Individuals and communities
People from faith-based, nonreligious, humanist, philosophical, or still-forming worldviews.
PTU's Inaugural Table · Public Transformational Lab
Does Your Faith, Belief, Worldview, or Sense of Purpose Help You Become a Better Person?
What we believe can shape how we treat people, carry responsibility, and make difficult decisions.
On September 5, Peak Transformation University is creating a table where people from different backgrounds can examine one consequential human question together.
PTU creates a table where different people can examine consequential human questions together, protect one another's dignity, and leave clearer about what their own answer asks of them.Reserve your place
Why different perspectives matter
Broader understanding through genuine encounter.
Most of us examine consequential questions among people who already think, work, worship, or speak much like we do.
This Lab becomes stronger when participants encounter people whose faith, worldview, responsibilities, or life experience differs from their own.
Understanding does not require agreement. Participation does not require surrendering conviction. Another person's experience may help you understand your own position more clearly.
Who belongs at the table?
People willing to bring both conviction and curiosity.
You may come as an individual or as someone connected to a community, profession, organization, or field of practice.
Leaders and educators
People whose work asks them to guide, teach, decide, or carry responsibility for others.
Practitioners and builders
People serving through nonprofits, professional communities, organizations, and public life.
We especially welcome people who believe: My community's perspective should have a voice at this table.
The 90-minute experience
Reflection becomes encounter, learning, and a responsible next step.
Individual reflection
Consider where the question appears in your own life.
Voices around the table
See differences and common ground through polls, chat, and guided response.
Guided examination
Explore one bounded question in a smaller group.
Joint learning
Hear what another table noticed, questioned, or understood.
Personal integration
Name the responsible next step your own answer asks of you.
What you may leave with
Clarity that extends beyond private reflection.
understood more clearly about yourself.
understood better because another person was at the table.
worth strengthening, examining, integrating, or changing.
that your own answer asks of you.
35+years helping people hear, understand, and move forward
Your facilitator
Penny Kiraly
Founder and CEO, Peak Transformation University
For more than 35 years, Penny Kiraly has helped people understand themselves, hear one another, and move through consequential questions with dignity.
She began leading discussions before the age of six. By age eight, while in fourth grade, she was already helping peers mediate disagreements. That early instinct developed into decades of corporate leadership, especially in healthcare, as well as relationship mediation, retreats, curriculum development, ministry, and guided conversations with adolescents and adults.
Penny's lived experience spans the East, West, and Central United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Across different cultures, religions, professions, and communities, she has seen what becomes possible when a conversation has enough structure for people to speak with honesty and be heard accurately.
She developed PTU's Three-Pillar System™ to help people examine what is true within their Personal, Professional, and Spiritual life without making agreement the price of dignity.
PTU's governing facilitation sequence
Protect the person. Examine the belief. Clarify the conduct. Consider the effects.
Protect the person.No one loses dignity because of a belief, identity, experience, or disagreement.
Examine the belief.What does the person believe, and what informs it?
Clarify the conduct.What actions, choices, or responsibilities follow?
Consider the effects.What does the conduct make possible, and where might it cause harm?
How PTU protects the table
Truthful examination with increasing dignity.
People do not need to reach the same conclusion before they can hear one another, live purposefully, or protect one another's dignity. Understanding does not mean condoning harm. Beliefs, actions, and their effects may be examined honestly.
Bring conviction.
You do not have to set aside what you believe.
Bring curiosity.
Listen for what another life may help you understand.
Make room.
The voices around the table are part of its value.
Protect dignity.
Disagreement never makes another person less worthy.
At the PTU table
Participants may disagree strongly, ask respectful questions, and examine beliefs and their effects. Participants may not convert, coerce, shame, silence, diagnose, attack, pressure disclosure, or treat another person as less worthy because of disagreement.
Disclosure is voluntary. Every participant has the right not to answer a question.
Prepare to participate live
Please plan to join from a quiet setting using a camera-enabled device, working microphone, and speakers or headphones. This is an interactive experience. Participants should be prepared to be seen and heard during guided conversation and small-group portions of the Lab.
Reserve your place at PTU's Inaugural Table
What might become possible because people who do not normally share a conversation were present?
Saturday, September 5, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 a.m. Eastern · Live online · 90 minutes · $97