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The Wisdom Partner Initiation
Letting wisdom lead your conversations
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The Wisdom Partner Initiation is a six-month initiatory training for experienced coaches who want to bring the depth, stillness, and the clarity they touch in meditation directly into their coaching work.
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Not as a technique.
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Not as a performance.
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But as a lived, embodied way of being in relationship.
It is about learning to sit and rest in meditative mind, and then learning to stand, speak, listen, and coach from that same stillness.
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It is a training in meditation in action, meditation in conversation, meditation in relationship, and meditation in service of leaders navigating complexity, power, and uncertainty.​​
In a world where AI will increasingly offer techniques, insights, and language, your ability to connect with inner wisdom will be the true differentiator. This is a capacity no technology can replicate.
Who This Initiation Is Designed For
This programme is for
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Experienced executive, leadership, or systemic coaches
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Practitioners with an established meditation practice who sense it wants to move more into their life and work
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Coaches who want to bring stillness and wisdom into relationship, not just onto the cushion
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Coaches willing to do their own inner work around power, authority, and shadow as part of their development
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Those working with senior leaders where presence matters more than technique
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Practitioners drawn to source, emptiness, silence, and wisdom as living realities
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This is not about adding more tools. It is about refining the inner posture from which you coach. This is not an entry-level training. It requires maturity, commitment, and a willingness to practice daily meditation throughout the six months.
First cohort launches mid 2026
The Initiation
A visual map of meditation in action.​
Across the six-month initiation, meditation deepens from inner stillness into relationship and field. The map below highlights some of the key competencies you will develop.
The Heart of the Training
The Two Meta-Capacities You Will Develop​
Anchoring in Stillness and Not Knowing Mind​​
Learning to rest deeply in stillness, even while complexity, emotion, and uncertainty are present. This includes the capacity to listen without grasping, fixing, or performing, and to trust silence as an active force.
Opening to the Higher Beyond the Personal Self​​
Learning to open beyond ego and personality so, insight, clarity, and wisdom can move through you rather than be generated by you. This involves active surrender to something higher than the personal self.
Meditation is the training ground.
Coaching is the expression.
Zen practice in the midst of activity is a million times superior to that pursued in silence.
~ Master Ta Hui
Course Structure
How the Six-month Initiation will be Held
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Three-Day Live Kick-Off (Mandatory)
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3 consecutive days
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4 hours per day
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Live, experiential, embodied
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Attendance at all sessions is required
Ongoing Rhythm
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Alternate Mondays: 90-minute teaching, meditation, and integration sessions
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In-between Mondays: 60-minute Evolutionary Dialogue practice — meditation in conversation, with peers
Monthly 1:1 Coaching:
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Personal mentoring, feedback, and guidance with Chris throughout the journey
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Weekly Guided Meditation Practice
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Participants receive weekly guided meditations designed specifically to support the developmental arc of the programme
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These practices are an integral part of the training and are expected to be followed throughout the six months
Accessibility:
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Designed to work across Europe and North America
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All teaching sessions recorded (except the requirement to attend the opening immersion live)
How you will be Supported
This is a high-touch, relational training​​​​
You will receive:
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A 60-minute pre-programme intake Wisdom Partner call
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Monthly 1:1 Wisdom Partner sessions throughout the six months
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Live teaching and meditation sessions every two weeks
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Ongoing support through weekly guided meditations aligned with the themes and capacities being developed
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Live group Evolutionary Dialogue practice every two weeks
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Ongoing guidance and support within the online learning plateform
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A small, curated cohort of 12 participants held intentionally as a learning field
This is not a self-paced course.
It is a guided initiatory process.
By the End of the Initiation​
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By the end of the six months, you will have developed:
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The ability and confidence to sit with senior leaders without effort, performance, or over-functioning
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The capacity to speak naturally from stillness and source
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The ability to own and speak from your power cleanly, without domination, collapse, or spiritual bypassing
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The ability to bring the clarity cultivated in meditation directly into relationship
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Immediate recognition of when ego agenda enters a conversation — and how to release it
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Deep trust in silence, emptiness, and not-knowing as the foundation of your coaching
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A stable, lived meditation practice that directly supports your life and work
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An inner posture of spiritual authority, humility, and wisdom that sets you apart in a crowded field
As AI increasingly handles the outer layers of coaching, this training strengthens what remains uniquely human: presence, discernment, and lived wisdom in relationship.
What You Will Walk Away With
Investment & Next Steps
Register Your Interest Now​​​​
Full programme details, dates, and investment will be shared with those who register their interest.
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This is a small-cohort, high-support initiation designed for depth rather than scale.
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You'll be the first to receive:
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Confirmed dates
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Full programme details
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Early access to the launch of the cohort later in the year
There is a way between voice and presence where information flows.
In disciplined silence this opens. With wandering talk this closes.
~ Master Rumi