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Graduate Degrees in Transformative Learning
Ubiquity University, in partnership with the The Transformative Learning Foundation (TLF), is delighted to offer graduate degrees in Transformative Learning.
Transformation creates a shift in perspective.
Transformative Learning Foundation (TLF) is a non-profit organization with a mission of revolutionizing the form and execution of all aspects of education. By actualizing transformative learning experiences, TLF aims to create a global community of enlightened, adaptable, and empathetic individuals who contribute to a more just, sustainable, and interconnected world.
TLF offers a Certificate in Transformative Learning with an emergent curriculum taught by faculty who are experts and practitioners in their field. Transformation creates a shift in perspective. Previously held patterns are reorganized into deeper meanings that inform one’s identity and actions in new ways.
Those who complete the Certificate in Transformative Learning through TLF may then enroll with Ubiquity to earn graduate degrees in Transformative Learning. Students in the Certificate Program are assigned an advisor who will help them navigate the process of enrolling with Ubiquity.
To apply to the Transformative Learning Certificate Program, visit TLF’s Admissions page. Once enrolled in the Certificate Program, you’ll work with your advisor to determine your timeline, then click below to apply to the graduate program with Ubiquity.
We recommend that your program begins with Ubiquity’s Creative Journey to Dissertation course, which will give you the tools to shape, and eventually write your thesis or dissertation. You will then complete your coursework with TLF and return again to Ubiquity for the higher education credential.
Those who have enrolled in or completed coursework with The Transformative Learning Foundation may begin the process of enrollment with Ubiquity by clicking below.
Program Details
For a detailed description of the Certificate in Transformative Learning program, please visit TLF’s Certificate Program page. Each course in this program exemplifies TLF’s core values of trust, embodiment and self-reflection.
Courses are categorized into 5 Learning Zones, each with a unique approach to Transformation
- Human Development
- Expresive Arts
- African Wisdom
- Indigenous Wisdom
- Spiritual Activism
After taking a core course in each Zone, students may continue in any direction they wish. Learn more about TLF’s Educational Design.
When you join this program, you become part of a community of students and faculty who are continually contributing to relational learning through our shared online spaces.
Program Outcomes
By the end of their graduate degree in Transformative Learning students, depending on their learning journey, will be able to:
- Self-reflect in ways that allow trust to spring forth in relationships and learning.
- Embody and embrace radical changes in perspective.
- Pass along their capacity for transformation to people of all ages and backgrounds.
- Access a wider range of ways of being, knowing, creating, and communicating.
- Become a force of change and social transformation in the areas that are most meaningful to them.
- Expand their competence as practitioners in their fields with newfound precision, elegance, and wisdom.
- Understand how children see and organize their world so they can respond in ways that bring forth optimal well being in families, educational venues, and social services.
- Bring their understanding of spiritual activism to transform themselves, their organization, and their society.
- Bring to life the wisdom of insight, thoughts, and feelings through the creativity of expressive arts in multiple media.
- Fully experience reverence for Earth and connect with Indigenous ways of knowing that can inform how we live our lives.
- Connect with African indigenous knowledge and wisdom to deepen their experience of the wholeness, harmony, and interrelatedness of all existence.
All coursework is administered by the Transformative Learning Foundation. Students must contact TLF directly for more information about course content, academic requirements and timelines.
Ubiquity’s Academic Courses
- Creative Journey to Dissertation Writing (all degrees)
- Great Books (only for PhD, MA/PhD combined students)
- Chartres Academy (only for PhD & MA/PhD Students)
Program Completion Requirements
MA Degree in Transformative Learning
Transformative Learning Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
PhD Degree in Transformative Learning
Transformative Learning Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Chartres Academy
Great Books
MA/PhD Degree in Transformative Learning
Transformative Learning Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Chartres Academy
Great Books
Electives (8 credits)
Pricing for Ubiquity’s Academic Courses
Note that these prices do not include the cost of partner coursework, Chartres in-person costs or costs of additional elective courses.
MA $5000
PhD $15000
MA/PhD $16600
Save up to
$830
paying full
Ubiquity offers a 5% discount for students that are able to make the full payment up front. That means you save $175 on a Masters, $750 on a PhD and $830 on MA/PhD.
Student Academic Journey
The duration of your student journey will vary depending on your degree pathway.
Ubiquity offers instalment plans for all degree students over an 18 month period.
Who Is the Program For?
Transformative Learning Foundation is for those who realize the need to transform themselves in order to actualize justice in the community, society and world. TLF attracts participants of diverse backgrounds and passions—educators, parents, environmentalists, artists, spiritual enthusiasts, psychologists, and other practitioners seeking meaningful and relational education. The broad range of knowledge and skills that can be gained from engagement with each of our Zones (African and Indigenous Wisdom, Expressive Arts, Whole Human Development for the entire lifespan, and specifics on Spiritual Activism) can be skillfully applied in many professional fields, non-profit organizations, and social contexts.
About The Transformative Learning Foundation
The Transformative Learning Foundation revolutionizes the form and execution of all aspects of education. By actualizing transformative learning experiences, we aim to create a global community of enlightened, adaptable, and empathetic individuals who contribute to a more just, sustainable, and interconnected world.
Influenced by the successes of homeschooling and self-design, a diverse consortium of educators gathered and Self-Design Graduate Institute was born in 2010, with a commitment to Holistic Education and an emphasis on spiritual philosophy, humanistic psychology and social justice. It flourished until 2020 when it merged with the Independent Master’s Program of Antioch University.
By the end of 2021, the partnership with Antioch proved too restrictive. Change was needed. Two Councils, composed of students, faculty and staff, convened to envision the future of the organization. Transformation, clearly defined and embedded in every aspect of the organization, emerged as the unmistakable clarion call of the councils.
We patiently redesigned TLF according to the Council’s direction, and added low-cost learning through partnership affiliations to create an emergent diverse pedagogy and organization structure rooted in Transformation.
The Ubiquity Graduate Degree
The Ubiquity Graduate Program combines the US and European designs of graduate programs with a blend of taught learning with research and writing. The thesis or dissertation must demonstrate excellence at every level. It must show awareness of the history of the literature in your particular area; demonstrate careful analysis and understanding of the field in question; and, most importantly, show how your insight can be applied to the real world. The dissertation must be scholarly and utilize extensive bibliographical data and footnotes. It should, in other words, be an impeccable work of research.
The Creative Journey To Dissertation
It is a 1-week intensive designed by our Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Gyorgyi Szabo. The course is a critical part of the dissertation writing process and is a requirement for all MA/PhD candidates.
Faculty: Gyorgyi Szabo
Great Books
Faculty: Gyorgyi Szabo PhD, Jim Garrison PhD
The Great Books course at Ubiquity University delves into literature that has shaped human thought. Students discuss, analyze, and connect historical themes to contemporary global challenges, deepening their understanding of enduring literary works.
Chartes Academy
Our Chartres Academy is intended as a gathering point for a contemporary wisdom community to come together through the very same learning system that Fulbert and Plato used — the seven Liberal Arts.
Support during your Graduate Program
During your graduate dissertation writing you will be supported by a Major Advisor of your own choosing, as well as optional writing courses and writing mentorship.
