Course Syllabus

Overview of the Course – with Hameed Ali

In the course overview, you will:

• Learn about the unique aspects of the Diamond Approach as a spiritual path
• Understand how to engage your life to support spiritual growth and increased awareness
• Discover how to approach mundane experience in a way that opens them up to new levels 
• Explore what it means to all the dimensions of our human potential 

Course Modules

Module 1 – The Diamond Approach: A Personal Path – with Jeanne Rosenblum

In this module, you will:

• Become acquainted with the various aspects of the Diamond Approach as a spiritual path
• Discover how to find something true in yourself wherever you are in yourself
• Be guided through an introduction to a practice to explore and honor your personal spiritual path

Module 2 – Being in Touch with Our Experience – with Rob Merkx

In this module, you will:

• Be guided to understand why it’s important and valuable to be in touch with your experience
• Explore how every experience can be a doorway to True Nature
• Recognize the barriers to being in contact with your experience 

Module 3 – Presence in the Flow of Experience – with Rob Merkx

In this module, you will:

• Explore the idea of presence as a palpable substance of reality and quality that is found in the here and now
• Recognize the different ways to notice presence
• Perceive the dynamic nature of presence that emerges when one allows what is happening without judgment 

Module 4 – The Essential Qualities of Being – with Zarina Maiwandi

In this module, you will:

• Explore the infinite richness of your inner life
• Understand the various qualities of being, such as love, joy, clarity, confidence, peacefulness, and determination
• Sense the doorways to becoming more in touch with the differentiated qualities of being 

Module 5 – Nondual/Boundless Dimensions – with Zarina Maiwandi

In this module, you will:

• Learn how we can discover a presence that has no bounds, moving into nondual expansion
• Understand the inclusive, unified, and vast expanse that includes what we are, what we see, what we don’t see, and beyond
• Begin to discriminate into a subtler dimension of awareness that can yield to a bottomless nothingness that is the source of everything
• Explore how reality is full of open places and spaces, and how every part of experience can be a wormhole that can lead beyond time and space so that you may come to know the unbounded freedom of reality as who and what you are 

Module 6 – Daily Life – with Jeanne Rosenblum

In this module, you will:

• Explore what it really means for Being/spirit to live a human life
• Inquire into how realization can be integrated into everyday life
• Discover how cultivating greater awareness of the patterns we have developed throughout life can lead to different aspects of life undergoing transformation
• Engage in various ways to support the integration of spiritual experience into daily life 

Course Completion

In this module you will complete the course and explore next steps.