Flagship certification · with IIH
Start with Level 1 (ACC) and become a certified ICF coach in just 17 weeks — then, if you choose, advance your career through PCC and MCC. A complete lineage-based path anchored in four traditions of practice. All immersives available in residence or fully online.
ICF pathway
ACC · PCC · MCC
Cohorts & schedule
The program runs as two parallel tracks, both led by Luis Miguel Gallardo. Both tracks welcome new students the first week of every month, so you can begin with the group that fits your calendar.
Questions
Not for Level 1. It is designed for people arriving without a coaching credential, and you leave having covered the educational requirements for the ICF ACC. Level 2 assumes you already hold the ACC; Level 3 requires at least two years of practice as a PCC.
You graduate with the educational requirements satisfied. For the ACC you will also need more than 100 hours of coaching practice, which you accumulate during and after the program. We accompany you through that process, including documented mentor coaching.
No. The levels are sequential and each one is complete in itself. You can finish Level 1 and decide later whether to continue.
There is a full English track with Luis Miguel Gallardo (Tuesdays, 11:00 EST) and a full Spanish track with Luis Miguel Gallardo and María Marshall-Clarke (Wednesdays, 19:00 Madrid time). The student manual is bilingual.
Both tracks welcome new students the first week of every month. The English track meets live every Tuesday at 11:00 EST; the Spanish track meets live on Wednesdays at 19:00 Madrid time, with its cohort starting the first week of October 2026. The full path is 83 weeks, roughly 24 months part-time, plus the practice hours required afterwards for the MCC.
Yes. Both tracks open to new students the first week of every month, so you join with the group starting that month.
Six hours: two hours of live session, two hours of peer or group practice, and two hours of self-study or mentoring.
The program is online with live and recorded sessions. The immersives — three per level — can be done in residence or fully online, depending on where you are.
Sessions are recorded. That said, the immersives are not optional: they are the container of the process.
For coaches and practitioners who have done the groundwork and want to move beyond a single methodology; for leaders, educators and therapists who want to work with the whole person; and for those who feel called to leave something behind — a legacy, a lineage, a practice.
Yes. If you are practising and have volunteered with the World Happiness Foundation, there is a credential-alignment route with 20 hours of alignment training, one year of WHF membership, a public profile in the coach directory, and visibility at the World Happiness Fest. Write to us and we'll review it with you.
The Global Professional Coach Certificate of the World Happiness Foundation and the World Happiness Academy, based on ICF standards, plus access to the global Conscious Catalysts community.
Current pricing and payment options are on the program enrolment page. There is also a special tuition for hypnotherapists certified by IIH — write to us if that applies to you.
Yes — see the World Happiness Academy refund policy.
01 · A letter from the founder
Welcome to the most ambitious transpersonal coaching program ever assembled. That sentence is not marketing. It is descriptive.
What this program is doing is integrating four distinct lineages of practice — ICF coaching, clinical hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, and the transpersonal contemplative tradition — into a single integrated training pathway, while holding the integration with five original frameworks: ROUSER, ICEF, ITM, the Emotional Alchemy Mandala, and the Meta Pets Method.
The result is not a coaching program with some other things added to it. It is a single integrated transformation architecture with ICF coaching at one of its facets.
If you walk this entire path — from the witness in Level 1 Week 1 to the master's transmission in Level 3 Week 36 — you will not be a slightly more credentialed version of who you were when you began. You will be transformed.
— Luis Miguel Gallardo
02 · The Path
Level 1 (ACC) is a focused 17-week journey — you finish as a certified coach, ready to practice. Levels 2 (PCC) and 3 (MCC) are optional career-advancement pathways for those who choose to keep going, extending the arc to a full 83 weeks and 515 contact hours of integrated study.
Level 1 · Certify as a Coach · 17 weeks · 102 contact hours
The foundation — and the fastest route to becoming a certified coach. In just 17 weeks you satisfy the educational requirements for the ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential and can start practicing. No prior coaching credentials required. The witness is named. The Sacred Container is taught. ROUSER, ICEF, ITM, the Mandala, and Meta Pets are introduced.
Level 2 · Career Advancement (Optional) · 30 weeks · 165 contact hours
The deepening. An optional career-advancement path for certified coaches. Enter with ACC credentials; exit with the educational requirements satisfied for the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. The Dark Night week. The Lineage Holder discernment opens.
Level 3 · Mastery (Optional) · 36 weeks · 248 contact hours
The mastery. An optional culmination for those called to lineage stewardship. Enter with PCC standing of at least two years; exit with the educational requirements satisfied for the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential pathway. The seventh dimension of ROUSER — 'the Held' — emerges.
03 · Four lineages, one integration
Full alignment with the International Coaching Federation core competencies at ACC, PCC and MCC depth.
In partnership with the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy — trauma-informed, evidence-based subconscious work.
Language, pattern and state as instruments of change, integrated into the coaching container.
Contemplative practice threaded through every week — the witness, the Sacred Container, silence as method.
04 · Original frameworks
Framework
The seven-dimension assessment at the center of the program — from Awareness to the Held.
Framework
Individual, Collective, Ecological, Foundational — the map of transpersonal practice.
Framework
Integrated Transformation Model — the sequencing logic across the 83 weeks.
Framework
Working with emotion as material, not obstacle.
Framework
Symbolic tool for emotional integration — Gift, Shadow, Essence.
Framework
IAM is the Foundation's own model: seven dimensions of a whole practice — soma, states, time, telos, laws, strata and field. It is what a practitioner actually works with in the room.
The IAM model
IAM is the Foundation's own model: seven dimensions of a whole practice — soma, states, time, telos, laws, strata and field. It is what a practitioner actually works with in the room.
It sits on top of the map of forgetting (Six Wounds · Eleven Families · Sixty-Four Shadows) and the Twelve Universal Laws, and it is extended by the ecology of the Field and the instrument constellation.
IAM is not the ITM. The ITM — Integrated Transformation Model — is the original sequencing logic that orders the 83 weeks. IAM is the practice model used inside those weeks. Both are taught; they answer different questions.
The research behind it
Six papers, one living system — the published architecture that underpins the program. Read them alongside the training.
05 · Who it's for
New and experienced coaches seeking ICF ACC, PCC or MCC credentials
Therapists, hypnotherapists and helping professionals expanding into transpersonal work
Leaders and executives who coach as part of their leadership practice
Chief Well-Being Officers, HR and People leaders building internal coaching capacity
Contemplatives and practitioners seeking a credentialed vehicle for their transmission
06 · In residence or online
Every immersive bookend — every retreat, every residency, every transmission ceremony — can be conducted in residence at a designated venue or fully online. The architecture is the same. The hours are the same. The container is the same. The transmission, when it comes, is real regardless of geography.
This is not a concession to the digital age. It is a deliberate design principle. The transpersonal practitioner, especially at master depth, must develop the capacity to hold sacred space in any medium — physical, digital, hybrid.
There is no premium pricing for residential and no discount for online. The choice is logistical and intentional, not financial.
07 · Student companion
The Student Companion is the official reference for enrolled students — Journey, Practices, Foundations, Models, ROUSER, Progress and Resources. Open it to explore the complete week-by-week architecture of the program.
Open the Student CompanionLiving document · updated by the faculty
Core text · New
The Transpersonal Coach — From Presence to Transmission — The Complete Architecture of Transpersonal Coaching
Luis Miguel Gallardo
The closing volume of the Transpersonal Series and the core text of this program: six wounds, eleven emotion families and sixty-four shadows; the nine movements of the coaching hour in a fully annotated session; eighty-three weeks of formation; group and team coaching; forty-five gated tools and fifteen working figures.
Published by World Happiness Press · 2026
Companion book
The Transpersonal Leader — From Shadow to Essence — a new science of conscious leadership
Luis Miguel Gallardo
Twenty-two chapters and twenty-four figures charting the ROUSER pathway, the Five Koshas, and the Shadow → Gift → Essence transformation — a working manual for leaders and coaches moving from performance to presence.
A living text — read chapter by chapter as you move through the levels.
08 · From the essays
Essay · Luis Miguel Gallardo
“I want to tell you about a conversation that changed a life. Not a seminar. Not a framework. Not a breakthrough moment on a retreat — though those have their place. A conversation. Forty-five minutes. Two people, one of whom was willing to be completely present.”
— Luis Miguel Gallardo
Read essay09 · Practice, in the room
Learning pathways
Transpersonal Coaching is the one-to-one path. Alongside CWO, GWIL, Soul·Full and Conscious Catalysts, they meet in practice — start where you are.
See the Learning MapCohorts open several times a year. Reserve your seat with the World Happiness Academy team, or open the Student Companion to explore the full 83-week arc.
