Colin Tipping

Colin Charles Tipping (born England, 30 September 1941; died Marietta, Georgia, 28 June 2019) was a British-American workshop leader, coach, and author who created Radical Forgiveness — a structured, repeatable method for releasing grievances by shifting one’s interpretation of the offending event rather than merely pardoning it.

He taught in England, emigrated to the United States in 1984, and with his wife JoAnn co-founded the Georgia Cancer Help Program and Together-We-Heal, later founding the Institute for Radical Forgiveness. His best-known book, Radical Forgiveness (first self-published 1997; revised Sounds True edition 2009), distilled the work into a five-stage process and a signature Radical Forgiveness Worksheet, and was followed by Radical Self-Forgiveness (2010) and several “Radical” extensions (Manifestation, Transformation).

Tipping’s place in the Atlas is as the systematizer who turned the New Thought / A Course in Miracles claim that “the outer mirrors the inner, and meaning is assigned not given” into a fill-in-the-blanks coaching tool anyone could run on a specific grievance.

Where Renard (ACIM) and ho’oponopono frame forgiveness in explicitly religious terms, Tipping packaged the same perceptual-shift move as a secular-sounding, process-driven worksheet — “tap into your Spiritual Intelligence, collapse the victim story, reframe the event as having served a purpose.” He sits at the practical-psychology edge of the library’s forgiveness cluster: the emotional-release and reframing mechanics are real and supported, while his “everything happens for a reason / there are no mistakes” metaphysics is the method’s belief, carrying a notable spiritual-bypassing risk that the Atlas flags explicitly.