Transpersonal Coaching for Highly Sensitive People : Exploring Self & Parts

What is a Transpersonal Approach to Coaching?

Transpersonal coaching is a relatively new modality in the field of coaching and stems from the paradigm of Transpersonal Psychology. It can be described as an integrative and holistic approach encompassing all levels of one’s experience, including both conscious and subconscious phenomena. A coach working from a transpersonal perspective acknowledges there is a relationship between the psyche (mind), the body and the spirit and integrates the transpersonal or spiritual domain as well as one’s personal psychology into the coaching process. Transpersonal coaching also presupposes a Self which is distinct from the ego and recognises that we are all on a psycho-spiritual journey of self-actualisation — moving towards greater wholeness. A transpersonal coach attempts to include rather than negate unexplained phenomena that can often be experienced on one’s psycho-spiritual journey. Rather than pathologising specific ‘symptoms’, a transpersonal coach is attempting to uncover the potential meaning and purpose behind these experiences.

Open Awareness

A fundamental distinction can be made between transpersonal coaching and other types of coaching; in transpersonal coaching, the client and…