FouNDER AND GUEST TEACHER
Jonathan Gustin is the founder of the Purpose Guides Institute and creator of the Purpose Discovery Program. Jonathan teaches majority of the sessions for this program, assisted by a great roster of associate teachers. A purpose guide, psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and integral mentor, Jonathan has served in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. He also serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the Consciousness and Transformation Studies program. Jonathan has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Green Gulch Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Open Circle, Bay Area Integral, The Nondual Wisdom & Mental Health Conference, iEvolve, San Quentin State Penitentiary, Marina Counseling Center, and iRest Institute. He has co-taught with human potential pioneer George Leonard, Buddhist activist Joanna Macy and depth psychologist Bill Plotkin.
Guest TeacherS:
faculty:
Michael Denmeade has spent most of his adult life learning what he calls the Mitakyasin Way—how to live in Right Relationship & Reciprocity with all life. He is a spiritual mentor, vision quest guide and fire keeper for sacred ceremony, answering the call when medicine people need him.
Rachael Duffy With over 25 years of experience as a coach, guide, and facilitator, Rachael supports others to remember the truth of who they are, and to live in alignment with their soul’s calling. Her work is devoted to the Great Turning—this time of collective transition toward a life-enhancing future.
Here’s What Some of Today’s Leading Luminaries Have to Say About Jonathan
“Jonathan is wonderfully skilled in the art of guiding people to discover and embody their unique life purpose. There are few things I appreciate more than good teaching, and so I enthusiastically recommend Jonathan’s work with people. Jonathan is a person of great integrity, from whom I am ever learning. ”
“Jonathan Gustin is a very rare example of a seasoned meditation teacher who understands the spiritual necessity of the descent to soul and sacred darkness — as well as the ascent to the light and the One. He guides his students in both directions, down as well as up. I have had the pleasure of witnessing Jonathan teach — he is delightfully personable and humble and is exceptionally clear, thorough, penetrating, engaging, and inspiring. Don’t miss the opportunity. ”
“Jonathan Gustin brings passion, subtle insight and disarming humor to his work as a presenter of the three-worlds model and as a skillful ‘midwife of the soul’.”
“Jonathan Gustin is doing important work in raising consciousness on both the inner and outer levels of reality. He shares deep teachings on non-duality and how to apply them to the pressing issues of our time that make up the Metacrisis. It is a pleasure to know his work is reaching many hearts as well as to share the teaching seat with him.
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