Level 4: Essentials of Nondual Coaching

Are you ready to complete your journey toward becoming a masterful Aletheia Coach? Level 4 marks the culmination of the Advanced Coaching Program (ACP), bringing together everything you’ve learned and practiced in Levels 1, 2, and 3 and deepening your development in profound ways.

  • In Level 1, you built the foundation with Parts Work, Process Work, and Presence Work, learning how to guide transformative coaching conversations.
    In Level 2, you expanded your practice into the body and breath, practicing somatic unfoldment through Aletheia Breathwork and Bodywork.
    In Level 3, you explored the depth of Nondual Work, integrating profound realizations into your coaching and life.

Now, in Level 4, you will step into the full maturity of your coaching practice. You’ll refine all aspects of the Aletheia Coaching approach, deepen your practice of Aletheia Meditation—especially at the depth of Nondual Presence—and learn how to facilitate Nondual Work with your clients during coaching conversations.

This final level completes a nearly four-year professional and personal transformation journey, equipping you to embody and coach at the highest level.

FOUR STYLES OF TRANSFORMATION IN ALETHEIA META-PSYCHOLOGY

In the Aletheia framework, transformation is practiced through Four Styles of Transformation, each with a unique path and its own practices and realizations. Together, they form a robust, integrated, and practical ecology of transformative practice:

  1. Transmutation: The gradual path of unfoldment that deepens concentration and absorption into Nondual boundlessness, timelessness, and identitylessness.

  2. Transparency: The sudden path of awakening, where you see through self-constructions to the underlying, unconstructed reality of Nondual Mind.

  3. Transfiguration: The embodied path of realization, where Spirit and matter are integrated, and Nondual Presence becomes the basis of living in the world.

  4. Transcendence: The luminous path of profound illumination, awakening to the absolute freedom of the Nondual Heart.

Borrowing the language of Buddhist Tantra, the practice of Transfiguration has two stages: Generation Stage and Completion Stage. In Level 3, you focused on—Transmutation, Transparency, and Generation Stage Transfiguration — laying the groundwork for the ultimate path of Completion Stage Transfiguration and Transcendence, which is covered in Level 4.

Together, these four styles offer a comprehensive and complete approach to transformation. As you progress through this curriculum, you unpack what transformation actually is and learn how to integrate all four styles in your coaching approach artfully.

What you will learn in level 4

  1. Allow Yourself to be Meditated by the Nondual Absolute: At the beginning of the journey, you practice meditation. In the Completion Stage of the journey and beyond, the Nondual Absolute meditates you. Through this, the realization of your nature as the Nondual Absolute deepens in profound ways.

  2. Refine and Deepen Your Practice of Diamond Unfoldment: Nondual realization is not “all or nothing”—it’s a continuum. Learn how to work with your current depth of realization to uncover and release the blockages preventing further deepening. By leveraging your existing awareness, you will open new layers of Nondual insight and embodiment.

  3. Navigate the Dark Night: The descent of the Deep Darkness, the first sub-stage of the Completion Stage—can feel like a total dissolution of everything you’re attached to, leaving a sense of profound absence. You’ll learn how to navigate this challenging yet transformative phase with wisdom and grace, whether it arises from great loss, a psychedelic experience, Nondual practice, or anything else. Learning to help clients navigate their dark nights is an essential skill for coaching mastery.

  4. Navigate the Luminous Night: Following the Dark Night comes the ascent into Clear Radiance, often called Enlightenment or Theosis (union with the Divine). In this luminous night, everything previously dissolved is returned in a redeemed, deified form. You’ll directly realize that you—and everything around you—are a manifestation of the radiant Divine.

  5. Unite Personal Will with Universal Enlightened Intent: Discover how to align your personal will with Universal Enlightened Intent, embodying this alignment as the ethical foundation for how you live and serve the world.

  6. Open Up to Other Nondual Dimensions: Explore and attune to Nondual dimensions, such as Love, Clarity, Peacefulness, and Grace. You’ll refine your ability to access and explore these and other Nondual dimensions.

  7. Deepen Your Understanding of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) in Meditation:
    Most meditation styles focus on calming the parasympathetic nervous system. However, awakening also requires activating the sympathetic branch of the ANS. You’ll learn how different meditation styles work with both branches to balance calming down and waking up.

    8. Access the Divine Source of Ethical Living: Profound spiritual realization naturally unfolds a deep, unshakable foundation for ethical living. You’ll learn to access and embody this source in your life and work.

The Focus of Level 4: Your Personal and Spiritual Development

Level 4 emphasizes your spiritual realization more than any other level of the program. As you progress through these teachings and practices, you will deepen your ability to offer Aletheia Coaching at the highest level and receive profound support for your own personal and spiritual journey.

This is the final course of the Advanced Coaching Program. It is a culmination of everything you’ve learned and a gateway into the deepest dimensions of your work and life. This course is framed as both a culminating ending and the beginning of a new journey—a Journey of Enlightened Living.

FAQ

WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF LEVEL 4?

Level 4 is composed of:

  1. Fourteen Sessions: Fourteen 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.

  2. Fourteen Practice Pod Exercises: Between sessions, you will work with a practice pod and share experience reports and questions in the online workspace, where faculty will reply.

WHAT IS THE COST OF LEVEL 4?

The fee for Level 4 is $3,699 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. If you are interested, contact your course faculty directly for more information.

WHEN DOES THE NEXT LEVEL 4 COHORT START?

Please visit the schedule page on this website to find the application deadline for the next cohort and 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 typically consist of 10-15 people. Because each session is offered twice, fewer than 10 people attend a typical session.

WHO TEACHES THE LEVEL 4 COURSES?

The primary leader for this course is our founder, Steve March, who created Aletheia Coaching. Steve has been coaching since 2000, mentoring coaches since 2003, and teaching coach training programs since 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 A. H. Almaas’ Diamond Approach student 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 rare states realized by a select 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 course. They must continue to practice Aletheia Meditation, as they 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 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 encourage you to make every effort to attend each session live. However, there may be times when you need to miss a session. All sessions are recorded on video. If you can’t be there in person, you can catch up by watching the video at your convenience.

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. Levels 3 and 4 graduates 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. If you are interested, contact your course faculty directly for more information.

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.