Steve March is the founder of Aletheia — a professional coach training school offering a paradigm-shifting, next-generation approach to coaching. With over 18 years of experience as a professional coach, 20+ years as an instructional designer and trainer, and 16 years in software development and organizational management, Steve brings a rare depth of experience to the question of how human beings actually change and grow. His work draws from the Diamond Approach, Internal Family Systems, and nondual traditions to help leaders and teams thrive in complex situations by applying their innate resourcefulness and creativity.
In this conversation, we explore what coaching actually is and how it differs from therapy, the Unfoldment Paradigm, and why it goes beyond conventional self-improvement, and the four levels of depth in human experience — parts, process, presence, and nonduality — and what each one can access.
We get into four different styles of nondual work, how to find the meditation or spiritual practice that's right for you, why Internal Family Systems is such a powerful modality, and the paradox of change — why genuine transformation requires something fundamentally different from self-improvement.
We also explore why the point of meditation is actually to stop self-improvement, and why we need wisdom more than ever in a time of increasing complexity.
A rich and practically grounded conversation for anyone ready to go beyond self-improvement and conventional development.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - How Steve got into coaching
3:56 - What is coaching and how is it different from therapy?
8:52 - Going beyond self-improvement — the Unfoldment Paradigm
16:25 - Understanding and navigating depth in human experience
23:17 - The parts level of depth
26:54 - The process level of depth
28:54 - The presence level of depth
29:54 - The nonduality level of depth
33:34 - Steve speaks about his journey into nonduality
37:00 - Four different styles of nondual work
47:44 - How to find the meditation or spiritual practice that's right for you
58:50 - Why Internal Family Systems is such a powerful modality
1:06:23 - The point of meditation is to stop self-improvement
1:13:22 - The paradox of change
1:20:20 - Why we need wisdom more than ever
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