Fielding Graduate University

As our world changes through governmental, societal, and environmental forces, we are faced with challenges and questions about maximizing human potential.

• How can we optimize our individual relationship with groups, organizations and the wider social and natural world?
• How do we help others live satisfying and productive lives over a broad array of social contexts?

With your experience and current knowledge as a platform, this PhD will allow you to bring research and theory about adult development to bear in a way that transforms your work and helps shape a better future. 

Together with the faculty, you and your fellow students create a vibrant, collegial interchange that infuses the community with new ideas and enthusiasm.  As students and later as alumni, this community constitutes a highly experienced professional network that operates at a level unparalleled in any other graduate school.

• Maintain your own local community while learning with people who work in a wide variety of non-profit,corporate, or private practices in counseling, coaching, training and organization development. 
• Engage with a global student group living on every continent with corporate, education and healthcare backgrounds and particular interests in coaching and mentoring, ethical leadership, creative longevity and wisdom studies. 
• Study with expert faculty mentors who bring experiential and academic knowledge from psychology, sociology, philosophy, history and healthcare. 
• Network with professionally recognized alumni who are university teachers, writers, speakers and individual coaches.