‘those’ people think or act the way ‘they’ do?  Or, perhaps you feel a little afraid of people who look and talk differently than you?  We now live and work in a world of people from vastly different cultures with vastly different appearances, values, opinions and lifestyles so knowing how to interact and work with others in this climate of diversity can be daunting.  This course, based on studies of how humanity develops, is designed to help you appreciate that we all have a valuable role to play on this planet.  At the same time this course introduces you to tools and skills for bridging these differences so that you might interact in civil and respectful ways that make you more effective in life and work.  

Money is neutral.  In and of itself it is neither good nor bad.  Unfortunately, the world views money as a measuring stick of one’s success and one’s value.  Many of us have bought into that myth.  This course will show you that it’s your relationship with money that is more significant than how much money you make or have.  The relationship one has with money will determine if a person ever perceives themselves as having ‘enough.’ If our money issues were only about getting enough, then why is it that people who have won millions in the lottery are often bankrupt in a short amount of time?  Along the same vein, we read stories about people who have minimal income, live with all their needs met, die and leave the millions they’ve saved to charity.  Think about their mindset.  This course will help you identify your relationship with money and what could shift in you so that you feel more maneuverability in your finances.

Think about this statement:  People don’t mind hard work.  People mind not being useful.  Based on our years of collective study, we believe this to be true.  Good Work is where we bring our talents and our gifts.  People desperately want to think that their contributions at work truly matter and are valued!  Yes, we all need money, but over and over again we see examples of people wanting more than just a j-o-b that pays good money.  Good Work is what we would do even if we weren’t paid for it.  And, it will be experienced as meaningful to you, will be in alignment with your mission and purpose and will almost always meet the world’s needs.  This course provides opportunities to learn about these dimensions of your identity so that you can parlay those in ways that meets the world’s needs.

Sexuality is really another name for our life energy, how we express ourselves in this world.  It is as important as breathing, eating, sleeping and eliminating.  But, too often the term has been misunderstood as relating only to our genitals.  Healthy, life-giving sexual expression can be expressed through sexual intercourse, but there is more to sexual expression and healthy sexual relationships than that.  How we decide as to who, how, when and why we express our sexuality has an impact on us as well as our sexual partner/s, for good or not.  Without judgment or shame, this course helps participants look at their own level of sexual decision making, ranging from selfish to loving.

​This course is where participants connect all the Nostos courses.  Here is where they have the opportunity to reflect on their learning, revise their story and create a vision for their future Self.  There is capstone exercise which brings their Nostos experience together.  A formal graduation and certificate completes the 30-hour program.