Become a Map of Meaning® Practitioner

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 include ‘Discover the Map of Meaning’ and ‘Discover your Sources of Meaning’ courses which are a great introduction to the Map and essential to understand who to apply the Map to your own life. 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.

The Map is endlessly flexible and can easily be integrated with frameworks you might already use. We find this is easier and more fun to do while you are learning with a community of diverse and yet like-minded professionals.

This course 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.

Practitioner Advanced Course 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.
• Key contracting considerations & involving management/ leadership.
• Completing a session on the Map with a group, and providing resources for ongoing support.

Previous participants valued this training as a time to:

• Use the Map of Meaning for continued personal and professional growth.
• Align their core values and their work in the worldBe more grounded in their decision-making and choices.
• Learn to work with meaning with integrity.
• Deepen their understanding in the dynamics and practice of meaning to support others in creating more meaning in their life, work and workplaces.
• Explore ways to use the Map alongside other models and integrate it with their existing skills.
• Belong to, and exchange ideas in our global, diverse, yet like-minded community of practice.
• Begin preparation for certification

For more information or to find out when the next Practitioner Training will be, contact admin@themapofmeaning.org