CEC gave you a strong foundation and likely more coaching tools than you can immediately use.
MEC is built for graduates who want time to actually integrate it through personal mentoring, feedback, practice, supervision and five new specialist certifications… All without taking on another CEC-level workload.
You came out of CEC with more models, practices and coaching tools than most people can fully digest in one go.
The harder part starts now. Can you recognise what’s actually happening when a client gets stuck? Do you know whether an embodied intervention will help here, which one fits, and how far to go? Can you adapt when a session stops following the tidy example from the training? And when you’re not sure, who do you actually talk it through with?
I see this even with experienced CEC grads. Books, podcasts, courses and AI can hand you more coaching exercises than anyone could reasonably use, but what actually builds discernment is practice, supervision, feedback and time. That’s what MEC gives you.
If CEC stretched you, MEC is lighter and more sustainable. Life happens too, so it’s flexible.
MEC is for you if you want:
Confidence doesn’t come from doing one good training and hoping it sticks. Instead, confidence develops through continued practice, supervision and having someone in your corner while the work becomes more natural.
That’s exactly what MEC is built to give you, without piling on another CEC-level weekly demand. You’ll get a clear way to deepen the work, with more support, more personal relationship and more confidence over time.
“As someone who’s dedicated their life to teaching embodiment, the most rewarding thing for me is developing real, meaningful relationships with my students. I love mentoring people personally as coaches and facilitators.
CEC is great, but big. People really flourish with a bit more individual feedback, and it takes time to get relaxed and creative with the work.
Mentoring students has been one of my deepest joys for years. Really, I live for this shit.
MEC isn’t just new techniques – it’s connection. I go for walks, catch up over coffee when I’m in town, give people a behind-the-scenes look at marketing work and live workshops, and actually get to know people. That’s worth a lot in this inhuman age.
We build real relationships over time — I get to know you and how you actually coach, not just your name on a roster. Advice from someone who’s watched your work develop is different from advice given by someone who met you ten minutes ago.
Live sessions run in a cohort of around 25. That’s small enough that you’re not just another face in a giant online course. I also encourage everyone to get to at least one in-person event, so we can hang out properly, go for walks and lunches, and you get a behind-the-scenes look at how things actually run. Expect plenty of selfies to land in the private WhatsApp group afterwards.
This personal approach is key. It’s what lets me nurture students in ways that just aren’t possible in bigger, more anonymous online courses.”
Supervision happens two or three times a month on Tuesdays, and it’s built around your actual cases, not hypotheticals. Bring the client who seems stuck, the session that went somewhere unexpected, a difficult relational dynamic, something in the client that hooked something in you, or uncertainty about whether an embodied intervention is even appropriate.
I lead most of it myself, with input from other experienced teachers along the way. You’ll also learn as much from the cases other coaches bring as your own. Someone else’s difficult client is often uncomfortably similar to yours.
Knowing how a method works is different from using it well with an actual human in front of you. Alongside supervision, MEC includes live practice, demonstrations, observed coaching and feedback on your coaching.
It isn’t the same wall-to-wall formal assessment as CEC. I want it to stay developmental, not turn every practice session into an exam.
You’ll still need to engage, respond to feedback and show real competence to complete the certifications. Paying for the programme doesn’t automatically produce five certificates and a pat on the head. The point is to actually get better.
Every few months, you’ll also be offered an ad-hoc 1-to-1 coaching call with me as part of MEC. There isn’t a guaranteed total number beyond those regular opportunities. If you want more dedicated time with me, that’s available as an add-on at checkout.
By the end of MEC, you won’t just “know more.” You’ll feel more confident, more grounded, and sure of what you’re doing with clients, with the practical tools, personal feedback, and real support to back it up.
Across the 18 months, you’ll get:
(Full breakdown of each certification below.)
CEC and MEC belong together, but they do different jobs. CEC gives you the foundation. MEC helps that foundation settle, deepen, and get more refined in practice.
Role
Foundation training
Advanced continuation
Focus
Core coaching craft, embodiment basics, structure, practice
Integration, supervision, advanced range, confidence, discernment
Weekly commitment
Around 5-6 hours
Around 3 hours
Best for
Building a strong embodiment coaching base
Deepening and extending what you already have
Feel
Intensive and formative
Lighter, longer, more flexible
Outcome
A solid embodiment coaching foundation
More confidence, more support, more range, more professional depth
For many people, the ideal journey is about two years total: CEC plus MEC, with breaks built in.
MEC runs 18 months at around 3 hours a week. That’s deliberately lighter than CEC, so you can integrate rather than just accumulate.
Both weekly sessions run live at 5pm UK (usually 12pm ET / 9am PT, except daylight-saving transition periods) for 50 minutes, with recordings available if you can’t make it live.
Tuesday attendance is optional, while Wednesday teaching can be completed via recordings, though regular live participation is encouraged.
Supervision, relationships and peer learning are difficult to reproduce entirely afterwards.
This is where you bring the real work: live coaching supervision, case reflection, and sharpening your discernment through practice rather than theory.
About once a month, the focus shifts to marketing and professional practice – niche and positioning, pricing, discovery conversations, sales pages, more sustainable ways to find clients.
Tad Hargrave is “guest expert” for most of these.
The teaching spine: one certification per semester, so the learning has shape and enough space to actually land, rather than a random bundle of extras.
See more details on each below.
Runs September 9 – December 9, 2026
Boardrooms can be harder. That’s the bit CEC doesn’t cover in depth.
CEEC is where you adapt embodied coaching for executives, leaders and organisations without watering it down, or scaring a sceptical client with your favourite exercise five minutes into the call.
You’ll learn to:
The principle I hammer home: start with the client’s professional situation, not the tool you’re excited to use. Relevance before technique. Consent before depth.
Includes: 14 live Wednesday sessions taught by me and Carolina Padilla, full recordings, case work and live practice, development of your own executive offer and workshop, and CEEC certification on completion. It’s the same teaching and certificate as the standalone course.
Mainly want executive coaching specifically, not the full 18-month path? Standalone CEEC is available on its own here.
Begins January 13, 2027
The Toolkit is a complete system of 26 postures for exploring human patterns through the body. You had a taste on CEC, but this gives you the full embodied vocabulary for yes and no, taking and allowing space, authority and vulnerability, giving and receiving, rest, care, boundaries and more.
You’ll learn the full system well enough to use it fluently in 1:1 and group work rather than force every client through all 26 postures. That’ll allow you to choose what fits, adapt it, and work with it safely. We’ll spend real time on consent, client choice, physical adaptation, emotional calibration and pacing.
The goal isn’t to remember 26 poses. It’s to use the Toolkit with accuracy, creativity and care.
Begins May 5, 2027
You’re already meeting trauma in coaching – shutdown, overwhelm, disproportionate reactions, dissociation, a client who understands everything intellectually but still can’t shift. Ignoring it completely isn’t realistic. Trying to become an amateur therapist is worse.
Whilst we covered some basics during CEC, this specialised semester is about working responsibly in the space between those two mistakes. You’ll learn to:
One thing I want to be direct about: this certification doesn’t qualify you to diagnose trauma, provide psychotherapy, or offer clinical treatment. It builds trauma-aware coaching – recognition, regulation, pacing, consent, referral. Professional limits aren’t an irritating footnote here. They’re part of being a coach worth trusting.
Begins September 8, 2027
The final semester expands your range through six approaches: Distinction Coaching, Theoregulation Coaching, Humour Coaching, Emotional Flow Coaching, Body Listening Coaching, and Parts Coaching.
Distinction Coaching is a good example of why these matter. A client who’s confused two qualities – confident or arrogant, assertive or aggressive, kind or people-pleasing – is stuck in a false choice. Separating what’s been conflated opens options they couldn’t see before.
You’ll practise all six new techniques, but more importantly, you’ll build the discernment to know which one fits, how deep to go, and when to keep things simple. Six new techniques only help if you can choose between them, otherwise you’ve just got a bigger bag of things to throw randomly at people.
Begins January 11, 2028
You’re already coaching neurodivergent clients. Some will have told you. Some won’t. Others may simply seem “difficult” – chaotic, resistant, stuck in their head, or mysteriously unable to do the simple next step you agreed on together.
A lot of standard coaching assumes insight leads to action and a good open question produces clarity. With ADHD, autistic and AuDHD clients, the same approach can instead create pressure, shame or shutdown.
This semester is about making the coaching fit the human in front of you, not the other way round. You’ll learn to:
You’ll work with two practical frameworks – State-Interest-Step and Load-Mask-Clarity – that give you somewhere useful to look before deciding a client just needs more discipline or another clever question.
I want to be direct about the limits here too: this isn’t diagnostic or therapy training, and it won’t qualify you to diagnose ADHD, autism or AuDHD. It builds coaching skill – recognising, adapting, pacing and referring – not diagnostic ability.
The point is to coach the nervous system actually in front of you, not the imaginary standard client from the textbook.
Part of mentorship is spending time together as actual humans. It helps me get to know you, see how you work, and understand how I can support you better than I could from a few boxes on Zoom.
MEC is mainly online, but meeting in person is highly recommended. If you’re based in Europe, aim to join us at a workshop or event roughly twice during MEC. If you live further afield, aim for at least once during MEC, where practical.
This isn’t compulsory for certification, and travel, accommodation and event tickets aren’t included in MEC. You do, however, get 50% off our live in-person events while you’re on the programme.
Workshops are useful in their own right, but there’s also something valuable about the walks, meals, stupid selfies and conversations between sessions. That’s often where people stop being names on a roster and become people I can genuinely mentor.
- Daniel Navratil (Czechia)
- Magali Barreyat-Baron (UK)
- Katja Le Clercq (Netherlands)
- Kristen Huber (USA)
- Timothy J. Rowe (UK)
Mark Walsh teaches embodiment, trauma education and resilience.
He is the author of Embodiment, The Body in Training and Coaching, Embodied Meditation and People Un-Pleasing.
He hosts The Embodiment Coaching Podcast (2 million+ downloads), 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 Course. He has certified over 2000 embodiment coaches, and taught workshops in over 40 countries.
Mark gained an honours in psychology, despite been an alcoholic at the time.
He 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).
He has worked in war zones (including founding a trauma education charity in Ukraine), and entertained over 50,000 children.
Mark has headlined International Coach Federation events, lived with the circus and in slums, taught celebrities, and kissed a princess.
He's an aikido black belt, and also has 28 years of experience of other martial arts, with yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, conscious dance and meditation.
Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else.
Mark 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.
Core Trainer
Tad Hargrave is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned to be a hippy again).
He spent his late teens being schooled in a mixed bag of approaches to sales and marketing – some manipulative and some not. When that career ended, he spent a decade unlearning and unpacking what he’d been through.
How had he been swept up in it? Why didn’t those approaches work as well as advertised? Were there ways of marketing that both worked better and felt better to all involved? It took him time but he began to find a better way to market.
By 2006, he had become one of the first, full-time ‘conscious business’ marketing coaches (for hippies) and created a business where he could share the understanding he had come to: Marketing could feel good. You didn’t have to choose between marketing that worked (but felt awful) or marketing that felt good (but got you no clients).
Since 2001, he has been touring his marketing workshops around Canada, the United States, Europe, and online, bringing refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs and green businesses that help them grow their organizations and businesses (without selling their souls). Instead of charging outrageous amounts, he started doing most of his events on a pay what you can basis. He is the author of sixteen books and workbooks on marketing.
Tad currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the local indigenous language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy (Beaver Hill) and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan (Beaver Hill House)) and his ancestors come primarily from Scotland with some from the Ukraine as well. He is now dedicated to spending the rest of his days preserving and fostering a more deeply respectful, beautiful and human culture.
Marketing Specialist
Carolina Padilla is a Colombian Emotional Well-being and Conscious Leadership Coach based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is passionate about supporting women leaders in managing their emotions with clarity and confidence, reconnecting with their inner calm, and creating lives deeply aligned with their values—both personally and professionally.
With over a decade of leadership experience in multinational corporations as a Strategic Planner, Country Manager, and Regional Manager, Carolina intimately understands the challenges of high-stakes leadership. Her transformation—from corporate stress and chronic illness to emotional resilience and fulfillment—inspired her mission: to guide women toward authentic, sustainable leadership that integrates success, well-being, and joy.
As a certified Ontological Coach, Embodiment Coach, and Mindfulness Facilitator, Carolina combines her professional expertise with embodiment practices to create profound and actionable transformations. Her holistic approach blends mindset, embodiment, and emotional intelligence to not only address surface-level symptoms but also to shift deep-rooted patterns and foster intentional, aligned leadership.
Carolina’s work supports women in leading their lives with calm, clarity, and joy, unlocking their full potential while embracing their purpose and the power of pleasure.
Coaching Specialist
After a career as a doctor within the National Health Service, spanning 25 years, Helen retired as consultant psychiatrist due to health challenges in 2017.
Initially she found herself floundering in a new existence, with illness, pain and fatigue, and little idea how to help herself.
Having practised yoga on and off since the age of 16, she completed her teacher training and a 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, YogaRenew. She deepened her training by working with Kristine Weber of Subtle Yoga since around 2018.
As a life-long learner, Helen has and continues to complete an array of other trainings.
Since retirement she's channelled her passion into holistic wellness: yoga, embodiment, building wellness and resilience.
She particularly likes working with people with persistent health issues, pain and fatigue.
Helen also supports people with stress, overwhelm and burnout (they are often the same people!)
She offers a blend of yoga, meditation, education, and embodiment exploration practices designed to promote wellness and resilience.
Sessions are crafted to be slow and mindful, fostering a deep connection within.
Whether you're new to yoga or have long standing experience, these practices are accessible.
Practices are all about developing your 'nervous system resilience'
Core Trainer
Embodiment coaching on self-leadership for entrepreneurs and other makers. Helping you to burn for your thing without burning out, and to inspire the world with it.
Ex-traveler, movement lover and people enthusiast with a sales and operations-management background. Certified embodiment coach & embodied facilitator.
Entrepreneur Specialist
Christina is an Embodiment Coach, Somatic Educator, passionate dancer and relationship stewardess who has been the Co-Lead Trainer on the Certification of Embodiment Coaching since 2022.
Her mission is to bring people back to their bodies and establish the best relationship they can possibly have with themselves and others.
Christina helps people to learn to trust and express themselves more fully. She supports students to unlearn outdated patterns and form new supportive habits to confidently create and relate.
Coaching Specialist
Ranko is a 4th Dan Aikido Blackbelt and Embodiment Coach who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2002.
Through 27 years of practicing Aikido, he redirected his love for aesthetics into a love for quality and functional movement and the relationship between body, mind and emotion (embodiment).
He continuously educates himself in the field of work with the body, mind and emotions. Amongst other things, Ranko is a certified Trauma Coach, Kettlebell Instructor and Systema teacher.
Ranko leads embodiment workshops and Aikido trainings for youth, along with coaching clients 1-to-1. He’s also an Assistant Trainer on the Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC) course.
When he’s not throwing people around in the Dojo, Ranko can be found with his wife and two dogs in their forest cabin enjoying the simplicity of nature.
Trauma Specialist
Sara Jones is Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Somatic Coach and Facilitator specialising in Compassionate therapy, grief work and trauma awareness.
She has a Master in Clinical and Health Psychology, is certified in Embodiment and Trauma Coaching and additionally trained in Person Centered Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing.
Sara is a member of The British Psychological Society.
Trauma Specialist
MEC didn’t come from nowhere. Before it, I ran earlier versions of the same long-term mentoring model: the Jedis, Padawans and later the Embodiment Apprenticeship. Yes, I’m a bit of a geek.
The names changed, but the basic idea stayed the same: ongoing feedback, access to the live work, in-person time and real relationships.
Earlier mentees include Maša Nobilo, who specialised in sleep, Allison Lindsay, who developed her breathwork and corporate work, Damien Brown, who uses embodiment in community and charity work, and Liz Peters, who built her own mix of improv, confidence and communication along with authoring a book.
Others developed their own work, then came back to teach ours. Carolina Padilla, Flouer Evelyn, Christina Dohr, Ranko Čerić and Vanessa Schulz all became CEC trainers. Caro will also co-lead the executive-coaching certification with me.
Their work is theirs. The point of mentorship isn’t to produce smaller copies of me. Thank God. It’s to help people become more themselves, with better discernment and fewer avoidable mistakes.
Maša Nobilo
Allison Lindsay
Damien Brown
Liz Peters
Along with the five certifications, you get access to:
Want more dedicated time with me? A 1:1 add-on package is available at checkout.
Sep 2026 - Apr 2028
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September 8 2026, to give an August break to those who graduate CEC just in time for the summer. We all need a “winter” 🙂
Graduates or current students of CEC who want to deepen their coaching skills, master advanced techniques, and receive personalised support.
Yep, it’s designed to help you integrate and embody what you’ve learned during CEC. It provides ample repetition of key principles alongside gradually introduced new content, ensuring deep integration without overwhelm.
All live sessions are recorded. You retain access to the recordings and materials already provided for as long as Embodiment Unlimited continues to host them.
The official WhatsApp group, ongoing live calls and access to recordings created after you leave MEC are not included after your participation ends.
No, MEC is intentionally less intensive. Attendance at all live sessions isn’t mandatory. For certifications, you simply need to attend (or watch recordings of) the Wednesday sessions. Peer groups are optional and can fit around your schedule.
No. MEC and its five specialist certifications are issued by Embodiment Unlimited. They are not currently accredited by ICF, a university or another external awarding body.
“Masters of Embodiment Coaching” is the programme name. MEC is an advanced professional-development programme, not a university Master’s degree.
Yes – we may be able to offer flexible, customised instalment plans to accommodate your needs. Email Virginia on support@embodimentunlimited.com to set that up.
Yes, if places are available. Spots for MEC + 1-1 are limited, so early commitment is encouraged.
Both run live at 5pm UK (6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT), with recordings available afterwards.
Still have questions? Many of you have my WhatsApp number if you want to reach out directly, otherwise email Virginia on support@embodimentunlimited.com with questions.