About me

Dr Marcel Scharth

Developmental Coach, Meditation Teacher, and Purpose Guide™

I’ve always been passionate about exploring and diving into practices for personal development and well-being. I started Unfoldment after discovering that I love sharing these skills and facilitating transformative experiences.

We live in an exciting era where more individuals and organisations recognise the need to bring the cultivation of wisdom back to the forefront of our culture and upgrade our capacity to facilitate human development and flourishing.

My journey has led me to embrace a wide range of practices covering different aspects of human unfoldment, including mindfulness meditation, nondual meditation, breathwork, yoga nidra, imaginal journeying, dreamwork, Circling, and Dialectic into Dialogos.

Some of the most influential teachers and mentors on my journey have been Shinzen Young, Michael Taft, Rosa Lewis, Rob Burbea, Daniel P. Brown, Dustin DiPerna, Christopher Wallis, Peter Fenner, B. Alan Wallace, Steve March, and John Vervaeke.

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, I’ve been in Sydney for over a decade after a period living in Amsterdam.

Elsewhere on the Internet, you may find me commenting on the latest developments in AI.

Qualifications

  • Coaching:

    • Aletheia Coaching practitioner

      • Advanced Coaching Program (ACP) Levels 1, 2, and 3 (in progress)

      • Advanced Group Coaching Program (AGCP) Level 1

      • Unfolding Deeply Expanded States

    Meditation:

    • Certified Unified Mindfulness Teacher (420 hours)

    • Diploma in Mindfulness and Compassion Teaching, Insight Meditation Institute

    Purpose:

    • Certified Purpose Guide™, Purpose Guides Institute

    Relational / Dialogical practices:

    • Certified Circling® Practitioner, The Circling Institute

    • Certified Dialectic Into Dialogos Facilitator, Vervaeke Foundation

    Somatic / Embodied practices:

    Coaching:

    • Certificate of Embodiment Coaching, Embodiment Unlimited

    Breathwork:

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

    • Certified Professional Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS®) Practitioner

    • Certified Alchemy of Breath Facilitator

    • Certified SOMA Breath® Master Instructor

    • Certified Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Instructor

    Yoga:

    • Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher (CYT-200), Kundalini University

    • Certified Pranayama Teacher (Level 1), Yoga Education College

    • Certified Yoga Nidra Teacher, ShivaShakti School of Yoga

    Healing / Integration:

    • Somatic Experiencing Three-Year Practitioner Training (in progress)

    • Certified Integrative Trauma Coach, Integrative Psychology Institute

    • PhD in Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2012)

    • MPhil in Economics, University of Amsterdam (2009)