Portals to Purpose
The Great Homecoming
A season of soul work for those who sense there is more.
The Invitation
Something in you already knows
We are living in a time of profound unravelling. And within that unravelling, the question of purpose feels essential. Perhaps you sense it already: a felt-sense knowing that this cannot be all there is. That somewhere beneath the roles, the routines, the well-managed life, a deeper truth is waiting. About who you truly are. And what is yours to bring.
This summer, PGI invites you into a season of gatherings that move from reconnection, through grief and wildness, into direct contact with your soul's calling. Each event is a portal. Come to one, several or all. Welcome home.
Ready for the full descent? Our flagship Purpose Discovery Program begins September 2026.
The Journey · March – August 2026
Six portals. One homecoming.
Soul Sangha
Monthly community gathering · Online via Zoom
A free, open gathering for anyone feeling the pull of this work. Each month we come together in sacred community to name what's alive in us, share what we're carrying, and remember that we are not alone in this turning. Come as you are.
Join the next gatheringGrief as Gateway
What Love Asks of Us in a Changing World
"If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again." — Robin Wall Kimmerer
Join Carolynne Griffiths and Lynsey Scott for a three-hour grief ritual, reclaiming grief as a doorway to deeper love, fiercer commitment, and the mature tenderness our world is asking of us. Sliding scale.
RegisterFinding Your Wild in a Tame World
A Conversation with Craig Foster
How can we reclaim a soul-deepening wildness when daily life insists on taming us?
Craig Foster is a leading natural history filmmaker and co-founder of the Sea Change Project. He won an Academy Award for Best Documentary for My Octopus Teacher. Based in South Africa, Craig's work is a living testimony to what becomes possible when we surrender to an intimate relationship with the more-than-human world. Join us for a rare conversation about wildness, belonging, and what the living world is asking of us. Sliding scale.
RegisterThree Portals to Purpose
A 3-week live journey with Rachael Duffy
The heart of the summer series. Three sessions. Three portals. One inquiry: what's really running your life, and what is the authentic expression that wants to come through you?
For anyone who senses there is more to this life than what they are currently living. Sliding scale. Early bird rate for those who've attended earlier events.
RegisterThree Portals to Purpose — The Arc
Eight Facets of a Life Worth Living
With PGI Founder Jonathan Gustin
The man who created the Purpose Octagon after 25 years of guiding people toward their soul's calling. Jonathan Gustin introduces the eight-faceted framework at the heart of everything PGI offers, and shares why this work has never been more urgent. A rare opportunity to learn directly from the founder as he passes the thread to PGI's new generation of teachers.
Express interestCrossing the Threshold
Life as Ceremony, with Michael Denmeade
The final gathering before the Purpose Discovery Program begins. Michael Denmeade, devoted practitioner of sacred ceremony and co-Lead Teacher for PGI's purpose programs, holds space for a rite of commitment. For those who have walked the summer journey: this is the moment to stand at the threshold, name what you are giving yourself to, and step across.
Express interestWhere This Leads
The summer journey leads here
The Purpose Discovery Program
September – December 2026 · 3 months online · Weekly live sessions
PGI's foundational journey through the full Purpose Octagon. Eight facets. World-class guest teachers. Soul Circle gatherings. Guided meditations and nature-based practices. You will uncover the vision, values, powers, essence, giveaway, task, message, and delivery system of your soul's unique purpose. This is where the naming happens.
Learn more and applyPurpose Guides™ Training
January – June 2027 · 6 months online · For PDP graduates
Train as a certified Purpose Guide™ and join a constellation of soul-led practitioners worldwide. Learn PGI's proprietary 12-step guiding method, receive mentored practice with real clients, and build the foundations to offer this work professionally. Class limited to 35.
Explore the trainingEach step is complete in itself. Go as deep as you're called to go.
The Framework
The Purpose Octagon
Developed over 25 years by PGI founder Jonathan Gustin, the Purpose Octagon maps eight facets of soul-level purpose. Unlike surface-level purpose exercises, this framework is rooted in deep multi-tradition wisdom and guides you into a living, embodied relationship with your unique calling.
The Purpose Discovery Program takes you on a journey through each facet, giving language, structure, and felt experience to what you may have been sensing but could not yet name.
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Is This Your Path?
This work is for you if…
You sense there is something deeper you are here to offer, even if you can't yet name it.
You are tired of surface-level purpose exercises and ready for a genuine descent to soul.
You feel the urgency of these times and want to respond from your deepest truth.
You are drawn to nature-based, multi-tradition wisdom rather than a single school.
You long to experience the magic, awe and sacred animacy of all life.
You long for a community of people who take Soul seriously.
You may be called to guide others on this journey, or you may simply want to take the journey yourself.