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Welcome, MSC Graduates! You may now apply for 2021 cohorts of the CDP below. 


▸ Get on the Waitlist for Cohort 16

▸ CDP Cohort 16 – Mondays (Tuesdays in Australasia) – full with waitlist

Dates: September. 13, 2021 – May 2, 2022
Time: 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. UTC (afternoons in the Americas, mornings in Australasia)
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Teachers: Tina Gibson and David Fredrickson
Cost: $1600 USD for 8.5-month course; payable all at once or monthly. If paid monthly, please add $50. $250 deposit is due with your application. Limited financial support is still available. Read more.

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▸ Be notified when Cohorts 17 & 18 open

▸ CDP Cohort 17 and 18 (Sign up to be notified when registration opens.)

Dates: January 2022 through September 2022

Time: To be finalized. We generally offer 2 cohorts starting in January: one that is friendly for Europe/Americas (Cohort 18) and another cohort that is friendly for Australasia/Americas times (Cohort 17).

Teachers: To be finalized

Cost: $1675 USD for 8-month course; payable all at once or monthly. If paid monthly, please add $50. $250 deposit is due with your application. Limited financial support is available. Read more.

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Hear Graduate Experiences

“I treasured this time as an essential home base — a place to reconnect with my true self, with a loving community, and with the safety of wise guidance. This time reinforced the concept of common humanity which is a struggle for me personally. I was surrounded by teachers and role models — not of perfection, but of imperfectly continuing to show up with intention, openness, curiosity, wonder, struggles, impatience, confusion, and tenderness. These times were infinitely rich and so precious to me.”

– 2019 CDP Graduate

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