Mario Ventola is the President of the Center for Ontological Transformation, an institution that aims to promote research and practice on transformation as “being a clearing for a future”. Previously, he was Director of the Center for Psychosynthesis in Naples from 2017 to 2020 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli. Graduated in Philosophy at the University of Naples, since 2015 he has been a Trainer and coach in NLP at the National Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Transpersonal Experience (Integral Transpersonal Institute, 2021), At the Heart of the Matter (Nuova Era, 2020), The Courage to Want (Istituto di Psicosintesi, 2019). He has held conferences and lessons on transformation in various contexts, including the Integral Transpersonal Institute (ITI), the European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS), the Institute of General Semantics (IGS) and the University of Florence.