Collaborative coaching · depth module
You keep the client, the market and the method. I add the layer underneath — the contemplative ground a coaching practice was never built to carry, and the scholarship that stands behind it.
The model
I add the layer beneath the work.
Standard coaching works on goals, behaviours and beliefs. It is good at that, and it stops at the question underneath: who is the one doing all of this? That question is my work.
I do not take clients. I work alongside the coach who already holds them — as a depth module, under your brand, in your market, on terms we agree. The client relationship, the clinical boundary and the commercial relationship stay where they already are: with you.
Each format leaves the client with you. What changes is how much of the depth sits inside your practice and how much I carry.
A client of yours reaches the ceiling of what your practice is designed to work at. You introduce the depth module as a distinct, separately contracted engagement. You remain the coach of record throughout, and you receive the referral on agreed terms.
Twelve weeks · one client · your introduction
We run a combined arc — your goal work and the contemplative layer in one sequence, delivered jointly to a client, a leadership cohort or a retreat group. Strongest where performance and depth need to be held in the same room.
Designed per group · co-delivered · co-branded
Your practice adopts the five-layer framework and its instruments under an agreement, with training and co-branding rules. For coaches who want the capability to sit inside their own practice rather than be brought in from outside.
Training · instruments · written scope
Aware, Align, Act · the method
Change happens at two levels: the outer, what a person does, and the inner, who is doing it. Most coaching works the first and trusts the second to follow. The framework works both, and always returns to the fifth layer.
Energy, breath and somatic cues. Where a pattern is already being carried before it is named.
Thought loops, emotional habits and the commentary that runs underneath the day.
Identity, roles and the beliefs inherited rather than chosen — the "I must be" that runs the show.
Values, meaning and contribution: what the work is actually for.
The awareness that observes all four. The layer most coaching does not address — and the one that makes change durable.
Safety, contracting, and a baseline map across the five layers.
Pattern awareness, somatic check-ins, and the capacity to observe.
The story is questioned, offered as inquiry rather than doctrine.
Insight becomes aligned action, practice, and a life beyond the programme.
What stands behind the method
A collaborating coach is being asked to put a client into something. These are the five things that should be checkable before they do.
Three books at the meeting point of consciousness, science and spirit — Converging Paths, The Conscious Lab Rat, and The AI Native State (2026, with Ashwin).
Seekers Abode: a library of eighty works in consciousness studies — philosophy, neuroscience, contemplative traditions, clinical practice and artificial intelligence — each read closely and given an original summary and argument rather than a republished text.
This is the layer that cannot be improvised, and it is the reason the method has something underneath it.
Ekatva — a one-day gathering at SWAN Yoga Retreat, Assagao, Goa, on 21 November 2026. Seven facilitators from philosophy, science, poetry, yoga and healing, twenty-five seats, built around a single philosophical wager.
Evidence that a faculty can be assembled, a room held and an idea carried into a programme.
Twenty-four years in the Indian Civil Service, then voluntary early retirement to co-found an AI company. MBA (Cranfield), MSc (LSE), CIMA-qualified.
Advisory work across AI policy and AI-native operating models, green fuels, asset tokenisation and corridor strategy; advisor to e-Sutra on real-world asset tokenisation.
The register that a corporate client of yours will recognise as its own.
Foundation Coaching Certification, The Coaching Masters, 6 November 2026 — a foundational qualification, held and described as one.
Stated plainly on purpose. The depth in this method rests on the scholarship and practice infrastructure around it, not on the certificate, and a professional coach is the one reader who will check.
A documented five-layer framework, a twelve-week arc, a five-layer assessment instrument, a written scope of work, a referral protocol and a data-handling note.
Most sole practices have none of these. For a collaborating coach they are the reason this is safe to put a client into — and the reason it can be licensed to a second and third practice without becoming something else.
Partner practices
Conversations are under way with established practices in Canada and the United States, and in Switzerland. Partner practices are named here only once terms are signed — the commercial arrangements are being settled separately, partner by partner.
If you run an established practice and your clients keep arriving at the same wall, the partner brief sets out the three formats, what stays yours, and how the first ninety days would run.
Author
Retreat and research vision
Through Seekers Abode Private Limited, Prashant is co-creating a campus near Dehradun where contemplative practice, evidence-based healing, and consciousness research can converge.
It is also where a co-facilitated programme can eventually be held in residence — the physical counterpart to the twelve-week arc.
Associated work
The library of consciousness studies: eighty works across six domains, each with an original summary and analysis, plus three guided reading pathways and free programmed learning courses.
Visit the libraryA one-day gathering in Goa on 21 November 2026 — philosophers, scientists, artists and healers, twenty-five seats, built on Advaita's wager that the separateness we take for granted is a construction of the senses.
Visit EkatvaAI-native operating models and governance through AI Native Organisations; technology-enabled ESG at Green Infrathink; real-world asset tokenisation and heritage through e-Sutra.
Professional archive
Founder profile
Ex-bureaucrat, entrepreneur, advisor, author, and student of consciousness.
Prashant spent 24 years in the Indian Civil Service before taking voluntary early retirement in 2021 to co-found Sapio Analytics, an AI startup building a Livelihood Intelligence System. His work spans governance, international partnerships, AI policy, green fuels, asset tokenisation, corridor strategy, and contemplative inquiry.
He does not practise as a client-facing coach. The collaboration model exists so that the contemplative layer can be offered inside practices that already do that work well.
Fields of work
AI-driven policy intelligence converting government data into actionable service-delivery insight. Co-founded after twenty-four years in the Indian Civil Service.
Tech-enabled ESG: carbon accounting, sustainability reporting, and social impact measurement for industrial clients.
Advisor on India's policy thinking around real-world asset tokenisation, cultural assets and security token offerings.
Green fuels, Guyana market entry, corridor strategy, aviation MRO, energy, and sell-side M&A.
AI-native operating models, governance and readiness diagnostics — the consulting practice behind the institutional register this depth module borrows from.
Videos
A short clip from the Bond Tokenisation Summit 2026 on the question at the centre of the discussion — what impact does tokenisation have on common people — and the case that tokenisation empowers MSME financing.
An invited panel discussion on bond tokenisation and real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation in India — the policy, market structure, and technology questions shaping tokenised debt.
A conversation on suffering, meaning, and the questions at the heart of The Conscious Lab Rat — where science and contemplative inquiry meet.
Tools we have built
The Monk Abode app blends wisdom traditions including the Bhagavad Gita, Buddha, and Marcus Aurelius with modern thinkers such as Alan Watts and Gregg Braden. Powered by a Large Language Model and inspired by David Hawkins' levels of consciousness, it helps seekers reflect, reframe, and return to themselves.
View on Google PlayA mythic inner journey through 23 symbolic chapters of the hero's journey, using the Mirror Lens, journal reflections, and quiet choices to move from forgetting toward an awakened heart. It is the same territory the framework works in a room, made playable.
Substack
Essays on consciousness studies and AI-native organisations — two halves of the same question, written as they come. The most recent is about Ekatva: why an argument needs a room before anyone will believe it.
The partner brief
The brief sets out the three formats, what stays yours, how the client and commercial relationships are kept separate, and what the first ninety days would look like. Write to me with your practice, your market and the wall your clients keep arriving at.
