Towards Purpose
For High School Boys
Spring 2025
9-Week, 5-meetings--Online/Remote
Facilitator: Dr. Rhian Daniel
Finding purpose in life is the single most important factor for joy and happiness, and for minimizing or eliminating clinical sadness and depression.
When we feel purpose in our life we find meaning to exist.
When we feel meaning to exist we find motivation and drive.
And, when we feel motivated and driven we don’t experience negative states, such as sadness or depression.
Furthermore, when we’re experiencing motivation and drive we’re very much present-moment, and not in the past or future, both of which bring about negative states of being.
But, how do we find purpose-in-life?
The single biggest fallacy around the concept of purpose-in-life is that it’s a job/career/profession. It IS not.
Towards Purpose - For High School Boys
Notwithstanding all the academic challenges a teenage boys endures attending high school, they also have the additional challenges all boys of all cultures and societies have faced for thousands of years–transitioning from a boyhood to a manhood.
These are psycho-spiritual challenges, not academic challenges; and this is where our culture and society fails boys. Boys will NEVER transition from boyhood to manhood through academics.
Furthermore, outside of school, our culture and society provides little, if any, guidance for boys to navigate boyhood-to-manhood challenges; often leading to dysfunctional and unproductive behavioral patterns; gangs, drugs, excessive drinking, excessive partying, toxic behaviors that lead dysfunctional adulthood, or even toxic masculinity, which has become increasingly prevalent.
Individuation is not only an upward but also a downward process.
Jung, C. G. (2002). The earth has a soul: C.G. Jung on nature, technology & modern life (M. Sabini, Ed.). p.155. North Atlantic Books.
Scheduling
Our bi-weekly meetings allow group participants enough time between meetings to process the learnings; experiment, explore, and put it into play key aspects while still attending school and fulfilling their educational obligations. Furthermore, the space between meetings has become an integral part of the process, allowing participants to connect for personal, 1:1, sessions (if needed), to facilitating individual growth and individuation. For this reason, participants of this course seeking personal, 1:1 sessions, can do so at a discounted rate of $90 per session. All sessions are 45 minutes.
Subject Areas and Topics
- Purpose-in-life; concept or physicality?
- Understanding the reality of one’s calling
- The fallacy that a job/profession will serve as one’s purpose-in-life
- Dispelling the vision quest myth
- The conscious-box trap
- The unconscious realm
- The time-affect on one’s purpose
- Relationships; how they help define purpose
- Bodywork, and its role in finding purpose
- Individuation, self-actualization
- Community, and its role in one’s purpose
- Names/titles; how they affect one’s purpose
Course Dates
- Monday, Mar 17 (3:30pm-5:00pm)
- Monday, Mar 31 (3:30pm-5:00pm)
- Monday, Apr 14 (3:30pm-5:00pm)
- Monday, Apr 28 (3:30pm-5:00pm)
- Monday, May 12 (3:30pm-5:00pm)
* All meetings are held remotely* All class/meeting times are EST* Duration of class time may change depending on number of participants
One's purpose doesn't just happen like some miracle; one achieves it.
— Dr. Rhian Daniel
Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is simple; to provide boys with the tools they need to be good men, and show them a pathway towards that objective.
This course was specifically created with four objectives in mind. First, to help boys recognize their own skills and intelligence to navigate the numerous difficulties and challenges associated with high school attendance. Second, to install the concept that each of us has a purpose-in-life, a meaningful existence; and, an understanding of the various aspects that contribute to successfully embracing and embodying the concept of a purpose-in-life. Third, to help these boys unify purpose one and two, and use this intelligence and these skills to transition from boyhood to manhood proficiently, and with minimal difficulties. And fourth, to understand and implement the practical steps required to facilitate the process.
One’s purpose-in-life can actually be quite a complicated subject area to explore. It takes time, and rarely happens overnight. This is due to time and programing/conditioning. For example, if you take your age, this is how many years you’ve spent creating the idea of who you think you are–with non-stop validation from the people around, be they correct or incorrect.
Therefore, this course is designed to allow participants to explore topics, as they pertain their individuality, between meetings. Topics will be introduced, discussed, and clarified during group meetings, and participants will self/Self explore the topic between meetings. This homework is actually self/Self work, and imperative to this process.
- Effects of Indigenous vs modern Western ideologies on purpose-in-life
- Issues of Community
- Ancestral Trauma and Healing
- Understanding Your Purpose
- Shifting Towards Your Purpose
- Personal Unconscious
- Collective Unconscious
- Projection and the Unconscious
- Dreams and Active Imagination
- Severance, Threshold, and Incorporation
- Transitioning Practices and Rituals
Course Requirements
- Honesty
- Confidentiality/Privacy
- Openness, within one’s comfort level
- Male by birth, or identifying
- Attending high school
- A sense of adventure (Self/self exploration should be fun and exciting)
- A desire for self-exploration
- An open, inquisitive, and curious mind
- Willingness to safely explore and experiment
Price
The price for this 8-week, Towards Purpose for High School Boys, course is: $429
Discounted Rates, if you pay using:
ApplePay, Venmo, or by check – $399
Cash (paper money) – $375
Spaces are limited.
Cancellation policy
Full refunds are available up to 7 days prior to the beginning of day of the first meeting.
Between the beginning of day of the first meeting and the beginning of the day of the second meeting, refunds of 50% are available.
No refunds are available after the beginning of the day of the second meeting.
Full refunds are provided if we need to cancel the program.