Center for Transformational Coaching Reviews 43

I just completed the Deep Coaching Intensive and what a transformation I went through. Leon and Hampus took our group through the book (A Shift In Being), all the practices and then some, they were true leaders and amazing space holders. The practices we learned infused my life with so much depth that they are a part of me now. I was able to practice a lot of peer coaching which was priceless and my group of classmates were wonderful people. I've come away with a new perspective on life and how I go through, so grateful.

I am grateful to be a part of the community at the Center for Transformational Coaching. I was looking for a program with quality content and a strong community, and that's what I've found here. There's more here than just a niche coaching method, too. There is ICF certification, ongoing mentoring, community events and groups to be a part of. There is also the opportunity to develop your own groups or classes. Being part of the CTC is interactive, not just being a consumer or student. I really appreciate that.

The Center for Transformational Coaching really delivered.
What I appreciated most is the depth. This isn’t about learning tools or techniques; it really challenges how you show up, listen, and relate to others. It takes commitment, but that’s exactly where the value is. Besides, the professional level is strong, and the sense of community makes the experience even richer.
It's difficult to capture all I got from it, but for me, it shifted the way I coach and also how I show up in life in a meaningful way, less doing, more presence.
If you’re looking for something quick and superficial, this isn’t it. If you want real growth, it’s really worth it.

I can't say enough great things about this group, such a powerful and supportive family! The book (A Shift in Being) changed my perspective. The lessons and the community actually changed the core of who I am. The experience has empowered me to show up as the heart centered man that I have always dreamed of being. I'm overwhelmed by the way in which I can now serve my clients. I used to dream of clients having "breakthroughs" regularly, but after this program it is a pretty typical occurrence.

As someone who has built teams and organizations herself, I was blown away by this group's ability to create and nurture an entire community of seekers. At a time when resilience and stability is a dire need, most of the world, especially the corporate world continues to be blissfully ignorant of the ticking time bomb that exists. The tools, the healing space, the guidance and the complete playbook on meaningful existence that the DCI course provides is not just a gift but also a need of the hour for all corporate professionals. I'm very grateful that I had the opportunity to experience this and learn from it, it has been a truly transformational journey!

I was in a pivotal time of change in my life and was seeking out something to help me get aligned with a renewed sense of purpose. I came across this program, researched it then knew it was the right thing for me. It exceeded all of what I thought I wanted and needed for my own personal and my professional growth. It is a high quality program that is well recognized and reputable. I am so incredibly grateful that I listened to my heart and followed its guidance. I can’t express how much I have loved this experience and the people I have met through it.

The Deep Coaching Intensive isn't just another course; it's a communion with your Self. Reflecting on Leon VanderPol and the DCI program feels more like a pilgramage —one that skips past surface-level goals and dives straight into the deep ocean of your essential consciousness. It is a profound, soul-level endeavor.
Leon VanderPol, is more than just a coach or mentor; he's like a guide for your spirit. Just being in his presence is a calm, firm invitation to stop striving and start being. The real magic of the DCI is built on one simple idea: we're spiritual beings having a human experience. Our greatest power comes out not when we try to fix all our problems, but when we simply realize we are whole already.
The training works methodically to take apart the ego structures that keep us stuck in limited thinking, swapping out old beliefs for a real, felt connection to our higher, authentic Self. We learn to hold a sacred space for coaching—a spot where time slows down, silence says everything, and transformation just naturally unfolds. That's where the real magic kicks in: those deep, stubborn beliefs that have kept us stuck just melt away, not because we forced it, but because of the gentle, persistent light of heart awareness.
The biggest gift the DCI gives you is realizing that coaching can be a spiritual practice. It teaches you how to tune into the inner rhythm of life and listen, not just to the client's words, but to the whispers of their soul (and your own). By learning to "hold space" from this deep, essential place, you become a clear channel for their potential to emerge. You learn to trust the mystery and the wisdom of the process, even when you can't see the next step.
If you feel a genuine call to bring your heart and spirit into your life and career, the Deep Coaching Intensive is the answer. It's a transformative experience that ultimately brings you to the most incredible destination of all: home to your Self.

My experience with DCI and the Center for Transformational Coaching has been nothing short of life changing. Not only has this work brought me in touch with a deep sense of self I have never before experienced, it has returned me to a connection with the divine in the most gentle and loving way. I now consider my deep coaching work a spiritual practice more than a vocation. I receive as much spiritual energy and attunement with my higher self as a coach as I do as a coachee. Thank you Leon Vanderpol for your work and support on this extraordinary path.

A really powerful program in transformational coaching methodology that works!

The Deep Coaching Intensive Program, for me, didn't just teach me how to coach, it changed how I live my life.
I learned to, once again, live with love and approach things from the heart.
This change in myself, changed the energy around me, changed the energy I was giving and receiving and most fundamentally, changed the energy in my family. My home and family became one of calm, warmth and lightness.
I can't recommend the DCI course enough, which not only taught me how to coach, but more importantly, taught me how to live my life.

The DCI journey with Leon, Amrita and our cohort has been an incredible experience and a significant moment in my timeline. As the saying goes, a small degree of change in one’s level of consciousness can have a profound and exponential impact on life’s outcomes. DCI has been that small but powerful shift for me. For me the plates are still shifting and the landscape is still forming.

But what the course does is it invites you to engage with it’s practices in genuine curiosity and authenticity, and offers a safe laboratory to play with the emerging newer ways of being.

Through this journey, I’ve discovered the power of slowing down, of listening beyond words, and of being transformed not by doing more, but by being more. It’s a space that calls you home to yourself — to presence, compassion, and truth.

If you’re drawn to a community devoted to elevating human consciousness, and to being transformed yourself in the process, this is for you. It’s not easy, but then again, nothing truly worth having ever is.

I came to understand, in the truest sense, what Leon means when he says, “Your transformation enables the transformation of others.”
Throughout this journey, I became aware of how I had been living from an ego-based consciousness. DCI helped me shift into a more expansive, aware, and intuitive way of living. Since then, there has been no looking back
My life has transformed in ways I could never have imagined. I no longer identify with my old patterns and have been able to let go of ego-driven responses. I have stepped into a life that aligns with who I truly am and with my deepest spiritual values.

The very first principle of slowing down was, in itself, a profound turning point. It taught me to savor life, find meaning and fulfillment in what I do, and bring my whole self into each moment. This shifted my focus from doing to Being.

Living from this place of my own truth has instinctively deepened my capacity to coach. The quality of presence I now hold, whether with myself, my family and friends, or my clients, is deeper, heart-centered, and attuned to what wants to emerge.
I would recommend DCI to anyone who is seeking to live a richer, fuller, and more expansive life—one that is aligned with the truth of who they really are.

The Deep Coaching Intensive wasn’t a course for me — it was a shift in how I exist. Something in me reorganized — not through effort, but through stillness — and what emerged was a quieter, steadier presence. It was less about discovery and more about expansion — stepping into a deeper, fuller way of being that had quietly been there all along.

Years of coaching others found new depth when I turned that same presence inward; it grounded my work in something far more real and alive.

Living the nine practices isn’t about applying them — it is about letting them sink in until they become a way of being. They keep softening what was rigid, deepening awareness, and unfolding a lifelong journey into that inner steadiness.

The transformation continues to show up in subtle ways — in how I listen, relate, and simply am - A true "Shift in Being".

I have just had the amazing privilege of accepting a 2025 Coaching Impact award from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for Social Impact. Ten years ago having just finished my coaching training with ICA still felt uncomfortable sitting with clients who were experiencing strong emotions / had experienced emotional trauma. I knew I need to do Leon's Deep Coaching Intensive Training offered by the Centre for Transformational Coaching. This was one of the best decisions I have ever made. This course not only transformed my ability to sit with trauma, but the techniques I learned have underpinned my coaching practice for the past decade and I know that I could not have achieved the level of social impact as a coach without this foundational course.

I am a practicing coach who transitioned after a long stint on the corporate side. I underwent the "Holding Space Practitioner" course in 2022 while I was going through a difficult personal phase. It left a deep impression on me and also supported me immensely during my transition to coaching. I must admit that I joined DCI 2025, with some trepidation despite a strong calling - will I belong here, is this right for me, is the timing right etc. All my fears were unfounded! It's been one of the best decisions I have taken for my personal and professional growth. With every session, I have discovered a deeper path to knowing myself and in the way I approach coaching. I would often see leadership coaching distinct from life coaching and today I see those were just labels. Deep coaching is a deep exploration into life, leadership and more. It is a way of being and connectedness. It is 'experiential' and relies on practices rather than tools and competencies. I am loving the heart centered and spiritually underpinned nature of the course. Deep Gratitude to Leon, Amrita, Cate and all my cohort members.

5 stars does not seem enough when I look back at my experience with Leon during my journey for The DCI at Center for Transformational Learning.
Every class, every session, every break-out room discussion, the Retreat I participated in and above all ‘The shift in Being’ my very own version of the most sacred book I have ever come across, everything has been beyond phenomenal for me.
DCI and being with Leon did not only make me a deeper coach, it has helped me live a life which is connected to the shifted being at so much depth.
If I ever have to say to anyone to go ahead for a learning experience in Deep faith, it would be the Deep Coaching Intensive with Leon Vanderpol.
As I write this review, I am reminded again of all the magnificence I lived through those weeks.
My best wishes and love to the center and everyone who becomes a part of the community and makes a difference to the world outside and within them.
Love always,
Ritesh

For me, the DCI course has truly marked the beginning of my journey of “Self-Awareness or Self Discovery”. This journey was not easy — I had to meet my own “personal gravity”—ego patterns, limiting beliefs, fears / anxieties, and a carefully constructed self-image). DCI invited me into a depth of honest introspection I had rarely allowed before.
In my consulting work, I support large organizations in “change management and transformation”. I’m often expected to “drive change in others.” That expectation can pull leaders, facilitators, and consultants (myself included) into a comfortable advisory mode—offering opinions about other people’s behavior while overlooking our own. Yet people don’t just listen to leaders; they watch them. When words and actions diverge, trust erodes and systems weaken.
One of the most profound DCI lessons for me is simple and demanding: “Your transformation enables transformation.” If leaders and change agents are not actively transforming themselves, they cannot credibly invite transformation in others.
Another big distinction the course made for me was “surface change” vs. “true transformation.”
We all know how to do surface change — introducing new processes & systems, town halls, culture campaigns, training programs, behavior tweaks. These things have their place, but they often create only temporary shifts.
True transformation is inside-out. It happens at the level of:
• core beliefs and assumptions,
• values,
• identity and self-image (“who I think I am”),
• patterns of relating,
• and ultimately, our way of being.
When that shifts, behavior changes organically. People don’t have to be “managed” into change — they begin to want it. When people experience a shift within, their outer world view changes too.
I am realizing that the deeper I go within myself, the more capable I will be of helping others on their journeys.
The course didn’t give me a script; it gave me a mirror. And that, for a change facilitator, is priceless.

Deep Coaching Intensive is one of the main coach training programs that the Center for Transformational Coaching offers. I completed the Foundation and Mastery program of DCI in 2022 and 3 years later, even till today I refer to the 9 DCI practices quite regularly. For any coaching program some of the key ingredients that are most important are the facilitators, the underlying philosophy, the core frameworks they offer and the learning container they create. In this program, all of these aspects are designed and orchestrated extremely well. Leon and all the other facilitators have an outstanding presence, the 9 practices are deeply profound, the space that gets created in the program is sacred, heartfelt, transformational and powerful. This program has changed my life for good. As a coach It allowed me to tap into my intuitiveness and go beyond the intellectual inquiries. It cut to the heart of transformative work which actually happens at the level of energy, heart, spirit and consciousness and showed us how to do that work. If you want to be a coach who wants to be an instrument of transformation and not just surface level change, then this definitely would be the perfect program for you.

As a coach, I loved coaching, but I realised that I was a different person outside my sessions, and this deeply disturbed me that I wasn't in alignment with who I truly wanted to be, always.

A fellow coach I knew 6 years ago had spoken to me about Leon's work and brought a group of us together in a discussion on deep transformational coaching work and I immediately recognised it as something that was for me.

I read the book, A Shift in Being and a lot shifted in me just reading it. However, I felt I needed to do more inner work to really immerse myself into the course and so I joined the Transformational Coaching Collective (TCC) and took a few of the other courses the Centre offers, before I felt I was truly ready for 'the work'.

The experience of learning and embodying the nine practices with Leon and Amrita created a profound shift in the way of being, not with my coaching clients, but also with my community, my children and family.

Since then I have recommended the course to countless others and coaches who I feel are ready for the work. One's way of being shifts so dramatically in the course, that in this world where people are yearning to just be in a safe space with another human being, to feel vulnerable and share their deepest fears and longings, is all they really need.

I no longer need to go looking for clients, but peopleI meet in daily life feel they can work with me because they sense that space in our encounters and want to be that.

The Deep Coaching Intensive was an important part of my coaching journey. When I first started reading Leon’s book, I knew this was what I wanted to learn. It resonated very deeply for me. So I was excited to join the DCI. At first, I wasn’t sure what to expect, and then it took a few classes for me to settle in. And then I experienced Leon’s coaching and my whole world was rocked. And I was hooked. Deep Coaching is like none other that I have experienced. And going through the program had a profound impact on my confidence level as a coach and my impact - both in my being ness and also in my coaching skills. I even went further with Deepening Practice because I wanted to learn more. I definitely recommend the program. It was a portion experience.