About Wil
Founder of Mindful Soul Practice
Wil Oliver, known as Wil Transcending, is an Artist for Social Change, recovery practitioner, meditation teacher, cultural curator, technologist, and author rooted in Black, Brown, and Indigenous aliveness and healing.
His work lives at the intersection of memory, recovery, and creative truth-telling. He draws from 30 years of lived experience navigating housing injustice, mental health challenges, substance use, spiritual betrayal, and medical harm. Strengthened by those experiences, Wil Oliver (Transcending) built Mindful Soul Practice, an independent Africultural healing methodology.
His relational style is caring, learned, unapologetic, solemn, and woven with cultural discernment. He works with individuals and communities through 1-to-1 sessions, group workshops, public speaking, and his Substack sanctuary, MORE of What U Like.
He is the author of the new book, Your AI Life Patch v1.0, and the forthcoming title, Sankofa Liberatory Recovery, plus two courses: Get Unstuck! and Mindful Soul Reparenting Practice.
What to Expect From Your MSP Sessions
Scope of Services
Scope of Services
Scope of Services
Wil Oliver (Transcending) offers:
- Mindfulness-based wellness coaching, recovery and spiritual support
- Practices grounded in ancestral healing, Sankofa, and neurodiverse affirmation
- Space for emergence, clarity, and cultural rootedness
Wil does not offer:
- Therapy or clinical diagnosis
- Medical advice
- Emergency mental health services
Sliding Scale
Scope of Services
Scope of Services
Session Structure:
You choose your rate and session length:
- $50 for a 30-minute session,
- $100 for a 50-minute session, or
- $150 for a 50-minute session with integration notes and personalized practice follow-up.
Our focus is mutual regard.
Give 24 hours' notice to cancel with a full refund or to reschedule. Changes within 24 hours of a session are non-refundable.
Confidentiality & Privacy
Confidentiality & Privacy
Confidentiality & Privacy
- All information shared in sessions will be kept confidential.
- I honor confidentiality unless there is clear, present risk of harm to someone, in which case I may take appropriate safety steps.
- Coaching does not carry legal privilege like clinical therapy. Confidentiality is upheld through ethical commitment and consent.
- Session notes are stored securely and only used to support the work.
Review and Consent
Confidentiality & Privacy
Confidentiality & Privacy
Our initial session includes a collaborative review of your required documents
for full transparency, comfort, and
mutual clarity.
Required Documents include:
• Coaching Client Agreement
• Intake Questionnaire
(during booking)
You may complete the packet in advance or fill it out together during our first session.
A signed Client Agreement will be required to continue after the first session.
Academic, Cultural, Mindfulness & Professional Achievements
30 Years of Practical Experience
A Note on Credentials
The Institution that Earned it
Wil Oliver (Transcending) has had the title, Doctor of Divinity, conferred upon him from the Universal Life Church, an institution that has boldly and equitably ordained ministers across every spiritual tradition since 1962 and whose standing has been recognized in federal law. Wil's first ULC ordination has been active since 2006. He rededicated himself to the vocation in 2017, both of which provided the legally notarized religious authority that allowed him to complete his Masters at Columbia University when the institution's COVID mandate threatened his access in 2022. He holds his doctorate from the institution that earned it, not from the ones that required him to translate himself to enter.
Dr. Oliver's fuller credentials are these: 30 years of recovery, 30 years of community engaged social research and teaching as an artist for social change, a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University, Advanced Certified Peer Support Specialist, Banyan certified Mindfulness Mentor, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Foundations teacher training from Brown University, and years of deep dharma practice and study.
Now, he is the originator of Mindful Soul Practice, an independent Africultural healing methodology that includes the Seven Sankofa Paths of Practice, the Eight Aspects of Mindful Soul Healing, Coessential Advaya, the Dark Radiance Joy Index (DRJI-8) assessment tool, and the Africultural Knowledge Watershed with Gracious Confluence.
A very wise woman once said, "God does not call those who are qualified. God qualifies those who are called." Dr. Oliver did not wait for an institution to legitimate his knowing. He built the framework. The ministerial doctorate credential followed the work. 🫧
