The books
The books build on one another: Coming to Wholeness is the public introduction with the two core formats, the Essential Guide Level I covers the complete first training level — and Core Transformation is the predecessor method that Connirae Andreas developed in 1989.
by Connirae Andreas | 2018
The introduction
Coming to Wholeness: How to Awaken and Live with Ease
Real People Press, 2018 · 266 pages · ISBN 978-0-911226-51-5
About the book
Connirae Andreas' first book on The Wholeness Work® describes the foundations of the method very close to practice — how the basic principles work and what she experienced with her clients. It opens with the story of the client for whom nothing had worked, and with the discovery that changed everything: locating the „I" in the body and inviting it to relax into the wider field of awareness.
The book teaches two formats. The basic process is used to work on concrete issues, the meditation format brings the same principle into daily practice with whatever is present in the moment. Each format is taught the same way: a demonstration first, then an overview of the steps, then step-by-step instructions and questions and answers.
Spiritual beliefs or practices are not required for any of this — the book explicitly addresses readers with and without a spiritual background.
What's inside
- Understanding the core of the method — the first breakthrough, and two essential principles
- The basic process: demonstration, overview of the steps, step-by-step guide, results
- Improving relationships — from emotional triggers to emotional choice
- Additional principles: metaphors, moving beyond labels, nine keys, the three directions of integration
- The meditation format with two demonstrations, guide and nine common myths about spiritual practice
- Advanced topics: including what is happening, a change in our way of being, what happens to our „stories"
- Resources: quick guides and worksheets for both formats, the origin of the method
Good to know
The book covers what today makes up roughly the first half of Level I — a well-founded introduction rather than the full curriculum. The foreword was written by the founding members of the European Association for The Wholeness Work.
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by Connirae Andreas | 2024
The complete Level I
The Wholeness Work Essential Guide, Level I: Healing and Awakening
Real People Press, 2024
About the book
After a physical breakdown that made her fear for her life, renowned NLP innovator Connirae Andreas began modelling the spiritual teaching of the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi. The result is The Wholeness Work — a method enabling profound healing and spiritual awakening.
The book guides you through all Level I formats: the basics of the Wholeness process for dissolving blocks and patterns, starting with the basic format, taught through demonstrations and practical exercises. Special focus lies on the application as a daily meditation method and on techniques for regeneration and deeper, more restful sleep.
In addition, two specialised formats are introduced: the Authority Process helps reclaim your own authority and can bring profound change around embarrassment, shame and guilt. „Integrating What's Missing" supports working with loss, grief and neediness.
What you can learn from this book
- Heal emotional wounds — gently and sustainably dissolve old injuries
- Improve relationships — build deeper connections with other people
- Promote better sleep — settle down and sleep restfully
- Transform stress — find inner peace in challenging situations
A German edition translated by Ralph Köbler is available as „The Wholeness Work Level 1: Heilen & Erwachen" (December 2025).
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by Connirae & Tamara Andreas | 1994
The predecessor method
Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within
Connirae Andreas with Tamara Andreas · Real People Press, 1994 · ISBN 978-0-911226-33-1
About the book
Core Transformation is the method Connirae Andreas developed in 1989, several years before The Wholeness Work. It starts exactly where we tend to struggle with ourselves: with the behaviours, feelings and reactions we like least about ourselves — and it treats them not as enemies but as the way in.
The idea behind it: behind every unwanted pattern stands a part pursuing a positive purpose. Asking that part again and again „And what do you want, through that, that is even more important?" produces a chain of ever deeper intentions. At its end lies a Core State — a pure state of being that can be present through any moment, independent of circumstances. Connirae Andreas describes five clusters: Being, Inner Peace, Love, OKness and Oneness.
The irony the book works with: our parts have been trying to reach these states through the very behaviour we dislike. So the chain is reversed and the Core State becomes the starting point instead of a distant goal.
What's inside
- Mapping out the territory — befriending the unconscious, finding positive purposes, the five Core States
- The Core State exercise: demonstration, structure, questionnaire, and a „going solo" version for working on your own
- Growing up a part and bringing it fully into your body
- Completing the process with all parts, and how to recognise parts that need to be included
- The complete ten-step Core Transformation exercise with all steps together
- Parental Timeline Reimprinting — offering the Core States to our inner parents and grandparents
- Enhancing your results: how parts are formed, transforming illness, generalising the process, Core Transformation and spirituality
Where it has been applied
The book reports on emotions and emotional flexibility, habits and addictions, relationships and intimacy, self-image and self-worth, motivation and work, as well as health-related concerns. It states clearly that the process is not a substitute for medical advice and treatment.
Unlike Connirae Andreas' earlier, more professional books, this one was written for anyone who wants this kind of change — with complete exercise scripts for working alone or in pairs.
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