Towards Purpose
For Adult Men
Winter 2025
8-Week 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 Adult Men
Do you ever question life? Why am I here? What’s it about? What does it mean to be human? Do I have a purpose, and if so what is it?
Have you checked all life’s boxes, but feel as if life is pointless, has no meaning, or feel as if something is still missing? Or maybe had a traumatic experience that has left you questioning life.
There’s no doubt, we are here for a reason. But, what is it?
It is not uncommon for men, after having experiences beyond schooling years, to begin question the meaning of life–their life. And, there’s a legitimate reason for this.
We often successfully accomplish many of the expectations imposed upon us by family, society, culture, and religion, not realizing these are not our inner most desires, but rather external expectations. They are things we are told to do, not want we truly want to do. Consequently, true happiness and fulfillment is never obtained and existential issues begin to emerge.
These issues can be experienced from the pressure of these expectations alone, without actually completing any. Furthermore, trying to maintain a façade of joy and happiness based upon the completion of these expectations can be exhausting and depressing.
Either way, it’s important to understand that these external expectations are other people’s myths for happiness and meaning. Only you know what your story is, and having other people impose theirs upon you is only to make themselves feel better about the lack of meaning in their own lives (misery loves company, right).
So what’s your story? Aren’t you curious? What’s your internal guiding myth for peace, harmony, and happiness?
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.
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
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- Tuesday, Jan 7 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Jan 14 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Jan 21 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Jan 28 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Feb 4 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Feb 11 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Feb 18 (no class)
- Tuesday, Feb 25 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
- Tuesday, Mar 4 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
* 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 to provide men with the knowledge and tools they need to be good men, real men; and show them a pathway towards that objective that is omitted from current cultural and societal learnings and eduction.
This course was specifically created with four objectives in mind. First, to help men recognize their own skills and intelligence to navigate the numerous difficulties and challenges associated with manhood. 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 men unify purpose one and two, and use this intelligence and these skills to transform as modern men. 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
- Of adult age (chronological age)
- 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 Adult Men, course is: $490
Discounted Rates, if you pay using:
ApplePay, Venmo, or by check – $470
Cash (paper money) – $440
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.