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SOUL-CENTERED LIVING I

A WAY OF BEING AND A WAY OF LIFE

A 10-Month Online Certificate Program in Spiritual Psychology

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A Message From Drs. Ron* & Mary Hulnick

USM Founding Faculty, Pioneers in Spiritual Psychology, and Your Facilitators for Soul‑Centered Living I

Spirit continues to be at work in the University of Santa Monica Online classroom in amazing and wondrous ways that touch our Hearts and inspire us to continue this work of the Spiritual Heart during this very challenging time as the evolutionary tide on the planet is rising!

Never has the need on the planet for this work been greater, nor the opportunity—and necessity—to Heal the issues we took embodiment to heal more apparent. And never have the opportunities for deep Healing and revelation of the majesty of the Authentic Self been more available.

It is with Gratitude in our Hearts and our many years of experience applying the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology in our own daily lives, and supporting thousands of students in learning to do the same, that we share the Soul-Centered Living I Program with you. It is our intention to provide you with inspiration, encouragement, practical tools, and opportunities for learning how to live into the Spiritual Context—the Awareness that you are a Divine Being having a human experience and that your life serves Spiritual purpose.

Through participating in the Program and applying the information and tools you’re learning, you can experience the Blessings of nothing less than transforming your consciousness and transforming your life and being an active participant in transforming the world. Welcome aboard.

Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick
President & Chief Creative Officer


*Ron’s participation health and schedule permitting. 

Hear about grad Ed Adam’s “profound and life changing” experience at USM!

To read and hear more Grads share about their USM experience, click here.

The University of Santa Monica’s world-renowned Soul-Centered Living I: A Way of Being and a Way of Life—A 10-month Certificate Program in Spiritual Psychology is now available to anyone on the planet through the Blessings and advances in online classroom technology such that we can provide a truly Soul-Centered educational process online.

Current student experiences are best expressed by what they are sharing with us regarding their participation in the Online classroom, “the Loving transcends the medium.”

All of us at USM are so enthusiastic! Who would have thought we could successfully translate this world-renowned Program to a live online offering available to students around the world without your needing to leave the safety and sanctuary of your own home!!

We invite you to join us for a year to remember.

usm’s mission

The University of Santa Monica is dedicated to communicating the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology™ Worldwide through the process of Soul-Centered Education.

What Is Spiritual Psychology?

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For more than 40 years, we have provided students with opportunities for learning and applying life-changing Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica. You may be asking, “What is Spiritual Psychology? What are these Principles and Practices? Can they help alleviate the mental anguish and emotional suffering I experience at times? Can they assist me in transforming my consciousness and my life—knowing my life purpose and living into it?”

We say, “Yes. That is exactly what they’re designed for!”

If you delve into the meaning of the word psyche, you’ll find phrases such as “breath, principle of life, soul.” But if you explore the meaning of the word psychology, you’ll see “the science of mind and behavior.” Somehow, in the translation from essence to clinical practice, the most important aspect of psyche has been lost. We recognize our calling as restoring the spiritual dimension to the Heart of an authentic psychological inquiry. It is this reintegration that is the Heart of a truly Spiritual Psychology, which we define as the study and practice of Conscious Awakening. As my [Ron’s] first spiritual teacher was fond of saying, “The reason psychology was inspired onto the planet was because humanity forgot why it was here.”

And what does Awakening mean? It begins with the awareness that we simultaneously reside in two worlds. We are most aware of the one known as physical-world reality. It’s the world of our everyday existence, including relationships, work, finances, health, weather, politics, etc., with which we are familiar and which we think of as reality. It is the world we know through our five senses.

And, as we are becoming more and more aware, beyond five-sense, observable, material reality, there is another reality. It is non-material, multi-dimensional, and spiritual in nature. For our purposes, we define Awakening as becoming more and more aware of this “other” reality, where we experience our Essential Spiritual Nature as Loving, Peaceful, Joyful, Free, Enthusiastic, Beautiful, Creative, Wise, and more! The Persian poet and mystic, Jalaluddin Rumi, was certainly speaking from an Awakened state when he wrote:

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.

Awakening into the Awareness of who, or more accurately what, you truly are and living your life from within that Awakened state is the essence of Spiritual Psychology. Today, as the evolutionary tide on the planet is rising, and larger numbers of people are Awakening to the Awareness that they are, in fact, Divine Beings having and using a human experience, the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology provide context and tools for living into that Awareness. It is, in fact, our destiny to Awaken; for as we do so, we are actually Remembering that which is and always has been true.

This can be considered your personal introduction to what we speak of as “the Michelangelo effect,” which was so brilliantly expressed by the master sculptor himself when he said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” In just such a way, Awakening is not a journey of “becoming”; it is a process of “Remembering.”

Now here’s what to us is the most interesting and exciting part. This process of Awakening is not primarily a meditative process, though we encourage a spiritual practice we refer to as Spiritual Exercises. Awakening can be facilitated by engaging in an active process of releasing or dissolving the self-created barriers within your consciousness that are all that prevent you from knowing the Majesty of your Soul—from experientially knowing that you are the Presence of Love.

As written in A Course in Miracles—

“Your task is not to seek for love but to seek and find all the barriers you’ve built against it,” and to that we add, “… and to dissolve them.”

Live Online Education—USM Style

A new age is dawning here at USM!!

For more than 40 years, USM has attracted students who were so deeply called to participate in the University’s Programs that they traveled great distances from around the world each month, including from places as far away as Dubai, UAE; Oslo, Norway; Kenya, Africa; Sydney, Australia; Quito, Ecuador; as well as many European countries.

Now, as a consequence of the global pandemic, Ron and Mary have redesigned USM’s dynamic, Spirit-filled curriculum such that it can be delivered online while maintaining its experiential nature.

This change in delivery system is in harmony with the University’s mission of Communicating the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology Worldwide through the process of Soul-Centered Education.

Part of the question we asked was: How would this immersive Soul-Centered education, which takes place inside the Spiritual Context, translate into an online format?

What is amazing is students report the Heart-to-Heart, Soul-to-Soul connection and palpable transmission of Loving are as present and enlivening as ever.

 

Highlights of the USM online classroom experience include:

  • Online classes for this 10-month Program are conducted live in a supportive educational environment beginning with a powerful three-day weekend. Weekends 2–9 meet Saturday and Sunday, one weekend a month. The tenth class and culminating experience is a Three-Day Laboratory.
  • In addition, a powerful class is held one Tuesday evening per month between class weekends. (Note that this is also available the following Thursday mornings.)
  • Facilitator talks are followed by three-person “trio” processes through which participants can directly apply and experience the information presented, discovering for themselves the value and workability of the Principles & Practices of Spiritual Psychology.
  • During trios, students learn and practice 36 Soul-Centered Basic Skills, tools of Healing, Awakening, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness. They also learn and practice powerful tools of Co-Creation.
  • Large group sharing follows each trio process during which students share their experiences from the trio and ask questions.
  • Sharing segments are opportunities to witness and experience Healing and to learn directly from master facilitators, Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick.
  • The class becomes a supportive community of like-minded and like-hearted individuals.
  • Spiritual Psychology, as experienced in the live online Classroom, is heartfelt, relevant, practical, transformational—and most importantly, Spirit-inspired. 
    In plain English, it is life-changing.
Sanya Bari, USM student of Spiritual Psychology

This program has saved my marriage, doubled my earnings, healed my relationships with myself and my extended family/friends, and allowed me to create and maintain sustained joy and aliveness.

With two Master's Degrees in Psychology plus years of study to earn additional certifications, I can easily vouch that this program has been the best thing I have ever done for myself in the 46 years I have been alive.

I would highly recommend this program to absolutely anyone who wants to live a full life experiencing joy and fulfillment.

Benefits

Soul-Centered Living I: A Way of Being and a Way of Life
  • Awakening into the realization that you are a Divine Being having and using a human experience.
  • Living into the Spiritual Context and activating an upgraded operating system within your consciousness based on a shift in perception about who you are and what you are doing here.
  • Deepening your experience of the Acceptance, Cooperation, Understanding, Enthusiasm, Empathy, Neutrality, Inner Knowing, Creativity, Wisdom, Joy, Unconditional Loving, Authenticity, and Aliveness of your Authentic Self.
  • Discovering the distinction between the Goal Line (Physical World Reality, including career, relationship, health, family, life purpose, and meaningful contribution) and the Soul Line (Awakening into your Essential Spiritual Nature) and how you can use both to move forward in your life.
  • Positively transforming your consciousness and your life by learning and integrating the 33 Principles and 40 Soul-Centered Basic Skills—foundational Practices of Spiritual Psychology—as a Way of Being and a Way of Life.
  • Learning and applying Principles and Practices of Co-Creation in service to more consciously architecting your life in harmony with your Soul’s purpose, Heartfelt dreams, and aspirations.
  • Learning how challenging experiences, mental anguish, and emotional suffering can be healed and used as gateways to Spiritual Awakening.
  • Embracing a Learning Orientation to Life, including Accepting and Cooperating with your Spiritual curriculum—healing the patterns you took embodiment to learn and grow through and expressing the gifts you came to share.
  • Freeing yourself from the emotional reactivity of “I’m upset because … ” through cultivating the Practices of Neutral Observation and Compassionate Self-Forgiveness.
  • Meeting like-hearted and like-minded people.
  • Embracing and practicing the Hallmarks of Soul-Centered Living. These Hallmarks include knowing how to …
    • Use all of life’s experiences in service to your Awakening and access practical tools to do so.
    • Embrace that your Essential Nature is Loving and live accordingly.
    • Relate with yourself in Compassionate and Healing ways that free you from mental anguish and emotional suffering.
    • Accelerate your Awakening through intention and effectively using tools of issue resolution.
    • Clarify your life’s purpose and translate it into meaningful and achievable goals.
    • Experience the Freedom and Empowerment available through accepting 100% responsibility for your life.
    • Live a life of greater purpose, meaning, and fulfillment as well as Joy and True Happiness.
    • Use the practical and game-changing Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology as a Way of Being and a Way of Life.

The Essence of
Soul-Centered Living—
A Way of Being and a Way of Life—
is Awakening
into the
Awareness of
who you truly are—
Co-Creating and living your life
from within that Awakened state.

Program Structure

The Soul-Centered Living I Program includes five sequential and cumulative courses that empower students to integrate the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology as a Way of Being and a Way of Life.

  • Awakening & Co-Creating I: Entering the Spiritual Context
    (October, November & December)
  • Awakening & Co-Creating II: The Four Levels of Consciousness—Putting The Map In Motion
    (January, February & March)
  • Awakening & Co-Creating III: A Learning Orientation to Life—Living the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology
    (April, May & June)
  • Awakening & Co-Creating Creating IV: Engaging in the Art & Practice of Co-Creation
    (One Tuesday Evening per month with Thursday morning reprise for International Students, October through June)
  • Awakening & Co-Creating V: A Culminating Three-Day Spiritual Psychology Laboratory
    (Friday, Saturday & Sunday in July)

Live online classes for this 10-month Program are conducted in a supportive educational environment beginning with a powerful three-day weekend in October. Subsequent weekends two through nine meet Saturday and Sunday, one weekend a month.

The fourth course, Engaging in the Art & Practice of Co-Creation, is offered as a monthly Tuesday evening class. (Note that due to time zones differential for our international students, the Tuesday evening course is made available the following Thursday morning.)

The tenth class and culminating experience is a Three-Day Spiritual Psychology Laboratory. This course is a capstone to the Soul-Centered Living I Program and a bridge to the Second Year Program, Life Mastery & Soul-Centered Living II. Please refer to the Class Schedule below for dates and hours.

The content, methodology, and processes of this Program provide students opportunities to recalibrate their consciousness and their lives at a higher level. Classes emphasize relevant, immediately usable information, skills, and experiences designed to support students in Awakening into the Authenticity of who they truly are, Healing the patterns they took embodiment to heal, and empowering them in sharing their gifts thereby making a meaningful contribution in the world.

Soul-Centered Living I is an invitation from Ron and Mary’s Hearts to yours: to inhabit your Soul nature even more fully and to share your Soul-Song, which only you can sing, in the world.

Course Descriptions

Soul-Centered Living I: A Way of Being and a Way of Life
These courses are offered sequentially over ten months.

Awakening & Co-Creating I: Entering the Spiritual Context

The first three months of the Soul-Centered Living I Program provide an experiential introduction to the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology, a portal to transforming your consciousness and transforming your life while learning to live within the Spiritual Context. The point of entry is the Awareness that you are a Divine Being having and using a human experience for the purpose of Awakening.

Trio processes as well as Facilitator talks and large group sharing support students in learning and practicing 16 Soul-Centered Basic Skills, tools of Healing, Awakening, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness. These include Seeing the Loving Essence; Heart-Centered Listening; Perception Checking; Responsibility I—The Power of Choice; Responsibility II—Shifting Perspective Through Ownership; Reframing Issues as Blessings; Compassionate Self-Forgiveness; and Seven Steps to Issue Resolution. In addition, students learn and practice Principles and tools of Co-Creation.

The content and processes of this course provide students opportunities to recalibrate their consciousness and their lives at a higher level—to experience a change in perception from the duality of the ego’s operating system to seeing life, including both challenges and opportunities, through Soul-Centered Eyes. Classes emphasize relevant, immediately usable information, skills, and experiences designed to support students in Awakening into the Authenticity of who they truly are, Healing the patterns they took embodiment to heal and learning tools of Co-Creation that empower them to intend and manifest their lives more in harmony with what has heart, meaning, and purpose for them.

Awakening & Co-Creating II:
The Four Levels of Consciousness: Putting the Map in Motion

The second three months of the Program provide opportunities for students to continue deepening their understanding and application of the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology in their everyday lives, both personally and professionally. This course builds on the foundational information and Soul-Centered Basic Skills introduced in Awakening and Co-Creation I. It includes the experiential application of Practices for working within each of the four levels of consciousness—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—included in the Spiritual Psychology map of consciousness. Each Practice is seen and applied through the lens of Spiritual Psychology.

These include:

  • Spiritual Psychology and a Behavioral Practice
  • Spiritual Psychology and a Person-Centered Practice
  • Spiritual Psychology and a Gestalt Practice
  • Spiritual Psychology and a Rational-Emotive Practice
  • Spiritual Psychology and an NLP Practice: Reframing
  • Spiritual Psychology and a Psychosynthesis Practice

In addition, students are presented with the opportunity to learn a primary practice of Spiritual Psychology known as Self-Counseling. Additional Soul-Centered Basic Skills are presented and practiced including Giving Effective Feedback; Receiving Feedback Effectively; Stepping Free—Experiencing and Enjoying Living Beyond Your Comfort Zone; Responsibility III—Self‑Honoring Choices; and Identifying, Owning, and Accepting Projections.

Awakening & Co-Creating III: A Learning Orientation to Life—Living the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology

The next three months of the Program support students in further integrating a Learning Orientation to life applying the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology in their everyday lives. Each month has a specific focus—the seventh month is Living Into Your Purpose and Answering the Call of Spirit; the eighth month is Cleansing the Lens of Your Perception; and the ninth month is Accepting and Sharing Your Gifts.

Additional Soul-Centered Basic Skills are presented and practiced including Facilitating Lesson Awareness; Accessing Intuition and Cultivating Inner Guidance; Cleansing the Lens of Perception Through Identifying, Owning, Accepting, and Dissolving Negative Projections; Identifying, Owning, and Accepting Positive Projections in Service to Soul Purpose; Identifying, Clarifying and Honoring Your Heartfelt Dreams; and Asking for What You Want.

Awakening & Co-Creating IV: Engaging in the
Art & Practice of Co-Creation

Through our focus and actions, we create. We are creating all the time through our beliefs, thoughts, words, choices, attitudes, and actions. As you Awaken and become more Aware, you have the opportunity to become a more conscious Co-Creator and conduct your life in greater harmony with your Soul’s Purpose and Heartfelt dreams.

What will you co-create as you transform your consciousness and transform your life? What is the calling of your Heart…? What matters to you most…? What heartfelt dreams are gestating inside…? What gifts did you take embodiment to share…?

This course meets once each month on Tuesday evenings from 5:00 to 8:30 pm PT. The intention of this course is identifying and clarifying an area of your life that has Heart and meaning for you with the intention of manifesting that area more in harmony with what you envision for yourself and the Highest Good of all concerned.

The process involves placing into practice the Soul-Centered tools of Co-Creation and Manifestation along with the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology. Wholehearted engagement on both the Goal Line and the Soul Line provides opportunities for experiencing greater Aliveness and for recalibrating your consciousness and life at higher levels.

Awakening & Co-Creating V: Revelation and Expression of the Authentic Self—Three-Day Spiritual Psychology Laboratory

This experience is a capstone to Soul-Centered Living I: A Way of Being and a Way of Life and a bridge to Life Mastery & Soul-Centered Living II: A Gateway to Freedom. The laboratory is designed to support students in synthesizing, further integrating, and effectively utilizing the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology, in service to the primary intent of the Soul-Centered Living I Program—a transformed consciousness and a transformed life. The three days provide opportunities for demonstrating mastery through entering the Spiritual Context and effectively working within the mental and emotional levels of consciousness, releasing limiting beliefs, misinterpretations of reality, and misidentifications in service to issue resolution and moving forward on the Heartfelt dreams that matter most to you. The lab also provides exceptional opportunities for transcending the duality of the ego and experiencing the revelation and expression of the Authenticity of who you are—the Presence of Love. Hallmarks of the Authentic Self include Acceptance, Unconditional Loving, Peace, Aliveness, Joy, Wisdom, Inner Knowing, Compassion, and Enthusiasm.
Hear from Grad Kamin Samuels how USM Foundational Skills shifted her life into the life of her dreams!

We shall teach and learn to cure ourselves rather than alleviate symptoms.
We shall transcend to the point of going through something for the last time.
Completion will be a part of the spiritual ecology.

Next Steps

Admission—Next Steps

In order to support the experience of being part of an educational community, please note that USM accepts only 250 highly qualified students into this foundational program.

We are committed to ensuring that all students who participate in the Program are ready for the depth of work that occurs. Therefore, we require students to engage in a thorough Application process to support them in clarifying their intention and ascertaining their readiness.

Soul-Centered Living I Admissions Criteria

For acceptance to Soul-Centered Living I: A Way of Being and a Way of Life—A 10‑Month Online Certificate Program in Spiritual Psychology Online, the University of Santa Monica’s Admissions Committee uses the following criteria to evaluate each applicant’s completed Application:

  • Commitment to life-long learning.
  • Emotional/psychological maturity, including interpersonal competencies, attributes, and skills necessary to derive value from participating in a large-group educational process that emphasizes experiential learning.
  • Intention to actively engage in learning and applying the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology.
  • Commitment to full participation and completion of the Program.

The Application Process for Soul-Centered Living I

  • Step 1: Pay your deposit. This deposit holds your space as you move through the application process.
  • Step 2: Speak with an Admissions Advisor.  If you haven’t already spoken with an Admissions Advisor to explore how this life-changing, Soul-Centered, experiential education can support you in transforming your consciousness and transforming your life, we invite you to schedule a call with a member of our Admissions team.
  • Step 3: Complete your online application. You’ll receive an application via email within 24 hours of registering. We recommend giving yourself dedicated time (minimum 1 hour) to share what brings you to this Program at this time and your heartfelt intentions for your participation. The application review is intended to ensure every student is ready for the deeper work in consciousness this Program offers.
    NOTE: Your application is due 14 days from the date of registration.
    Once completed, your application will be considered by the Application Review Committee. This process can take up to 30 days depending on the number of applications being reviewed.
  • Step 4: Receive notification of decision. You’ll be notified by the Admissions Team as to whether or not you’ve been accepted into the Program. When you are accepted, your deposit will be applied toward your first month’s tuition. If you are not accepted, your deposit will be refunded.

Click here to begin the Application Process.

Loyalty to Your Soul 2022 & 2023 participants click here for discounted first month.

If you’d like to explore how the life-changing Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology can support you in transforming your consciousness and transforming your life, we invite you to schedule a call with Donna Otmani, our USM Admissions Advisor. These conversations are for you! Donna will do her best to:

  • answer your important questions,
  • explore what calls you to USM at this time,
  • and share her own experience of the essence of Soul-Centered Education, including the highlights of the USM Online Classroom.

Donna is a USM graduate and she understands every part of the process. She can share her own experience of the Program as well as assist you in determining whether or not USM’s Soul-Centered experiential education is a fit for you at this time.

Donna Otmani

To schedule a call with Admissions,
click here.

View and download this Program information as a PDF.

It Starts Within You

For more than 40 years, the University of Santa Monica has offered pioneering experiential educational Programs in Spiritual Psychology supporting more than 6,500 graduates in Awakening more fully into the Awareness of who they truly are while living more in harmony with their life purpose as they take action, making a meaningful contribution in their world.

It has been said, a tree is known by its fruit.  USM is known by its graduates who are a multitude of living, breathing, Awakening Souls, many of whom are committed not just to the transformation of themselves but to the transformation of their world as well.

How does this transformation and Awakening occur? What kind of educational process catalyzes empowerment within its students and graduates creating a transformational ripple effect throughout the world?

The educational paradigm the University of Santa Monica brings forward is both radical and simple.

The transformed world you seek around you can only emerge by first transforming the world within you. That world is your own consciousness.

For more than four decades, USM students and graduates have discovered their own answers to life’s essential questions and are using their transformation in consciousness to actively transform the worlds of business, medicine, media, coaching, counseling, law, education, family, and more.

What they have discovered, and are using to transform themselves and their worlds, is available for all to discover—

A transformed world and a transformed life are only as far away as your own consciousness.

And that starts within you.

“The University of Santa Monica embodies the true meaning of education: to draw out from within. The Programs are rigorous as well as deeply healing. Structured so that working adults can attend over a series of weekends, the Programs in Spiritual Psychology are much needed wisdom training for our times. Come and join a family that inspires as well as educates.”

The University of Santa Monica provides a wonderful environment for real education and spiritual transformation. It draws a high-caliber, spiritually mature student who has clear intentions. When you bring together the sincerity of the student, the cutting-edge Programs that the University offers, and the quality of teachers that are facilitating the Programs, you have an authentic wisdom school. I have witnessed many of the students matriculate through the Program, and I can see they have walked hand in hand with quality.

USM | University of Santa Monica, center for Spiritual Psychology

Are You Ready?

Are you ready to answer the call and participate in this very special offering providing opportunities for:

  • Experientially learning and integrating the life-changing Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology—as thousands of USM grads have done before you—as a Way of Being and a Way of Life.
  • Recognizing that change begins within and you have the Spiritual capacity within you to come awake to your Essential Loving Nature thereby transforming your consciousness and transforming your life.
  • Participating in a dynamic educational process designed to support you in healing the patterns you took embodiment to learn and grow through.
  • Standing forward in the strength of your heart and sharing the gifts you took embodiment to share.
  • Exploring and transmuting the material surfacing within your own consciousness catalyzing opportunities for deep Healing and the revelation of the Authentic Self—your Soul Essence.
  • Recognizing and accepting the challenge inherent in Gandhi’s statement:  “My life is my message,” by answering the call to Sacred Activism, which is nothing less than Loving in action.
Join us for a year to remember!

Class Schedule

A Schedule You Can Live With

Classes meet Saturday and Sunday, one weekend a month for nine months, plus one Tuesday evening per month between class weekends. The 10-month Program culminates in a Three-Day Laboratory. Please note that the first weekend meets Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Weekend Classes

  • Stay Tuned! 

Weekend Schedule

Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pacific
Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pacific

*(First weekend includes Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pacific)

Tuesday Classes**

  • Stay Tuned!

Tuesday Hours

5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Pacific

**A replay with live trios of each Tuesday’s class is also offered on the following Thursday morning.10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Pacific

Note: All ending times are approximate. There is a meal break of 75 minutes on each Weekend and Lab day, along with other shorter breaks throughout each day.

Three-Day Spiritual Psychology Laboratory

Stay Tuned!

Lab Schedule

Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pacific
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pacific
Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pacific

The Three-Day Intensive is sequential and cumulative.
It is very important that students participate in its entirety.

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The Essence of Soul-Centered Living—
A Way of Being and a Way of Life—
is Awakening
into the
Awareness of
who you truly are—
Co-Creating and living your life
from within that Awakened state.

Tuition

Monthly Tuition

$1,200 for the 10 Months (October–July)

10 months of Classes x $1,200 per month

Total Program Cost

Total  $12,000

Monthly Payment Schedule

Class
Tuition
Due Date 
October
$1,200
Upon Registration
November
$1,200
10/15/2023
December
$1,200
11/15/2023
January
$1,200
12/15/2023
February
$1,200
1/15/2024
March
$1,200
2/15/2024
April
$1,200
3/15/2024
May
$1,200
4/15/2024
June
$1,200
5/15/2024
July
$1,200
6/15/2024

Special Tuition for Grad Audits*

$900 for the 10 Months (October–July)

10 months of Classes x $900 per month

Total Program Cost

Total $9,000

*Grad Audits = Those who have completed Soul‑Centered Living I or the First Year of the two-year Program.

The Real Story of Awakening

What is the real story of Awakening as you live more and more fully into the Awareness that you truly are a Divine Being having a human experience? What happens as you integrate skills such as Seeing the Loving Essence and Heart-Centered Listening and they become a Way of Being?

What transpires when you catch on to the fact that life is happening inside your consciousness and not “out there” as you previously thought? What happens when you realize that your experience in physical-world reality is determined largely by the beliefs found within the matrix of your perceptual filter, functioning as your internal operating system … and you consciously begin downloading and installing a “Spiritual Awareness” software upgrade?

What shifts occur when you realize you are the architect of your life, and that your inner and outer choices are the building blocks of your future … and you begin making more Self-Honoring choices, choices more in harmony with your Loving nature and your Soul’s Purpose?

What happens when you wake up to the Authentic Empowerment available through taking responsibility for your judgments and upsets with the intention of releasing them … and you begin realizing you are at cause rather than at the effect?

What happens when you begin to apply Loving to the places inside where there is hurt … and you engage in Compassionate Self-Forgiveness of your judgments, misinterpretations, and misidentifications—and you let them go?

What happens when the deep wellspring of Compassion that resides within your Authentic Self begins Flowing abundantly through you … and you wake up into the Awareness that you are Love?

Here’s what happens! You’ve struck it rich! This is when life truly begins, for in those moments of Revelation, you know the Mother Lode, the Source of True Gold, is within you—in fact, it is you! You’ve experienced your Authentic Self, and your Awakening Heart is aware of the download of Spirit’s Blessing through you as you.

Your consciousness becomes a conduit for Living Love and your course through life, an expression of that Love—for you know, as poet Rod McKuen knew: “It doesn’t matter who you love or how you love, but that you love.” To which we would add—for you are Love!

Education of the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Spiritual Psychology and Sacred Activism

As students experience the deep Healing of issues and ego patterns available through learning and utilizing the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology both in the University of Santa Monica classroom and the classroom of their everyday lives, they experience Awakening into their Essential Nature, the consciousness we refer to as the Authentic Self—Joyful, Compassionate, Wise, Creative, and Unconditionally Loving. It is this consciousness in which they have direct access to the Wisdom, Inspiration, Knowing, and Guidance of the Soul.

As this transformational process occurs over time, students become increasingly aware of their gifts and the deep yearning to be of service—to use their God-given gifts and lives in ways that serve the greater Awakening taking place on the planet at this time. They experience themselves hearing and answering the call to make a meaningful difference, contributing to real solutions to the urgent needs and challenges that face humanity. 

Our world has been destabilized by a global pandemic, economic and political uncertainty, as well as fire, flood, thirst, and hunger reflecting the dire need for the evolution of consciousness and yet-to-be-birthed solutions to meet these needs. As such, many are experiencing the call to activism. The call in so many hearts at this time is “How can I make a difference?”

At USM, we recognize the answer is activism, not based in shame, blame, judgment, against-ness, right-making and wrong-making, separation or violence. Real solutions do not emerge from the self-righteousness of the ego. Rather, they emerge from Sacred Activism based on knowing that growth in consciousness IS the vehicle for activation of the active ingredient essential to making a positive difference. This active ingredient essential to Healing, transformation, and real change is Loving … and Loving’s eternal flow activating Hearts in Healing … Serving … and Sharing. USM’s Programs have been designed and curated with this intention in mind and Heart.

At the University, we acknowledge that consciousness is fundamental—and as Spiritual Psychology Principle 20 states: 
Outer experience is a reflection of inner reality. 

The next steps of human agency—exercising choice and intentionality in co-creating a “new earth”—include: Healing through learning and continuing to do the work in consciousness necessary to cleanse the lens of perception. This work is done by recognizing that it’s an “inkblot world” and engaging in the difficult yet required work of accepting responsibility for the disturbance within our own consciousness that we project onto others and the world. This includes healing hurts, misunderstandings, and misidentifications that support the ego’s story of justified outrage, victimization, and separation. It means dismantling guilt, blame, and shame. We heal through applying Loving to the places inside where these patterns reside and forgiving ourselves for our judgments and misunderstandings. As John Lennon said, “Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.”  We say: change your lens, change your life, change your world.

At USM change begins within! Sacred Activism is recognized and honored as a path with Heart … a path of the Spiritual Warrior.   

We provide experiential education and tools for life that facilitate real and enduring transformation/change and equip graduates to make meaningful contributions in their world.

A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history.

On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

When, however, the deepest and most grounded spiritual vision is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing political, economic, and social institutions, a holy force—the power of wisdom and love in action—is born.

This force I define as Sacred Activism.

At a time when my internal cup was empty, USM filled me with insight, inspiration, and a deeper connection to who I truly am. For anyone on a path of healing, growth, or service, USM offers food for the soul, enlightenment for the mind, and peace for the heart. This school honors and respects every student in such a wonderful way. Regardless of who you are or what you do in the world, a USM education is a life-transforming gift that will sustain and support you all the days of your life.

The Students

As a student, the University of Santa Monica’s Programs provide you with opportunities for growth both personally and professionally through learning and applying the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology to everyday life experience. This educational process results in you experiencing greater connection with the authenticity of who you are, your life purpose, and enhanced levels of success and fulfillment. This empowers you to make a more meaningful contribution in your world.

A significant number of students hold advanced degrees in a variety of disciplines. 

Past graduates have included numerous individuals from each of the following groups:

  • Mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, etc.
  • Educators who are teaching at all levels and administrators of educational institutions.
  • Healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, chiropractors, physical therapists, and practitioners of alternative medicine.
  • Those who would like to enhance their interpersonal effectiveness and the quality of their relationships personally and professionally.
  • Business owners, executives, managers, supervisors, and consultants seeking to enhance both their leadership and interpersonal skills.
  • Individuals with a high level of interface with the public, including sales and marketing representatives, lawyers, professional coaches, realtors, ministers and practitioners, social activists, athletes, peace officers, military personnel, government workers, etc.
  • Artists from a wide range of creative disciplines, including authors, painters, poets, sculptors, dancers, classical and modern musicians, photographers, and actors from stage, television, and film.
  • Those on a spiritual path who would like to be of greater service to themselves and others who are seeking their next steps personally and professionally.
  • Those who are called to serve humanity as Sacred Activists.

“My life is my message.”

Students at the University of Santa Monica are adults with diverse cultural and varied educational, professional, and personal backgrounds. Programs are designed to accommodate those with both professional and family responsibilities. The weekend format allows students with full lives to participate. Since classes meet regularly over the course of ten consecutive months, deep bonds are formed as students become a community of support for one another.

As students progress through the Program, they recognize themselves as an integral part of a mutually supportive group of individuals committed to participating in a Soul-Centered educational process emphasizing enhanced Spiritual Awareness, the continual improvement of the quality of their lives, and living more in alignment with their Soul’s purpose.

As students complete the Program, they take their place within a community of individuals who are committed to a Learning Orientation to Life and to Soul-Centered Living.

USM’s Soul-Centered Living I Program provides:

  • An educational opportunity for adults with full lives from around the world to participate in USM’s Soul-Centered educational process available now online.
  • An educational model based upon an experiential learning process rather than the mere acquisition of information. The goal of learning is supporting students in integrating the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology in service to the resolution of issues, the revelation of the Authentic Self, and living highly purposeful and fulfilling lives.
  • An educational process that is Soul-Centered and is a spiritualizing process designed to bring forth the Beauty, Wisdom, and Compassion inherent in every human being.
  • An educational experience designed to positively transform the consciousness and lives of those participating.
  • An education for global citizenship for mature students whose intention is to Awaken to the awareness of who they truly are, cultivate global awareness, and are answering the call to make a difference with their lives.

Founding Faculty & Co‑Directors
Drs. Ron & Mary Hulnick

Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick are pioneers and leaders in the field of Spiritual Psychology™ as well as master teachers and facilitators of Awakening in Consciousness.

They are renowned educators, authors, and the Founding Faculty and Co-Directors of University of Santa Monica (USM), where they continue designing the University’s extraordinary curriculum and facilitating Soul-Centered Programs in Spiritual Psychology for more than 40 years that are on the frontier of Awakening in Consciousness. These Programs provide students opportunities to experience a rich, multi-dimensional, Soul-Centered educational process supporting deep Healing and Awakening into the fuller revelation, expression, and embodiment of the Authentic Self—the Beauty, Majesty, Wisdom, Creativity, and giftedness of each student. The golden opportunity is a transformed consciousness and a transformed life.

For 35 years, the University offered state-approved Master’s Degree Programs in Spiritual Psychology. In 2016, USM completed the Master’s offerings transitioning to Certificate of Completion offerings. In May 2020, with the advent of the global pandemic, the University underwent a second radical change to offering this life-changing experiential education Online to a global community. Drs. Hulnick continue developing and refining the curriculum and co-facilitating the Programs in the Online Classroom.

Mary is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Psychologist. Ron is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist retired in the state of California.

USM graduates share that being with Mary and Ron in the classroom, whether online or in person, is without exception one of the most transformative, Loving, and memorable experiences that they will cherish for a lifetime.

Ron and Mary are the authors of Loyalty to Your Soul: The Heart of Spiritual Psychology, published by Hay House and available in 12 countries and 8 languages and recently released as an audiobook read by the authors and available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes. Their latest book, Remembering the Light Within: A Course in Soul-Centered Living, was published by Hay House in 2017 and is available at www.ronandmaryhulnick.com.

It is with Gratitude in our Hearts and our many years of experience applying the Principles and Practices of Spiritual Psychology in our own daily lives, and supporting thousands of students in learning to do the same, that we share the Soul-Centered Living I Program with you. It is our intention to provide you with inspiration, encouragement, practical tools, and opportunities for learning how to live into the Spiritual Context—the Awareness that you are a Soul and that your life serves Spiritual purpose.

Through participating in the Program and applying the information and tools you’re learning, you can experience the Blessings of nothing less than transforming your consciousness and transforming your life and being an active participant in transforming the world. Welcome aboard.

There is no question that USM is on the leading edge, creating a model of what education could be, should be, and, in fact, HAS to be!

Loyalty to Your Soul 2022 & 2023 participants click here for discounted first month.

If you’re reading this and have questions about Soul-Centered Living I,
click here to schedule a call with Donna.

If you’re ready to begin the application process, click here.

—You’re Invited—

A Golden Opportunity to Live a Spirit-Inspired Life

A five-part course in spiritual psychology

Part V: OCTOBER 3, 2023 | 6PM PACIFIC
“Change Your Lens … Change Your Life—The Domino Effect of What You Believe … You Perceive … and You Receive”

The intention of this complimentary course is to provide those new to this work with an experience of some of the key elements that are integral to the Principles & Practices of Spiritual Psychology and to help you discern whether Soul-Centered Living I: A 10-Month Certificate Program in Spiritual Psychology is your next step in your journey.

For Grads, you know growth is a process and not an event. Being Present in the energy field provides an opportunity to support and welcome those new to USM, and to receive the Blessings available when the community gathers in the safe and sacred space for which USM is known.

Each evening will include at least one tool that you can use immediately in your everyday life.

Learn more and Register here.

To read an expanded answer to the question, “What is Spiritual Psychology?” click here for an article by Drs. Ron & Mary Hulnick entitled Spiritual Psychology: The Long-Awaited Convergence.

Arianna Huffington, fan of Spiritual Psychology

Arianna Huffington

Co-founder of The Huffington Post, Founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and best-selling author of 15 books.

“In today’s noisy, distracted world, it’s harder than ever to listen to your inner voice. Ron and Mary Hulnick are invaluable guides for anybody who wants to live a life of meaning and purpose.”

Arianna Huffington and Ron & Mary Hulnick at USM University of Santa Monica Spiritual Psychology Graduation
Robert Holden, fan of Spiritual Psychology

Robert 
Holden

Best-selling author of 11 books including Higher Purpose, Loveability, Life Loves You, Shift Happens, and Holy Shift

“These practices are designed to help you experience a holy shift from believing you are an ego in a body to realizing you are a Soul in the Universe. Imagine that! Imagine being grounded fully in your unconditional Self, sharing your Soul gifts with us all and living a truly Soul-Centered Life.”

Robert Holden with Ron & Mary Hulnick at USM University of Santa Monica Spiritual Psychology graduation
Iyanla Vanzant, USM University of Santa Monica Spiritual Psychology graduate

Iyanla
Vanzant

USM Graduate, Host of Iyanla: Fix My Life on the Oprah Winfrey Network, best-selling author of 18 books including Get Over It

“At a time when my internal cup was empty, USM filled me with insight, inspiration, and a deeper connection to who I truly am. For anyone on a path of healing, growth, or service, USM offers food for the soul, enlightenment for the mind, and peace for the heart. This school honors and respects every student in such a wonderful way.

Regardless of who you are or what you do in the world, a USM education is a life-transforming gift that will sustain and support you all the days of your life.”

Iyanla Vanzant with Ron & Mary Hulnick at USM University of Santa Monica Spiritual Psychology Graduation
Neale Donald Walsch, fan of Spiritual Psychology

Neale Donald Walsch

Best-selling author of 29 books including Conversations with God

The University of Santa Monica is an extraordinary institution, and if you have not heard about it, you need to.

Even if you already HAVE found your path in life and manifested the reality of your soul’s highest calling, you will want to know more about USM, if only in order to pass the word about it along to others.

There is no place quite like this place, and if you have been yearning to find your way in life, earnestly searching for a path to your own highest manifestation of the love that burns deeply within you for all of life and for all of humanity, I strongly urge you to investigate this breathtaking learning center.”

Neale Donald Walsch with Ron & Mary Hulnick under a USM University of Santa Monica Banner at Spiritual Psychology graduation

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