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We're excited for you to join us...Together in Spiritual Growth!
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You are invited to join with others for a season of spiritual growth.
The purpose of the Progress Project course is to deepen our personal relationships with the Creator of all, share our inner lives with each other, and support each other in spiritual goals through intentional relationship. We take our name from an initiative that was developed as a network of small groups focused on personal spiritual growth.
The Progress Project is a deep-dive! You’re making a real commitment – to yourself, to your triad, and to our Creator. As a result, we don’t have auditors for this course. Before registering, we invite you to reflect on whether the time is right for you to make such a commitment. We hope you’ll say yes!
Your commitment not only supports you in your personal progress, but the whole group in theirs. We’re all in this together...in spiritual growth!
You are invited to partner with us to curate the Progress Project course for your community or organization. Graduates are then welcomed into the greater Progress Project community.
Our vision is to help the Progress Project pollinate across the spiritually-hungry world and even into the secular environment.
We are currently working on three different versions:
- Self-Directed
- For kids
- Open-Sourced
- For Unity Centers
Join us!
Together in Spiritual Growth!
Testimonials
- This course has initiated a new dimension of spiritual growth for me! - Ann, USA
- The Progress Project is an enlightening adventure which inspires personal growth and connects us with others. - Jane, Canada
- Being in a triad group was an impactful and valuable personal experience... - Bob, USA
- Such a great place to grow and serve and exchange with spirit-loving brothers and sisters!! - Manuela, Germany
- This is a course in deepening one's relationship with our Creator and it delivers in spades...I have used some of their techniques to inwardly and upwardly reach, daily...so soul-satisfying!! - Monica, Canada
- The Progress Project has helped my spiritual growth more than anything I have ever done. I encourage everyone to participate in this wonderful program when they can. - Kurt, USA
Course Example
There are a variety of ways to engage in the Progress Project.
What began as a 12-week course is now being creatively designed to suit other individuals, small groups, larger communities, and organizations.
As an example, during a course, we meet for twelve sessions, generally 90 minutes a week in an online class, focusing on the arc of spiritual growth from inner connection to outer expression through integrity of higher values and service to humanity.
Each class period includes time for communion, instruction from the facilitators, breakout groups for study and personal reflection on the week’s theme, and wraps up in the large group discussion.
In addition, all students are expected to join a Triad: a group of three that meets outside of class to support and accompany each other in the desire for personal spiritual progress. These meetings are an additional 90 minutes a week and include communion, sharing of your inner life, and a time for study, reflection, and goal assessment and setting.
During the course, all students are asked to develop a personal, everyday practice of communion with the Creator of all. We invite you to journal about your experience as you go.
We hold an orientation session several weeks before the start date and will also make a recording available to all who register. If you are considering the Progress Project course, it is required to attend this session or watch the recording.
At the orientation, we provide key information that you will need as a participant in the Progress Project course and give you a chance to ask questions. This will help you decide if the course is right for you in this season of life.
If you decide to join the course, we ask you to complete a short online survey and make a commitment to undertake the entire twelve sessions and meet with your Triad in between them. Sometimes the courses run longer than twelve weeks/months, as we honor major holidays.
Course Syllabus
Session 1: Trinitized Spiritual Growth
An overview of the Progress Project, the role of Triads, and the universe pattern of the Trinity. Meet your Triad for the first time!
Session 2: Sharing the Inner Life
On the importance of sharing your inner life with the Creator of all, your Triad, and in important relationships.
Session 3: Connection with Our Creator
Explore techniques of inner spirit connection while considering the idea of the surrounding spirit helpers.
Session 4: Communion with Our Creator
Learn from others about their practices of communion and develop and deepen your own.
Session 5: The Practice
On patience, adaptation, and the power of free will as we continue our journey of spiritual discipline.
Session 6: Self-Awareness
Discover techniques and resources for cultivating self-awareness.
Session 7: Living on Purpose
On the art of spiritual living: cultivating daily habits and a rhythm of life.
Session 8: Gifts of Our Creator
On the gift of personality, the consecration of choice, and transforming through difficulties.
Session 9: Personality Progress
Begin to recognize your growing capacity to bear the fruits of the spirit.
Session 10: Serving Our Creator and Humankind
On loving service and discovering your true voice and spiritual purpose.
Session 11: Transformation
On the growth of meanings and the realization of values in your life.
Session 12: Moving Forward
Celebrate our personal and collective progress and our visions for the future!
Progress Project Service Corps
Triads of the courses are supported by the Service Corps.
Alum from the courses step into greater roles of service, helping others on their journeys of spiritual progress.
After facilitating two Progress Project courses, we decided the structure that had been developed would greatly benefit by an additional course specifically for the Progress Project Service Corps (PPSC). The first offering was spring 2022 for the alum of the original courses.
As you invite us to collaborate with you to develop a curated Progress Project course for your community or organization, we will also work with you to onboard a Service Corps through an adaptable training.
The following is what we have identified as important elements for that training:
Meet the Team!
Angie Thurston
Cristina Seaborn
Angie Thurston
I'm Angie Thurston, and I'll be one of your faculty members for this course. I have always been compelled most by the idea of spiritual growth. I would learn about "spiritual goals" and "growing closer to God" and I wanted to know how to do it! I also knew that I couldn't -- and didn't want to -- do it alone. Luckily, I wasn't the only one. The Progress Project was born from a small group of spiritual enthusiasts who all wanted to support and accompany each other in our spiritual growth. It has been a Godsend for me and I'm excited to share it with you.
My work in the world is all about the future of spiritual community. I am a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the co-founder of Sacred Design Lab, a soul-centered research and development lab. With my mother, Claire Thurston, I lead a program called Inner Sourcing for young adults to connect with their souls.
I'll be joining you from Alexandria, VA, where I live with my husband Vipin and our cat Pepper.
Aprilhelen
Cristina Seaborn
Angie Thurston
Aloha! Aprilhelen here, facilitating this course from the Northwest Arkansas Ozarks, as we are all ’Together in Spiritual Growth!’ Being a lover of experiential wisdom, one of my passions has been the practice of integrating the techniques of the art of living prescribed by witnessing how many master teachers have lived.
Through the past twenty-five years of sharing, with all ages, the eight-fold path of the art of therapeutic yoga and personal transformation, catering and nutrition education, horticulture and animal husbandry, I have been able to effectively expose these tools for others, so we may all up-step our addition of value to the progress of the whole.
My spiritual sister, Angie, and I have worked together for over a decade. Our shared delight and curiosity has provided us many valuable leadership and service opportunities that laid the foundation from which the Progress Project and the Progress Project Service Corps have now emerged.
Cristina Seaborn
Cristina Seaborn
Cristina Seaborn
My journey has been one of music and spirituality. I also enjoy philosophy, gardening, and canoeing in the Boundary Waters.
I've personally progressed so much by taking the Progress Project course twice, as well as the Service Corps course. Taking the lead currently, our team is creating a new offering, the Unity Spiritual Progress Project. It is a combination of the Unity teachings partnered with the Progress Project originally created by Aprilhelen and Angie. I’m amazed how Unity Center's Twelve Powers fit perfectly with the twelve themes of the Progress Project! I hope the deepening awareness of our relationship with God, and God’s presence, is as powerful for you as it is for me through this course.
I live in Minnesota with my husband Rick, our dog, Gus, and our cat, Pumpkin. We have great gardens and orchards, because we have great soil!