The Transpersonal Coach: the book beneath the coaching hour

The meta-crisis is, at its root, a crisis of conversation. The coaching hour — done fully, done with presence — is among the most consequential technologies a human being can learn. The Transpersonal Coach is the book that puts that hour on paper.

Published by World Happiness Press, it is the closing volume of the Transpersonal Series and the core text of the TransPersonal Coaching Program at the World Happiness Academy.

What the book carries

• The maps. Six wounds, eleven emotion families, sixty-four shadows — the I AM model completed in WE ARE.
• The craft. The nine movements of the coaching hour, shown whole in a fully annotated session.
• The formation. Eighty-three weeks, from student to lineage holder.
• The circle. Group and team coaching, from psychological safety to collective alchemy.
• The instruments. Forty-five gated, lineage-honoring tools and fifteen working figures drawn for the training-room wall.
• The lineage. An honor roll naming the shoulders this craft stands on — James to Jung, Erickson to Newton, Whitmore to Edmondson, Ueshiba to Ubuntu.

The Transpersonal Series

The series moves outward in widening circles. The Transpersonal Leader takes the passage from shadow to essence into the work of leading others. The Transpersonal Coach turns to the one-to-one and the circle: how a human being holds space so another can remember who they are. A third volume, The Transpersonal Alchemist, completes the trilogy.

Read together, they describe one architecture from three vantage points — the leader who transmits, the coach who accompanies, the alchemist who transmutes. The vow beneath all three is the same: do no harm, and stay awake.

How it works inside the program

Students in the TransPersonal Coaching Program read the book alongside the levels. The maps become the diagnostic language of supervision. The nine movements become the shape of practice sessions. The toolbox is gated — each instrument opens only when the training has earned it, so technique never runs ahead of presence.

Coaches outside the program can read it as a standalone manual: the why, the being, the maps, the craft, the We.

Where to find it

Paperback and eBook editions are published through World Happiness Press. You can find the book in our books library, and step into the training through the TransPersonal Coaching Program.

For coaches who want to transcend.