An Invitation
Have you ever felt the distance between who you are right now and who you know yourself to be at your deepest and best? That gap — and the longing to close it — is exactly where Vision and Courage begins.
This is PTCI’s signature program, the one that started everything when we first offered it in 2000. Over the past 26 years, working with hundreds of people, we have witnessed again and again what becomes possible when someone aligns their everyday choices with their deepest values, what we call the Ideal . It changes everything — your relationship with yourself, with the people you love, and with the world around you.
We call that alignment spiritual growth and personal transformation. And it lives inside you, right now, ready to be claimed.
What Is Vision and Courage?
Vision is the capacity to see clearly — to unmistakably recognize the highest and best in yourself. This Vision is rooted in a sense of being part of something bigger than yourself. Something that calls you into Being your best self, for your benefit but also to benefit others. Answering this call means committing to know yourself at a very deep level… your values, your purpose … and letting them inspire you and guide your choices and daily decisions.
Courage is something deeper than bravery. It is wholehearted and action-oriented. It means gathering your inner resources — your wisdom, your compassion, your willingness — and meeting the call of the greater whole by bringing your Ideals to life, even when it isn’t easy.
Together, vision and courage are your inner compass. This program helps you find it, strengthen it, trust it, and activate it.
What You’ll Experience
Over three days, you will move through a journey drawn from both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and transformational psychologies. Through a blend of teaching, reflection, and experiential practice, you will:
- Discover or reconnect with your Ideal — the core values and aspirations that define who you truly are;
- Identify the obstacles and old patterns that get in your way, and learn to meet them with curiosity, compassion and understanding rather than resistance;
- Develop the courage, commitment, and resilience to live your Ideal more fully every day;
- Open your heart to deeper self-awareness, compassion, and forgiveness;
- Experience the sustaining power of practicing mindfulness, meditation, and honest reflection;
- Find yourself held in a warm, supportive community of people on similar paths.
The Five Pillars of the Program
These core themes have anchored Vision and Courage since the beginning, and they continue to offer fresh insight every time you encounter them:
Catching a Vision. Recognizing your interconnectedness to something larger than yourself and discovering your unique expression of wholeness in daily life.
Meeting Your Edges. Recognizing the obstacles that arise on the path and reframing them as invitations to grow, not evidence of failure.
Honoring the Whole Self. Learning to listen to and integrate your body’s wisdom alongside your mind and emotions, as a full participant in your journey.
Activating One of Your Greatest Inner Resources, Healthy Will, that turbo charges your personal journey of transformation and healing and guides your actions in the world.
Practicing Presence. Deepening your practices of mindfulness, meditation, and reflection as the foundation for becoming more fully and beautifully yourself.
Why Take It Again?
For those who have attended Vision and Courage before — perhaps more than once — this is a question worth sitting with. Here is what we hear most often from returning participants:
The Ideal you discovered years ago has become like a dear friend. And as with any deep friendship, your understanding of it changes as you change. Life has brought you new challenges, new joys, new losses, new understanding. You are not the same person who attended that first program, and the course will meet you exactly where you are now.
Mark and I have continued our own studies and practices in the years since you last attended. We bring new insights, new practices, and new depth to this offering — even as the heart of it remains the same.
Returning is not going back. It is going deeper in order to move forward.
2026 Offerings
We are offering Vision and Courage in two formats this year, so you can choose what works best for you:
In-Person at our home, Dakini Gardens. Mark and I are hosting the Vision and Courage course at our home in Round Hill, Virginia, Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27, 2026. Following the program, we will celebrate with the annual PTCI Open House and a special dedication of our renovated Dakini Meditation Garden.
Tuition is $395. Space is intentionally limited to keep each offering intimate and personal. We encourage you to register early.
Online — A fully live, interactive online offering in June of 2026, for those who cannot travel. Tuition is $295. Please see our website for dates and details.
You Are Not Alone in This
One of the most quietly powerful things about this program is the discovery that everyone on a spiritual path — everyone genuinely trying to become more whole, more loving, more purposeful — must work with both their gifts and their wounds. The two are not opposites. They are the very material from which wholeness is made.
In Vision and Courage, you will not walk that path alone. You will find around you a circle of people doing the same courageous work, offering their wisdom, their laughter, and their presence to support your journey.
We would love to have you with us.
