Human Coaching Certification
Develop skills that stay valuable in the AI age.
A 3-month online course for coaches, therapists and facilitators.
- Human-centred coaching for deep, lasting impact
- Practical embodiment and neuroscience tools
- Live practice & optional peer groups
- What most coaches miss that differentiates them from AI
Who this is for
This is a training for professionals who already work with clients - coaches, therapists and facilitators.
- You want to stay employed in the AI era
- You want to know your unique 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.
Coach in a way that AI can't
- How to ask the kind of questions AI can't
- How to generate deep embodied insight
- How to be challenging in a way that AI can't
- How to build deep rapport with more than just words
- How to create human accountability in a way that AI can't
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.
This matters now because AI coaching is already here, and it will only get cheaper, faster and more normal. The coaches who adapt early will be in a far stronger position than the ones who wait until they’re forced to.
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.
Some reasons people still want human coaches are:
- The coach’s embodied presence
- The real human relationships
- 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.
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 clients
- 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
- Two new secret techniques
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 3-month training
- 13 live 50-min Zoom sessions on Thursdays
- 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
Peer groups (required for certification)
- For practice and support
- Also a great way to connect and make friends!
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 is novel content. And if not, that's okay.
- New techniques - including brand new tools developed for this programme
- New understandings - updated framing for coaching in a fast-changing world
- New perspectives - drawn from both embodiment and neuroscience
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.
Dr. 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 11, 2026 (13 sessions)
- 50-min live calls: Thursdays 5pm UK (12pm ET / 9am PT) Convert to my timezone
- 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.
Bonuses included when you join
When you join Human Coaching Certification, you’ll also get two bonuses included.
Bonus 1: Embody Your Leadership library
$800 value
Alongside Human Coaching Certification, you’ll also get the self-paced course, Embody Your Leadership. It includes practical embodied tools, experiential learning, and real-world leadership applications.
It's the most complete embodiment course the team has put together, and it works well both for your own development and as a rich library of practices you can adapt for clients.
Bonus 2: 1-to-1 call with Mark
$250 value
Use it to clarify your coaching edge, identify where you may be underusing your strengths, and get practical direction on how to apply the course to your own work.
Pricing
Places are limited so we can actually give practice feedback.
- All calls, content & recordings included
- Peer groups and personal practice
- Embodied coaching and neuroscience tools
Embody Your Leadership library (normally $800)
1-to-1 call with Mark (normally $250)
Regular: $2,000
$990 USD
Launch price (until we begin on March 19).
JOIN THE COURSEFAQ
Do I need to attend live?
If you can't attend live but still want to certify then you'll still need to practise with your peer group.