Becoming a certified Embodiment Coach

Reflection on completing Embodiment Coach Training and how working with stress patterns, pressure, and embodied awareness is deepening my practice

Becoming a certified Embodiment Coach

Over the past few months, I’ve been quietly immersed in completing my Embodiment Coach Training.

Alongside a few health challenges making themselves felt (I’m fine and feeling much better now), it became a much deeper journey than I expected, both personally and professionally.

I’ve done a lot of development work over the years, but this brought me into much closer contact with my own stress patterns, habits, stories and the ways I respond under pressure.

Not just intellectually, but in real time.

It’s shifted how I understand leadership and change and what actually helps people move from insight into different choices and actions.

One of the biggest learnings for me has been this: we can understand ourselves cognitively and still find ourselves repeating the same patterns when the stakes are high.

The more responsibility we hold (or feel), the easier it is for us to override what’s happening for us internally and to keep pushing forward. This is a very familiar pattern to me.

Embodiment work helps us notice and work with those patterns earlier, before they fully take over. I think this matters deeply in leadership right now, particularly in environments where complexity, pressure and uncertainty have become the norm.

That learning is already shaping my work more deeply, including my Lead From Wisdom model (version 2) and the programmes I’m developing for senior leaders.

So, with the assessments, exams and practical requirements now complete, I’m excited (and a little reflective) about this next chapter.

And perhaps most importantly, I feel very different to the person who started the training.

I’ll end with a huge thank you to Anthea Bell and team and to the 2025 cohort who encouraged me to show up as my full self and held such a safe space for us all to share, learn and grow.

Categories: : Embodied leadership, Executive coaching, Leadership under pressure, LeadFromWisdom, Sustainable leadership