About Wil Oliver (Transcending)
Certified Mindfulness Mentor and Advanced Forensic Peer Support Specialist
who happens to have earned a Master of Social Work degree
Founder of Mindful Soul Practice and Creator of MORE of What U Like
Wil Oliver, also known as Wil Transcending, offers one-on-one support, embodied teachings, original design arts, and community-rooted practice at the intersection of Black aliveness, ancestral memory, recovery, and creative truth-telling.
Wil guides people of the global African Diaspora to walk in their protective, nurturing, and renewing radiant darkness through a methodology called Mindful Soul Practice, his signature Sankofa-based approach that returns the synergy of breath and body to its rightful place as teacher, portal, and pathway to embodied presence. In these sessions, story is honored, silence is respected, and voice is reclaimed without dilution.
A lifelong artist for social change, Wil practices as a writer, recovery practitioner, meditation teacher, and cultural curator. Wil draws from lived experience across housing injustice, mental health challenges, substance use, systems navigation, spiritual betrayal, and medical harm. His teachings are both rooted and spacious, shaped by his own ongoing work with grief, sacred refusal, and the pulse of ancestral wisdom.
Wil’s relational style blends mindfulness mentoring, narrative therapy, and Africultural healing frameworks that uplift the body, the land, intangible insight, and the breath as sources of knowing. His clients often arrive carrying both brilliance and burden, and in Wil’s presence they find space to name, reclaim, and live into what had been silenced.
He is the creator of MORE of What U Like, a Substack sanctuary for African Diaspora-affirming insight, voice, and community rhythm by offering Mindful Soul Writings and audio recordings of Mindful Soul Meditations. His mindfulness teachers include Alex Maizuss, Tara Brach, David Cabrera, Jack Kornfield, Devin Berry, and Dr. Shelly Harrell, whose Soulfulness framework Wil adapts and expands through his own ancestral lens. He supports community members through sliding-scale 1:1 sessions, group workshops, and ritual practice grounded in Sankofa theory and other ways of knowing and connecting.
Wil is currently completing two books that reflect his unique cadence: unapologetic, solemn, and woven with cultural discernment. His voice carries the weight of memory and the promise of return.
Cultural, Mindfulness & Professional Credentials
What to Expect From Your MSP Sessions
Scope of Services
Confidentiality & Privacy
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
Confidentiality & Privacy
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.