Practice

What Would You Tell Someone Just Starting with Higher education and its purpose?

Discover what wisdom you'd share about higher education's true purpose. Explore this reflective prompt using timeless insights to examine your own path for

Patanguide

What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Patan. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Patan, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Patan

Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.

Understand first

Niyama as Ethical Foundation for Scholarship Samadhi as Integrated Knowledge and Flow Svadhyaya: Self-Study and Personal Inquiry Klesa Identification in Learning Obstacles Viveka: Discriminative Wisdom in Knowledge Selection

Go deeper

Higher education and its purpose: A Deeper Look Higher education and its purpose: From Confusion to Clarity Higher education and its purpose: Foundations Higher education and its purpose: Questions Worth Asking Why Higher education and its purpose Matters

Peri

New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.