Mental Health as the Doorway
Learn how to recognize, understand, & change your mental/emotional patterns as a doorway into a transformative spiritual practice
Claim Wholeness
Cultivate Inner Freedom
Connect with Divinity
Awake & Alive Journey to Becoming
Open Mind, Open Heart, Grounded Body
Yeshua says,If you are searching,
you must not stop until you find.
When you find, however, you will be troubled.
Your confusion will give way to wonder.
In wonder you will reign over all things.
Your sovereignty will be your rest.The Gospel of Thomas, Logion 2
Learn about the Adventure
Learn about Adventum
Adventum Team
Zac McCulloch
Founder
Sam Alba
Nutrition / Communications
Mikey Haug
Relationships / Marketing
Zac McCulloch
Founder
"You have to accept yourself as you are and God as God is, and trust that He will lead you in a way that may not always feel comfortable, but that is best for you”
- Father Thomas Keating
Background:Former collegiate soccer athlete, currently enjoys endurance running/trainingChange Management & Mental Health Fitness training/mentoring with Mark FreemanMeditation and Human Divinity training with Thomas McConkie & Lower Lights School of WisdomSpiritual Healing & Development with Olivia Frazao & The Ground of Love Healing SchoolZac blends a unique fitness/capacity approach with a Christ centered wisdom practice to mental health and human integration. He also explores other ancient wisdom traditions that deeply inform the path of becoming
I had my first major panic attack when I was 17 just prior to going on a 2 year service opportunity for my church. During that time of service I continued to have debilitating anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts. I would spend all my time in my head trying to fix and solve the disturbing experiences of difficult thoughts and feelings.How do we become whole? What is worthiness and how do you get it? How do we genuinely connect with the Divine?I later found out that I was interacting with my thoughts and feelings in a way that would be categorized as Obsessive Compulsive. I met with therapists, leaders in my church, and even took medication for a time to try and deal with it.However it wasn’t until I learned about this idea of ‘mental fitness’ that everything started to change. Deep within me I knew there had to be a better way than just managing this experience as a mental health labled issue.I stopped doing behaviors inside and outside of my head in reaction to fear and started proactively practicing my values. I learned that I could practice interacting with the patterns underneath all the struggle differenlty. Slowly things started to change, but to my great surprise I began to realize that it wasn’t so much about ‘getting over’ my experience but rather being integrated through it. As I peeled back the layers of things I was doing to try and fix and solve I can only describe what I have found as sacred and holy.Underneath all my struggle to try and cope, check, and control experiences I didn't like was infinite love and grace. Which invited me to want to go even deeper and explore these new depths of being. It has become a practice in wonder and awe.I've found that it can be so powerful to walk this path with mentors, fellow travelers and a supportive community. I am passionate about navigating our minds, hearts, and bodies in this modern world in a way that will empower us to give authentically and connect deeply with ourselves, others & the Divine.
Currently based out of American Fork, Utah - Zac helps facilitate and guide individuals and groups on how to build, apply, and cultivate the capacities for using their mental health as an invitation for transformation and freedom.
Sam Alba
Nutrition / Communications
My journey into health and natural healing began when I was 9 years old. I was experiencing chronic strep throat and nothing, including antibiotics, would help. Luckily, my Mom listened to her intuition and took our family down a path of true healing.
After changing our diet for only 2 months, my strep went away entirely. I remember thinking, “Wow, eating healthy is awesome!”Fast forward several years and I was 20 years old. I was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and told I would probably need a wheelchair eventually. Like my mom, I had a feeling there was something more that I could do. In other words, I was divinely forced to trust God, and find a different way of healing.
Once I found the people and tools to help me, I was 100% better within 6 months. Wowza! I wanted everyone to know what I now knew because I was on cloud 9 and feeling so alive.That experience led me to become a nutritional coach and help others heal by addressing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies combined.At Adventum, I’m passionate about walking alongside individuals as they reconnect with themselves, restore alignment, and step into who they were created to be. I am excited to support the development of holistic wellness initiatives, and create retreats and other experiences that allow people to slow down, heal deeply, and grow in a supportive community to true divine alignment with themselves and God.
Mikey Haug
Relationships / Marketing
A phrase I tell myself daily: “There’s no right time. There’s no wrong time. There’s just your time.” As humans, we often feel like we’re behind or playing catch-up—but the only clock that matters is your own.As a member of the Adventum team, we strive to guide individuals through a mental fitness approach that builds strength, capacity, and endurance—supporting deeper, more meaningful human experiences. I’ve always wrestled with what it truly means to be human. Working through a mental fitness framework has helped me clarify my core values and strengthen my connection to them, giving me tools to approach life with greater awareness and intention. This was no easy task. I stopped seeing myself as a problem to fix and started seeing myself as an adventure to navigate—and it changed everything. In a world focused on diagnoses, I’ve learned that true growth comes from exploring who you are, beyond any label or diagnosis.This understanding is what fuels my passion for helping others develop the mental fitness framework they need to move forward, even in moments of uncertainty or challenge. I believe growth happens when people feel seen, capable, and equipped—and it’s a privilege to walk alongside others on that journey.At Adventum, we combine practical tools, reflective exercises, and human-centered guidance to help individuals develop mental resilience, clarity, and intentionality in their lives.
Vision
To pioneer a movement that reimagines mental and emotional health as a Divinity-centered transformative practice and a doorway to an awakened relationship with the Divine.
Mission
Provide tools, resources and community for an embodied skills-based approach to mental/emotional & spiritual freedom, transformation, and integration.
Intention
To have a space and community where people can come as they are and explore the depths of being together. A container of love, wholeness, safety, and unity as we travel together in waking up and growing up.
Values
Move with Courage
Courage is the strength to embrace the unknown, take bold steps, and grow through life’s challenges. It is the choice to act with intention and remain true to your values, even in the face of uncertainty.
Build Freedom
Deeply respect and value the liberty to make decisions that align with your values. choose actions that enable mind, body & heart freedom for yourself and for generations to come.
Give Authentically
It has always been about discovering and practicing who you are. It was never about trying to be someone else. Come as you are; dig deep and pull from the well.
Go Together
You are not on this journey alone, nor do you have to choose to be. There is love, encouragement, and strength in shared values and shared experiences. If you want to go far, go together.
The Meaning of 'Adventum'
'Adventum' is the latin root word for 'adventure'. Symbolizing the return to our wholeness and basic goodness. Not a problem to fix but an adventure to explore. Becoming who we were created to become.It points to the knowing that is already here within us. The Divine Light that is guiding our path from the center of our beings. Returning home to the subtle open heart.
Overview
"All of you are perfect just the way you are, and you could use a little improvement"
- Suzuki Roshi
What if it was never about trying to get over or away from the difficult thoughts and feelings you are experiencing? What if it was learning to become more integrated through them? What if they are pointing us to a deeper more transformative path?Navigating mental health in this modern world has never been more difficult. Something or someone is always pushing or pulling for your attention.Your mind runs around like an untrained puppy dog chasing squirrels and digging up intrusive thoughts, finding things in the past to fix, trying to control everything so nothing bad will happen in the future, and generally having a really difficult time concentrating or focusing on the present moment longer than a few seconds.Your feelings seem to betray you. You are fueled by fear, reaction, shame & guilt. The urge of the never ending chase to catch up or be somewhere else rather then where you are right now seems to linger around like an unforgettable ghost.Deep down you want to do the things you value and care about, you want to build intimate connections, and you want to live into your purpose. But instead find yourself spending all your time trying to get those things and avoid bad things instead of living them. Thinking that if you can just push harder, perform more, or fix things well enough you will finally 'make it'...Leaving you living in a constant state of anxiety, depression, and suppression with habits and activities to try and cope with the pain. Living in a constant state of distraction and dissonance of alignment you Internalize and perpetuate the narrative that you are a problem to fix, disordered, and broken. Constantly seeking wholeness outside of yourself.But what if that isn't the case?What if you are not a problem to fix? What if you are not disordered and broken? What if you simply haven't built the skills and capacity to engage more fully and completely with the human experience?What if you could learn how to have any thought or feeling and do the things you care about most?What if it is this very path of integration that enables you to connect with, accept, and be nurtured by Divine Light, Love, and Life?
Whether you have found that life has become unscalable the way that you are living it or you simply want to learn how to have more integrated mental health this could be a good place for you.At Adventum we take a skills and fitness based approach to mental health freedom. We also introduce the beginnings of a transformative practice as a doorway to the Divine. On this path we have found that it leads to exploration in the depths of being that we can only describe as Sacred & Holy.We practice the skills for navigating change and learning how to accept and apply Grace.This journey becomes a beautiful adventure of wonder and awe. We engage in this process of applying our intention and attention in ways that produce freedom, deepen our humanity, and connect us with Divinity.Welcome to the Adventure.
What is this?
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for"
- John A Shedd
This is a framework for developing mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom and transformation.It is not a 'quick fix', in fact it isn't a fix at all. Rather it is tools, processes & community to empower to live into your values and an intimate relationship with the Divine.To develop and cultivate real capacity for the human experience. To be integrated by your mental health instead of debilitated by it.Regardless of your belief and faith background, this is not intended to take the place of your personal faith or religious practice - rather it is a guide and framework to support, empower, and be a supplement to whatever that spiritual practice looks like for you in your life.It is a combining of mental, emotional and wisdom based practices for a strategic, empowering framework for integrating through your mental health challenges for inner freedom, transformation, & connecting with Love, Life, & Light.
Is this you?
• You know there has got to be more, you have been feeling called into more, and you have a desire to connect with that inner knowing.
• You are done 'managing' your mental health and are ready to step into using it as a doorway for personal transformation, authenticity, and development.
• You are ready to take ownership of your own mental, emotional, and spiritual journey and are looking for practical skills and steps to take on that Adventure.
• You believe in God, a higher power, ultimate source, higher consciousness, Divinity - whatever you take to be ultimate reality - and want to have that be a part of your practice.
Doorways
The approach that we take here at Adventum is simply one way of going at this practice of transformation, integration, and development.We invite you to sense into your own discernment and if you feel that there may be something for you here with us at Adventum.You are always welcome to email us at [email protected]
Overview of the Path
The Adventure
Mental health challenges are a doorway to the Adventure of an awakened heart, human development & deep spiritual practice instead of a problem to fix or a disorder to manage.We lean into the hope, empowerment & genuine Divine connection that comes from taking full ownership of our mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Practice in Presence
Paying attention to how we pay attention is at the heart of our practice.Sincere intention and attention are the building blocks of development.
Patterns & Turning Towards
There are patterns of behavior (compulsions/safety behaviors) that we engage with inside and outside of our heads to control or avoid uncertainty including the thoughts, feelings, & sensations we don't like (disturbances).We take an active participating role in bringing awareness to those patterns in mind, heart, and body. Turning towards those disturbances as a doorway to waking up to what our hearts are being called into.
Mental Health as the Doorway
The mind is often the first line of defense to guarding against having a direct relationship with those disturbances and uncertainties - we lean on useful maps and structures to help identify where we are getting caught in these loops and practice innovating into and beyond the limiting edges.
Integrated & Embodied
More than just mental well-being: The Mind, Heart & Body are all interconnected. Instead of trying to get up and away we use this practice to integrate in and through.Opening to the unifying sensitive heart.Entering the knowing and grounded body.What once may have felt like our greatest roadblock or disturbance becomes the doorway for waking up to the True source of Love, Life, & Light.
Come Into Being - Shifting Gravity
This Divine therapy of exiting old patterns of compulsion and trusting into the unknown, catalyzes a shift in gravitational pull.From fear to values. From lower nature to higher nature. From the limited to the limitless Divine. Increasing our capacity to channel more Love, Light, and Life in our lives.We take a Christ-Centered approach to trusting and letting go into the free fall of uncertainty. Connecting to and being transformed by Light and Grace. Fundamentally shifting the ways in which we look for happiness, fulfillment, healing and Love at all levels of our being.
Cross Training in Development
We cross train in other ancient wisdom traditions and draw from their deep wells that inform this practice of human development and spiritual awakening in our modern day.
The Adventure
We believe that on the path to giving ourselves to what we love, it isn't about trying to 'solve' for symptoms of pain but rather letting those symptoms and disturbances point us to the parts of us that are asking to be seen, heard, loved, claimed & Integrated. When it comes to our mental, emotional, and spiritual development we engage in the adventure of embracing and metabolizing the turbulence & uncertainty as a Grace filled invitation from the Divine to expand and come more into being.
Mind, Heart, Body, Spirit
We believe that the Mind, Heart, Body, & Spirit are all interconnected. We take a 'holistic' approach to integrating into the human experience - by taking a look at the whole system and how we are operating that system in all areas of our life - we can engage in practices that will allow for healing, development, freedom & ultimately stepping into who we were created to be.
Practice in Presence
We believe that power comes as we engage all our faculties in the Divine present moment. Paying attention to the way that we are paying attention.We believe that we are already whole. Claiming our wholeness & development in the practice of gathering, collecting, and unifying mind, heart, body, and spirit to the present moment in greater Love, Light & Divinity.Sincere intention and attention are the foundations for all other practices.
Patterns & Turning Towards
We believe that we fundamentally all have ways in which we seek safety, security, pleasure, and control in ways that ultimately cannot satisfy.Explore and understand the patterns in which we control, check on, cope with, and avoid the disturbances in mind, heart, body, & spirit. The ways in which we operate from scarcity and react to fear, old emotional programs, traumas & beliefs.We can practice turning towards, leaning into, and innovating out of the patterns of compulsion to be grounded in values & the Divine for abundance, freedom, redemption, authenticity & transformation.
Mental Health as the Doorway
Our mental health - thought forms, thought patterns - are often the first frontier in which we encounter the disturbances of the heart, body, and spirit. Intrusive thoughts, feelings, and sensations that we don't like. And we use the mind to try and fix, control, check, cope, and avoid those disturbances.Using Values as the anchor we can practice having any thought or feeling and giving ourselves to what we care about most. Mental health fitness becomes the doorway to innovation, integration, and expansion.There are maps and structures that we can lean on to make long term sustainable changes to our mental operating system.
Mental Fitness / Divinity
Mental Fitness
Adventum is not mental health counseling or mental health therapy.We take a 'mental fitness' approach to learning to navigate the mind in tandem with other wisdom integrated practices to live into your values and expand into the full range of the human experience.If you were to work with a team, community, or mentor as you were training for a marathon we approach mental health the same way. You will find guidance, support, directives, and fellow travelers as you engage having your own direct experience with the territory and skills.
Mental Health Labels
We approach and view mental health labels as a way to describe a particular experience.While things like OCD. ADHD, Perfectionism, Procrastination, Depression, Anxiety, etc. can all be useful in helping to describe a particular experience, we see them as just that, an experience not a permanent position in life.At Adventum we practice understanding the patterns underneath the experiences that are driving the outcomes and behavior and engage in making changes across the board.It has been our direct experience, that if you want to, you can leave the mental health label behind as you fundamentally practice and train your way into a completely different way of operating.
Divinity
At Adventum we invite everyone to trust themselves and follow the Love & Light that resonates with them. This is not meant to replace your faith or religion. Rather a community and school to help you practice the skills to live into your hearts greatest concerns. A supplement to whatever your tradition, faith & belief that most resonates with you.Throughout Adventum you will find deep resonance and foundations of a Christ centered integrated practice. We draw from the Christian mystics and point to a Christ centered Gravitational pull of acceptance, surrender, and giving.We recognize that this language may not resonate with everyone or may even be triggering. We invite you to look beyond the language and trust your inner knowing of what resonates and nourishes your soul.We also explore other ancient wisdom traditions that deeply inform this path of human development and spiritual awakening.Whatever you take to be ultimate reality, the Divine in your life, we invite you be your own spiritual authority and to join with us and bring your unique spiritual path as we practice and travel together.