“What’s special about the way that Meridian structures things is that I'm given that material and then asked to integrate it and think about it through the context of my own lived experience by telling stories about my own life by unpacking my own Shadows my own fears my own complexities.””The flexibility of the program the fact that like I'm allowed to do much of the work on my own time and schedule which as a super busy person you know my first year I worked full-time while I was going to school and also did my art practices and now I'm doing my internship and going to school so I knew that like having that flexibility would be really useful for me.”