Coursework
Integrative Learning and Transformational Development for Leadership and Coaching (AC00, 8 credits)
This first course of your degree program begins your adventure of yearning-based learning. In it, you learn the basic processes of the Wright Performative approach to learning, growing, and personal transformation from the inside out. This springboard course orients you to your journey as a Wright Graduate University scholar practitioner. It provides a foundation for your own transformation, your development as a transformational leader, and the successful completion of your Master’s program at Wright Graduate University.
You are introduced to the intellectual, research, and practice areas of leadership with an emphasis on understanding yourself and others for effective management and leadership in organizational, team, and one-to-one aspects of your personal and professional life. In the Overview component you learn the six core academic disciplines–Neuroscience, behavioral economics and other related research; Adlerian; Humanistic; existential; developmental; and educational disciplines which bring to light applied insights and skills in organizational management and leadership. In the Performative component, you focus on your own learning and growing that you apply through weekly behavioral assignments to enhance your effectiveness in all areas of your life, including your profession. You assess yourself and others with the CARE personality profile to provide a common foundation for continued social emotional intelligence development. In the Applied component, coaching skills provide foundational skills in one-to-one leadership and relationship management. You also learn and apply the team empowerment structure with which you will manage your cohort activities including plenary meetings and other projects.
You learn the best practices to get the most out of the on-line learning component of your studies. You are oriented to the Wright Graduate University online community and engage in rich developmental interactions with your classmates. You orient to weekly lesson, reading, and discussion processes that you follow throughout your studies. You discover the ebb and flow rhythms that you follow each quarter to help facilitate your planning and self-management. You learn to track and plan your personal, leadership, and social emotional intelligence development through your Purposeful Leadership Process.
You explore emergence as a fundamental dynamic in optimizing individuals and group performance. You begin to understand the critical thinking skills of coaching, leadership, and business management that allow an individual to better apprehend, analyze, and make decisions from more accurate analysis of sensory, analytic, and other grounded data. Your analysis provides insight into themes patterns for which you design actions and interventions for change and better goal achievement. You develop as an individual in all areas of life, as well as a scholar practitioner, business professional, leader, and coach who practices what you preach and teach.
No prerequisites or co-requisites.
Foundations of Human Development & Emotional Intelligence for Coaching & Leadership (AC12, 8 credits)
This foundational course helps you as a coach and leader to understand the developmental process of
individuals. You learn theories and research of child development and how these processes impact adult
behavior, emotional intelligence, and career and life success. By understanding how you became who
you are, you are better able to become who you could be and help others do the same in coaching,
leadership, and teaming. You learn about emotional intelligence, a recognized factor in successful
leadership, coaching, training, and teaming, while also developing your emotional intelligence skills and
facility. Individual developmental needs and emotional intelligence are analyzed and facilitated from the
perspectives of the six core fields of Developmental Psychology, Adlerian Psychology, Human Potential,
Existentialism, Educational Theory, and Neuroscience and Other Research, and their synthesis in Wright
Integrative. Topics covered include attachment theory, the purpose and neuroscience of emotions; the
contribution of emotions to learning, effective decision-making and communication; and how emotional
data support positive self-concept and executive hardiness.
Prerequisite: AC00. Prerequisite or co-requisite: PL01.
Foundations of Human Relationships for Coaching & Leadership (AC22, 8 credits)
Patterns of relating are founded on earliest childhood experiences. Current neuroscience is
demonstrating that our earliest family experience is encoded in our neural pathways and our personal
strengths and limitations are determined by this programming, especially in developing fulfilling, powerful,
influential relationships. In almost all vocations, success is greatly influenced by the quality and depth
of relationships. This course introduces you to leading theories of adult development and explores the
many subtle links between childhood and adult relating—all with an eye toward coaching and leading
individuals and groups to higher performance. You learn about social and emotional intelligence and
develop relationship skills needed for effective interactions. You will understand the neurological
foundations of self-limiting behavior as you employ increasingly effective group and interpersonal
strategies. Skills taught in this course are founded on systems and attachment theories, humanistic
and developmental psychology, and existentialist perspectives.
Prerequisite: AC00. Prerequisite or co-requisite: PL02.
PERFORMATIVE LEARNING (PL) TRAININGS
All Performative Learning Trainings are non-credit bearing.
Please note that PL01 through PL04 includes:
- A weekend training at the beginning of the quarter.
- A weekly evening 1.5-hour class for 13 weeks.
- A 45-minute coaching session biweekly.
- Weekly online written check-ins demonstrating what you learned and how you grew.
Year of More: Nourishment & Self Care: Foundations of Emotional Intelligence Quarter (PL01, 0 credits)
Required for AC12, Foundations of Human Development & Emotional Intelligence for Coaching
& Leadership. In this PL you learn and undertake weekly assignments to further develop your emotional
intelligence––identifying your emotions, understanding their role in effective functioning and personal
and professional satisfaction and success, experimenting with emotional expression, being in the
moment, and developing skills of emotional regulation and facility.
No prerequisite.
Year of More: Robust Relationships: Foundations of Social Intelligence Quarter (PL02, 0 credits)
Required for AC22, Foundations of Human Relationships for Coaching & Leadership. In this PL you
explore the impact of your family relationships on your relationships in the rest of your life, your work,
and with those you coach and lead. You diagram your family tree and identify your family limiting beliefs
and family member roles and special circumstances in order to identify behavioral patterns as they
were laid down neurologically in your earliest years. You learn the neuroscience related to your early
experiences in your family system, identify the impact of these early experiences in your life today,
and develop a future vision for your relationships. You identify skills for more genuine relationships;
understand how early family beliefs, norms, and patterns developed and influence current relationships; identify unconscious beliefs that drive daily actions; gain greater choice to live your own values; and be
more responsible in communication.
No prerequisite.
