Master the hidden architecture of collective choice
Most decision theory stops at the individual. This school begins where that conversation ends — mapping the relational, cultural, somatic, and archetypal fields that actually govern what human systems choose. Built on Joseph Riggio's transpersonal framework, for practitioners ready to work at the level where decisions truly form.

My commitment is that you leave here with a map precise enough to be useful and deep enough to be true — not a toolkit, but a genuine theoretical home for your most complex work.— Joseph Riggio

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Articulate the full theoretical architecture of Riggio's transpersonal decision-making model and its departure from classical rational-choice theory
- Identify and map the supra-individual fields — relational, cultural, somatic, and archetypal — that shape decisions in human systems
- Apply transpersonal diagnostic tools to analyze real organizational or group decision failures and inflection points
- Design interventions that shift decision-making patterns at the system level rather than targeting individuals in isolation
- Integrate transpersonal frameworks with adjacent bodies of knowledge including complexity theory, Jungian field theory, and second-order cybernetics
- Facilitate high-stakes group decision processes using field-aware methodologies drawn directly from Riggio's applied work
How it works
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The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 28 lessons

The Architecture of Transpersonal Decision-Making
Establishes the full theoretical foundation of Riggio's framework and its radical departure from classical rational-choice and behavioral models.
- 1.1Beyond the Individual: Why Classical Decision Theory Falls ShortIncluded
- 1.2Riggio's Transpersonal Turn: Core Propositions and Key TermsIncluded
- 1.3The Decision as Event: Emergence Over CalculationIncluded
- 1.4Ontological Levels of a Human SystemIncluded
- 1.5The Supra-Individual: What It Is and Why It DecidesIncluded
Mapping the Fields That Shape Choice
Develops precise diagnostic literacy for identifying and reading the relational, cultural, somatic, and archetypal fields active in any human system.
- 2.1Relational Fields: How Connection Patterns Constrain and Generate DecisionsIncluded
- 2.2Cultural Fields: Invisible Agreements That Govern What Is ChoosableIncluded
- 2.3Somatic Fields: The Body Politic as Decision SubstrateIncluded
- 2.4Archetypal Fields and Jungian Field TheoryIncluded
- 2.5Field Mapping in Practice: Reading a Living SystemIncluded
Complexity, Cybernetics, and the Transpersonal Frame
Situates Riggio's model within adjacent theoretical bodies — complexity science and second-order cybernetics — to deepen explanatory power and extend applicability.
- 3.1Complexity Theory and Emergent Order in Human SystemsIncluded
- 3.2Second-Order Cybernetics: The Observer Inside the SystemIncluded
- 3.3Feedback, Recursion, and Decision LoopsIncluded
- 3.4Integrating the Frameworks: A Unified Transpersonal MapIncluded
Transpersonal Diagnostics: Analyzing Decision Failures and Inflection Points
Builds the applied diagnostic skill set for using transpersonal tools to dissect real-world organizational decision failures, crises, and turning points.
- 4.1Anatomy of a Decision Failure: A Transpersonal AutopsyIncluded
- 4.2Identifying Systemic Decision Attractors and Shadow PatternsIncluded
- 4.3Inflection Points: When Systems Become Capable of New DecisionsIncluded
- 4.4Diagnostic Case Practicum: Applying the Tools to Live ScenariosIncluded
Designing System-Level Interventions
Equips practitioners to architect and sequence interventions that shift decision-making patterns at the system level rather than targeting isolated individuals.
- 5.1Principles of Field-Level Intervention DesignIncluded
- 5.2Leverage Points: Where and How Systems Are MoveableIncluded
- 5.3Repattering Relational and Cultural FieldsIncluded
- 5.4Working with Somatic and Archetypal Fields in OrganizationsIncluded
- 5.5Sequencing and Sustaining Change Across System LevelsIncluded
Facilitating High-Stakes Group Decision Processes
Develops full facilitation mastery for leading complex, high-stakes group decision processes using Riggio's field-aware applied methodologies.
- 6.1The Field-Aware Facilitator: Role, Stance, and PresenceIncluded
- 6.2Convening the Field: How Entry and Opening Shape What Becomes PossibleIncluded
- 6.3Real-Time Field Reading During High-Stakes ProcessesIncluded
- 6.4Navigating Rupture, Collapse, and Emergent BreakthroughsIncluded
- 6.5Closing, Integrating, and Transferring Decisions Back into the SystemIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Organizational Leaders
Senior leaders who have inherited or produced systemic decision failures need a diagnostic framework that operates below the level of process and personality.
Executive Coaches
Coaches working with leadership systems — not just leaders — need field-aware methodology to intervene where the real constraints on decision-making actually live.
OD Consultants
Organizational development practitioners ready to move beyond structural redesign and into the relational, cultural, and archetypal fields that determine what structures produce.
Psychologists & Therapists
Clinicians working with groups, institutions, or organizational systems who want a theoretically rigorous transpersonal map to complement their existing clinical training.
Advanced NLP Practitioners
Serious NLP practitioners seeking the deep theoretical architecture that gives their applied behavioral work greater systemic precision and explanatory power.
Applied Behavioral Scientists
Researchers and practitioners in behavioral science who are ready to interrogate the individual-rational-actor assumptions at the foundation of their field.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Joseph Riggio
If you have spent serious time working with organizations, you have almost certainly encountered the decision that should not have been made the way it was — and yet was. The leadership team that is individually brilliant and collectively self-defeating. The institution that reforms its processes repeatedly and reproduces the same outcomes. The intervention that worked perfectly and changed nothing.
I did not build this curriculum to explain those experiences away. I built it because they point to something real: the locus of decision-making in complex human systems is not the individual, and any framework that treats it as such will eventually reach the boundary of its explanatory and practical power. That boundary is exactly where this work begins.
What I am offering here is a full theoretical architecture — not a collection of tools borrowed from adjacent fields and loosely assembled, but a coherent transpersonal map of how decisions actually form: across relational fields, cultural agreements, somatic substrates, and archetypal patterns that operate below the threshold of deliberate individual choice. This architecture draws on Joseph Riggio's foundational work and integrates it with complexity theory, second-order cybernetics, and Jungian field theory — not as decoration, but because each of these bodies of knowledge illuminates a dimension of the system that the others cannot fully reach.
I want to be direct about what this school asks of you. The theoretical content is genuinely dense. The ideas have real philosophical depth, and I will not thin them out for the sake of accessibility. What I will do is unpack them with clinical exactness and ground them continuously in real systemic examples — because rigor without grounding is merely impressive, and grounding without rigor is merely practical. The practicum work will require you to bring actual organizational or group contexts into your analysis. You will not be applying frameworks to case vignettes; you will be developing diagnostic and intervention capacity on real systems.
If you are ready to work at the level where decisions truly form — to develop the theoretical precision and the applied methodology to read fields, diagnose systemic attractors, design system-level interventions, and facilitate high-stakes group processes from inside the field rather than above it — then this is the school for that work. I look forward to thinking rigorously alongside you.
— Joseph Riggio
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