Soul-Centered Education

With Spiritual Psychology as USM's curriculum, Soul-Centered education refers to USM's delivery system. Classes are taught in a manner consistent with the curriculum. As such, the educational process is:

• Sacred - First and foremost, Soul-Centered education respects the inherent worth and value of each and every human being. This orientation assumes the importance of deeply held values including Unconditional Loving, Acceptance, Compassion, and Peace.
• Highly Experiential - While the acquisition of knowledge is important, it is only when knowledge is applied experientially that results can be observed and students can discern for themselves the value of what they are learning. Thus, each class becomes an experiential learning laboratory.
• Relevant and Practical - All new information has value in that it is immediately usable rather than simply theoretical. By the time the very first class is complete, students have learned principles and practices they can immediately apply in service to enhancing the quality of their lives.
• Transformational - When a Soul-Centered educational process is sacred, highly experiential, relevant and practical, participants experience themselves transforming in two distinct, yet mutually related ways: their consciousness awakens, expands, and uplifts, and their lives transform positively. These are natural and automatic consequences.
• Creative - As transformation occurs, students open up to new levels of creativity that had previously been dormant. Within an atmosphere of mutual support and encouragement, coupled with a supportive educational structure and process, newly recognized creative inspirations are channeled into positive expression.
• Inspirational - As students experience greater levels of creativity and develop the interpersonal and project management skills necessary to give them positive expression, they create opportunities to fulfill their deepest aspirations. This leads to each student discovering and implementing effective and fulfilling ways for making a meaningful contribution in their world.
• Academically Excellent - At USM, we recognize that there is always a newly developing, as well as an ancient, body of knowledge worth knowing. The goal is to honor those who have preceded us and, by standing on their shoulders, see further than they saw, thus adding depth and dimension to the art and science of USM's curriculum in Spiritual Psychology.
• Alive and Dynamic - An accurate indicator of a Soul-Centered educational process is the presence of aliveness, engagement, and vitality in each and every student. One of the most often shared comments by students is, "I could hardly wait to return to class this month."
• Fun - The joy of learning speaks for itself. Whoever said learning couldn't be fun? At USM, we laugh a lot, not at each other but with each other, as we share our humanity and uncover the joy of the Authentic Self.

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