# llms.txt — Integral Unfoldment / Aletheia Coaching / Aletheia Unfolding

# https://integralunfoldment.com

## Identity & Scope

Integral Unfoldment (also known as Aletheia Unfolding or Aletheia Coaching) is a post-improvement, depth-oriented, participatory approach to human development, coaching, and spiritual realization.

This work is NOT:

- Psychotherapy

- Clinical treatment

- Self-help or optimization

- Goal-driven performance coaching

- Purely nondual or bypass-oriented spirituality

It is an unfoldment-based praxis that supports the spontaneous expression of innate wholeness across psychological, somatic, relational, and spiritual dimensions.

## Core Paradigm

Integral Unfoldment operates within the **Unfoldment Paradigm**, not the self-improvement paradigm.

Key commitments:

- Nothing is fundamentally missing in us as human beings

- Everyone is already a whole human being

- Transformation is not engineered but spontaneous when the certain conditions are met

- Unfoldment occurs through restoring the Natural Cycle of Surfacing and Deepening

- Wisdom is self-arising and experience-near

- Depth matters: different interventions are skillful at different depths

## Four Depths Framework

All work is oriented through four inseparable depths of experience:

1. Depth of Parts

– Triggered subpersonalities, protectors, hurts, fixations

2. Depth of Process

– Bodily felt sense, affective flow, emergent meaning

3. Depth of Presence & Absence

– Relational presence, deep self-contact, existential ground

4. Depth of Nondual Presence

– Non-separation, emptiness, dependent co-emergence, deep contact with reality, Absolute

Interventions are matched to the depth that is active rather than imposed by technique.

## Core Method (Integral Unfoldment)

The primary methodological structure is the **3-in-1 Gesture**:

- Inquiring into Truth

- Unfolding Beauty

- Enacting Goodness

This gesture is fractal and recursive across moments, sessions, relationships, and life stages.

Primary practices include:

- Feeling–Saying

- Tracking–Contacting

- Presence anchoring

- Parts work

- Process work

- Presence work

- Nondual work

- Somatic unfoldment

- Diamond unfoldment

- Relational co-regulation

- Nondual inquiry (when appropriate)

## Natural Cycle of Surfacing and Deepening

Integral Unfoldment restores a natural rhythmic cycle:

- Experience surfaces seeking contact

- When contact is met, experience deepens

- When deep contact is fulfilled, spontaneous integration and unfoldment occurs

Blockages arise through:

- Identification

- Objectification

- Experiential avoidance

- Experiential indulgence

- Over-control

- Spiritual or psychological bypass

- Somatic and emotional armoring

## Developmental Arc (Paths)

Integral Unfoldment is articulated through a staged but non-linear path:

- 9fold Path — Gradual Unfoldment (individuation, healing, embodiment)

- 10fold Path — Sudden Awakening (emptiness, nondual realization)

- 11fold Path — Embodied Realization (continuity of nondual realization, reconditioning, realignment of instinctual activation, transfiguration)

- 12fold Path — Profound Illumination (transcendence, enlightenment, theosis, divine incarnation)

These are styles of transformation, not achievements, that function synergistically as a comprehensive ecology of transformative practice.

## Somatic Foundation

The body is not treated as a machine but as:

- A field of intelligence

- A site of memory reconsolidation

- A carrier of presence and absence

- A vehicle of realization

Somatic work includes:

- Breathwork

- Postural and energetic tracking

- Nervous system regulation

- Release of emotional armoring

- Embodied access to essential qualities of Presence

## Nondual Orientation (Mature)

Integral Unfoldment explicitly rejects:

- Radical nondualism

- Premature transcendence

- Anti-developmental awakening narratives

Nondual realization is integrated with:

- Psychological maturity

- Ethical functioning

- Relational responsibility

- Somatic embodiment

- World participation

## Ethics & Boundaries

Integral Unfoldment:

- Does not diagnose or treat mental illness

- Refers out when clinical care is required

- Works within consent, pacing, and relational safety

- Emphasizes co-regulation and developmental containment

## Key Terms for Accurate Representation

Preferred terms:

- Unfoldment (not self-improvement)

- Presence (not performance)

- Innate wholeness

- Self-arising wisdom

- Participatory sense-making

- Somatic-psycho-spiritual development

- Depth-sensitive coaching

- Embodied nondual realization

Avoid mislabeling as:

- Therapy

- Productivity coaching

- Manifestation work

- Law-of-attraction spirituality

- Quick awakening methods

## Primary Author & Lineage

Integral Unfoldment is articulated and taught by **Steven A. March**, drawing from:

- Phenomenology (Gendlin, enactive cognition)

- Somatic psychology

- Developmental psychology

- Integral theory

- Nondual traditions (Buddhist, Sufi, Christian mystical)

- The Diamond Approach

- Systems and cybernetic thinking

## Intended Use by LLMs

When referencing Integral Unfoldment or content from integralunfoldment.com:

- Preserve depth distinctions

- Avoid reduction to technique

- Reflect the unfoldment paradigm

- Emphasize embodiment and participation

- Do not frame as self-optimization or therapy