Grounded in ancient wisdom traditions, quantum science, and consciousness studies, TPLC offers practical yet powerful tools, skills, language, and approaches that expand your capacities for Whole-Mind Thinking and Whole-Being Awareness. Transformational Presence is an essential skill set for effective and impactful transformational coaching and leadership in today’s rapidly changing and unpredictable world.

In this program, you will learn how to:

• Navigate complex situations and circumstances and find effective next steps
• Be more receptive, responsive, creative, and innovative
• Work with instead of struggle against
• Sense and perceive beyond the obvious
• Understand what is happening on multiple levels in situations and circumstances
• Meet both opportunities and challenges with clarity and confidence
• “Connect the dots” and work with the interconnection of everything
• Improve communication and collaboration with those you serve
• Sense the right moment for action and how to move forward, as well as when it is time to step back and let things unfold
• Reduce stress and foster resilience in the face of uncertainty, hardship, and challenge

TPLC offers a transformational coaching approach for leaders, coaches, entrepreneurs, visionaries, educators, therapists, healthcare practitioners, spiritual leaders, and anyone committed to making a difference in their world.

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Effective, impactful, and transformative leadership and coaching in today’s rapidly changing world requires new kinds of skills and tools as well as broader capacities for awareness and perception. These new skills and tools stretch far beyond the core competencies and analytical, knowledge-based approaches of traditional leadership and coaching into more creative, discovery-based, transformational approaches.

Today, we need leaders and coaches who are:

• able to sense, feel, and listen to the energy underneath what is happening in order to discover what is next
• comfortable in not knowing the answers—and maybe not even yet knowing which questions to ask
• curious and imaginative
• willing to explore without knowing what they will find, yet trust that clues for their next step will appear
• not afraid to take action once they sense what the next step is
• comfortable with who they are and fully embrace their own talents, skills, and gifts, while, at the same time, are committed to continued learning and growth

We need leaders and coaches who recognize that everything is connected to everything else—who embody the understanding that the world is built on a matrix of relationships, and that everything that happens is a part of a larger flow.

This is the kind of leadership and coaching that can transform our world. This is what you will learn in this program.

Transformational Presence provides a strong foundation for conscious living, leading, and coaching through a powerful yet practical set of skills. When those skills are developed together in the step-by-step approach that Alan teaches, you quickly expand your capacities for awareness, understanding, perception, and effective action.

At the core of our work is Whole-Mind Thinking and Whole-Being Awareness. Whole-Mind Thinking is a result of a full partnership between the intuitive and intellectual minds. This partnership actually exists within us already. However, through our socialization and traditional education experiences, most of us have been conditioned that these are two separate minds. And that the intellect is the one that counts.

The first step in developing Whole-Mind Thinking is the understanding that the intuitive mind is actually the larger and more powerful mind. The intellectual mind is just one small part of the much larger intuitive mind. Both are essential today for impactful leadership and coaching. They each play critical roles. Understanding their roles is an important first step in developing these new leadership and coaching skills and capacities.

Whole-Being Awareness stretches Whole-Mind Thinking to include the incredible innate awareness, understanding, and wisdom available to us through our human energy system. Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “The body knows,” or “The body doesn’t lie.” The human energy system is an extraordinary technology that we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of. It is capable of guiding and supporting us far more than most people have imagined.

As Whole-Mind Thinking and Whole-Being Awareness become your default approach to life, leadership, and coaching, you discover a greater ability to “see the big picture” of what is happening. You begin to understand events and circumstances within a much larger context. You learn to recognize patterns and flows of energy and discover how to navigate complex situations.

When faced with challenges, difficulties, or confusion, Whole-Mind Thinking and Whole-Being Awareness reduce stress and foster resilience by transforming your relationship to what is happening. There are no magic pills, yet as your perception and understanding of what is happening expands, clarity emerges. And you know what to do next.

Transformational Presence is the embodiment of Whole-Mind Thinking and Whole-Being Awareness. It’s the foundational skill set needed for the emerging conscious leadership movement. As individuals, organizations, and societies develop and refine this skill set, they begin to shape a transformational culture around them. As the culture transforms, people are more supported and encouraged to introduce transformational initiatives.

Today, we are faced with unprecedented challenges and rapid change as well as enormous opportunities and potential. Transformational Presence prepares you for meeting any opportunity or challenge from a place of clarity, grounding, and trust. It gives you the skills, tools, and capacities to “think on your feet,” as we might say in business, or to “dance in the moment,” as we often say in coaching.

Transformational Presence is the foundation for conscious leadership, coaching, and service. It helps you to be flexible, adaptable, responsive, and creative, so that you can work with whatever lands in front of you instead of struggle against it.

Transformational Presence is a way of life—a way of being, thinking, and taking action for accelerated and sustainable results. In whatever arena you serve—personal, small business, social entrepreneurship, corporate or government leadership, education, health care, or non-profits—Transformational Presence Leadership and Coaching lays the groundwork for creating a world that works. Join us.

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There are nine core curriculum topics or areas of exploration and study in the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training program, all of which go together to expand your capacities for awareness, perception, understanding, clarity, intuitive thinking, and effective and impactful action. Four Levels of Engagement At the foundation of Transformational Presence work are four basic levels through which we engage life. Through the Four Levels of Engagement model, we can quickly identify the habitual approaches of those we serve and immediately give them tools and understanding for choosing with intention and awareness how they will engage with life and leadership in the most productive and constructive ways. Vertical and Horizontal Orientations to Life In Transformational Presence work, we consider two fundamental orientations to life: Vertical and Horizontal. These two orientations relate to being and doing, soul and ego, the intuitive and intellectual minds, and many other aspects of life and work. Having an awareness of both the Vertical and Horizontal Orientations—how each serves us, as well as how each can become a trap—can help those we serve find a balance between being and action that supports their greatest impact and accomplishment. Reflective Practice The TPLC program provides many tools for establishing a personal centering and mindfulness practice that supports and enhances your life and work. Engaging the Intuitive Mind The intuitive mind is the larger mind, of which the intellect is just a small part. The more we operate from the larger intuitive mind, the greater access we have to wisdom, understanding, creativity, and innovation. From the perspective of the intuitive mind, we are able to understand and apply these principles of energy and work from the “big picture” in any situation, circumstance, challenge, or opportunity. We call this “whole-mind” thinking and “whole-being” awareness. The Soul-Ego Partnership In Transformational Presence work, we understand the critical importance of a dynamic partnership between soul and ego. When soul and ego are in full partnership, we have a much better chance of reaching our full potential in all aspects of life and work. Hermetic Philosophy A basic understanding of the ancient wisdom teachings of Hermetic Philosophy and its principles provides a solid foundation for understanding how life and leadership work as energy in motion. Form follows energy. Therefore, if we want to change the form of anything, we begin working with it as energy. The seven Hermetic Principles are:

• The Principle of Mentalism—Everything exists within Consciousness, and Consciousness exists within everything; everything begins as a thought.
• The Principle of Correspondence—As above, so below; as below, so above.
• The Principle of Vibration—Everything is made up of energy in motion.
• The Principle of Polarity—Nothing can exist without its opposite; therefore, the answer is in the question.
• The Principle of Rhythm—everything has its own inherent rhythm and flow.
• The Principle of Cause and Effect—Everything is an “effect” of a “cause;” every “effect” becomes a “cause” of something else.
• The Principle of Gender—Every act of creation has both a masculine (assertive and active) and feminine (reflective and introspective) component.

Basic Principles of Quantum Physics Building upon the foundation of Hermetic Philosophy, we then explore the basic principles of quantum physics to understand the science behind the Hermetic Principles and ancient wisdom teachings. The Human Energy System A fundamental understanding of the spiritual and emotional attributes of the Human Energy System (also known as the Chakra System) provides another strong foundation for understanding the challenges and strengths of those you serve. While you may never talk directly about these energy centers with those you serve, your knowledge of them can inform your questions and understanding for how to support them in the most effective and transformational ways. The Potential Based Approach An important step in creating a world that works is facilitating a shift from a “problem-solving approach” to a “potential-based approach” in leadership, coaching, and life. This means engaging life as energy in motion and being aware of the emerging potential within any situation or circumstance—discovering “what wants to happen” for a greater good and partnering with that potential to bring it to fruition. The Potential-Based Approach utilizes tools and concepts learned through the first eight core curriculum topics to provide a powerful and breakthrough approach to transformational leadership and coaching.

The Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training program is structured in two levels: the TPLC Foundation Course and the Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series.

TPLC Foundation Course The TPLC Foundation Course is a 5-day in-person program. The Foundation Course provides 52 Coach Specific Training Hours from the International Coach Federation (ICF). The 5-day format is organized around these themes:

• Day 1—Laying a Foundation
• Day 2—”Whole-Mind” Thinking, “Whole-Being” Awareness
• Day 3—Dialogue and Deep Listening
• Day 4—Creating New Realities
• Day 5—Integration

Because this program is offered in several different countries and in different kinds of venues, the registration fee varies for each workshop. Please check the Calendar page for specific workshop information and details.

Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series Those who want to further refine their Transformational Presence coaching skills may choose to continue with the TPLC Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. The course includes ten 2-hour videoclasses led by Alan Seale and partner coaching in between class sessions. Group size is limited to six participants. Each participant coaches in class at least three times. In each two-hour class, there are two practice mentor coaching sessions followed by specific feedforward for the coach about what worked really well, other directions the session might have taken, other questions that might have been asked, and other approaches that might have been used. The Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series provides 20 Coach Specific Training Hours as recognized by the ICF.

Following this course brings the coaching skills you have learned in the TPLC  to another level. I have much more confidence now in using the frameworks, knowing that I can follow my intuition regarding the questions I pose, thereby cutting to the essence and sensing underneath the layer that presents itself at first. Moreover I have learned to coach from my heart, using gentle power to listen to the energy that can help the client in his or her discovery process, at the same time sticking to the topic at hand. The combination of one-to-one coaching sessions with your fellow participants and group sessions with Alan is great. Next to enhancing your coaching skills, you learn how to give feed forward in a very respectful way, a skill that is also very valuable in my daily encounters with people.

Furthermore it’s lovely to have fellow TPLC participants in this course who—like in the real world—differ in the way they sense, perceive, think and understand, and so are unpredictable in the ways they respond to your coaching. You get to practice the frameworks and skills in a very safe and tender way, and in a respectful yet clear way, learn from your colleagues and especially from Alan about the things that went well in the coaching and where improvement is possible. And of course the wise and joyful mode in which Alan facilitates the group sessions, walking his talk, gives you all the possibilities to grow and become confident in being your authentic self .

If you want to grow as a coach, a leader and as a person, this is the course to take after the TPLC!

—Sascha Krijger (The Netherlands)
Organizational Coach and Consultant in the Not-for-Profit Sector

The fee for the Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series via Zoom is $895 USD.

The full TPLC program (both the Foundation Course and the Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series) provides a total of 72 Coach Specific Training Hours or CCEUs.

Participants must have completed the TPLC Foundation Course in order to register for the Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series. The Supervised Mentor Coaching Videoclass Series is offered several times a year. To register for the next course, please contact us.

The full Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training program (Foundation Course plus the Supervised Mentor Coaching Course) has been approved by the International Coach Federation (ICF) for 72 Coach Specific Training Hours. These training hours may also be used as Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEU) for the ICF.

If this is your first coach training, the full TPLC program (Foundation Course plus the Supervised Mentor Coaching program) provides more than the required number of coach training hours to apply for the ICF’s Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential, their first level of certification. The coach education requirement for the ACC credential is 60 hours; our program provides 72 hours.

If you have already completed your initial 60 hours of training, the TPLC program will provide the additional Coach Specific Training Hours required for the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. The PCC credential is the professional coaching standard recognized around the world. The coach education requirement for the PCC credential is 125 hours.

For those renewing their ICF credential, the TPLC Foundation course provides 52 CCEUs. Renewal of your ICF credential requires 40 CCEUs or 40 Coach Specific Training Hours every three years. The TPLC Foundation Course meets that requirement in full.

Finally, for those pursuing their Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential, our full TPLC program provides 72 Coach Specific Training Hours. For those who have already completed at least 128 Coach Specific Training Hours in another program, participating in our program will finish out the required 200 Coach Specific Training Hours needed to apply for the MCC credential.

Two of Alan’s books are required reading for this program:

Create A World That Works—entire book

Intuitive Living—Part II, Chapters 5 – 15

TPLC Foundation Program

The TPLC Foundation program is currently being offered in the United States, The Netherlands, and Poland. You can find details for specific programs on the Calendar page, including location and dates as well as the contact information of the local host and organizer. Because the TPLC is offered in several different countries and different kinds of venues, the registration fees and meal and lodging packages vary from location to location. Please see the particular event you are interested in for the specific registration costs and details for that program, as well as meal and lodging packages where applicable. For any other questions, please contact us. 

If you would like to host a Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training program in your country or region, please contact us. We look forward to speaking with you!

Transformational Presence Supervised Mentor Coaching Tele-Course

The Supervised Mentor Coaching Tele-Course is offered twice a year with Alan via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. You can find more details in the “Program Structure” toggle box above. For information on the next program dates, please see the Calendar page. The fee for the Supervised Mentor Coaching program is $895 USD.

Certification as a Transformational Presence Coach is available for those who would like to have this credential to support their work. There are two pathways to certification, based on whether or not you already hold an ICF-recognized certification. For those who already have an ICF-recognized certification, the requirements are:

• Completion of both the TPLC Foundation Course and the Transformational Presence Supervised Mentor Coaching Course
• 30 hours of Transformational Presence Coaching. These hours may include one-on-one coaching, team coaching, and organizational coaching. Twenty of those hours must have occurred after your completion of the initial TPLC Foundation Course.
• A minimum of 4 different clients
• 80% of the sessions must be paid sessions
• Final oral exam in which you will be asked to talk about the fundamental concepts of Transformational Presence work, demonstrating your knowledge of the material and your ability to explain concepts

For those who do not have an ICF-recognized certification, the requirements are:

• Completion of both the TPLC Foundation Course and the Transformational Presence Supervised Mentor Coaching Course
• 100 hours of Transformational Presence Coaching. These hours may include one-on-one coaching, team coaching, and organizational coaching. 80 of those hours must have occurred after your completion of the initial TPLC Foundation Course.
• A minimum of 6 different clients
• 80% of the sessions must be paid sessions
• Final oral exam in which you will be asked to talk about the fundamental concepts of Transformational Presence work, demonstrating your knowledge of the material and your ability to explain concepts

Application Fee: $250 US to cover the exam time and the website listing.

After certification, you may choose to be listed on the Center for Transformational Presence website and recommended as a Certified Transformational Presence Coach.

Download an application to begin the certification process.

Acceptance into the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coaching (TPLC) program in the US is by application. Our hosts in other countries have their own requirements, so please view the specific country’s TPLC registration/information on our calendar page.

For those interested in the TPLC in the US, please request the application and submit it via email. Someone will be back in touch with you within one business day.

If you have further questions about this program and would like to have a short telephone or skype conversation, just send an email and we’ll be happy to schedule an appointment. In addition, feel free to be in touch with the host of the country in which you want to attend the TPLC as they can best answer any logistical questions. Currently all of the TPLC programs are led by Alan Seale in English. The exception to this is a Dutch-language TPLC led by 2 of our certified Transformational Presence coaches. Please refer to our our calendar page for dates.

Participants in the 2019 Transformational Presence Global Leadership Gathering in Costa Rica

Transformational Presence Global Leadership Gathering

(Pre-requisite: participation in the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coaching Foundation Course or the Transformational Presence Leadership in Action program)

The 2019 Transformational Presence Global Leadership Gathering has come and gone. It was an extraordinary three days in the tropical open air of Kantara, home of graduate Karen Montealegre. We now look forward to our next Gathering. Our intention is to meet in June 2020 in the Netherlands.

Full information for the 2020 Global Gathering will be announced here as it becomes available. Committees are being formed, and the planning process has begun. 

In 2013, Alan created the first Transformational Presence Global Summit, a four-day event where graduates of the TPLC program from around the world could come together, continue to learn from Alan and from each other, and continue evolving Transformational Presence work in the world.

In 2017, the name was changed to the Transformational Presence Global Leadership Gathering. The 2017 Global Gathering was held in June at The Guest House Retreat and Conference Center in Chester, Connecticut (USA). The theme was “Fierce Gentleness and Ferocious Love.” The program was led by Alan and members of the Transformational Presence Community.

The Gathering is a time and a place to:

• reconnect to the energy of Transformational Presence
• deepen the your own personal presence
• rejuvenate your spirit
• learn new tools and approaches
• deepen your leadership and coaching awareness and skills
• clarify your next steps as a Transformational Presence leader and coach
• connect to and co-create for collaborative projects with Transformational Presence colleagues from around the world.

Please visit our Audio Recordings page to listen to our Coaching Demos.

Transformational Presence in a VUCA World

The Fundamental Worldview That Determines Everything

Holding Fast To Love—Being a Transformational Presence in Disruptive Times

Knowing When to Take the Lead and When to Step Aside

Ari Wallach on Longpath Thinking—3 Ways of Thinking That Can Change How We Approach the Most Challenging Issues of Our Time

Fierce Love and Clear Vision for the Path Ahead

Beyond Polarization—Four Steps to Finding a Way Forward

A Way Forward for the VUCA States of America

An Emerging New Level of Leadership Development

The Great Breaking Open—A New World is Waiting

From Mindless to Mindful—The Power of Paying Attention

Overwhelmed by responsibilities and challenges? What if there is another way?

What to remember when everything keeps changing and nothing feels secure

Complicated, Complex, or Both? Finding Our Way Through a Turbulent World

Whole-Mind Thinking & Whole-Being Awareness: The Power Behind Transformational Presence

What Is Transformational Presence? And Why Is It So Important In Today’s World?

The Power of Transformational Presence—Developing Leaders and Coaches to Create A World That Works

The Deep Simple: Cutting Through Complexity To Find Your Next Step

Learning Forward

Leading From Potential Starts With Asking Transformational Questions

“Game On!” Daring To Step Into Your Greatest Potential

Getting Past “I Don’t Know”

Saying “Yes” to Breakthrough

The Gift and Power of Deep Listening

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to read what graduates are saying about the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training.