- Expanding the core capacities for conscious coaching and leadership in a rapidly changing world
- 72 Coach Specific Training Hours approved by the International Coach Federation (ICF—52 hours for TPLC, 20 hours for Supervised Mentor Coaching)
With graduates from more than 35 countries, Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training (TPLC) offers a fresh, leading-edge coaching approach to life, leadership, business, government, healthcare, and education. 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.
Virtual and/or in-person versions of this program are currently available in English, Dutch, and Polish. Courses in French, Italian, Finnish, and Swedish are in development.
Transformational Presence cuts to the essence of circumstances and situations, identifies emerging potential, and then partners with that potential to discover a clear pathway forward — a pathway that can lead us toward a world that works. Transformational Presence is a leadership and coaching approach whose time has come — an essential skill set for navigating the complexities of today’s rapidly changing and uncertain world.
Grounded in ancient wisdom traditions, quantum science, and consciousness studies, the TPLC offers practical yet powerful tools, skills, language, and approaches that expand your capacities for intuitive thinking, big-picture awareness and understanding, and navigating quickly changing situations and circumstances. Transformational Presence is an essential skill set for effective and impactful transformational coaching and leadership in today’s uncertain 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
- Able to be with not knowing the answers
- Curious and imaginative
- Willing to explore without knowing what they will find, yet trusting that clues for next steps 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 what Alan calls 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. Will you 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 framework, 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.
The Presence-Action Partnership
In Transformational Presence work, we consider two fundamental orientations to life: Presence and Action. 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 the importance of both Presence and Action — how each serves us, as well as how each can become a trap — can help those we serve find a balance 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 with one another, 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.
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 or this human energy system with those you serve, your knowledge and understanding of this system can help you work 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.
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The Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training program includes two courses:
- TPLC Foundation Course (virtual via Zoom, in-person, and hybrid formats available)
- Supervised Mentor Coaching Course on Zoom (virtual only)
Together these two courses provide 72 Coach Specific Training Hours or CCEs from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
TPLC Foundation Course
Due to the global pandemic, at this time the TPLC Foundation Course with Alan Seale is only being offered virtually. The course is delivered in ten 4.5-hour class sessions on Zoom. Live virtual programs with Alan are not just “sit and watch the screen” affairs! He creates a vibrant, connected, engaged, experiential, interactive learning and discovery space, incorporating movement and frequent short pauses away from the screen in order to support you in getting the most from each session.
The Foundation Course provides 52 Coach Specific Training Hours or CCEs from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
The 10-session virtual format with Alan is organized around these themes:
- Sessions 1 & 2 — Laying the Foundation
- Sessions 3, 4, & 5 — Intuitive Thinking: Whole-Mind Thinking and Whole-Being Awareness
- Sessions 6, 7, & 8 — Dialogue and Deep Listening
- Session 9 — The Human Energy System as Related to Leadership and Coaching
- Session 10 — Putting It All Together: The Potential-Based Approach
For information on hybrid and in-person format offerings of the Foundation Course in Europe, see the Calendar page. These courses are led in English, Dutch, and Polish by Jo Boniszewski and Sander van Eekelen (Netherlands) and Joanna Zawada-Kubik (Poland).
Supervised Mentor Coaching Zoom Series with Alan
Those who want to further refine their Transformational Presence coaching skills may choose to continue with the TPLC Supervised Mentor Coaching Course via Zoom. The course includes 10 two-hour videoclasses led by Alan Seale as well as partner coaching with your class colleagues in between sessions.
Group size is limited to six participants. Each participant coaches in class three times. Each two-hour class session includes two practice mentor coaching sessions.. These practice sessions are followed by specific feedforward for the coach about what worked really well, other directions that the session might have taken, other questions that might have been asked, and other approaches or tools that might have also been been used.
The Supervised Mentor Coaching Zoom Series provides 20 Coach Specific Training Hours or CCEs as recognized by the ICF.
The fee for the Supervised Mentor Coaching Zoom Series is $995 USD.
Pre-Requisite: 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 two times a year. To register for the next course, please contact us.
The full TPLC program (Foundation Course + Supervised Mentor Coaching Zoom Series) provides a total of 72 Coach Specific Training Hours or CCEs.
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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.
Finally, for those pursuing their Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential, our full TPLC program provides 72 Coach Specific Training Hours, and is a proven pathway from PCC to MCC, helping coaches expand beyond transactional coaching approaches to transformational approaches. 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.
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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
Virtual as well as in-person versions of this program are currently available in English, Dutch, and Polish led by Certified Transformational Presence Program Leaders that Alan has personally mentored since 2018. Courses are soon to come in French, Italian, Finnish, and Swedish.
These programs are offered by the program leaders through their own companies in partnership with the Center for Transformational Presence.
If you have questions, please contact us.
TPLC in Dutch — on Zoom
Transformational Presence Intensive Course (TPIC—the Dutch-language version of the TPLC)
Year-long program currently in session. Watch for next Zoom offering. 2
2 full-day Zoom intensives followed by 16 2.5-hour Zoom sessions
Led in Dutch by Sander van Eekelen (CTPC) of The Netherlands
TPLC in Finnish — In-Person
December 3-5 and 17-19, 2021 in Tampere, Finland
Pilot TPLC in Finnish led by Anne Elina Akola, ACC, CTPC
Informational/Registration
TPLC in English — on Zoom
Transformational Presence Intuitive Coaching (Zoom version of the TPLC as led by Sander van Eekelen from The Netherlands)
March – December 2022
3 half-day Zoom intensives February 16-18, 2022, followed by 16 2.5-hour Zoom sessions through December 2022
Led in English by Sander van Eekelen (CTPC) of The Netherlands
Information/Registration
TPLC in Polish — Hybrid In-Person and Virtual
April 4-6, 2022 in Nieprześnia near Krakow, followed by May 16-17, 2022 on Zoom
Led in Polish by Joanna Maria Zawada, MCC, CTPC and Patryk Lange, PCC, CTPC
Information/Registration
TPLC in English in Sweden—In-Person in March 2022
March 28-April 1, 2022
Utö, Sweden (a small island in the archipelago of Stockholm)
Led in English by Katarina Cars (PCC, CTPC) of Sweden and Joanna Maria Zawada (MCC, CTPC) of Poland
Offers 52 Coach-Specific Training Hours (ICF)
Information/Registration
TPLC in Dutch-Flemish in Belgium—In-Person Starting May 2022
Transformational Presence Intensive Course (TPIC—the Dutch/Flemish-language version of the TPLC)
May 12-14 & June 23-24, 2022
Oostduinkerke, Belgium
Led in Dutch by Sander van Eekelen (CTPC) of The Netherlands (Hosted by Sonja van Bouchaute)
Information/Registration
If you have further questions about the TPLC and would like to have a short telephone or Zoom conversation, send an email and we will be happy to schedule an appointment.
If you would like to host a Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach Training program within your company or in your country or region, please contact us. We look forward to speaking with you!
Virtual Transformational Presence Supervised Mentor Coaching Course
The virtual Supervised Mentor Coaching Course is offered twice a year with Alan.
10 two-hour Zoom sessions
Program Fee
Program fee includes: ten 2-hour Zoom classes with Alan, detailed written feed-forward from Alan about your in-class sessions, and class audio recordings
$995 USD or 3 payments of $340 USD each
Winter-Spring 2022—Tuesdays
11 am – 1 pm ET / 17-19 CET
February 8, 15, 22
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
April 5, 12
Winter-Spring 2022—Wednesdays
1-3 pm ET / 19-21 CET
February 9, 16, 23
March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
April 6, 13
Cancellation Policy:
- Cancel before December 30, 2021—full refund less 10%
- Cancel between December 31, 2021 and January 10, 2022—full refund less 50%
- Cancel after January 10, 2022—no refund
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 or equivalent.
For those who already have an ICF-recognized certification or equivalent, 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 principles and your ability to explain concepts
For those who do not have an ICF-recognized certification or equivalent, 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 principles 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.
Participants came from 14 countries on 4 continents for 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)
June 17-19, 2022
Kapellerput Conference Center
Heeze, The Netherlands
Plans are underway for the next Transformational Presence Global Leadership Gathering in June in The Netherlands. We are eager to be together again after the long pause created by the COVID pandemic.
While the final Gathering theme is still emerging, our three days together are likely to focus on:
- Co-creation and manifestation of a new world or a new era, both for the world as a whole and for Transformational Presence within that larger world
- Ways that our community can contribute to the transformation of our world going forward
- Learning in service of others
- A shift from active doing to active being
Registration should be open in early January 2022. Check back here for more details then.
