Transpersonal Coaching Psychology – TCP

Our course in Transpersonal Coaching Psychology provides 500 learning hours over the course of one year, including 300 hours of synchronous and asynchronous tuition:

• Webinars
• Tuition videos and audios
• Sharing circles
• Wellbeing sessions
• Academic learning sessions, etc.

Approximately 50 hours are conducted in direct interaction with a tutor – e.g. through webinars and supervision sessions.

The course also requires a minimum of 50 hours of coaching, which includes both peer-to-peer and pro bono client coaching practice.

This one-year course is considered part time. It includes three modules, spanning four months each. The course offers an immersive and intensive learning journey that is designed to stretch you. You can expect to spend approximately 15 hours per week studying learning resources, partaking in webinars, communicating in forums, preparing assignments, and engaging in peer coaching, as well as supervision sessions. The course structure should be manageable alongside your other responsibilities. We will provide you with comprehensive schedule information, so you can plan ahead.

The first module explores the value of a transpersonal perspective in coaching. It includes how to identify the transpersonal phenomena that can arise spontaneously in coaching and distinguishes between these states and psychosis. This module includes webinars where we will teach a variety of ways (suited to coaching) in which transpersonal states can be intentionally accessed and anchored in the context in which we (or our clients) seek to resolve a challenge. In the first module you will also have the opportunity to engage in these topics through discussions in different forums where your specific interests can be explored with input from your peers on the course, including the tutors.

In the second module you will continue learning about our transpersonal coaching approach, while engaging in a three-month integral practice (of your own design), as well as begin peer coaching with your colleges on the course.

In the third module you will learn how to facilitate our Integrative Coaching Programme and you will begin pro bono coaching sessions, while receiving guidance and supervision from myself.

At the end of each module you are to submit an assignment (2500-word essay) on the topics covered in that module.

By the end of the course, having completed all tasks successfully, you will obtain the Alef Trust Certificate in Transpersonal Coaching Psychology and be eligible for coach accreditation from the International Association of Coaches, Therapists & Mentors – IACTM.

Yes, the course has a vocational component well-grounded in theory and personal practice. Course participants report that as the course progresses, they gain the expertise and confidence to work with clients as well as grow within themselves. We take the competence, maturity and ethics of our qualified coaches very seriously, and we are confident to wholeheartedly recommend anyone who has completed our year long course.

Yes. This can be considered a transformational learning journey.

Applied Transpersonal Coaching Psychology (TCP) involves establishing and embodying open awareness (OA). In the context of TCP, OA is used as our means to hold the transformative space for clients. The non-dual nature of OA coupled with the intention to be of service, provides the fertile ground for transformation to occur in coaching. The cultivation of this space then includes other helpful TCP techniques, as per the client’s needs, goals, and their unfolding process. TCP Course Leader, Jevon Dangeli wrote an article “The Open Awareness Holarchy”, in which the relationship between OA and the non-dual perspective is outlined.

According to Jevon, TCP works wonders with young people. He has about 30 years’ experience at coaching children, teens and young adults. He is passionate about bringing TCP concepts and practices (particularly applied OA) into schools. At this course, you will learn how to adapt the TCP methods to suit any age group.

Yes, TCP is trauma-informed and you will learn not only how to identify the markers of trauma, but also how to approach trauma sensitively and constructively when it presents.  

Regarding trauma, TCP draws from the work of Bessel van der Kolk (treating trauma), Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems), Gabor Maté (healing the root of trauma), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), Thomas Hübl (healing collective trauma), Deb Dana (Polyvagal Theory and trauma), Daniel Siegel (Interpersonal Neurobiology), as well as knowledge from healing practices in the field of transpersonal psychology, such as applied mindfulness, breathwork and psychedelic assisted therapies.

Since our unique form of coaching utilizes transpersonal states and perspectives, these coaching processes frequently enter the grey zone – where therapy and coaching intersect. We train our coaches to hold this liminal space with care, compassion and open awareness. In so doing, the root causes of clients’ issues may be unveiled, including deep wounds and trauma, if that exists for the client. 

Traditional forms of coaching steer away from confronting those underlying issues, sometimes leaving the client feeling fragmented and confused, but we in transpersonal coaching recognize that these phenomena cannot be ignored and that it’s not always appropriate for the coach to immediately refer a client to a therapist that the client is not familiar with, when they have entrusted the coach to help them. In these cases, compassionate support and guidance for integration are crucial, and this is one of the hallmarks of our transpersonal coaching approach. 

Transpersonal coaches also know their limits in terms of professional expertise and they are able to identify if the client should be referred for more clinical care.