Welcome to Pi - Psychosynthesis Institute
Tools for Personal & Social Transformation
For those standing at a threshold, navigating a life transition, or responding to a deeper call within, and for those who support others in doing the same, we welcome you.
We are all part of an unfolding journey, lived chapter by chapter, as we seek meaning, greater wholeness, and fuller participation in the story of our lives and our world.
The Psychosynthesis Institute (Pi) offers programs and resources supporting both personal development and the preparation of coaches, practitioners, and helping professionals to accompany others in purposeful life creation and transformation.
Like π (pi) in mathematics, describing the infinite relationship between a circle and its center, our transition from Synthesis Center San Francisco is a movement towards an opening into a larger unfolding.
This gentle launch of the Psychosynthesis Institute (Pi) is the continuation of the work of Synthesis Center San Francisco, as a virtual space for resources and training in personal and professional development in service of social transformation...and an evolving center for global hubs offering in-person initiatives and programming. Our approach is grounded in psychosynthesis, a transpersonal psychology that supports human potential, purposeful life creation, and conscious participation in a changing world.
From the center, the circle unfolds.
New to psychosynthesis?
Begin with an introduction to the approach and its practical relevance for contemporary life.
Begin Exploring: What Is Psychosynthesis? →
Psychosynthesis Offers Pathways for Growth, Purpose, and Contribution
There are times we are asking questions about purpose, identity, relationships, uncertainty, contribution, or what comes next.
We may be seeking greater alignment in our life, or are looking for ways to support the growth and development of others.
At Pi, these are not separate paths.
As our personal unfolding deepens, so does our capacity to accompany and support others with greater awareness, purpose, and care.
We invite you to explore the emerging pathways of Pi and discover where psychosynthesis may meet you, along your own journey and in the ways you accompany and contribute to the lives of others.
Psychosynthesis
A soulful and practical psychology of human potential, supporting deeper discovery and expansion of the heights and depths our inner life.
Psychosynthesis helps us cultivate awareness, choice, will, and right relationship, bringing purpose into meaningful expression and participation in personal, relational, and social transformation.
Psychosynthesis Coach Training
Professional training, continuing education, and community for coaches, practitioners, educators, and helping professionals.
Developing awareness, skills, and grounded presence to accompany others through purposeful change, life transitions, and transformation in their life, relationships, communities, and wider fields of participation.
The following themes reflect Pi’s approach to psychosynthesis, one that honors the depths and heights of human experience, the light and life of psyche and spirit, and ways to bring inner discovery into practical and meaningful expression.
Life Transitions
Thresholds & Possibilities
Change, loss, new beginnings and the unfolding of what comes next.
Personal Transformation
Purpose & the Call of the Self
Exploring consciousness and the unfolding of a purpose informed life.
Meaning-Making
Symbol, Creativity & the Imaginal
Dreams, imagination, myth, poetry, art, movement and the creative expression of life.
Social Transformation
Right Human Relations
Personal transformation as a path toward a more just, peaceful, and humane world.
As our current coach training programs continue, a new coach training begins in October 2026 and continuing education announcements beginning late summer 2026, and Pi’s transition unfolds.
In these next few weeks, we will be adding resources, programs, and opportunities for engagement within each pathway.
Psychosynthesis Transpersonal Coach Training
Our next accredited psychosynthesis coach training cohort begins October 2026.
This is a deeply grounded, transpersonal training experience for personal, professional & social transformation.
Early Enrollment is open through August 20, 2026
Standard tuition enrollment options will also be available after that date on a rolling admissions basis.
Psychosynthesis moves us beyond healing alone: toward purpose, creativity, relationship, and meaningful action in the world.
Our experiential approach to training offers a grounded and gently powerful path of practice, where personal development becomes the foundation for professional growth and greater impact in the world.
We invite you to request our Program Guide. The guide offers information about curriculum, live webinar dates, tuition options, and additional details.
More about our training Email us to receive your Program Guide: [email protected]
"There is only one incentive of sufficient compensation and that is the opportunity to serve and service means joy and happiness. It is the only one that is strong enough to carry through to the end. ... The need for service in the world at this time is tremendous. "
~ handwritten note Archivio Assagioli
"Before being able to communicate psychosynthesis to others, we must have experimented with it in depth on ourselves. Intellectual knowledge is not sufficient. Every single technique must be tried out at length on oneself.
Only thus shall we be in a position to communicate it with authority."
Pi draws upon the work of Roberto Assagioli and the ongoing contributions of teachers, practitioners, centers, and communities carrying psychosynthesis forward around the world.
We offer particular gratitude to the Istituto di Psicosintesi and Gruppo Alle Fonti, whose devoted stewardship of Casa Assagioli and the Assagioli Archives continues to preserve the original sources, inspire the spirit of service, and tend the living inner flame of psychosynthesis.
