Day 1: self-leadership
What type of leader are you?
Mark Walsh
Leading from the inside out
Fleet Maull
Bullet-proof your leadership
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Day 2: social-leadership
Why listening is your superpower
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Laughing, flirting & calming
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The honour of leading
Patricia Aguirre
Unlock your leadership potential
with personal support on Mark’s live leadership labs
Online course
self-paced
8 live leadership labs
with Mark Walsh
Real-world project
start small but do it
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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 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 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.
So join us. Unlock your leadership potential, get support and maybe get your butt lovingly kicked into action too, with Mark’s 8-week leadership lab.
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Embody Your Leadership
This program is the most complete embodiment course we've ever put together.
To shift as a leader, you need to shift your body. This program contains practical exercises to help you to make that change.
You can watch it in your own time or join Mark's 8-week leadership labs to get personal support.
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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.
In Mark’s leadership labs, you’ll also be supported in a real-life project. These 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.
Fully embody your strengths
Recognise the ways YOU lead best and then practise embodying these qualities with confidence and clarity.
Move past procrastination, fear and doubt
Reconnect with your energy and purpose and learn embodied processes to do this on demand.
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.
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...
- What leadership actually is, and how to embody it your way
- How to identify and step beyond leadership blocks
- How to stop “playing small”
- Mark's complete works of embodied exercises to regulate and connect with your authentic style
- Essential leadership skills and how to make them work for you
- How to avoid the dangers of leadership
Expand the course sections 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 – Mark |
| Exercises: Reasons not to be a leader |
| Yeah but… exercise – Mark |
| 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 NEW |
| framing yin and yang |
| Blcoks to yin leadership – Erika |
| Leadership for arseholes (yang blocks) – Mark |
| 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 – Mark |
| 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 – Mark |
| Body scanning – Karin * |
| Metta meditation – Erika * |
| “Heart” purpose meditation for leaders – Erika |
| Acceptance, Intention, Connection, Action meditation (draft title) – Karin |
The mindful leader (include link to other learning, presence, health etc) – Karin |
| Nature – 4 elements – Mark * – FEC also |
| 4 elements meditation* – FEC also |
| Central channel meditation – Mark * |
| Equanimity – Mark * |
| Extreme!!! Shame meditation – Mark |
| 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 [dont mention leaders]* – FEC |
| Building your centring practice |
| Centring applications – meetings etc* – FEC |
| Centred walking* – FEC |
| Underlying stress factors* – FEC |
| 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 – mark |
| 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 * – FEC |
| 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 HW |
| 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.
What some of our students say about our courses
It gave me confidence in the path I've chosen (creating a company to bring personal development to young adults). It gave me legitimacy.
Using these learnings and teachings has given me the power and authority to help transform the lives of many Filipinos for the better.
It provided me with a deep rooted structure when needed, freedom because of self confidence that I didn't have.
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Lead teacher for the course
“Leadership can’t be taught from a book, we have to walk the talk.
I never used to see myself as a leader as I grew up with a model for that, that just wasn’t me. Through some good role models however I realised that authentic leadership came in all kinds of packages, and though embodied training started to grow the skills I needed.
I started with small projects in the aikido world where I was learning embodied capacities critical to self-regulation and influence. Eventually I moved onto running a business, doing large trainings, heading the world’s biggest Zoom event, and to the recent work in Ukraine.
I wasn’t born knowing how to do such things, but learnt through doing, supported by embodied transformation. Practices and skills, that’s what the “magic” is all about.
I’ve been teaching this stuff to big-bucks-paying CEO’s and my mentees for some years, but this is the first time I’ve put this work out there for everyone. The Embody your Leadership program is my life’s work, and the live “lab” element gives people a chance to learn through doing. It’s like an incubator where I can support you to move forward.
If you want to embody your real potential and to make a difference, I hope you join us.”
Mark Walsh
Course leader,
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited
Course contributors
Erika Chalkley
Founder, Your Right to Be
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Erika is dedicated to helping women break free of ‘niceness’, step into true confidence and build professional lives that nourish their souls.
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.
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.
I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation.
The embodied work that Mark and the team does is both creative and practical.
As a facilitator, I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.
As a facilitator, I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.
Mark Walsh brings embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit.
It makes a body want to celebrate!
It makes a body want to celebrate!
Mark and his team provide a learning experience which draws on many forms of embodiment, then integrates it in a way that forms a more whole process for growth.
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Bonuses
Keynote channel from Embodiment Conference
50+ leaders from the embodiment field, including Dr. Gabor Maté, Tara Brach, 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.
Leadership Coaching pack
2 hours of live coaching demonstrations with others wanting to step up as leaders and make a positive contribution in their worlds.
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
If I could choose one course...
"I've been following Mark for four 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.
And 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
If I could choose one course...
"I've been following Mark for four 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.
And 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
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Embody your Leadership
Self-paced
Online
- The complete leadership course
- Leadership Coaching pack – $39
- Leadership from Embodiment Conference – $299
Full price
$599
Early-bird
$399
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Embody your Leadership
LIVE
LIVE | Online | 8 weeks
June – August 2022
- The complete leadership course
- Live labs with Mark for 8 weeks
- Leadership Coaching pack – $39
- Keynotes + Leadership from Embodiment Conference – $499
Full price
$1399
Early-bird
$799
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Embody your Leadership
One-to-one
LIVE | Online | 8 weeks
June – August 2022
- The complete embodiment course
- Live labs with Mark for 8 weeks
- Four 1-to-1 coaching sessions with Mark
- Leadership Coaching pack – $39
- Keynotes + Leadership from Embodiment Conference – $499
Full price
$5399
Early-bird
$2999
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Want to make sure this course is the right fit for you? We do too.
Contact support@embodimentunlimited.com
FAQs
Leadership labs are live tutorials with a limited number of participants that Mark will lead.
During them, there will be time to share your chosen leadership project, get personal support, practise embodiment exercises from the course, chat with peers in breakout rooms and more.
The material of this course is pre-recorded. The live sessions included with the leadership labs (tutorials) will be recorded and available on the learning platform for you to watch if you miss them.
If you get the one-to-one package, you’ll be put in contact to book a time for those sessions when suits both of you.
The leadership labs (live tutorials) start on June 21st and end on August 9th.
Access to pre-recorded components of the course will become available to everyone just before this date.
No, the course will benefit everyone wanting to make a difference in their worlds.
If you choose the basic package with just pre-recorded material, you can do it in your own time, although we’d suggest giving yourself an end date to work towards with your chosen leadership project.
If you choose a package with the live components, we’d recommend at least 2 hours a week, and it can be much more than that, depending on how long you spend on your leadership project.
The tutorials will be recorded and uploaded to the learning platform, but you’ll gain the most from the course by attending as many live as possible.
There is no requirement, however.
Our guarantee states:
If, by June 30, you complete all the course content from the first two weeks, try all the practices and still feel like there’s nothing you can use to progress as a leader – we’ll give you your money back.
See more here.