WHY STUDY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT?

The assessment contains 36 prompts, taking about an hour to complete. The items are drawn from many life contexts, which allows Terri to evaluate how you make meaning from a wide variety of perspectives and to determine aCore Score representing your predominant mode of meaning making (also called perspective-taking level, or stage of consciousness/awareness).The STAGES model has 12 levels over 3 “tiers” (Concrete, Subtle, and Metaware), spanning development across the lifespan and into the rare later stages of human development. Assessments are the heart of the STAGES Matrix and an invaluable tool to anyone seeking to wake, grow, and accept themselves . 

We certainly hope so, but we honestly don’t know.  If you’ve met Terri & Kimberley, you know they live to serve, serve with love, and go where they are needed most. The Mind’s I is a huge commitment for them, pouring hours and days and weeks of care into teaching, reading your chapters, and sharing their valuable feedback. If this calls to you, we highly recommend taking advantage of the opportunity this year. 

That depends entirely on you (and we mean that in a very un-cheeky way). It depends on your life circumstances, learning styles, reasons for doing the program and more.  Some attend the sessions and meetings and “do what they can” with the writing, and that’s enough; and others are dedicated to professional mastery of this developmental model. Depending on your desires and bandwidth to engage with the 5 pillars of Mind’s I, you could devote 8-25 hours per month to the process. (Or less or more. Again, not cheeky!)

Week 1: You receive the brief on the stage of the month, and we gather for a full cohort, 2-hr teaching led by Terri & Kimberley.

Week 2: You meet with your partner and discuss the current draft of your autobiographical chapter.

Week 3: We meet for a 2-hr Q&A with the full cohort.

Week 4: You meet with your small group (or “pod”) and discuss key learnings, questions, confusions and discoveries. (We switch pods and partners quarterly.)

Finally, you submit your chapter to Terri & Kimberley at the end of the month.

Attendance at the meetings is required, but all cohort meetings are recorded and available to review at any time, if something comes up and you absolutely have to miss a session. This year our cohort meets at 1pm ET, but sometimes we have multiple cohorts running at different times of day. It depends on the year and participants' time zones.  We’re a very international group and grateful that, in our experience, participants appreciate these gatherings so much that they’re willing to wake at odd hours to attend. 

Terri & Kimberley lead many practices, meditations and more to help you access preverbal or forgotten stages. It’s something so special about the Mind’s I. And you likely have access to the higher stages as state experiences even if your center of gravity hasn’t developed as a “stage” there yet. They’ll support you in accessing those, too.

We don’t like ranking people either! So we don’t do that. Think of the stages less like “putting people in their place” and more like “finding them in space.” All the stages are alive in us. We move through them throughout our day and encounter different people at different stages all the time. When we understand and can recognize states & stages in ourselves and others, we can CONNECT to ourselves and others. We can serve ourselves and others, and step into the peace and forgiveness that comes naturally with understanding.

The course can be challenging but infinitely less so when you have some grounding in STAGES work. The required courses do not take much time, relatively, and you’ll use them as references as we move through the months of Mind’s I. For example, if you feel like your head is spinning when you read the brief on Stage 4.5, simply pause and watch that lesson in Developmental Gifts & Confusions, and you’ll get back to the essence with ease. The requirements really are a support to students, as we intend all course structures to be.

Yes, we do have a limited number of scholarship spots in the course. You can apply for financial assistance HERE.