Human Coaching Certification
Develop skills that stay valuable in an AI age: a 3-month online course for coaches and facilitators.
- Embodiment and neuroscience tools you can actually use
- Live practice, peer groups, and a certificate at the end
- Human-centred coaching for deep, lasting impact
We’ll also show you the bits most coaches miss - the stuff that looks obvious once you see it.
Who this is for
This is coach training for professionals who already work with clients.
- You want to stay employed in the AI era
- You want to know your unique human coaching “signature” that no robot can replicate
- You want practical somatic tools you can use in real sessions
- You want to know how to use AI as a coach/facilitator without losing your soul!
- You want the up-to-date neuroscience on what makes that special “human touch” you can actually use
If you’re unsure, email support@embodimentunlimited.com. We’d rather you join the right thing than force a sale.
However, this may not be a fit if you want therapy training, you want a certificate without practice, or you only want a self-paced library.
What you might be missing (even if you’re good)
Common failure modes. Not moral failings. Just the bits people don’t train.
- You’re doing “good questions” while the client is stressed and scattered
- You’re chasing insight when the real issue is state
- You’re being “nice” when the moment needs a clean challenge
- You’re relying on rapport instead of actually tracking what’s happening
- You end sessions with a plan the person won’t do under real-world pressure
Coaching in the AI era
AI will make coaching MUCH cheaper and more readily available. It’s also better than you might think. People are already using it as a coach that’s available 24/7, nearly free of charge.
Frankly it will put a lot of us out of work, or at least change what we can offer. But it’s not human, and that's our edge... IF we lean into that and work in the right way.
Some reasons people still want human coaches are:
- The coach’s embodied presence
- Real human relationships can be faked but not substituted
- Attunement and calibration - using intuition to "tune in" and respond to what's alive in real time
- Actual accountability (if you can challenge people)
- About five other things we’ve identified speaking with dozens of top coaches and AI experts.
This course identifies and grows the “human” side of coaching. We’ll do this in a practical way with somatic coaching tools, simple models, and enjoyable practice.
Human superpowers & concrete tools
These are the parts of coaching that stay valuable when AI makes advice cheap.
- Presence - staying there when things get messy
- State - shifting out of stress so thinking and choice come back online
- Attunement - reading the room, tracking subtle cues, adjusting in real time
- Intuition - pattern recognition built from experience, not guesses
- Humour - using lightness to create perspective, loosen rigidity, and move people forward
The concrete tools you can use immediately.
- Centring in a dysregulated world - quick ways to stabilise yourself and the room
- Humour in coaching - when it helps, when it backfires, and how to use it cleanly
- The Serenity technique - a practical method for clarity and follow-through under pressure
- Neuroscience, made usable - how to apply neuroscience knowledge practically in real human coaching (without jargon or overclaiming)
These are a mix of 20 years’ experience and brand new tools - our most up-to-date work, designed in light of rapidly changing technology.
What you’ll be able to do after
You’ll leave with practical skills you can use with clients immediately:
- Explain your human value clearly and persuasively
- Identify when clients are dysregulated and use simple co-regulation skills in a real relationship (robots can't do this!)
- Use embodied practices to create deep insight fast
- Bring neuroscience in practically to deepen human connection
- Make practical adaptations for neurodivergent clients without diagnosing
- How to best use very human skills like humour, real warmth and actual accountability
The point is not ‘more knowledge’ - it’s deepening your wonderfully unique human coaching signature. Yes, you’ll learn some up-to-date neuroscience and some new techniques, but we’ll also go deeply into what makes human coaches irreplaceable.
What’s included
Live, practical, and designed primarily for people already working with clients.
Live training (12 sessions)
- 12 live Zoom sessions - Thursdays 5pm UK (50 mins)
- Teaching, demos, Q&A, guided practice
- Recordings included if you miss a session
Practice (required for certification)
- Brief daily personal embodied practice
- Weekly peer groups for practice
- Practise with clients of new tools
Support
- Portal + community area
- Email support for logistics and guidance
Bonus: Self-paced leadership library
- Access to the self-paced leadership course (about 10-15 hours - optional!)
- My “magnum opus” of embodied facilitation
Using AI skilfully
We’re not anti-AI. We just recommend using it well WITH what makes you human.
We’ll cover practical ways to use AI well:
- A beginner-friendly set of use cases for coaches and facilitators
- Tightening session plans and prompts
- Generating options and experiments
- Creating worksheets and simple resources
- Supporting client practice between sessions
Then we bring it back to the human edge: embodied presence, connection, calibration and relationship.
If you’ve done courses with us before
Good - this isn't repeated but is additional.
This is not a foundational course and it’s not designed for people who’ve never coached.
It’s aimed at people who already have a coaching, therapy, or facilitation background who want to sharpen the human side of the work for the AI era.
- New techniques - including brand new tools developed for this programme
- New understandings - updated framing for coaching in a fast-changing world
- More practical integration - less “interesting ideas”, more “what do you do in the session”
- More calibration and reps - because that’s how skill actually improves
Teachers
Mark Walsh
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Mark Walsh is an embodiment coach and trainer specialising in trauma education, resilience and embodied leadership.
He’s the author of five books, host of The Embodiment Coaching Podcast (3M+ downloads, 700+ episodes), and founder of the global Embodiment Conference, which brought together 500,000 participants and 1000 speakers.
Mark co-founded the Certification of Embodiment Coaching and has trained over 2000 coaches in more than 50 countries. He’s led workshops at organisations including Google, Unilever, and L’Oreal, and founded a trauma education charity during the war in Ukraine.
An aikido black belt with nearly 30 years of experience in martial arts, yoga, conscious dance and meditation, embodiment is Mark’s life’s work and greatest passion. He probably couldn’t get a job doing anything else at this point.
Mark dances like your dad at a wedding and impresses cats with his stroking skills. He’s now tired of writing in the third person.
Helen Machen-Pearce
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After a 25-year career as a doctor within the National Health Service, Helen retired as a consultant psychiatrist due to health challenges in 2017.
She initially found herself floundering with illness, pain and fatigue, and not much clarity about how to help herself. That set her on a practical path into holistic wellbeing and resilience.
Having practised yoga on and off since the age of 16, Helen completed her teacher training and an array of other courses, including Spiritual Coaching with Caroline Shola Arewa and Embodiment Coaching with Embodiment Unlimited.
Helen’s yoga training was completed with Yoga Alliance International directly with Swami Vidyanand, and also with YogaCourse and YogaRenew. She deepened her training by working with Kristine Weber of Subtle Yoga from around 2018.
A lifelong learner, Helen has continued to train widely. Since retiring, she has channelled her focus into yoga, embodiment, education, and practical resilience tools. She particularly likes working with people with persistent health issues, pain and fatigue, and also supports people with stress, overwhelm and burnout (often the same people). She offers a blend of yoga, meditation, education, and embodiment exploration practices designed to promote steadiness and resilience.
Dates and time commitment
- Start: Thursday March 19, 2026
- End: Thursday June 4, 2026 (12 sessions)
- 50-min live calls: Thursdays 5pm UK (12pm ET / 9am PT)
- Time: about 3-4 hours/week (live + practice + peer groups, with optional pre-recorded learning)
- Recordings: available if you miss a session or want to watch again.
Live is recommended.
Pricing and places
Places are limited so we can actually see people practise and give useful feedback.
- 12 live Zoom sessions (Thursdays)
- Peer groups and personal practice
- Embodied coaching and neuroscience tools
Regular tuition: $2,000
$990 USD
Early-bird price.
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