Free live webinar for coaches, advisors, trainers & consultants
Inhabiting Wonderland
Embodying Worldviews as a Coaching Technology
Most coaching works downstream — on behavior, beliefs, language, narrative, and strategy. But coaches and clients do not meet in neutral reality. They meet inside worlds.
This free live training explores how Lewis Carroll's Wonderland and the Ontological Levels of Awareness Matrix (OLAM) reveal the hidden architectures that shape perception, identity, intervention, and transformation.
Live online session · Wednesday, 26 August 2026 · 1:00–2:30 PM ET (Miami time) · Workbook and White Rabbit Field Guide included
01 — The premise
The client is not only telling a story. They are inhabiting a world.
A client's visible problem may look like indecision, avoidance, control, anxiety, overthinking, conflict, or a failure to follow through. But each of those expressions is organized inside a deeper perceptual and ontological stance. The practitioner who sees only the behavior sees the output. The practitioner who can detect the worldview sees the structure producing it.
The working lens
- 01Signal / stance
- 02Perception
- 03Sense-making
- 04Meaning
- 05Decision
- 06Action
A conceptual visualization presented as the webinar's working lens — not a clinical or scientific claim.
02 — The signal
The White Rabbit is not the coach. He is the signal.
In the Wonderland mapping, the Rabbit is the anomaly that disrupts the known and draws the seeker toward the unknown. He does not explain; he beckons. He does not comfort; he accelerates. The webinar uses this as a way to examine how coaching can become a signal-triggering presence rather than merely a performance of technique.
03 — OLAM
A psychomythic cartography of coaching.
Wonderland characters become a fast, memorable diagnostic language for different stances of identity, power, knowing, and intervention. The webinar maps six archetypal patterns.
Control, binary certainty, enforcement, threat.
How it sounds
“There is a right way to do this, and they are not doing it.”
- Its gift
- Decisiveness, boundary, protection of what matters.
- Its shadow
- Coercion, brittleness, obedience mistaken for alignment.
- Developmental opening
- Separating authority from fear; letting a rule become a choice.
Tempo, tools, urgency, movement without depth.
How it sounds
“I just need a better system and more hours.”
- Its gift
- Momentum, execution, visible progress.
- Its shadow
- Speed as avoidance; competence performed instead of inhabited.
- Developmental opening
- Introducing stillness long enough for the question beneath the schedule.
Identity inquiry, instability, sincerity, the threshold of coherence.
How it sounds
“I'm not sure who I am in this role anymore.”
- Its gift
- Honesty, permeability, genuine developmental readiness.
- Its shadow
- Destabilization without structure; searching as a permanent state.
- Developmental opening
- Holding coherent identity while the old one is still dissolving.
Multiple frames, ambiguity, contextual truth, path awareness.
How it sounds
“It depends entirely on which room you're standing in.”
- Its gift
- Reframing, political fluency, tolerance for paradox.
- Its shadow
- Detachment; perspective used to avoid commitment.
- Developmental opening
- Choosing a frame and standing inside it with consequence.
Paradox, recursion, pattern interruption, generative challenge.
How it sounds
“Who are you? — and who is asking?”
- Its gift
- Design of conditions rather than delivery of advice.
- Its shadow
- Cleverness, provocation for its own sake, disorientation without care.
- Developmental opening
- Interrupting the pattern that produces the pattern.
Field, presence, nonlocal perspective, initiation.
How it sounds
Often nothing at all. The room reorganizes around the stance.
- Its gift
- Presence that functions as intervention.
- Its shadow
- Abstraction; withdrawal from the practical work in front of you.
- Developmental opening
- Becoming the condition in which another world becomes thinkable.
04 — Apprenticeship
A book is not just a story. It is a temporary ontology.
Authors build worlds with assumptions about identity, power, time, truth, agency, morality, possibility, and transformation. To read carefully is to enter those worlds temporarily — and to discover where one's own perceptual field is narrow, inherited, or incomplete. The webinar explores fiction and nonfiction as developmental instruments for expanding the range of worlds a coach can recognize and inhabit.
05 — Outcomes
What you will be able to see differently.
- 01
Recognize the worldview beneath a client's story, language, and coaching pattern.
- 02
Identify the Wonderland archetypal stance currently shaping a conversation.
- 03
Distinguish useful structure from performance that avoids transformation.
- 04
Use fiction and nonfiction as laboratories for perceptual and developmental expansion.
- 05
Begin selecting interventions that meet the client's actual stance rather than only their stated problem.
06 — Who this is for
For practitioners who have outgrown surface explanations.
This session is for coaches, advisors, consultants, trainers, facilitators, and organizational-development practitioners who already know that tools alone do not account for transformation — and who want a more exact way to understand how human beings organize reality before they explain it.
Not for
This is not a beginner coaching-skills class, a generic productivity webinar, or a literary appreciation hour.
07 — Faculty
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D. is an architect of ontological, developmental, and decision frameworks for leaders, practitioners, and complex human systems. His work integrates narrative identity, embodied perception, systems thinking, and the design of transformational interventions.
OLAM is presented as Joseph Riggio's educational and developmental framework.
08 — Registration
Follow the signal.
Reserve a complimentary seat for the live session and receive The White Rabbit Field Guide — five questions for seeing the worldview beneath the client's story — immediately after registration.
- Date
- Wednesday, 26 August 2026
- Time
- 1:00–2:30 PM ET (Miami time)
- Format
- 90 minutes, live online
Next horizon
The Twelve Book Journey
A guided reading pathway through fiction, science fiction, and nonfiction — designed to stretch the range of worlds a practitioner can recognize and inhabit.