Core Practitioner Training 2025

If you’ve completed the Introduction to the Map of Meaning, or Discover the Map of Meaning short course, the Core Practitioner Training is the next step for you in your professional journey with the Map of Meaning.

The Introduction only scrapes the surface of what you can do with the Map. The Practitioner Training takes you on a journey into depth, deepening your personal exploration of meaningfulness with the Map, and helping you to begin to effectively use the Map with others.

The course is practical, allowing you time to delve into the sub-themes of the four pathways, 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 core training we consider essential to further professional courses with the Map and is the step after the Introduction that leads to certification.

Join Lani Morris and Celine McKeown for 5 sessions at the same time each week for five weeks. Each session is either 2 or 3 hour length. (A total number of 12 training hours.)

The course begins on February 25^th at 7pm UK time/8am NZ time on the 26^th  and runs five weeks on the following dates depending where you are in the world.

Timezones for  Feb 25/26, March 4/5

London, United Kingdom          Tuesday 7:00 p.m. GMT
Paris, France                            Tuesday 8:00 p.m. CET
Johannesburg, South Africa     Tuesday 9:00 p.m. SAST
New York, USA                         Tuesday 2:00 p.m. EST
Los Angeles, USA                     Tuesday 11:00 a.m. PST
Sydney, Australia                      Wednesday 6:00 a.m. AEDT
Auckland, New Zealand            Wednesday  8:00 a.m. NZDT

Timezones for March 17/18, March 25,26

London, United Kingdom        Tuesday  7:00 p.m. GMT
Paris, France                          Tuesday  8:00 p.m. CET
Johannesburg, South Africa    Tuesday 9:00 p.m. SAST
New York, USA                       Tuesday 3:00 p.m. EDT
Los Angeles, USA                   Tuesday 12:00 Noon PDT
Sydney, Australia                     Wednesday 6:00 a.m. AEDT
Auckland, New Zealand          Wednesday 8:00 a.m. NZDT

COST: US $960.00

Course Content:

Session One: Deep Dive into the Four Pathways - 3 hours

·  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 hours

·  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 hours

·  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 hours

·  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 – 3 hours

·  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 world
• Be 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

 

“The longer I work with the Map of Meaning, the more I realise how deeply it underpins human activity. Learning to use it in an ever increasing range of ways has been one of the most profoundly satisfying experiences things in my life.”  Lani Morris, Co-founder of MOMI