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**Aletheia Coaching**, also known as **Integral Unfoldment**[^1], is a [[✦ Trauma]]-sensitive approach to self-inquiry, healing and wholeness which works with the human bodymind and its subsequent energy systems. Aletheia, meaning **truth** in Greek philosophy, is a methodology that draws from and integrates views from depth psychology, psychotherapy and ancient wisdom teachings to encourage natural unfoldment by working through developmental impediments.
Although Aletheia technically isn’t a psychotherapy, and certainly wouldn’t advertise itself as such, it does share many principles and parallels with the leading healing modalities in the same space (see: [[✦ The New Psychotherapy]]). It calls itself a "next-generation coaching methodology" and in a way, it's participating in a paradigm shift in consciousness that's been slowly but surely developing over the past few decades as both its way of working and its philosophy aligns to many of the other emergent healing modalities in the field.
# The Four Depths
While sitting with the question of why some healing modalities work and some don’t, Aletheia's founder Steve March had the realisation that they all work in some way, they just work at different “depths” of the human experience. In other words, different modalities work (or don't work) depending on where we are in our developmental and [[✦ Individuation]] journey, and where we are in our developmental journey determines the depth of experience we're primarily oriented towards.
The Four Depths in Aletheia Coaching occurs throughout the Cosmos (the outer world), the Psyche (the inner world), and Soma (the body), and they articulate different possible modes of contact with the present moment [^2]:
| Depth | Experience | Practice |
| --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **The Depth of Parts** | Our experience at this depth is characterised by separation (see: the [[✦ Separation Paradigm]]) where we feel separate from others and the world. Within our inner worlds, we experience many different ego Parts of ourselves, each with their own protective strategies, intentions and emotional realities. | [[❍ Parts Work]], inspired primarily by Internal Family Systems and other forms of ego state modalities. |
| **The Depth of Process** | As our Parts begin to soften and release we begin to feel less fragmented and more integrated. Our experience at this depth is characterised by a more fluid and relational sense of self where notice physical sensations in our body and mental images that show us how we're relating to life in the present moment. | [[❍ Somatic Work]] inspired by [[人 Eugene Gendlin]]'s philosophy on Process and the bodily [[The way we experience ourselves is through the Felt Sense\|Felt Sense]], as well as his Focusing method. |
| **The Depth of Presence** | At the Depth of Presence, we experience a sense of being whole and complete. Our subject-object perception begins to fade, and we directly experience ourselves as [[✦ Presence]] itself. Here, we discover (or re-discover) our innate qualities and capacities like love, compassion, creativity and courage as fundamental to who we are, and not something we lack. | Presence Work inspired by A.H Almaas' Diamond Approach, which involves witnessing what's present and experiencing wholeness, leading to deeper unfoldment. |
| **The Depth of Nondual Presence** | At the Depth of Nondual Presence all sense of separation dissolves, and we feel one with everything. The opposite of the [[✦ Separation Paradigm]], and the experience of complete unity and boundless awareness. This depth brings a deep trust in the natural unfoldment of life and whilst difficult to describe, often feels like silence, spaciousness, stillness and timelessness. | Nondual Work practices inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Daoism, and elements from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim forms of contemplation, all aimed at awakening to our fundamental unified nature. |
# Core Principles and Philosophy
The practice of Integral Unfoldment takes on many principles and viewpoints from philosophy, depth psychology, psychotherapy practice and ancient wisdom traditions. While the below may not directly represent Aletheia terminology, these fundamental ideas support and underpin Aletheia's philosophy and methodology:
- [[Parts come together to reveal new wholes beyond what they are alone]]
- [[Poetic Attunement transforms our entire way of being]]
- [[Change happens when we stop trying to change]]
- [[The mind and the body are one]]
# Levels
The Aletheia Coaching Program is structured across three levels.
The first two levels are primarily focused on the journey of [[✦ Individuation]] by working with ego fixations that lead to much of our suffering in modern life. The loosening up of these ego structures through [[❍ Parts Work]] and [[❍ Somatic Work]] enables us to both deal with the uncertainties and complexities of life whilst orienting toward it in a way that cultivates a sense of aliveness, allowing us to tap into our natural resources and capacities such as joy, compassion and creativity.
The final level focuses on Nondual Work which introduces practices that enable us to realise and deepen into our essential interconnected [[✦ Presence|❍ True Nature]].
# Learn More
[^1]: [Aletheia](https://integralunfoldment.com/)
[^2]: [[The Neuroscience of Enduring Transformation by Steve March]]