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About Unfoldment

A living field of presence and inquiry

Unfoldment means allowing what is already true within us to reveal and express itself more fully. It begins with something simple yet radical: the willingness to meet life as it truly is.

This work rests on the recognition that our ways of being shape the worlds we inhabit. Every way of looking, every gesture of awareness, every act of listening quietly reweaves the reality we experience. When we inhabit each moment with depth and integrity, the texture of the world itself begins to change. As Charles Eisenstein writes, we participate in “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”

In practice, Unfoldment becomes a lived ecology of transformation. Through inquiry and conversation, we listen for what wants to emerge. Meditation opens us to the spaciousness that holds all experience. Exploring the edges of consciousness reveals new perspectives on self and world. Purpose work becomes a way of listening for how life itself wants to move through us.

Why This Work Exists

Our moment in history is extraordinary. Never before have we been so connected, so capable, so knowledgeable. Yet the pace of technological, social, and ecological change often outstrips our ability to comprehend it. Amid the demands of daily life and the profound complexity of our collective challenges, it can be hard to maintain balance, let alone flourish.

I sense a shared longing for more coherence and depth. The times call us to cultivate wisdom, presence, and moral clarity. To restore the art of sense-making. To foster cognitive complexity. To develop emotional maturity. To awaken our imagination. To be in living conversation with meaning itself.

Our culture offers few places for this cultivation. But around the world, people are beginning to reimagine what it means to be human together. We're rediscovering that wisdom is a collective art, not an individual attainment.

Unfoldment is one small but wholehearted contribution to that movement. It participates in the ongoing discovery of how we might grow the kinds of inner and relational capacities from which a wiser civilization could naturally emerge.

About Me

I’m Marcel Scharth, a coach, meditation teacher, and purpose guide based in Sydney, Australia.

I’m guided by a simple conviction: we have a natural capacity for deepening in wisdom, expanding our perspectives, and growing in attunement to life.

For me, coaching is a way to re-humanise how we live and relate: to bring more truth, beauty, and care into the ordinary fabric of life. When we inhabit greater depth and coherence, we not only transform ourselves but also participate consciously in the unfolding of the wider world we share.

Training & Practice

  • Coaching & Guiding:

    • Certified Aletheia Coach
      Advanced Coaching Program Levels 1, 2, and 3 (in progress)
      Advanced Group Coaching Program
      Unfolding Deeply Expanded States
      Unfolding Wise Leadership

    • Certified Purpose Guide™, Purpose Guides Institute

    • Certified Psychedelic Practitioner, Psychedelic Coaching Institute (Third Wave)

    Meditation:

    • Certified Unified Mindfulness Teacher (420 hours)

    • Diploma in Mindfulness and Compassion Teaching, Insight Meditation Institute

    Relational practices:

    • Certified Circling® Practitioner, The Circling Institute

    • Certified Dialectic Into Dialogos Facilitator, Vervaeke Foundation

    Breathwork:

    • Certified Professional Breathwork Practitioner, Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA)

    • Certified Professional Biodynamic Breathwork (BBTRS®) Practitioner

    • Certified Alchemy of Breath Facilitator

    • Certified SOMA Breath® Master Instructor

    • Certified Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Instructor

    Somatic practices:

    • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training (Intermediate III level)

    • Certificate of Embodiment Coaching, Embodiment Unlimited

    • Certified Yoga Nidra Teacher, ShivaShakti School of Yoga

    • Certified Pranayama Teacher, Yoga Education College

    • PhD in Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2012)

    • MPhil in Economics, University of Amsterdam (2009)

The Ground of Knowing

Beneath its contemplative language, Unfoldment is also grounded in contemporary understandings of mind and meaning. It draws from developmental psychology, systems thinking, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy, alongside phenomenology and embodied practice. These perspectives offer maps and methods for cultivating presence, perspective-taking, and wise action in complex environments.

Contemporary research on embodied cognition offers powerful lenses for understanding how perception, meaning, and action co-emerge.

This work is informed by a meta-rational orientation: an awareness that every framework is partial, that understanding arises through dialogue between first-person experience and third-person investigation.

Unfoldment lives in that meeting place where empirical curiosity and contemplative presence inform one another; where philosophy becomes practice, and practice becomes a way of being. It is a conversation between experience and evidence, intuition and analysis, all in service of greater coherence.

A Living Conversation

Unfoldment is an invitation
to be in conversation with life—
and to allow it to move through us.

To meet each moment with the kind of presence
that brings love into motion,
wisdom into action,
and creativity into expression.

We learn to listen deeply—
to ourselves, to one another, to the living world—
and to let that listening create more coherence.

There is no endpoint,
only the work of participating—
again and again—
in the living process through which the world becomes
a little more whole,
a little more beautiful,
a little more true.