Join a global community of Map of Meaning® Practitioners dedicated to improving lives and workplaces across the globe.
The Map is endlessly flexible and can easily be integrated with frameworks you might already use in your profession or practise.
Whether you’re a coach, leader, HR professional, change maker, or someone passionate about creating meaningful lives, work and workplaces, Map of Meaning® Practitioner Training equips you with a proven research-based framework and practical processes to:
Help individuals, teams and organisations access deeper meaning.
Design impactful interventions for sustainable change.
Navigate complex challenges with clarity and purpose.
This transformative journey will build your confidence in using the Map of Meaning® across diverse contexts—from personal growth to driving organisational and societal change.
Practitioner Fundamentals are essential to understand how to apply the Map to your own life.
Part One is Discovering the Map of Meaning® (2 hrs):
Learn a simple, research-based framework for making sense of what gives life and work meaning.
See how six key aspects of life interact, and what happens when they fall out of balance.
Relate the Map to your own experience and share insights in a supportive small group.
Part Two and three is Creating your own Map of Meaning® (3 hours and 2.5 hours)
Create your personal Map to clarify what really matters to you now. We use two creative processes to tease out your unique way of finding meaning.
Explore practical ways to restore balance, increase energy and make more meaning-filled decisions in work and life.
Leave with a clearer direction and greater confidence in making decisions on what really matters to you.
But these courses only scrape the surface of what you can do with the Map.
The five session Practitioner Advanced Course then takes you on a journey of depth, deepening your personal exploration of meaningfulness with the Map, and helping you to begin to effectively use the Map with others.
This online course (ZOOM) is practical, allowing you time to delve into the sub-themes of the four pathways of the framework, and to explore the tensions in much greater depth. At the same time, all that you learn for yourself is relevant to how you might use the Map with others.
In the later part of the course we learn the principles that guide the effective use of the Map of Meaning with another or with groups.
Practitioner Advanced provides the essential core training required for those who wish to go on and use the Map in a professional environment.
Once Practitioner Fundamentals and Advanced Training is completed, you have the opportunity to then register for the Five month guided Certification Pathway Program.
This is for those who wish to develop and deepen their work with the Map in their own professional practise and achieve Certification status.
PractitionerAdvancedCourse Content:
Session One: Deep Dive into the Four Pathways Please allow 2.5 hrs for this first session.
Deepen your understanding of meaning through exploration of the sub-themes of the four pathways.
Understand the importance of language when working with meaning.
Increase your ability to listen for meaning and talk about meaning in ways that connect with others.
Session Two: The Dynamic Nature of Meaning – 2 hrs
Learn to recognise the interdependent nature of the creative tensions and how they tend to play out in yourself and others. Use the Map to help you see these tensions not as incompatible dualities but as polarities to be navigated creatively to create more meaning over time and in your daily lives.
Session Three: Loss of Meaning & Imbalance – 2 hrs
Explore in greater depth the patterns of loss of meaning through imbalance, in your past, over time and in daily life.
Understand your relationship with reality and inspiration and the patterns in your own life relating to the tension between the two. Explore with others how conversations about “reality” and “inspiration” play out in the world and our communities.
Learn to more confidently speak from either place in ways that are constructive for all.
Session Four: Using the Map with Another – 2 hrs
Learn the core principles that guide the effective use of the Map of Meaning with another.
Prepare to use the Map with another by thinking about where you stand in yourself when you work with meaning with another.· Understand your role as a guide, getting out of the way, trusting the Map, and the other person’s inner knowing.
Explore how to start a session/ conversation on meaning with another and where to start on the Map.
Explore a range of challenging situations that may occur, how to hold boundaries to protect yourself and the other person.
Session Five: Using the Map with Two or More People – 2 hrs
Considerations for safely exploring meaning in a group setting.· Discern when to use the Map as a framework to inform the design of a group intervention and when to use it directly with the group as part of the intervention.
Develop the skill to quickly introduce the Map to a group.
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