What is the structure of the Global Purpose Expedition (GPE)?
The 10-week GPE contains exercises designed to incrementally expand and deepen your purpose, propel you on your path of purpose, expedite the realization of the many fruits of purpose (health, success, love, a better world) and connect you with a global community. It is an immersion into both the nature of your life’s purpose and the actual experience of living your life on purpose. The course contains:
How much time does it take?
This is a scalable program that meets you where you are at in your journey. It can be done in as little as 2 hours a week, or if you want to get the most out of your investment, you can keep going deeper by doing the bonus exercises and spend 5+ hours a week. If you are committed to doing the basic exercises, each week you’ll spend about:
That’s a 20-50-hour investment over the course of ten weeks to create decades of impact, fulfillment, success, joy and connection. Upon completion you will have a deeper connection to your purpose, the power to overcome resistance to living it, and a lifelong global community of people on fire with their purpose.
Curriculum
The GPE is comprised of the 10 most effective purpose exercises (and another 10 bonus exercises that take the work even deeper) I have encountered. I created these exercises based on the contributions of the leaders in the soul / purpose space. In a sense, this course is a survey of the work of the leaders in the purpose space, designed to be your first stop on the purpose journey. You will have the opportunity to learn more about each of these masters and go deeper with their work if you feel called.
Although this course is one of the most effective online purpose discovery programs, your experience will be unique to you. You may love some of the exercises, you may hate some, and some you might think are doing nothing for you. Some will take weeks or even months to finally land with you. That is just the nature of this work. There is nothing wrong if you don’t get a big breakthrough with each and every exercise. However, there is 95% chance that by the end of the course, you will be much more deeply connected to your purpose and have the clarity, confidence and courage to take action on it.
Moreover, you don’t have to take this course only once. You can do it the first time with just the basic exercise and then again with the basic and bonus exercises, or just come back every few years to refresh your purpose, discover new aspects of it and connect with the global purpose community.
Pre-course Work:
Before you begin, you will get clear on where you are right now on your journey. You will also get clear about your reasons for starting and completing the Global Purpose Expedition.
The course has 5 principle phases:
What happens when the Global Purpose Expedition is over?
Whatever your purpose dictates that you should do, you will begin to do. Here are a few options:
Alumni Groups
Now that you are a GPE graduate, you have the opportunity to connect with your global tribe of purpose-awakened leaders, people who are committed to the same things as you, by joining a purpose-driven alumni group that supports you and your purpose project. In this group you can share articles, developments and best practices, ask for advice, have accountability for your purpose project, and connect and collaborate with your fellow purposeful leaders around what matters most to you, your life’s purpose. Once you complete the program, you can join any of these alumni groups (or start one of your own) to take on big purposeful projects and create a purposeful movement in your field:
The 10-week GPE contains exercises designed to incrementally expand and deepen your purpose, propel you on your path of purpose, expedite the realization of the many fruits of purpose (health, success, love, a better world) and connect you with a global community. It is an immersion into both the nature of your life’s purpose and the actual experience of living your life on purpose. The course contains:
- 10 short teaching videos
- 10 basic exercises and 10 videos from purposeful luminaries such as Parker Palmer, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Tony Robbins, Simon Sinek, Elon Musk, David Brooks, Richard Leider, John Mackey, Edgar Mitchell
- [OPTIONAL] 10 bonus exercises and 10 in-depth videos with masters in the purpose / soul conversation: Tim Kelley, Bill Plotkin, Joanna Macy, Lynne Twist, Terry Patten, Carl Jung, Michael Meade, Rod Stryker, Jonathan Gustin, Stephen Jenkinson
- 10 live video Q&A calls to get clear on any questions you have about the exercises
- 10 live video pod calls (with four other people in the course) to learn from what others are experiencing with the exercises
- [OPTIONAL] 2, 2-hour trainings on becoming a pod leader.
- Private online forum
- Lifelong alumni groups of purpose awakened people around the world
How much time does it take?
This is a scalable program that meets you where you are at in your journey. It can be done in as little as 2 hours a week, or if you want to get the most out of your investment, you can keep going deeper by doing the bonus exercises and spend 5+ hours a week. If you are committed to doing the basic exercises, each week you’ll spend about:
- 15 minutes watching videos,
- 30 minutes doing the exercise,
- 1-hour on the live video pod call or live video Q&A session and
- 15 minutes contributing on the online forum.
That’s a 20-50-hour investment over the course of ten weeks to create decades of impact, fulfillment, success, joy and connection. Upon completion you will have a deeper connection to your purpose, the power to overcome resistance to living it, and a lifelong global community of people on fire with their purpose.
Curriculum
The GPE is comprised of the 10 most effective purpose exercises (and another 10 bonus exercises that take the work even deeper) I have encountered. I created these exercises based on the contributions of the leaders in the soul / purpose space. In a sense, this course is a survey of the work of the leaders in the purpose space, designed to be your first stop on the purpose journey. You will have the opportunity to learn more about each of these masters and go deeper with their work if you feel called.
Although this course is one of the most effective online purpose discovery programs, your experience will be unique to you. You may love some of the exercises, you may hate some, and some you might think are doing nothing for you. Some will take weeks or even months to finally land with you. That is just the nature of this work. There is nothing wrong if you don’t get a big breakthrough with each and every exercise. However, there is 95% chance that by the end of the course, you will be much more deeply connected to your purpose and have the clarity, confidence and courage to take action on it.
Moreover, you don’t have to take this course only once. You can do it the first time with just the basic exercise and then again with the basic and bonus exercises, or just come back every few years to refresh your purpose, discover new aspects of it and connect with the global purpose community.
Pre-course Work:
Before you begin, you will get clear on where you are right now on your journey. You will also get clear about your reasons for starting and completing the Global Purpose Expedition.
- The Science of Purpose - explore the scientifically validated reasons to find and live your life's purpose at http://ScienceOfPurpose.org
- Purpose Assessment Tool #1 - you’ll discover how connected you are currently to your purpose, how empowered you are to take action on it and how purpose-aligned your life is already
- Pro-Con-Fail - you’ll get clear on all your reasons to find, live and lead with your purpose, everything that could go wrong if you decide to live your purpose, and all the reasons you will give to stop doing the Global Purpose Expedition
The course has 5 principle phases:
- Hearing the Call (Weeks 1-2)
- During this phase, you’ll get connected to what is pulling you into a big life of purpose and how humanity stands to benefit from you coming fully online with your purpose.
- Week 1
- Basic exercise: Future Self #1 - you’ll connect with your fully actualized, perfected self to illuminate your high-definition life’s purpose
- Bonus exercise: Predictable Purposeless Self - you’ll get clear on why living a life of purpose is your only way forward by confronting what your life without purpose will look like for you, declaring what you’re committed to leaving behind in order to live a big purposeful life
- Week 2
- Basic exercise: Diagnostic - you’ll learn from the wisdom of 10 people in your life on your core, powers, and clues to your purposeful future
- Bonus exercise: Predictable Purposeless World - you’ll get clear on why leading with your purpose is your only way forward by confronting what a world without your purpose will look like, and declaring what you’re committed to leaving behind in order to live a big purposeful life
- The Search (Weeks 3-4)
- During this phase, you are leaving home and exploring the beyond. You are searching for signs of what your life’s purpose might be, looking more deeply at what breaks your heart and what clues in your subconscious and visual mind. Also during this phase, if it hasn’t happens already, the new possibilities for a more purposeful life will arise and you WILL encounter resistance to this work, to the perceived implications, considerations and constraints this new information reveals. You will begin to confront your purpose and get hooked by reasons why you cannot do this, or that now is not the right time. This is collectively referred to as “The Trials” - your resistance to change, your fear of leaving home. We will address all of your concerns, implications, constraints and considerations in the following phase, “The Trials”.
- Week 3
- Basic Exercise: Messages From the Future #1 - you’ll envision the totality of your full life of purpose, achievement and impact from the end of your life on purpose back to today
- Bonus Exercise: Messages From the Future #2 - you’ll envision the totality of your full life of pleasure, transcendence and connection, from the end of your life on purpose back to today
- Week 4
- Basic Exercise: Purposeful Titans - you’ll gain the wisdom of three purposeful titans, by interviewing three people who are living lives on purpose or have achieved mastery in a field you are passionate about
- Bonus Exercise: Vision Board - you’ll visually activate hidden aspects of your purpose through the process of creation
- The Trials (Weeks 5-6)
- This phase is the most intense and rewarding part of the expedition. Your pre-purpose life is protected by a formidable web of resistance. To actually find and embody your purpose, you’ll need to be tested, to endure and navigate The Trials of your resistance. In this phase, we’ll look at all the ways you have historically been stuck or blocked from finding your purpose and taking purposeful action.
- Week 5
- Basic Exercise: Revealing the Fears and Constraints - you’ll get clear on the reasons you give yourself and others to not live your purpose
- Bonus Exercise: Personality Code - you’ll discover the core types / themes of resistance and develop an understanding of how your personality developed
- Week 6
- Basic Exercise: Overcoming Resistance - you’ll get tools to uncover, transform and overcome future forms of internal resistance to taking purpose-aligned action
- Bonus: Origin Dialogues - you’ll dive deep into the origin, needs and future function of each aspect of your personality, revealing a new level of self-acceptance and self-love
- Revelation (Weeks 7-8)
- Now that you have passed The Trials, your resistance is catalogued, you have two new powers: 1. you have the power to understand the source of and transform future forms resistance and 2. you’ve got a wide, clear channel to uncover more purpose information. In this phase, you’ll do powerful soul encounter methods to reveal hidden aspects of your life’s purpose.
- Week 7
- Basic Exercise: Jungian Journaling - you’ll gain greater clarity on your craft, who you are meant to serve, how you contribute to them and the next step on your journey, your mission
- Bonus Exercise: Future Self #2- you’ll reconnect with your fully actualized, perfected self to reveal deeper contours of your life’s purpose
- Week 8
- Basic Exercise: Soul House - you’ll deepen your connection to your soul learn the wisdom of various incarnations of soul - young, healed, empowered, ancestral and universal
- Bonus Exercise: Life Story - you’ll reveal the deeper themes of your life, the deepest wisdom you cultivated through your life’s challenges, lessons and victories, illuminating your story and the one core truth you are here to share
- The Return (Weeks 9-10)
- With this new information about your purpose, you’re task is now to integrate this awareness, landing this new purpose information first internally, and then move it out into the world. This phase is where you descend your roots and move your purpose out into the world as an actual Purpose Project. You’ll get connected to the people you are meant to serve in the world, experience what it feels like to communicate from your life’s purpose, and see your Purpose Project come to fruition. In seeing your purpose live in the world as a project, you will be ordained into a full, rich life of soul.
- Week 9
- Basic Exercise: Future Walk - you’ll get clarity on the next step on your path, as you will visually move into your future and reflect back to the present moment on what you need to do next
- Bonus Exercise: The Purpose Tree - you’ll integrate and embody the ten vital aspects of your life through movement, the tactile experience of being in nature and walk away with your Mission Statement, a powerful sentence capturing who you are, your greatest contribution, the change you are uniquely designed to make
- Week 10
- Basic Exercise: Purpose Project Plan - you’ll create a 30-60 day project plan that is an expression of your purpose, working back from project completion to this moment, as well as build team who is inspired to help you complete it, so you’ll learn how to enroll 3-5 people from your life in helping you complete your Purpose Project
- Bonus Exercise: My Life on Purpose Video - in 3 minutes or less, you’ll share what you got out of the GPE, what you are giving your life to, declare what’s next for you in the coming year and issue a powerful call to action for people to join you on your mission
- GPE Completion:
- Purpose Assessment Tool #2 - you’ll see how far you have come since the beginning of the course and receive your certificate of completion
What happens when the Global Purpose Expedition is over?
Whatever your purpose dictates that you should do, you will begin to do. Here are a few options:
- GO DEEPER: After you complete the basic exercises, you can go deeper and do the bonus exercises with a friend or join us for the next GPE.
- EMBODY YOUR PURPOSE: Once your purpose is alive inside of you, your task is to embody it, to take on crafting a life and career that is the fullest expression of your purpose. You can do this by completing your purpose projects, as well as further programs integrity, leadership and embodiment.
- INNOVATE and SERVE: Start your purpose-driven non-profit or business.
- CONNECT: Build connections with other graduates on fire with their purpose.
Alumni Groups
Now that you are a GPE graduate, you have the opportunity to connect with your global tribe of purpose-awakened leaders, people who are committed to the same things as you, by joining a purpose-driven alumni group that supports you and your purpose project. In this group you can share articles, developments and best practices, ask for advice, have accountability for your purpose project, and connect and collaborate with your fellow purposeful leaders around what matters most to you, your life’s purpose. Once you complete the program, you can join any of these alumni groups (or start one of your own) to take on big purposeful projects and create a purposeful movement in your field:
- GPE Local Chapters - connect with other local purposeful folks for fun, culture and adventure (e.g. NY, SF, LA, Seattle, Chicago, D.C., London, Sydney, Delhi, Paris, Copenhagen)
- GPE Entrepreneurs - connect with other folks who are or aspire to build a business fueled by their purpose
- GPE Environmental Leaders - connect with other GPE graduates out to impact humanity’s relationship to the planet
- GPE Social Justice Leaders - connect with other GPE graduates out to impact equality, empathy, freedom and understanding
- GPE Democracy Reformers - connect with other GPE graduates out to create a better government
- GPE First Responders (military, police, fire, EMT) - connect with other GPE graduates out to make the world safer
- GPE Educators - connect with other GPE graduates out to impact education
- GPE Healers - connect with other GPE graduates out to impact human health, wellness and conscious evolution
- GPE Parents - connect with other GPE graduates to share purposeful parenting best practices
- GPE College - connect with other GPE graduates out to create a more purposeful college experience
- GPE Revolutionaries - connect with other GPE graduates to bring purpose discovery education into major institutions, e.g. government, education, religion, business and media
- GPE Translators - connect with other GPE graduates to bring the GPE to non-English speakers
