Level 4: Essentials of Nondual Coaching

Level 4 completes a full cycle of complete coach development. In Level 4, you will continue to refine your practice of Aletheia Coaching through Parts Work, Process Work, and Presence Work. You will continue to hone your practice of Aletheia Meditation, especially at the Depth of Nonduality. And, in Level 4, you will learn how to coach and facilitate Nondual Work during coaching conversations. It is the culimnation of a nearly three-year journey through Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 composing the Advanced Coaching Program.

Unfolding into the Depth of Nondual Absorption

You will learn how to practice Natural Release with your coaching clients to help them dissolve the subtle conditioning of Presence and Absence supporting them to unfold into absorption with and as Nondual Qualities.

Awakening to the Pristine Spaciousness of the Nondual Mind

You will learn how to practice Nondual Inquiry with your coaching clients to help them see through constructions to the underlying ground of Nonduality. With practice your clients will awaken to the boundless nature of Pristine Spaciousness, the ground of the Nondual Mind.

Realizing the Total Stillness of the Nondual Body

You will learn how to help your clients shift their basis of functioning into Nonduality so they can sustain Nondual realization in the midst of the appearances of dual reality. This occurs through realizing the changelessness and immovability that is the ground of the Nondual Body.

Illuminating the Profound Silence of the Nondual Heart

Ultimately, Enlightenment happens in the heart. You will learn how to help your clients illuminate Nondual Heart Presence, a state of profound intimacy with absolutely everything. We will take up Enlightened Ethics as a special topic in this section of the course.

Is there a need or a market for Nondual Coaching?

Yes, and it is growing year after year. Styles of Nondual psychotherapy have been emerging for the last 20 years and becoming more popular due to their unique effectiveness. Our Advanced Coaching Program is one of the first coach training programs to bring authentic Nondual practice into the field of coaching. We anticipate that the coming years will bring increased interest as the consciousness revolution continues to unfold and expand. Already, many coaches are being attracted to the Advanced Coaching Program because of the inclusion of Nondual Work.

Aletheia Coaching is a powerful approach that can spontaneously drop clients into the Depth of Nonduality. We have seen this happen to coaches who are only applying what they learned in Levels 1 and 2. Levels 3 and 4 provide the necessary context and practice for coaches to skillfully support their client’s unfoldment in this deepest depth.

Indeed, true liberation from the suffering produced by the Inner Critic and from the poisons of avoidance, attachment, pride, jealousy, and delusion are only fully available through Nondual realization. Nondual Work provides a uniquely potent method for working with the most challenging aspects of ego fixation and accelerates unfoldment overall. Even experiencing momentary Nondual peak experiences, whether in mediation or in coaching conversations, can open profound new possibilities of liberation for clients.

WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF LEVEL 4?

Level 4 is composed of twelve 2-hour sessions that occur approximately every 3 weeks. Sessions include teaching, practice, demonstration, and discussion to help you integrate and apply Aletheia Coaching with your clients. You will work with practice partners between sessions and share experience reports and questions in the online workspace.

WHAT IS THE COST OF LEVEL 4?

The fee for Level 4 is $3,599 USD. This fee includes tuition for the course + two 50-minute coaching supervision sessions with course faculty to support integration and application. Additional coaching sessions with faculty are available for a fee. Contact your course faculty directly if you are interested.

WHEN DOES THE NEXT LEVEL 4 COHORT START?

Please look at the schedule page on this website to find out the application deadline for the next cohort as well as all session dates.

WHAT TIME OF DAY ARE THE SESSIONS HELD?

Each cohort is offered in two sections (10 AM-Noon and 4-6 PM Pacific) allowing participation from around the world in different time zones. A typical cohort will include people from Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe.

HOW LARGE ARE THE COHORTS?

The cohorts are typically 10-15 people. Because the sessions are held in two sections, a typical session is attended by fewer than 10 people.

WHO TEACHES THE LEVEL 4 COURSES?

The primary leader for all courses is our founder Steve March, the creator of Aletheia Coaching. Steve has been coaching since 2000. He started mentoring coaches in 2003 and started teaching coach training programs in 2006. He has held senior faculty positions since 2009. Steve launched Aletheia in 2013 as a platform for creating and offering a next generation approach to coaching and development. Often Steve is joined by a co-leader and a teaching assistant.

Steve’s 35 year (and counting) spiritual journey started with Zen meditation in the mid-90s. Currently, he practices in the Tibetan Buddhist Mahamudra and Kalachakra traditions. In the interim, he was a student of A. H. Almaas’ Diamond Approach for 14 years. He has studied with masters in the Kashmir Shaivist Daoist, and Sufi traditions and has a tremendous appreciation and respect for all wisdom traditions. In 2009 he completed a Nondual Teacher Training program with Peter Fenner and in 2017 he qualified as a Realization Process Spiritual Psychotherapy Practitioner with Judith Blackstone.

Steve is among the many contemporary Nondual teachers who hold that Nondual states of consciousness are open and available to everyone rather than being rarified states only realized by very few. He teaches that realizing True Nature is everyone’s birthright.

WHAT IS THE TIME COMMITMENT OF LEVEL 4?

All participants in Level 4 are required to sustain a regular meditation practice throughout the duration of the course by continuing to practice Aletheia Meditation as learned in Level 3. Various practices from Level 3 will be revisited and used to support practicing and facilitating Nondual Work.

The typical time commitment is ~5-6 hours per week during the duration of the course. This time is spent participating in the online sessions, practicing meditation daily, practicing with your partner, and studying materials.

WHAT IF I NEED TO MISS A SESSION?

We ask that you do your best to attend each session. However, sometimes you may need to miss a session. All sessions are video recorded. If you can’t attend in-person, you can catch up on your own time by watching the video.

WHAT’S NEXT AFTER LEVEL 4?

In one way, graduating from Level 4 marks the completion of a journey. Yet, in another way, it is a new beginning.

Since Levels 3 and 4 are largely experiential courses, they can be repeated. Graduates of Level 3 and 4 can re-take either course for $500 USD. This fee does not include the private coaching supervision sessions. Private coaching with course faculty is available for a fee. Contact your course faculty directly if you are interested.

By re-taking Levels 3 and 4 you will continue to have access to the latest developments in coaching methodology, continue to participate in group coaching supervision, which is integral to the course, continue to avail yourself of support for your own deepest development, and participate in a unique community dedicated to mastering coaching.