One-to-one coaching · ICF Level 1 accredited
Transpersonal Coaching Program
The foundation of the pathway: professional coaching with Shadow, Gift, Essence work and the Academy's full practice architecture.
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World Happiness Academy
One pathway, from your first client to a whole organisation
The Academy's coaching programs are steps on a single path. You learn to coach one person, then to develop other coaches, then to coach teams, and then to lead well-being across an organisation. Every step draws on the same body of work.
The path
Four moves, each with its own program
Start where you are. Each program stands on its own, and each prepares the next.
1
Become a coach
Learn one-to-one coaching to the ICF Core Competencies, with the transpersonal depth that is the Academy's signature.
2
Develop other coaches
Learn to observe coaching, appraise it against the competencies and give feedback a coach can use.
Mentor coaching · 10 hours
Mentor Coach Training
For credentialed coaches who mentor: the role and its ethics, formative appraisal, feedback and group mentor coaching, in three live sessions.
Discover the trainingMentor coaching · 60 hours
Mentor Coach Program
Evaluation, developmental feedback and an observed practicum, building on the 10-hour Mentor Coach Training.
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3
Coach teams
Take coaching from one person to a team as a single client, practised with real teams from our community.
Team coaching · 60 hours
Team Coaching Program
Coach a team as one client: the ICF Team Coaching Competencies, two observed sessions and coaching supervision, practised with real teams.
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4
Lead well-being in organisations
Bring it into the structures where people work: a role, a strategy and a public commitment.
Organisations
Chief Well-Being Officer Program
The organisational path: how to hold responsibility for well-being at the level where decisions are made.
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GWIL — Global Well-Being & Impact Leadership
The Academy's leadership certification for those who want to lead well-being and impact at scale.
Visit the programIn Spanish · 2026–27
Máster de Bienestar en Entornos Corporativos
A master's program in Spanish on well-being in corporate settings, with the Foundation and Happytalism as its starting point.
Visit the programA public commitment
Global Pact for Well-Being at Work
Where organisations put their commitment to well-being at work in writing, and make it public.
Read the Pact
Continuing education · ICF CCE
Meta Pets Method programs
Two Meta Pets programs carry ICF Continuing Coach Education hours, 45 in total. A card-based practice tool for coaches, team coaches and facilitators.
Explore the Meta Pets MethodWhat makes this pathway different
One body of work underneath every program
Most coach education teaches skills. Here the skills sit on models, instruments and peer-reviewed research developed by Luis Miguel Gallardo and the World Happiness Foundation, and the same language runs from the first lesson to the last.
Fundamental Peace and the FP20 scale
A measurable state with four components: flexible attentional control without effortful suppression, emotional coherence across self-states, reduced self-referential rigidity, and compassionate self-awareness. The FP20 scale lets you follow it in yourself.
ROUSER
Six capacities of leadership: Relations, Openness, Understanding, Self-Awareness, Empowerment, Reflection. In the programs they become checks on an agreement, a feedback conversation and a team review.
The Integrative Transformation Model (ITM)
Five cumulative stages, from Unconscious Reactivity to Transcendent Integration, and seven mechanisms. It describes the inner development of the person who is learning the skills.
IAM: from I AM to WE ARE
The Integrative Alchemy Model follows a path from the individual to the collective: “I am because we are — we are because Earth is.” It is the reason the pathway moves from one client to teams and organisations.
The Integrative Emotional Alchemy Framework (IEAF)
Shadow, Gift and Essence across the emotion families, and the Six Wounds with the virtues that meet them. Gallardo, L. M. (2026). From wound to essence: a hypothesis and theory article proposing the Integrative Emotional Alchemy Framework for psychotherapy integration and transformation. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1933416.
The Transpersonal Leader, Coach and Alchemist
Three books that hold the pathway together: leading, coaching and the inner work beneath both.
These models are the Academy's own. Where a program follows an ICF framework, its page says which one and what ICF decides.
Learning together
The community behind the Academy
Photos: Gross Global Happiness Summit, University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Why one pathway
A strategy, not a catalogue
Train those who train
Mentor coaches multiply coaches, and team coaches reach whole groups. The Academy grows its own faculty from its graduates.
A living practice field
Ágora host teams, Catalysts and Chief Well-Being Officers offer real teams and real organisations to practise with.
One measure
The Foundation works towards ten billion people who are free, conscious and happy by 2050. Fundamental Peace is how that is measured, one person and one team at a time.
In images
The pathway as we are sharing it
Cards from the current campaign for the mentor and team coaching programs.
Begin where you are
If you are not sure which step is yours, write to us and tell us what you do today.