Core Values and Goals

The low-residency Master of Arts in Transpersonal Psychology program is based on the integration of personal and transpersonal growth, contemplative practice, critical intellect and service.

These values are furthered by our emphasis on community, diversity and inclusivity.

The MA Transpersonal Psychology program offers Naropa University’s approach to contemplative education and engagement with inner development and the world to a geographically diverse and international population of students. It seeks to expand contemplative education through the online medium.

These core values are the foundation of the MA Transpersonal Psychology program’s goals.

• Students will demonstrate expertise in the concepts, themes, theory, methods, history and current issues of transpersonal psychology.


• Students will apply and expand their understanding of transpersonal psychology through service and intellectual contributions. Students will demonstrate understanding and respect for service, intellectual rigor and engaged action as essential in transpersonal psychology.


• Students will demonstrate a personal, ongoing and deepening relationship with transpersonal and contemplative practices and an integration of these practices in their lives and academic work.


• Students will demonstrate qualities of openness to experience, appreciation for difference and diversity, and compassionate communication with peers and faculty.


• Students will demonstrate maturity and openness in regard to diversity, inclusivity and pluralism, appreciating and integrating perspectives of difference and unity. This growing maturity and openness is the basis for community and leadership within the program, in service-learning placements and in the world.