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.
Coaching & Leadership Approaches to Developing Personal Power (AC32, 8 credits)
The ability to influence others and get work done—in other words, personal power—is a key attribute
of all human beings you will tap and develop in your coaching and leadership. This course helps you
identify and understand the many varieties of personal power you already employ, as well as
self-imposed blocks and limiting beliefs that prevent you as well as those you coach and lead from
realizing full personal impact. You discover the relationship of authenticity and personal power. Skills
taught include identifying your personal power styles, learning different means of influencing
and motivating others, and developing your social intelligence. An overview of developmental
psychology and existential philosophy helps you understand the power of orienting to principles in any
situation, including the power of orienting towards personal principles of truth and authenticity.
Prerequisite: AC00. Prerequisite or co-requisite: PL03.
Purposeful Living in Coaching & Leadership (AC42, 8 credits)
Purpose is an essential element that informs every aspect of career and life success. Your study of
principled behavior and purposeful living will give added meaning and direction to all your coaching
and leadership. You will identify an initial life purpose statement and discover ways in which having a
clearer sense of purpose gives focus and perspective to all you do. Learning to live the principles of
transformation bring deeper meaning and greater performance to all your coaching and leadership. You
will analyze your natural gifts and talents and explore how applying those gifts in the service of others
can generate career success and a lifelong sense of satisfaction and meaning. An overview of existential
philosophy, human potential, Adlerian education and psychology, and other aspects of Wright
Integrative helps you understand the relationships of applying principles such as intent, choice, and
responsibility to successful leadership and coaching.
Prerequisite: AC00. Pre-requisite or co-requisite: PL04.
PERFORMATIVE LEARNING (PL) TRAININGS
All Performative Learning Trainings are non-credit bearing and include:
- 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: Personal Power Quarter (PL03, 0 credits)
Required for AC32, Coaching & Leadership Approaches to Developing Personal Power. In this
PL you study forms of personal power and develop strategies to enhance your use of your
personal power. You use your enhanced skills to overcome barriers, take more risks, and develop new
ways to understand and apply the principle of intention. You understand and apply the law of requisite
variety, develop more connected relationships, and take greater personal responsibility in work and
other areas. You learn, practice, and apply different skills of personal power each week in your personal
and professional life and in your coaching and leadership.
No prerequisite.
Year of More: Purposeful Living & Leadership Quarter (PL04, 0 credits)
In this PL you practice living with the principles of purpose, learn about the qualities of purposeful living, and begin to identify your own life purpose. You further challenge disempowering and limiting childhood beliefs, choose empowering beliefs and principles to live by, and find ways to experience every interaction as growthful.
You learn about developmental models of personal development and apply these as a map to guide your spiritual development in ways that can apply to believers of all faiths. You learn and practice the skills of principle based leadership and coaching.
No prerequisite.
