Macro (or Trimester) Courses

  • Macro courses can be taken for 3 or 4 academic credits as described above, or audit no-credit in Live Virtual Classroom mode, or no-credit lite versions for lifelong learners who are not enrolled in a degree program.

  • Courses are open to MA or PhD students. You will be expected to provide deep analysis on reflection tasks and for the Final Creative Assignment. 

  • Each course consists of between 12 and 15 weekly modules that provide a comprehensive overview of a particular subject.

  • Check out our Student Resources & F.A.Q. to learn more.

Great Books – 2026

At the heart of the world wisdom traditions are books that distill the essence of the teachings of the masters down through the ages. Many have no authors, some are compilations over long periods of time, others reflect teachings of masters who themselves never wrote a word.

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Great Books – 2025

At the heart of the world wisdom traditions are books that distill the essence of the teachings of the masters down through the ages. Many have no authors, some are compilations over long periods of time, others reflect teachings of masters who themselves never wrote a word.

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Great Books – 2024

This course explores the timeless wisdom found in the world’s Great Books, from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces. Through monthly discussions, you’ll uncover the universal themes, symbols, and insights that continue to shape human consciousness and speak to today’s global challenges.

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Science and Consciousness of Self

Science and Consciousness of Self offers an integral approach to self-protection and self-healing on physical, emotional, and energetic levels, rooted in the Amatsu Tatara tradition. Through practical exercises, self-treatment methods, and integral theory, students learn to understand how and why these practices work so they can feel happier, healthier, and more capable in daily life.

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Theories and Methods of Integral Transpersonal Psychology

This capstone course in Integral Transpersonal Psychology provides a foundational framework for the psychology of the future, integrating the insights of James, Jung, Wilber, Assagioli, Grof, and Mindell within a transformative, post-conventional paradigm. Combining rigorous theory with experiential learning, it equips emerging innovators to develop inner mastery, expand consciousness, and bridge the divides between mind and body, science and spirituality, and theory and real-life practice.

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Science and Consciousness 2023 – Wyrd Time

Science and Consciousness 2023 explores the scientific and experiential dimensions of non-local awareness, time, and human interconnectedness through hands-on experiments and leading-edge research. Participants learn how consciousness interacts with the world, gaining tools and insights to positively impact personal development and collective transformation.

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Great Books – 2023

This course explores the timeless wisdom found in the world’s Great Books, from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces. Through monthly discussions, you’ll uncover the universal themes, symbols, and insights that continue to shape human consciousness and speak to today’s global challenges.

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The Creative Journey to Dissertation

The Creative Journey to Dissertation course guides MA and PhD students through a transformative process that integrates rigorous academic research with deep inner exploration. Through mentorship, peer dialogue, and creative practices, students develop clarity, confidence, and a refined dissertation topic aligned with their personal and scholarly path.

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Great Books – 2022

This course explores the Great Books of the world’s wisdom traditions, examining sacred texts, timeless classics, and influential writings—from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces—to understand what makes a work enduring and transformative. Learners compare universal themes across cultures and eras, engage with profound human questions, and reflect on how ancient wisdom can illuminate today’s global challenges.

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Shamanic Archetypes in Transpersonal Counseling

The course is complementary to the Integral Transpersonal Counseling course (ITC) and can be followed independently or in continuity with ITC. It introduces you to, and deepens the theme of, the archetypes of consciousness in Jungian analytical psychology, mythology and transpersonal vision in Biotransenergetic epistemology.

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Introduction to Regenerative Development – Global Survey

This course explores the planetary crises of the Anthropocene and introduces regenerative frameworks that move beyond sustainability toward systems-level renewal. Through transdisciplinary methods and real-world case studies, students learn how to understand complexity and participate in global regenerative action.

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Foundations of Regeneration and the Practice of Stewarding Life

This 12-week course will provide a grounding and deepening in “life’s universal design principles” – a straightforward set of fertile conditions common to all thriving, regenerative living systems. Through case studies, conversation, poetry and play, we will explore how those principles are at the heart of regenerating the living soil, and how they can inform and inspire regenerative approaches to tourism, education, healthcare, entrepreneurship and more.

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The Psychology of Deep Awareness: Learning to Embrace What Life Brings

Embracing both sides of your existence — pleasure and pain, health and illness, ease and suffering, and life and death – means truly befriending yourself and others. This deep acceptance creates an opening to both love and truth in all conditions.

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Global Social Witnessing – Foundations

Global Social Witnessing – Foundations teaches you how to mindfully attune to world events with embodied awareness, expanding your capacity for compassionate, non-reactive response. Through live practice, philosophical insight, and awareness-based research, you learn to cultivate presence, deepen relational coherence, and become an effective agent of change in a rapidly evolving global landscape.

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Art as Global Social Witnessing

In our understanding, the essence of art is to crisscross our habitual ways of perceiving life/reality. Art has the potential to bring frozen perceptions/pictures/conceptions back into motion. Art-making itself is an ongoing process of researching and questioning reality. Playing with reality and building bridges between seemingly disparate items. Art is an important tool to perceive and presence the multidimensional aspects of life on earth, in our cosmos. Through art, we can envision other, new, future possibilities, realities. Due to its inherent beauty and playfulness, art brings a crucial resource to cope with and change reality.

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The Shift: Integral Transpersonal Mindfulness

This course introduces the foundations of Transpersonal Psychology and Integral Transpersonal Mindfulness, guiding students to connect with their inner Self and the universal field of consciousness through theory, meditation, and experiential practice. By integrating insights from quantum sciences, perennial philosophy, and renowned spiritual teachers, it offers a transformative path toward self-awareness, emotional integration, and authentic spiritual development.

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Virtual Madonna Rising: The Alchemy of Healing Relationships

This course explores the alchemy of relationships, focusing on how understanding, love, and forgiveness can heal wounded connections and awaken the divine feminine within ourselves and the world. Through teachings, reflection, prayer, and celebration, the course invites participants to reconnect with the sacredness of life, inspired by the symbolism of Mary’s Assumption and ancient traditions that honor the feminine as the source of creation. It emphasizes restoring balance between matter and spirit, fostering deeper relationships with ourselves, others, and the Earth, and cultivating compassion, friendship, and conscious connection as essential practices for this new era.

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The Dance of Shiva: A Pilgrimage to South India with Andrew Harvey

This virtual course offers a journey with Andrew Harvey to South India, honoring Lord Shiva and exploring the connection between our Divine and human selves. Following the footsteps of mystics Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo, this journey provides teachings and guidance for personal inner transformation, including a special letter from Andrew outlining the path.

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(Chartres Academy) Virtual Dialectica: Identity and the Other – Dialogues at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality

The course "The Second Liberal Art of Dialectica" explores the ancient art of dialectics, focusing on understanding and reconciling opposites, particularly in the context of identity, race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Through dialogue and ancient wisdom, participants examine how to navigate differences and transform opposites into creative union, fostering a more harmonious and inclusive world.

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The Science of Witnessing

The goal of this course is to invite participants/students to dialogue in which spiritual leaders, social activists, and scientists from psychology, sociology, communication study, business study, and philosophy talk about the essence and application of GSW in their working/research fields. One aim of organizing dialogues is to position GSW as a tool for awareness-based systems change in education, politics, economy, and society.

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Integral Transpersonal Skills: A New Corporate Paradigm

This course explores the essential soft skills needed to thrive as a conscious, future-ready leader in the rapidly shifting post-Covid 21st-century landscape. By integrating technological awareness, emotional intelligence, and human-centered practices, it empowers learners to navigate global change, foster inclusive workplaces, and contribute to a more equitable and sustainable world.

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Great Lives – 2021

This course explores the lives of transformative historical and spiritual figures whose impact continues to shape human culture, ethics and collective evolution. Through deep inquiry, comparative study and reflective writing, students examine how great lives respond to global challenges and illuminate timeless paths of wisdom.

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Great Books – 2021

This course explores the timeless wisdom found in the world’s Great Books, from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces. Through monthly discussions, you’ll uncover the universal themes, symbols, and insights that continue to shape human consciousness and speak to today’s global challenges.This course explores the timeless wisdom found in the world’s Great Books, from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces. Through monthly discussions, you’ll uncover the universal themes, symbols, and insights that continue to shape human consciousness and speak to today’s global challenges.

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Integral Transpersonal Education

Every society tends to elaborate on the educational systems that best match its vision of the world and its anthropological model. Under every educational model and method and every educational action, there is always a certain vision of the world and a special model of a human being. From a transpersonal and integral perspective, we can say also that every educational model and every educational action arises from a certain state of consciousness.

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Transformative Inner Science – Foundations

This course explores inner science as a rigorous transformative research paradigm that integrates subjective inquiry with outer scientific understanding. Students learn to bridge phenomenology, consciousness studies and scientific methodology to generate meaningful insights into human experience and spiritual development.

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Merry Musings: Philosophical Reflections on Life, the Universe and Everything

Explore an online, integrative philosophy course with Dr. Peter Merry that traces the history and impact of key forces shaping human life on Earth—and how they can guide a civilization that works for all life. Dive into economics, subtle fields, leadership, human ecology, volution, the trinity, science and spirituality, time, thought, language, geomancy, and crop formations to build systems-thinking, conscious leadership, and regenerative futures skills.

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Psychobiology, Altered States of Consciousness and Neuroscience

This course offers a multidimensional exploration of psychobiology, psychopathology, altered states, and neuroscience through clinical, transpersonal, indigenous, and psychedelic-science perspectives, all grounded in a deep-ecology and Divine Feminine framework. Bridging neuroscience with somatic, emotional, transgenerational, and ecological dimensions, it equips learners with practical tools for psychotraumatology, psychosomatic medicine, and conscious activism that supports personal transformation, social change, and the evolution of collective wellbeing.

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Beyond Resilient: Integral City Inquiry, Action and Impact

Beyond Resilient (Online) enables Practitioners, Catalysts and Meshworkers to build capacitating scaffolds so that cities work for everyone. Participants grow their leadership to serve the city to thrive within the Master Code of Care: Caring for Self, Others, Place, Planet.

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(Chartres Academy) Virtual Grammatica: From Trauma to Transformation Intensive

This course, The Liberal Art of Grammatica, explores trauma as a pervasive phenomenon in modern society and proposes heart coherence as a transformative path to healing. Through partnerships with HeartMath Institute and expert speakers, participants learn to cultivate heart coherence, fostering a positive and loving state that transforms body chemistry and promotes personal and global healing.

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Creativity, Critical and Integral Thinking

This course will empower our unique, innate, positive critical and creative reflexivity, with focus on our capacity to access the deeper spaces into ourselves in order to find our way to be creative. Also, will offer an outlook on Integral Transpersonal Thinking, a new way of thinking through unitive consciousness beyond the dual mind. This class will offer tools to improve your integral transpersonal curriculum of studies with a thorough understanding of the science of the soul, the psychology of the future, which is both Integral and Transpersonal.

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Great Books – 2020

This course explores the Great Books of the world’s wisdom traditions, examining sacred texts, timeless classics, and influential writings—from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces—to understand what makes a work enduring and transformative. Learners compare universal themes across cultures and eras, engage with profound human questions, and reflect on how ancient wisdom can illuminate today’s global challenges.

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Integral Flourishing (Part Two)

This course introduces the science and practice of Integral Flourishing, guiding you to enhance well-being across the dimensions of self, relationships, and society through evidence-based tools and critical inquiry. By integrating personal growth, relational skills, and community-focused impact, it empowers you to live a healthier, more meaningful life while effectively promoting well-being in others and the wider world.

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Great Books – 2019

This course explores the Great Books of the world’s wisdom traditions, examining sacred texts, timeless classics, and influential writings—from ancient scriptures to modern masterpieces—to understand what makes a work enduring and transformative. Learners compare universal themes across cultures and eras, engage with profound human questions, and reflect on how ancient wisdom can illuminate today’s global challenges.

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Life Span Development and Human Experience

This course explores lifespan development through the lenses of integral and transpersonal psychology, emphasizing pre- and perinatal stages, psycho-spiritual growth, and their relevance to diverse global populations. Blending theory with transformative practice, it empowers learners to deepen self-awareness, cultivate emotional and interpersonal mastery, and apply developmental insights to research, professional paths, and real-life contexts.

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High Impact Innovation Design

How you conceptualize a problem greatly determines how you conceptualize the solution. We therefore in this course look at ’cause based analysis’ rather than the symptoms of a problem. This course brings together social sciences and system sciences in order to give you key skills for how to understand problems systemically/structurally as well as socially.

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Cosmopolitan Communication – Foundations

This course introduces the concept of Cosmopolitan Communication, expanding traditional models of interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational communication toward a more holistic global framework.

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Foundation in Soft Skills and UN SDGs

The UbiSkills™ Foundation in Soft Skills Program is a ready-to-deliver curriculum for schools and organizations that rapidly strengthens 21st-century skills—such as leadership, critical thinking, communication, and conflict resolution—while introducing learners to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Featuring video-based learning, facilitator training, customizable SDG content, and practical group exercises, this program equips students and employees to thrive in a hyper-complex global workforce.

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Sustainable Development – Measuring Progress

This course looks beyond the traditional indicators of progress to consider indicators that take into account the environmental and social aspects of progress. These indicators will be studied across a range of disciplines and will help provide the basis for identifying strengths, weaknesses and long terms implications of current decisions and behaviors.

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Foundations of Critical Thinking for Learning & Everyday Life

Foundations of Critical Thinking for Learning & Everyday Life

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Clinical and Dynamic Psychology

This course explores the evolution of psychological thought within its philosophical, cultural, ecological, and spiritual contexts, helping you understand the human psyche through a broad, integrative lens. By examining diverse approaches and reflecting on your own social and existential journey, it empowers you to develop self-awareness, articulate your life purpose, and apply psychological insights to personal, professional, and societal transformation.

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Addiction and its Treatment – An Integral Foundation

This course offers an integral framework to understand addiction through a meta-conceptual lens that clarifies conflicting theories and reveals deeper causal dynamics. Students learn to apply integral theory to addiction science, gaining a coherent perspective that supports more effective treatment, research, and personal insight.

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Integral Transpersonal Psychology – Foundations

This course, with its twin class Theories and Methods of Integral Transpersonal Psychology, which represents the second step, are capstone courses of the Bachelor in Integral Transpersonal Psychology. These two classes will offer the basis to build up a strong and complete knowledge toward a psychology of the future, both Integral and Transpersonal, which honors human existence in its wholeness.

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Living in a Living Universe – for Changemakers

For the past three hundred years or so, science has viewed the universe as essentially non-living at its foundations. A non-living view of the universe has led to rampant materialism and global environmental degradation. To transform our planetary crises we need to move past a paradigm of separation and exploitation and learn to live sustainably on the Earth, in harmony with one another, and in communion with the living universe. This course will explore humanity’s journey to look beyond our many differences, and galvanize our efforts in building a promising future. This foundational course explores three, major questions:

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Decoding Life: Revealing a Radical New View of Reality

The complexity of the challenges facing humanity today can sometimes seem overwhelming. Luckily, leading-edge science is providing us with a new way of understanding reality that could hold the keys to a sustainable and thriving future.

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Integral Life Practice

This course introduces Integral Life Practice (ILP), a comprehensive and accessible system that unites Eastern and Western wisdom to support whole-person development across body, mind, and spirit. Designed for learners of all backgrounds, it provides practical tools to cultivate higher awareness, integrate transformative practices into daily life, and live with greater balance, freedom, and fulfillment.

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Integral Flourishing (Part One)

This course explores the science and practice of Integral Flourishing, guiding you to enhance well-being across the three dimensions of I, We, and Society through evidence-based tools, critical thinking, and holistic self-development. By integrating personal growth, relational skills, and community-oriented impact, it empowers learners to live healthier, more meaningful lives while contributing to the flourishing of others and the wider world.

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Transformational Leadership, Strategy and Governance

"In today’s rapidly changing world it is essential that we design and lead our communities and organizations in a way that enables them to creatively ride turbulence while also making a positive impact. This course covers the subject of evolutionary change and its implication for us as individuals as well as for our organizational cultures and structures. Students will engage with integrative maps of organizational and leadership development, as well as instantly applicable practices for becoming more effective and dynamic as individuals and collectives. "

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Leading Change

This course provides practical, science-based tools to build personal and organizational resilience in times of rapid environmental and social change. You will learn to lead complex transitions with greater clarity, reduce resistance using neuroscience-informed strategies, and cultivate adaptive, change-hardy teams.

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