Welcome to Lee Mason's
Overflowing Purpose
Your Guide to Personal and Collective Transformation
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver
What if your unique answer to this question could reshape not only your own life, but also contribute to healing the world’s greatest challenges?
If you’ve been feeling lost amid personal struggles or global chaos, you’re not alone. The uncertainty of modern times can cloud our sense of purpose, leaving us disconnected from both ourselves and the world.
Overflowing Purpose is here to help you discover that within the overwhelming challenges of our world lies a unique opportunity: a calling to step into your deepest purpose and make a meaningful difference — not just for yourself, but for all of humanity.
This course offers not just insight, but practical tools to reconnect with what matters most — your sense of purpose — and leverage that connection to navigate a complex world with resilience and passion.
To truly flourish in today’s complex world, you need a deep connection to your unique purpose — a purpose that not only guides you through personal challenges but also helps you navigate the larger crises affecting our world. Overflowing Purpose is more than just a course; it’s a transformative journey designed to align your personal growth with the greater needs of the world.
Led by Lee Mason and a diverse group of renowned thought leaders, this course offers you the tools to discover and live your unique purpose with more clarity, passion, and presence. With insights from thought leaders such as Ken Wilber, Beena Sharma, John Vervaeke, Greg Thomas, Peter Merry, and others, this course empowers you to craft a deeply embodied sense of purpose, helping you make a meaningful impact, even in the face of global crises.
Each of us has a unique contribution to make—a purpose that we alone can embody. Yet, with the overwhelm of modern life, it’s easy to feel disconnected from that deeper sense of meaning. Overflowing Purpose invites you to reconnect with your life’s purpose—not as a distant goal, but as a dynamic, evolving process you engage with every day.
Course Overview
Discover, Deepen, and Live Your Unique Purpose
This course offers a guided pathway to help you align your personal growth with the world’s greatest challenges, empowering you to live with intention and share your unique gifts. Through expert interviews, reflective exercises, and meditative practices, you will:
- Explore the foundations of purposeful living and learn how to integrate meaning into every aspect of your life.
- Discover your unique craft and calling — the way you bring your gifts, skills, and insights into the world.
- Cultivate a deeper sense of purpose and belonging, fostering a meaningful connection to both yourself and the larger world.
- Build resilience in the face of adversity, learning how to adapt and thrive even amidst personal and collective challenges.
- Foster greater compassion for people with different worldviews, cultivating empathy and bridging divides in an increasingly polarized world.
- Expand your awareness of global issues and develop a clear sense of how your unique gifts can contribute to addressing these challenges.
- Transform limiting beliefs and old narratives, allowing you to step into a more authentic and empowered version of yourself.
Your Personal Guide Through the Metacrisis
In today’s world, we face an unprecedented array of interconnected crises — a phenomenon often described as the metacrisis.
It’s called a “metacrisis” because it’s not just a collection of isolated problems, but an intricate web of challenges that compound and reinforce each other. Environmental degradation fuels political instability. Inequality worsens mental health issues. Technological disruption creates economic divides. Each crisis is tied to the others, creating a complex set of feedback loops that makes them difficult to solve in isolation. To truly address the metacrisis, we need a holistic, integrative approach that looks at both the big picture and our personal role within it.
In the face of these vast and interconnected challenges, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It can be hard to see how individual actions make any difference when the problems seem so large. But here’s the key: none of us can see the entire metacrisis clearly. We each perceive only parts of it, shaped by our personal experiences, biases, fears, and projections.
This course helps you expand your sense-making, and shows you how your deepest purpose can help address both the personal and global dimensions of the metacrisis, recognizing that our greatest challenges are not really taking place “out there” in the world, but “in here” within each of our hearts and minds.
Because within this complex set of challenges lies a rare opportunity for each of us to play a unique role in shaping a better future.
What Will You Do With Your One Wild and Precious Life?
Overflowing Purpose was designed to help you navigate these turbulent times by offering tools to deepen your sense of meaning and clarity. More than just a course, it’s an invitation to live with wisdom, resilience, and purpose, even in a world that often feels chaotic.
Through a dynamic combination of philosophical depth and practical guidance, this course empowers you to align your life with the deeper currents of purpose, all while addressing the ongoing challenges of the metacrisis.
Drawing on insights from 14 thought leaders, including Ken Wilber, Beena Sharma, John Vervaeke, Greg Thomas, and others, Overflowing Purpose offers a unique blend of intellectual rigor and embodied wisdom. Across 11 modules, you’ll explore how the metacrisis is impacting humanity and how to engage with it through a deeply personal, embodied sense of purpose.
Embark on a Transformative Journey to Your Deepest Purpose
Through the Overflowing Purpose course, you will experience a deeply personal transformation that unfolds across these key stages:
Exploration: Discovering Your Unique Role — Uncover the core of your deepest intentions, understand the roots of the metacrisis, and explore how your personal story intersects with the broader human experience.
Integration: Aligning Inner Growth with Outer Impact — Through reflective meditations, learn to integrate your purpose with everyday actions, cultivating an embodied presence that responds to both inner and outer challenges.
Activation: Living Purposefully in a Turbulent World: Transform personal insights and inspiration into action. Learn practical strategies to address global challenges, ranging from inequality to ecological sustainability to cultural polarization, all through the lens of your unique purpose and passion.
Meet Your Guides
You won’t be alone on this journey. Overflowing Purpose is enriched by the insights of some of the world’s leading thinkers in personal, social, and cultural transformation. Alongside Lee Mason, you’ll learn from:
Ken Wilber: A pioneering integrative philosopher and founder of Contemporary Integral Theory, Ken helps us map the big picture—integrating psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions to understand how we can navigate the metacrisis with clarity.
Beena Sharma: An expert in polarity wisdom and founder of Vertical Development Academy, Beena offers tools to transcend cultural divides and cultivate wisdom in the face of polarization.
John Vervaeke: A professor of cognitive science and creator of “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis,” John explores how we can develop deeper sense-making abilities to understand the complex world around us and find purpose within it.
Greg Thomas: Founder of the Jazz Leadership Project, Greg uses the principles of jazz to teach cultural intelligence and explore how improvisation and cooperation can help bridge divides in a polarized world.
Dr. Keith Witt: A renowned psychologist, Keith provides insights on how to transform personal and intergenerational trauma into resilience, fostering the emotional intelligence needed for these turbulent times.
Cindy Wigglesworth: An authority on spiritual intelligence, Cindy brings practical approaches to foster compassion, empathy, and self-awareness—skills vital for navigating personal and societal challenges.
Robb Smith: Social entrepreneur and founder of Integral Life, Robb discusses how to transform systemic inequalities and reshape society toward fairness and resilience.
Peter Merry: An expert in evolutionary leadership and co-founder of Ubiquity University, Peter shows how to cultivate leadership skills that align with humanity’s emergent future, addressing the interrelated crises we face.
Alexander László: A systems scientist, Alexander helps us understand the complex, nonlinear dynamics of the metacrisis, providing strategies for navigating this intricate landscape with wisdom and agility.
Jeff Salzman: Host of the Daily Evolver podcast, Jeff provides a cultural and consciousness perspective that helps contextualize our personal growth within the larger evolution of society.
Gail Hochachka: A researcher focused on climate change and human dimensions, Gail explores how we can align our inner development with ecological sustainability.
John DuPuy: CEO of iAwake Technologies and expert in altered brain states, expert in addiction recovery, and co-host of the Deep Transformation podcast. John shares insights on how integral approaches can foster personal growth and perspective on global challenges.
Steve McIntosh: Co-founder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution, Steve focuses on cultural development and practical approaches to fostering meaningful dialogue across ideological divides.
Brandon Norgaard: Founder of the Enlightened Worldview Project, Brandon offers philosophical tools to address the divergent worldviews that fuel societal division, helping us find common ground.
What Makes This Course Unique?
Overflowing Purpose goes beyond surface-level inspirations and platitudes, offering a deeply integrative approach to personal, cultural, and social development. Drawing on insights from integral theory, contemplative practices, and practical exercises, this course guides you in crafting a purpose that is both uniquely your own, and uniquely responsive to the world’s needs.
It’s not about telling you what your purpose should be — it’s about giving you the tools to uncover it for yourself.
Whether you’re looking to find more meaning in your life, navigate personal challenges, or make a tangible impact on the world around you, Overflowing Purpose offers everything you need to develop a deeper sense of purpose and belonging.
This course is for those who are ready to engage with life’s biggest questions, to face the world’s greatest challenges, and to embrace your personal role as co-creator of a more beautiful, just, and sustainable future.
What You'll Learn
- Understand the Metacrisis: Discover how today’s global challenges are interconnected, and why your unique perspective is vital in addressing them.
- Transcend Polarization: Explore how healing personal and generational wounds can unlock resilience and catalyze your transformation.
- Recognize and Overcome Perverse Incentives: Uncover how societal systems may undermine well-being and find ways to redirect your actions toward a just world.
- Transform Your Trauma: Explore how both personal and intergenerational trauma can serve as a catalyst for deep healing, resilience, and transformation.
- Manage Inequality: Learn how systemic inequalities affect you and those around you, and discover how you can advocate for a fairer world.
- Avoid Technological Disasters: Learn how you can help influence the direction of rapid technological changes to serve the common good.
- Navigate Health Crises: Cultivate a balanced relationship with life and mortality, empowering yourself to face health crises with grace.
- Evaluate Global Threats: Understand global threats and how your individual choices contribute to collective resilience and well-being.
- Cultivate Peace Amid Conflict: Discover how to foster peace in your personal relationships and communities, transforming conflict into understanding.
- Realign With Our Environment: Reflect on your connection to the Earth and take actionable steps to nurture a sustainable relationship with our planet.
- Embrace Your Unique Purpose: Integrate all your insights to fully embody your own unique "overflowing purpose" and make a meaningful impact in the world.
About Lee Mason
As a Physical Therapy graduate of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), Lee has facilitated thousands of treatment sessions with patients in various sectors of the Dutch healthcare industry. As a teacher, he has facilitated courses and workshops for students of universities in Amsterdam (UvA), Utrecht (UU) and Eindhoven (TU). He has also created two online courses about the practical application of Integral Theory for the online education platform Ubiquity University. As a coach, he has provided coaching for clients employed by Accenture, Amsterdam University (VU) and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture & Science (OCW). Throughout his career, Lee has helped people to develop healthy exercise, nutrition, hydration and sleep habits and also effectively transform unproductive thoughts, unpleasant emotions and limiting beliefs. Lee’s book (in Dutch), presents an Integrally-informed method which readers can use to achieve important life goals.
Course Curriculum
Module 1 | The State of the World |
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Unit 1 | People Get Ready: Introducing the Program |
Unit 2 | You Set the Scene: An Overview of What's to Come |
Unit 3 | Good Times Bad Times: Understanding the Paradox of Modernity |
Unit 4 | Witness the Breath: Cultivating Mindful Awareness |
Unit 5 | Maps: An Introduction to the Integral Model |
Unit 6 | Sea of Atoms: Embracing Embodied Interconnection |
Unit 7 | Sit Up: Integrating Physical and Mental Practices |
Unit 8 | The State of the World: Integration |
Module 2 | Transcending Polarization |
Unit 1 | Both Sides Now: Escaping Unhealthy Polarization |
Unit 2 | Come Together: Taking the Perspective of Others |
Unit 3 | We Are Family: Transcending Polarization Around Race |
Unit 4 | Back Arching: Cultivating Flexibility and Balance |
Unit 5 | Good Vibrations: Fostering Cooperation through Music |
Unit 6 | Collective Breathing: Deepening Your Connection with Life |
Unit 7 | Squeeze Me, But Please Don't Tease Me |
Unit 8 | Transcending Polarization: Integration |
Module 3 | Navigating Health Crises |
Unit 1 | Body and Soul: Navigating the Health of Humanity |
Unit 2 | Sideways Leg Raise: Strengthening Your Lower Body |
Unit 3 | It's Only Natural: Cultivating a Healthy Relationship with Mortality |
Unit 4 | Facing Death: Cultivating Peace and Acceptance |
Unit 5 | Changes: Embracing Life and Death as a Unified Experience |
Unit 6 | Embodying Change: Appreciating the Dynamic Nature of Life and Death |
Unit 7 | Infected: Worldviews and Polarities during COVID-19 |
Unit 8 | Navigating Health Crises: Integration |
Module 4 | Managing Inequality |
Unit 1 | Them Belly Full (But We Hungry): Exploring the Impact of Inequality |
Unit 2 | Pelvic Bridge: Strengthening Your Core and Lower Body |
Unit 3 | Move On: Navigating Migration and Cultural Integration |
Unit 4 | Embodying Ancestry: Connecting with Your Lineage |
Unit 5 | Big Empty: Exploring the Relationship Between Emptiness and Form |
Unit 6 | Emptiness and Form: Experiencing the Fullness of Emptiness |
Unit 7 | Policy of Truth: Navigating Leadership, Inequality, and Honest Governance |
Unit 8 | Managing Inequality: Integration |
Module 5 | Transforming Trauma |
Unit 1 | Everybody Hurts: The Path of Healing |
Unit 2 | Befriending Discomfort: Building Resilience Through Mindful Awareness |
Unit 3 | Ordinary Pain: Embracing the Necessity of Discomfort |
Unit 4 | Suffering and Resilience: Tapping into the Strength of the Human Spirit |
Unit 5 | You Are Everything: Potentiality, Actuality, and the Shadow Self |
Unit 6 | Framing Trauma: Resilience Through Awareness |
Unit 7 | The Blues Never Die: Music and Healing Across Generations |
Unit 8 | Advanced Pelvic Bridge: Enhancing Stability and Control |
Unit 9 | Transforming Trauma: Integration |
Module 6 | Avoiding Technological Disasters |
Unit 1 | Close to the Edge: The Human Factor in a Tech-Driven World |
Unit 2 | Growth and Development: Embracing the Totality of Self |
Unit 3 | Running Up That Hill: Understanding the Stages of Human Development |
Unit 4 | Leg Extension: Strengthening Your Core and Lower Body Stability |
Unit 5 | Who Knows? The Moral Dilemma of Technology |
Unit 6 | New Frontier: Technological Evolution and Human Purpose |
Unit 7 | Avoiding Technological Disasters: Integration |
Module 7 | Evaluating Threats |
Unit 1 | Gimme Shelter: Evaluating Safety Threats in a Complex World |
Unit 2 | Won't Get Fooled Again: The Roots and Realities of Conspiracies |
Unit 3 | Advanced Leg Extensions: Strengthening Stability and Coordination |
Unit 4 | Modern Kosmology: Exploring the Cycles of Existence |
Unit 5 | Embodying Timelessness: Cultivating Presence Through Kosmic Awareness |
Unit 6 | Do the Evolution: The Kosmic Dance of Involution and Evolution |
Unit 7 | Involution and Evolution: Experiencing the Continuum of Being |
Unit 8 | Evaluating Threats: Integration |
Module 8 | Overcoming Perverse Incentives |
Unit 1 | Money: The Price of Health |
Unit 2 | Dry Swimming: Building Core Strength and Flexibility |
Unit 3 | Universal Love: Expanding Connection Through Syntony |
Unit 4 | Ocean and Wave: Connecting With Your Transpersonal Self |
Unit 5 | Play the Game: The Kosmic Dance of Involution and Evolution |
Unit 6 | Overcoming Perverse Incentives: Integration |
Module 9 | Containing War |
Unit 1 | War (What Is It Good For): Examining the Complexity of Military Intervention |
Unit 2 | Square Breathing: Cultivating Calm and Clarity in the Face of Conflict |
Unit 3 | A Small Victory: The Evolution of Conflict and the Power of Perspective |
Unit 4 | Squat: Building Strength and Resilience Through Simple Movements |
Unit 5 | Containing War: Integration |
Module 10 | Addressing Environmental Degradation |
Unit 1 | Emergency on Planet Earth: Understanding Climate Change |
Unit 2 | Embodying Awareness: Expanding Consciousness for Environmental Wholeness |
Unit 3 | Human Nature: Consciousness and Environmental Harmony |
Unit 4 | Being Here And Now: Cultivating Presence in the Face of Environmental Challenges |
Unit 5 | The Village Green Preservation Society: Diverse Paths to Sustainability |
Unit 6 | Knee Lifts: Elevating Your Awareness |
Unit 7 | The Work: Aligning Actions for a Sustainable Future |
Unit 8 | Addressing Environmental Degradation: Integration |
Module 11 | Embracing Existence |
Unit 1 | Unforgettable: Reflecting on Our Journey and Looking Forward |
Unit 2 | Lunges: Grounding Purpose Through Physical Movement |
Unit 3 | The Finest: Honoring the Voices of Integral Wisdom |
Unit 4 | Everything In Its Right Place: Aligning Action with Inner Wisdom |
Unit 5 | Embracing Existence: Finding Purpose and Belonging in the Present Moment |
Unit 6 | The Craft: Your Unique Embodiment of Overflowing Purpose |
Unit 7 | Closing Time: Gratitude and Next Steps |
Module 12 | Bonus Interviews |
Unit 1 | Jeff Salzman: Riding the Wave of Change |
Unit 2 | Beena Sharma: Navigating Polarities and Human Development |
Unit 3 | Dr. Keith Witt: Transforming Trauma into Transcendence |
Unit 4 | Ken Wilber: Integrating All Perspectives on Reality |
Unit 5 | John Vervaeke: Collective Intelligence and the Meaning Crisis |
Unit 6 | Cindy Wigglesworth: Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence for Global Challenges |
Unit 7 | Greg Thomas: Jazz, Culture, and Collective Evolution |
Unit 8 | Robb Smith: Navigating Economic Challenges in the Transformation Age |
Unit 9 | Peter Merry: Embracing Consciousness for Global Transformation |
Unit 10 | Alexander László: Embracing Syntony for Planetary Thriving |
Unit 11 | Steve McIntosh: Integrating Worldviews for Cultural Evolution |
Unit 12 | John Dupuy: Guardianship and Integral Perspectives on War and Peace |
Unit 13 | Gail Hochachka: Embracing the Human Element in Climate Action |
Unit 14 | Brandon Nørgaard: Charting Holistic Pathways Through the Meta-Crisis |
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