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Are you happy with the world's leaders?
No, me neither.
I see many hypocrites who lack integrity, who prioritise profits over people and the planet, and who rule through arrogance and fear.
Okay… so let’s do it differently. Let’s not hand the world over to the psychopathic and privileged.
The tricky thing is that many of us have been conditioned into not seeing ourselves as the leaders we are. BUT, you don’t have to be a CEO, president or superstar to be a leader.
Leaders are normal people who take responsibility for themselves and impact their world. We are all leaders. We lead from where we are.
Do you want to unlock your embodied leadership?
Leadership can also be scary. The fear of failure. The fear of being seen. Even the fear of success.
“Who am I to lead?” is a question anyone with humility asks.
Many of us hold ourselves back, even though we know we already influence people and want to make a difference.
Most of us do not yet truly embody who we can be as leaders, but WE CAN.
Our limiting patterns can be overcome, we can step up, we can unlock our true leadership potential.
Be a beacon in a mad world
Would you like to find your own authentic embodied leadership style and have a greater impact on your world?
By focusing on your unique strengths and working with your embodiment, you can.
You have something to give the world. In these crazy times you can be a source of inspiration, hope and strength.
Join the course if you’d like to unlock your leadership potential. It’s the most comprehensive embodiment course I’ve ever put together, filmed over half-a-year.
For all things embodiment and leadership, this could be the course for you…
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Embody Your Leadership
This training is the most complete embodiment course we've ever put together.
To shift as a leader, you need to shift your body. This training contains practical exercises to help you to make that change.
Practical tools
& techniques
Experiential,
embodied learning
Supportive
global community
Embody Your Leadership will enable you to really see yourself as a leader and not be scared of that.
You will unlock your full leadership potential and find your authentic style to truly make a difference in your world.
This course gives you the opportunity to uncover and unleash your most authentic and unapologetic self, using your unique skills in an area meaningful to you, whether you want to:
- Build more fulfilling relationships
- Connect more deeply with others
- Have a greater impact on your clients
- Inspire others with a vision for your community
- Be someone others can depend on in crisis situations
There will also be the invitation to take on a real-world project. This can be small and close to home, so don’t worry – you don’t need to run as the next president.
Examples of leadership projects could be starting a community group, launching a new offering, or even working on an aspect of yourself that’s an example to others.
While this course is aimed at the individual to start with themselves, coaches, trainers and facilitators will also love this very rich library of exercises for clients too. Feel free to help others with what’s in the course.
Move past procrastination, fear and doubt
Reconnect with your energy and purpose and learn embodied processes to do this on demand.
Fully embody your strengths
Recognise the ways YOU lead best and then practise embodying these qualities with confidence and clarity.
Fulfil your potential and contribute to the world
Uncover the unapologetic leader in you and take powerful actions in the world to change people’s lives.
How the course works
This course is the most complete library of embodied leadership practices we’ve ever put together.
There are three main parts to the course:
Self-paced course content
You can pick and choose what's most relevant to you or work through the course systematically.
Weekly LIVE leadership labs
8 weeks of support from Mark to practise your leadership skills in a small, real-life project of your choice.
Connection and accountability
There will be optional peer groups, access to a dedicated learning platform, and a personal journal.
What are the Leadership Labs?
People learn from two things: embodiment practices, which have to be individually tailored, and action-learning, i.e. learning through doing.
With action-learning, people can start very small and build momentum over time. This is what I’ve done, and I love supporting others in this way.
That’s why you’ll be encouraged to choose a real-world project, big or small, in the Leadership Labs.
With the Leadership Labs, you’ll get my support to help you with your project. They add community, accountability and support to the complete embodiment course.
The LIVE Leadership Labs (tutorials) start on Tuesday June 21 at 6pm UK time / 1pm EDT.
June 21 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
June 28 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
July 5 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
July 12 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
July 19 – 5pm UK / 12pm EDT
July 26 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
August 2 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
August 9 – 6pm UK / 1pm EDT
*Tutorials will be recorded in case you miss them or want to rewatch something.*
You'll learn...
- How to stop “playing small”
- How to avoid the dangers of leadership
- How to identify and step beyond leadership blocks
- What embodied leadership actually is, and how to embody it your way
- Essential leadership skills and how to make them work for you
- Mark's complete works of embodied exercises to regulate and connect with your authentic style
Full course library:
This is the most complete library of embodiment practice we’ve ever put together, all in a single online course.
Expand each section below to see everything that’s covered:
| WELCOME TO THE COURSE |
| What is leadership? – You tell me |
| Your leadership reaction (what happens in your body) |
| Why be a leader? |
| Old versus new leaders |
| Disowning leadership is disempowering |
Various perspectives on leadership – I, relational, role, new ground, traits, skills |
| Why “authentic” leadership? |
| You’re already a leader – influence and role model |
| Change YOUR world |
| Lead as a human / being ordinary as a human / being a human leader |
| Your potential is bigger than you can imagine |
| Getting BACK to being a leader |
| Can leadership be learnt (skills versus qualities versus talent) |
| Your invitation to step up as a leader |
| Your leadership project |
| So you picked a project… |
| Intro to exercises |
| Imagining leaders |
| Leadership is…exercise |
| How to stand like a leader |
| Admirable leaders |
| How to be a bad leader |
| I would not be a leader if… |
| Stepping across a line |
| How your life would be different if… |
| The world with and without your potential |
| Using the course – attention, binge? |
| Being resourced / choice |
| How to be teachable |
| Ways of knowing – About, skills and being |
| Getting a buddy/peer group |
| Why Mark keeps changing |
| I, we, it model |
| The givens… |
| The most important leadership skill |
| Classic universal leadership virtues – look up |
| Servant and situational leadership |
| What is embodiment for leadership? |
| Leadership vision |
| Ego versus deep leadership |
| Us, or THROUGH us? |
| Rest and work – work ethic / self brutality |
| Sacrifice …but deep satisfactions/ play |
| Why leadership isn’t fun |
| How to build trust |
| Leader as community builder |
| Understanding change – seasons model |
| Paradoxes/ balances of leadership |
| Biology – health |
| Followership |
| Action points and practice course video |
| What/who do you serve? – What’s bigger that you? |
Reflecting on the honour of leading / the honour and responsibility of leading |
| Why should anyone be lead by you? |
| Your survival case |
| Obituary exercise |
| Purpose – knowing yours at heart of leadership |
| Values exercise – choose 5 qualities? |
| Voice |
| Action points and practice course video |
| Yin and yang – Yes and no, pushing and letting go |
| Action and rest – healthy vs not |
Authority pose – any old leader images/resistance? / Leadership stance / The pose of a leader / Leadership body language |
Giving pose – what’s your unique contribution? / generosity / what am I giving? |
| Care pose – who for? |
| Stand pose – for what? |
| Up and down centring – |
| Moving centring – |
| Bokken intention cutting / Bokken exercise |
| Stepping forward exercise / moving forwards |
| Voicework for leaders |
| Action points and practice course video |
| Why everyone isn’t a leader |
| Exercises: Reasons not to be a leader |
| Yeah but… exercise |
| Why hippies don’t like leaders |
| Why it’s okay to be a leader |
| How you limit yourself |
| What emotions aren’t allowed |
| Misperceptions of what leadership is – Mark, Karin and Erika |
“What I’m great at” / stating strengths, receiving compliments – Mark, Karin and Erika |
| Cultural blocks to leadership – Mark, Karin and Erika |
| How not to please everyone – Erika and Mark |
| Class barriers – Mark and Erika |
| Leadrship barriers for women – Erika and Karin |
| Leadrship barriers for women – Erika and Mark |
| Power is not bad (reframe) – Erika |
| Self trust – Outer authority vs. inner authority – Erika |
| Approval and permission – Erika |
| Approval and permission – Erika |
| Anger – Erika |
| How to feel safe being seen – Erika |
| Overcoming perfectionism and worthlessness- Erika |
| Criticism and being disliked – Erika |
| How not to put others first – Erika |
| The highly sensitive leader – Erika |
| framing yin and yang |
| Blocks to yin leadership – Erika |
| Leadership for arseholes (yang blocks) |
| Exercises for yang blocks |
| The good news about you as a leader |
| What didn’t kill you |
| You’re mad, you’re bad, you’re awesome |
| Why self-awareness matters for leaders |
| Exercises for state awareness building – The check in, meditation, etc |
| The importance of trait awareness (4 elements exercise) |
| Questions for 4 elements trait awareness |
| Feedback exercises on preference |
| “Do me” – somatic feedback exercise |
| Knowing your liabilities and getting help |
| Reflection on your character |
| How mindfulness has helped me |
| Body scanning – Karin |
| Metta meditation – Erika |
| “Heart” purpose meditation for leaders – Erika |
| Acceptance, Intention, Connection, Action meditation – Karin |
The mindful leader (include link to other learning, presence, health etc) – Karin |
| Nature – 4 elements |
| 4 elements meditation |
| Central channel meditation |
| Equanimity |
| Extreme!!! Shame meditation |
| Action points and practice course video – mark |
| Building your core practice (elements) – balancing your type |
| Developing “heart” – service, meta, care |
| Telling your leadership story |
| Why facing death matters to leaders |
| Leadership love and loss |
| Why leaders need to get their s**t together |
| Three leadership mindsets |
| ABC for leaders |
| Quick centring |
| Building your centring practice |
| Centring applications |
| Centred walking |
| Underlying stress factors |
| Self-care for leaders |
| Embodying the monarch |
| Why self-expression matters for leaders – balance of two, culture and type |
| Developing self-expression |
| Action points and practice course video |
| Intro – how to practise and why necessary to reveal patterns |
| No touch leader follower |
| Leader – follower awareness |
| Leadership position |
| Leader – follower range |
| Leader – follower resistance |
| Leader – follower ego vs coming through |
| Abandonment exercise |
| Blending, side by side view |
| Authority/ taking space support |
| Two step for coordination |
| Declaration with feedback |
| No and welcome – with feedback |
| Support and annoyance, criticism and compliment |
| Dedicated relational practice |
| Competitive mood game – demo for impact part |
| Zoom variations |
| Action points and practice course video |
Overview – Ones covered so far recap, self and other, modelling – self and other |
| Time management – actually…, busyness |
| Stress management for leaders |
| How to build confidence as a leader |
| Communicating to elements |
| Task – people balance |
| Risk management |
| Dealing with haters and trolls |
| How to ask for what you want |
| Boundaries and saying no / there is no win-lose |
| Letting go of control / accepting help |
| Vulnerability – learning still, equality? |
| Grit and taking shit |
| Weak you isn’t good enough |
| Play, humour and creativity |
| Dealing with uncertainty |
| Vision and practicality |
| Tact |
| Voice and embodiment* |
| Intuition |
| Empathy |
| Empathy and leadership |
| Giving feedback |
| Presentations and selling |
| Conflict resolution |
| Dealing with conflict |
| Culture custodian |
| Leveraging diversity – include somatic |
| Cross-cultural leadership – power distance, explicit |
| Leading online |
| Action points and practice course video |
| Intro |
| Relational, nurture |
| Humanity, emotions, empathy |
| Deep listening |
| Breadth of vision (goal is not only point) |
| Cycles |
| Paradox, complexity |
| Acceptance |
| Adaptability, yielding, flexible |
| Yin impact |
| Practices to be more yin |
| Challenges with change, overshooting |
| Handover to Mark / yang |
| Review – self care, yes and no, care, giving |
| Authority pose |
| Taking space pose |
| Inspiration |
| Enthusiasm |
| Ground |
| Action points and practice course video |
| Embodied influence |
| You can’t not influence – intention to do good |
| Passion, values and vulnerability |
| Your own embodiment – resonance, safety, status |
| Safety, status and warmth |
| Depth |
| How to get respect |
| Anxiety and grounding – rest and digest |
| Self esteem and humility |
| Conveying vision, purpose and trust |
| Status – with exercises and homework |
| How to persuade people |
| How to build relationships: Rapport and calibration |
| 4 elements motivation and communication – with exercises |
| 4 elements communication exercises |
| Needs of followers |
| Virtual leadership |
| Make others leaders |
| Coaching leadership in others |
| Action points and practice course video |
| Intro |
| Three modes people can be in – coloured lights |
| Trauma symptoms to look out for |
| Your own healing |
| To hire, heal or not? |
| Crisis vs calm leadership modes |
| Projection |
| How to traumatise your employees |
| Introduction |
| Hubris, arrogance, ego and bigifying – to reset humility (learning, service, HP) |
| Busyness! Saying no. Self care |
| Loneliness – peers, |
| Inflexibility |
| Control freakery and power addiction, Come downs |
| Power addiction |
| Ups and downs |
| Evangelism – leads to mistreatment, mission |
| Cancel culture |
| Failure |
| InAuthenticity |
| Ethics / guru issues |
| Taking things personally |
| Callousness |
| Lessons from 15 years training leaders |
| Leaders that inspired Mark |
| Leaders that inspired Karin |
| Leader spotting – eg yoga teachers |
| TEC leaders |
| 7 leadership mistakes I’ve made |
| Values – what’s my contribution |
| Strategy – what to actually do? |
| CHOOSE a goal |
| 80/20 principle |
| Your leadership project |
| So you picked a project… |
| Action-learning-reflection |
| Acknowledgements and personal thanks |
| Acknowledgements and use |
| Identifying your critical strengths and weaknesses |
| Suggested repetitions – the world with and without your potential |
| Further learning |
| Your leadership network |
| Peers and mentors – offer value |
| Is it worth it? |
| Final reflections and practices |
| Congrats! Celebrate – most people don’t finish |
If you're a...
person who wants to make a difference in people’s lives
professional who wants to step up to the next level in your work
facilitator who wants to feel more at ease leading
…this course could be a good fit.
Lead teacher
Mark Walsh
Course leader,
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited
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“Mr Embodiment” (Mark Walsh) is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation.
He hosts The Embodiment Podcast (1 million+ downloads), The Embodiment Channel on YouTube (over 15M views), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?
He co-founded the Embodied Facilitator Course, and the online Certificate of Embodiment Coaching. He has certified over 1000 embodiment coaches.
Mark gained an honours in psychology (despite been an alcoholic at the time), and has taught widely in the corporate world where he pretended to be a grown up for years, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Google, Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal) some of whom he charged wayyyy too much as they made him wear a suit.
Mark has over 25 years of experience of extensive embodied practice. This includes several years of residential live-in aikido training, experience in a bunch of other martial arts, loads of yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, body therapy, conscious dance, experiential anatomy and meditation.
He has also triggered… sorry, taught… many yogis, NGOs, police officers, The NHS and several militaries (e.g. in Sierra Leone).
Mark has taught in over 40 countries (most of which will even let him back in), worked in various war zones, and taught over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, taught at universities, in The House of Lords, lived with the circus in Ethiopia, founded the Sane Ukraine trauma education charity, and kissed a princess.
Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else. He dances like your dad at a wedding, impresses cats with his stroking, and offends pirates with his swearing.
He is now tired of writing in the third person. It’s getting weird. You get the point.
Course contributors
Karin van Maanen
Meditation & Yoga Teacher
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Karin combines a range of embodied and creative approaches to support personal and professional development.
Ron de Brito
Empowered Compassion Coach
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Ron helps people unearth their inner resources and find ease with being fully receptive to their humanity.
+ other guest teachers
What some of my students say...
I already had an embodied practice, but it feels so much more enriched. My students have already noticed a shift, which they love. There are a range of tools and the way they are broken down is excellent. A wonderful course!
The course was well-structured with wonderful teachers. What really sets this course apart from others is the off-the-cushion practices and the emphasis on the transfer of skills developed into daily life.
The main takeaway for me was an attitude of kindness towards myself and my practice. The self-compassion and "yes meditation" resonated a lot with me. Great content overall.
It’s been transformational, empowering. I’m already seeing positive impacts on my classes.
Wow, I learned so much! The structure was really nice and fluid, and organisation over-the-top awesome. Great longer meditations, too.
This work has been a central anchor in times of turmoil, as well as an enhanced sense of peace when things are generally going well.
The course helped me to create the space for a daily morning practice again, and for the first time in my meditation experience – be fully committed to it.
I thought that ‘coming home to your body’ was just a nice metaphor until I really felt it!
I can honestly say this course was a total game-changer for me personally and in my coaching practice. By far the most valuable training investment I’ve ever made.
Using CEC's learning and teaching has given me the power and authority to help transform the lives of many Filipinos for the better.
I never had so many 'aha moments' during a course as in this one. As a coach, I use the practices every day which helps my clients gain a deeper awareness of their state of being, and more possibilities and choices.
Embodiment allows me to coach from wholeness. This leads to much better results, much quicker.
I’m already easily blending the tools learned with my own coaching style. It is an upgrade for my set of skills and resources as a coach.
CEC had a huge impact for me by giving me some essential tools that make coaching so much more powerful. I also gained awareness around my own patterns, which means better presence for my clients.
My coaching is more precise and effective now. My clients now achieve their goals in a shorter time and fewer sessions.
CEC gave me confidence in my niche and underlined the importance of my own practice and well-being, it confirmed my core interest in trauma.
It has made me want to set up a business offering coaching. I feel so grateful for all I have learned with you, with the course opening into so many fascinating paths.
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Bonuses
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1-to-1 coaching session with Mark Walsh
The first five people to join get a free 1-to-1 leadership coaching session with Mark.
Bonus coaching sessions left:
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Keynote channel from Embodiment Conference
50+ leaders from the embodiment field, including Dr. Gabor Maté, Sharen Salberg, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Daria Halprin, Sébastien Foucan, and more.
Leadership channel from Embodiment Conference
100+ leadership experts, including Dan Siegel, Kristin Neff, Dr. Andrea Pennington, Dr. Richard Schwartz, Tami Simon, and more.
If I could choose one course...
“I’ve been following Mark’s work for five years, first from afar, then as a student, mentee and finally working with him.
I’d be surprised if anyone knew more about what Embodiment Unlimited offers than me.
If I had to choose just one course, this would be it.
I was there for the entire filming process, then reviewed it all and put it together.
Embody Your Leadership is what embodiment is about. Changing your world.
Want a complete course on embodiment? This. Is. It.”
Steve New
Director of Learning, Embodiment Unlimited
What some leaders in the embodiment field say...
"Embodiment is an essential component of healing and Embodiment Unlimited does valuable work bringing its importance to the public. I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation."
Gabor Maté, M.D.Author & Trauma Educator 
"Embodiment Unlimited is THE place for YOU to learn, heal, rest, be seen & heard."
Kathleen BookerBreathwork teacher 
"Challenges to our safety make us strangers in our own body. Embodiment Unlimited provides important resources informing individuals about practices leading to an effective ‘re-embodiment’ that enhances mental and physical health."
Stephen Porges, PhDProfessor, Author, Scientist 
“Mark has a special ability to make embodiment work relevant and accessible.“
Arawana HayashiCo-founder of social presencing theater, Presencing Institute 
"Mark provides a learning experience which draws on many forms of embodiment, then integrates it in a way that forms a more whole process for growth."
Paul Linden, PhDAikido Teacher, Trauma Educator 
"Mark brings embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit. It makes a body want to celebrate!"
Ginny Whitelaw RoshiCEO, Institute for Zen Leadership 
"The embodied work that Mark does is both creative and practical. As a facilitator, I get a lot from teaching alongside him and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism."
Jamie CattoAuthor & Facilitator 
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We believe in this course, so we're happy to put our money where our mouth is.
If you feel like there’s no chance you’ll progress as a leader after completing all the course content for the first two weeks of the course and trying all the practices, you can email us before week 3 opens for a full refund at support@embodimentunlimited.com
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Embody your Leadership
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- Unlock your leadership potential
- Access the complete embodied leadership library
- Four 1-to-1 leadership coaching sessions with Mark
BONUS Keynotes + Leadership library from The Embodiment Conference (normally $199)
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October sale
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June – August 2022
- The complete leadership course
- Live labs with Mark for 8 weeks
- Leadership Coaching pack – $39
- Keynotes + Leadership from Embodiment Conference – $499
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FAQS
This is a self-paced course. There’s the option to get four 1-to-1 coaching sessions with Mark, too, which will obviously be live.
No, the course will benefit everyone wanting to make a difference in their embodied leadership worlds.
You can do the course in your own time, although we’d suggest giving yourself an end date to work towards with your chosen leadership project.
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