Who We Are ... What We Do 

Rather than working tirelessly to achieve something that eludes you we'll help you discover the things that are naturally aligned with who you are when you are succeeding effortlessly ... operating from PRESENCE and moving BEYOND FLOW

Since 1990, ABTI | Joseph Riggio International has been designing and delivery programs internationally to assist our clients in living magical, magnificent lives of wonderment on their own terms ... what we call "Living A Zero Compromise Life" because that's what we strive to assist our client to realize in their day-to-day experience.


The Relationship Between Presence & Personal Mastery

When most people think about FLOW they are referring to states of elite performance, and yet we believe that FLOW is just the entry point, and not the end point.

Accessing and operating from PRESENCE goes BEYOND FLOW and to transcendent states of awareness and action, where you begin to access pure creation and re-invention. 

From PRESENCE manifesting and realizing your outcomes becomes inevitable, irrevocable,  and effortless ... literally "Like this ..." producing outcomes are a direct function of being who you are at your best.
PRESENCE: The Magic Elixir That Lubricates Results And Success

Our whole model of working with clients is based on a single foundational principle ... "Biology Rules."

We are all contained by our biology as humans. This shows up in our work in two ways.

The first way concerns our neurocognitive nature. We perceive, sense, make meaning and decisions, and take action as only humans can and do.

This shows up in the second way up in the singularity of the body-mind. All our work is embodied and grounded in the body. 

We begin and end with training that increases our sensitivity to direct sensory awareness. In their most basic form the principles we work from are experienced and expressed as sensorial awareness. 

PRESENCE training raises sensory awareness to an elite level so our sense-making, meaning-making and decision-making happen at an exquisite level. This raise performance to an elite level as well, a true leveling up, regardless of where you've begun. 

With any of our ways of working with clients that you choose ... Workshops, Masterminds or Programs, Private Work℠ Coaching & Mentoring, Live Events, Livestream Events, or Courses & Programs On-Line ... you'll experience an upleveling in your attention, focus, clarity and ability to translate your observations into action. 

One of the ways you'll experience the work we do together will be in how you notice and attend to what we call the "Signals in the System." Whether your primary interest is on Personal Development and Self Growth, or Leadership and Professional Development, or your Relationships, Personal Finances, Health and Wellbeing ... or anything else ... building a position of profound PRESENCE will give you the foundation to make it happen. 

GO "BEYOND FLOW" ...

We're assuming you want to succeed wildly at life in every way ... in your business, your career, your finances, your relationships, your fitness, health and wellness ... in literally every area of your life ... and, we want exactly that for you too, here are ways to get there ... 

Exquisitely Trained Professionals

Our Certified and Licensed Facilitators, Master Facilitators, Trainers and Master Trainers are the best trained professionals in the world, and they'll be working directly with you to get the outcomes you want and need without exception. 

Workshops, Seminars, Masterminds & Programs

One of the ways you can choose to uplevel where you are in your life is by signing up for one of our life workshops, seminars, masterminds or programs. We hold our live events in-person and on-line to make it as convenient as possible for you to join.

Private Access™
Coaching & Mentoring

When you want the most intensive experience possible, to make the most progress in the most personal and fastest way possible. you'll want to explore one-to-one and group coaching with one of our licensed and certified professionals. 

Intensive In-Person
Live Events

Join us for one of our extraordinary and exciting live international events 

Convenient "Anywhere Access" Livestream Events 

Our simultaneously broadcasted livestream events bring you "in the room"

On Demand Courses & Programs Online

We add courses and programs to our on-line library regularly too!

About ABTI | Joseph Riggio International Founder
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.


In 1987, almost thirty years ago, I made a decision in that would change the course of my life. I had already made a decision the year before that had changed my life. So I was on a roll. Prior to making that decision I was on a course that had been plotted out for guys like me for centuries, as simply put as possible ... grow up, learn a craft, go to work, get married, have children, retire and wait to die. The only difference in my  case was that the idea of learning a craft had morphed into "get a good education" but the rest remained the same nonetheless. However, that path was never going to suit me, I just didn't fit in. In a way I was lucky ... I started to experience existential angst when I was only about 17, and over the next ten years, by the time I was just 27, it blossomed into full blown existential and ontological crisis. Almost by coincidence I attended an evening presentation with Richard Bandler, one of the co-developers of NLP.  He did something I now know was conversational hypnosis, but at the time I thought it was pure magic. When I saw the effect he had on the group that night, "just talking" and seeming to do nothing special other than that, I decided then and there that I would learn how to do what he had done. That decision ended my existential and ontological crisis, and as they say the rest is history. (You can read all about it here if you like: To Sicily And Back ... A Love Story).

Nowadays I work with people who are somewhere between existential angst and full blown ontological crisis come to terms with where they are, begin making good decisions about what to do about it, and help them move on from there.

What I do is a bit unusual. My clients aren't mentally ill or disturbed really, but they are typically uncomfortable in their own skin to some extent or another. But what I think makes my work somewhat unique is that my focus isn't on getting them past their discomfort, instead we work together to use what irritates them as a lens to get to what's most magnificent about them that they haven't given expression to yet.

In simple terms we can say it like this ...

"I can help you get unstuck."

Once you're unstuck you're free to begin taking action to bring your dreams about who you are and what you most want to be doing to life. But this isn't New Age, meta-magical thinking I'm talking about, because I'm still fundamentally a pragmatist and I believe that the proof is in the pudding as they say.

My work isn't about "fixing problems" ... it's about helping you attain personal mastery. 

I worked long and hard to develop the skills to help my clients become profoundly clear about what's most important to them, give them tools to identify the path that will yield the most return for them in their lives, create extraordinary relationships, raise remarkable children, build hugely successful businesses and do great work in the world ... but it's all based in practical, down to earth ways of doing things that just make sense. There truly is a method to my madness ... and I've devoted more than two decades of my life to refining the method and honing the skills to deliver on the promise of it.

Want to read a bit more about my story?

To Sicily, And Back  ... A Love Story

Disclaimer:

All of Dr. Riggio's work is designed to be purely and only informative, educational and  entertaining, based solely on his own learning, observations and opinions - it is not intended to represent or give health, medical, psychological, legal, financial or professional advice of any kind. There are no  claims, promises, warranties or guarantees made regarding specific results or outcomes via the purchase and use of any product or participation in any program with Joseph.*
*The Fine Print    Although he claims no specific religious or spiritual education or bias, all of Dr. Riggio's work is performed as a practicing ordained Dudeist Priest in good standing of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, as such he works with the full authority and freedom from religion and the separation of state - should you require it, upon request, Joseph  may be available to preside over religious ceremonies in most U.S. States such as funerals, weddings or other celebrations. All products and programs designed, developed and/or delivered are done so in accordance with the tenants of Dudeism as Dr. Riggio understands and practices it, i.e.:  a Western form of "Shibumi" - primarily meaning, to abide.

The Dudeist Holy Books, "The Dude De Ching" and "The Tao of the Dude" are now available in an on-line version. For more information about Dudeism please go to: What Is Dudeism.
NOTE: There is no intention nor implication of gender, race, creed, color or species bias in Dudeism or Joseph's peculiar expression of it.

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