MIND-BODY COACHING
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE
Are you ready to guide journeys of deep insight and powerful transformations for yourself, clients, communities, and organizations?
Are you committed to holistically and compassionately transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning-making, deep connection, and resilience?
Then we invite you to the first-of-its-kind 120-hour MindBody Coaching Certificate.
This unique 4-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators wanting to explore the power of somatics and coaching, one that fosters a truly transformative change.
This program brings together world-renowned somatic and mindfulness coaches as faculty to offer a holistic, body-centered method to transformation. This extraordinary program provides a systematic set of practical tools that guides the change process for yourself and your work with others.
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MEET THE FACULTY AND INFORMATION SESSIONS
DR. SCOTT LYONS
DR. RAE JOHNSON
NAMIKO UNO
ERIKA LYLA
KAI CHENG THOM
MANUELA MISCHKE-REEDS
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
This unique 4-month online coaching certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators wanting to explore a Mind-Body Coaching approach that combines the power of somatics with mindfulness to fosters transformative change.
This program brings together world-renowned somatic coaches and teachers to offer a holistic, body-centered method to create impact, integration, and acceleration. This unique program provides a collection of practical tools that guides the change process for yourself and your work with others.
Through an experiential learning model, participants will embody the core principles and processes to guide clients and organizations in holistic, transformational, and impactful coaching.
This integrative approach to coaching will empower you to help your clients gain access to their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and relational patterns that have obstructed them from living their full potential. Through a balance of depth processing and action-focused practices, Mind-Body Coaching empowers clients in addressing the obstructions to achieving their goals, realizing their life vision, transforming stuck patterns, and strengthening relationships.
This program draws on body-centered therapy and somatic coaching practices, including Gestalt, Hakomi, Focusing, Body-Mind Centering, Somatic Experiencing, the Expressive Arts, Strozzi Somatic Coaching, Somatic Stress Release, and Mindfulness.
Learn to holistically and compassionately transform pain and challenges into growth, meaning-making, deep connection, and resilience.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Internationally recognized leaders bring to life a holistic and unified curriculum.
RICHARD STROZZI-HECKLER
KAI CHENG THOM
JUSTIN MICHAEL WILLIAMS
STACI K. HAINES
DR. SCOTT LYONS
DR. RAE JOHNSON
NAMIKO UNO
ERIKA LYLA
MANUELA MISCHKE-REEDS
PHOEBE GREENACRE
THE POWER OF MIND-BODY COACHING
Mind-Body Coaching uses a holistic and client-centered approach that focuses on empowering individuals and groups' actualization of potential and embodied transformation. A Mind-Body Coach integrates the clarity of mindfulness-based work with the deep and impactful body-based techniques of somatics. They attune and utilize their many skills with a relational and process-oriented connection with their clients.
Mind-Body Coaches help their clients clarify their internal and external goals, navigate roadblocks to those goals, enhance the skills to be present in the here and now and future-oriented, and increase performance, effectiveness, and well-being.
Through a balance of depth processing and action-focused practices- Mind-Body Coaching empowers clients in addressing their obstructions to achieving their goals, realizing their life vision, transforming stuck patterns, and strengthening relationships. Mind-Body Coaches are compassionate and supportive guides through the journey of embodiment and self-actualization.
“The fundamental work of the Somatic Coach is to guide the person to feel and be with this animating force that makes them alive. This is life moving toward life.”
— RICHARD STROZZI-HECKLER
“There is a poem
scratched onto the walls of my throat
no one has heard it
but it is there.”
— KAI CHENG THOM
“Where our attention goes, our lives go.”
— MARTHA BECK
“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”
— KEVIN NGO
CURRICULUM
This 120-hour certificate program includes 8 Modules, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. All sessions are available to be completed online via your online Content Library which you will gain access to upon registration.
THIS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IS DIVIDED INTO EIGHT MODULES:
Module 1: Foundations of Mind-Body Coaching
This module provides an introduction to coaching practice, including a definition of coaching, its history and roots in psychology, and the differences between coaching and psychotherapy. From there, this module explores the roots of somatic psychology and mindbody coaching. Several practical skills will be introduced, including screening and orientation, inclusion and exclusion criteria, scope of practice, and the art of making referrals. Students will learn how to conduct an intake and engage in client preparation, including motivation, readiness, informed consent, and clarification of roles. Attending to diverse personal, cultural, and social experiences/identities in mindbody coaching will be highlighted.
Module 2: Fundamental Mind-Body Coaching Skills
This module covers basic coaching skills, including practitioner readiness and awareness of power dynamics in the coaching relationship. From there, students will learn how to establish a coaching alliance, develop listening skills, and co-create a coaching plan with their clients. A basic session template will be introduced that includes a 10-session arc and how to use a meta-map framework of sensing, feeling, embodied meaning-making, action, and integration within each session. Other coaching skills covered in this module include helping clients identify issues and set goals and how to support clients in creating new habits and routines and maintaining a positive lifestyle. Tracking client progress and accountability will also be addressed.
Module 3: Assessment in Mind-Body Coaching
This module introduces students to a range of mind-body assessment tools and strategies, including identifying client strengths and core values, observing nonverbal communication and movement qualities, and working with body stories and body maps. Students will then learn how to integrate assessment results into the coaching process.
Module 4: Mind-Body Coaching Interventions I
This module covers working individuals in relation to emotions, breath, voice, movement, and touch. Students will be introduced to embodied narratives and inner dialogues as well as embodied retroflection and introjection.
Module 5: Mind-Body Coaching Interventions II
This module helps student coaches further develop their skills in identifying somatic and cognitive patterns and facilitating change. This includes how to work with clients in integrating tensions, making decisions, identifying conditioned tendencies, and creating somatic openings. Students will also acquire skills in working with “resistance” and obstacles in their clients, navigating boundaries, and embodying complexity.
Module 6: Mind-Body Coaching Approaches to Stress, Resilience & Trauma
This module covers embodied stress release and resilience, trauma-informed coaching, and working with clients in crisis. Students will also develop practitioner skills for working with power and privilege in the coaching relationship, learn about navigating different social locations between coach and client, and develop strategies for supporting clients in navigating oppressive social dynamics.
Module 7: Advanced Mind-Body Coaching Skills & Integration
In this module, students will develop skills in working with conflict and learn somatic processes and practices to develop their capacity for generative conflict. We return to the mind-body cycle of changes and provide an opportunity for deeper integration of skills as well as introduce students to working with body norms and body image in mind-body coaching.
Module 8: Pre-Recordings
These pre-recorded sessions will address several important topics, including the business skills needed to manage a successful practice and executive coaching skills for individuals and organizations.
The Embody Lab’s
Mind-Body Coaching Cycle of Change
Our Mind-Body Coaching program will introduce you to a unique and powerful model of transformative change. This model is exclusive to this program and draws on the collective wisdom of our esteemed faculty, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Staci K. Haines, Dr. Rae Johnson, Kai Cheng Thom, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Tesfaye Tekelu, Justin Michael-Williams, and Dr. Scott Lyons.
The MindBody Coaching Cycle of Change represents a proven process that you’ll learn to facilitate with clients during a session.
AS MIND-BODY COACHES, OUR AIM IS EMBODIED TRANSFORMATION
Mind-Body coaching is about transforming our embodiment to be aligned with what we care about, our values, and purpose so that we can be, act, and relate from this place.
WHERE WE START
Purpose/ Longing: You’ll discover how to help your clients identify their goals or intentions for their work with you. These questions include: What do you want? What do you care about? Who do you want to become? How do you want to belong? What are you here for (purpose)?
The Five-Phase Cycle of Change: You’ll discover how to facilitate a powerful five phase cycle of change that includes 1) awareness, 2) sensing/feeling, 3) expression, 4) embodied meaning-making, and 5) action and integration.
THE CYCLE OF CHANGE
You will also learn how to identify where in this cycle your clients might be stuck or avoiding, as well as develop insight into your own processing preferences and challenges.
We’ll explore where clients like to begin, where they skip over, the places clients get stuck, and how this translates to their everyday life.
THE FIVE STAGES
Embodied Awareness - This first stage of the cycle invites clients to notice what they’re aware of in their body in the present moment, and to notice how and what they attend to.
Sensing/Feeling - The second stage of the cycle offers an invitation to connect with the sensations and feelings rather than just observe or notice them.
Expression/Articulation - The third stage of the cycle serves as an invitation to follow embodied impulses toward expression, mobilization, and transformation.
Embodied Insight - The fourth stage invites coaching clients to consider what meanings emerge from their embodied experience, and supports them to listen for meaning that arises from the body.
Action/Integration - The final stage of the cycle invites clients to act on their embodied insights and to integrate what they’ve learned into everyday life.
The Mind-Body Coaching Cycle of Change is exclusive to The Embody Labs’ Mind-Body Coaching Program. Enroll today and learn this powerful coaching tool to enhance your coaching practice and help your clients actualize their goals to live a more fulfilled, transformed life.
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
• Social Workers
• Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors
• Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers
• Movement Therapists
• Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants
• Coaches
• Nurses & Nurse Practitioners
• Psychologists
• Emergency Medical Personnel
• Meditation Teachers
• Educators
• Massage Therapists & Body Workers
• Acupuncturists
• Hypnotherapists
• Kinesiologists
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals
• Clergy & Religious Leaders
• Other Wellness Professionals
On completion of this program you will receive a Mind-Body Coaching Certificate.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Facilitate the release of old stories, unwind frozen beliefs and pain stored in the body-mind, and compensatory behavioral patterns that no longer serve the individual.
Techniques to rewire patterns of safety, connection, worth, and belonging.
Cultivating presence in yourself and those you work with.
Co-create assessments and embodied attuning.
Relational dialogue skills.
Somatic depth processes.
How to utilize evidence-based mind-body techniques.
Integrate processing and action-focused coaching styles.
Facilitate a trauma-informed approach to coaching.
Use strength-based approaches to identifying resources to support growth, learning, and resilience.
Navigate the diversity of clients and students you work with.
Support clients in opening up and connecting to their bodies' experiences, sensations, and expressions.
Guide clients into mobilizing unprocessed stress.
Guide clients through holistic, developmental processes of learning about themselves and facilitate growth and transformation.
Actively engage in an exploration of your own, as well as your client's, social attitudes and beliefs so that you can address power dynamics and develop competencies in applying cultural humility to their coaching.
STUDENT TESTIMONIAL
Erin McCarthy, Ph.D - Mindfulness and MindBody Coach,and Philosophical Counsellor.
ADDITIONAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to screen for clients suited to a mind-body coaching approach and orient them to the coaching process, roles, and expectations.
Students will demonstrate fundamental mind-body coaching skills.
Students will be able to choose appropriate coaching assessment tools and use them effectively in the context of mind-body coaching.
Students will effectively employ a range of mind-body coaching approaches in working with individuals.
Students will effectively employ a range of mind-body coaching approaches in working with businesses and organizations.
Students will demonstrate ethical and professional practices in mind-body coaching.
PROGRAM DETAILS
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
This 120-hour certificate program includes 8 Modules, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. All sessions are available to be completed online via your online Content Library which you will gain access to upon registration.
HOMEWORK
There are no homework assignments during the program. Please see Mind-Body Coaching Certificate section below for more information.
LEARNING PLATFORM FORMAT
ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: The online learning platform hosts all the information about the course including:
All the on-demand sessions, available to watch at your leisure.
Supporting materials such as PDFs of the reading material and presentations.
ACCESSIBILITY
VIDEO / AUDIO: Within the online learning platform, students are able to watch the videos within their online library or download the videos or audio files to their computers. They enjoy lifetime access to the content.
LIVE CAPTIONING / TRANSCRIPTS: Captioning was only available during the live sessions. Transcripts are offered in English.
READING LISTS: Each instructor provided required or recommended readings.
Required readings are available freely online or in PDF format.
Recommended readings are optional and for further exploration. They may include books, online articles etc.
PDFs of the instructor’s presentation will also be provided.
MIND-BODY COACHING CERTIFICATE
All students who complete the requirements below will receive a Mind-Body Coaching Certificate from The Embody Lab. The requirements to receive the Certificate are:
Watch all the session recordings.
Complete the Self Evaluation & Reflection forms for each module.
Complete 10 hours of Practice Coaching Sessions outside of class times and reach out to another student in the program and have a meaningful conversation about the program. A template for the practice sessions and prompts for the conversation will be provided.
Submit full payment.
REGISTRATION / ENROLLMENT / TUITION
Students may enroll for the certificate program by choosing one of the three payment options from the scaled pricing structure below. Once registered, students will receive a welcome email with how to access all the details for the certificate program. REGISTER FOR THE CERTIFICATE HERE →
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
+ Who is this program designed for?
This program is a certification process that distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as:
Social Workers, Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors, Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers, Movement Therapists, Coaches, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Emergency Medical Personnel, Meditation Teachers, Educators, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Body Workers, Hypnotherapists, Kinesiologists, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, other Wellness Professionals.
This is an education program and not a licenser program.
+ What are the dates, schedule and time commitment?
This 120-hour certificate program includes 8 Modules, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. All sessions are available to be completed online via your online Content Library which you will gain access to upon registration.
+ Will there be an orientation session?
An orientation session was only provided for the live program.
+ Do I need to attend live or am I able to watch recordings?
All live sessions were recorded so students may now watch in their own time (more information below). Please note, captioning was only available during live sessions.
+ How can I interact with the instructors? Will I receive guidance?
During each of the live sessions, the instructors had a Q&A period where students could ask questions. Three community connections were also offered with one of the co-directors of the program and special guests. A private online community forum was also provided for the certificate.
+ What are the homework requirements?
There were no homework assignments for the program.
+ Do you offer scholarships?
Scholarships were only available for the live program.
+ Is there a deadline for registration?
There is no deadline for registration.
+ Do you offer refunds?
We offer a Registration Guarantee which means that if you register but decide the course isn’t right for you, we’ll refund your course fee - no questions asked - up to 48 hours before the course start date.
+ How can I access the online course and recordings?
ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: The online learning platform hosts all the information about the course including:
- All the on-demand sessions, available to watch at your leisure.
- Supporting materials such as PDFs of the reading material and presentations.
ACCESSIBILITY | Video / Audio: Within the online learning platform, students are able to watch the videos within their online library or download the videos or audio files to their computers. They enjoy lifetime access to the content.
ACCESSIBILITY | Live Captioning / Transcripts: Captioning was only available during the live sessions. Transcripts are offered in English.
ACCESSIBILITY | Reading Lists: The reading list included items available at the public library or provided as a PDF where possible. PDFs of the instructor’s presentation will also be provided.
+ Is this a summit?
No, this is an integrated curriculum co-created by the faculty. The faculty are colleagues in this program. They are working together to make sure each individual module is cohesive with the entire curriculum. Every teacher is informed about what is coming before and what is coming after and integrating their curriculum based on that information.
+ Is this a theoretical or practical (experiential) program?
While some theory will be presented to support the learning, the primary focus of the practice is experiential, giving practical tools for the participants.
+ Will I receive a certificate?
All students who complete the requirements below will receive a Mind-Body Coaching Certificate from The Embody Lab. The requirements to receive the Certificate are:
- Watch all the online sessions
- Complete the Self Evaluation & Reflection forms for each module
- Complete 10 hours of Practice Coaching Sessions outside of class times and reach out to another student in the program and have a meaningful conversation about the program. A template for the practice sessions and prompts for the conversation will be provided.
- Submit full payment
+ Will Continuing Education Units (CEUs) be offered?
CE’S with the American Psychological Association (APA)
48 hours of Continuing Education for Health Professionals were available for this program. Please note: *Live* attendance was required.
Below is more information on the health professionals which may be eligible for CEs through the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program.
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.
FROM A DIFFERENT STATE OR COUNTRY?
Health professionals from a state or country outside of California need to check with their licensing boards as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).
DIFFERENT CREDENTIAL?
If your credential is not listed, please check with your licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).
The SCA and The Embody Lab are not able to determine your eligibility.
+ Is there an additional accreditation I can do?
International Coaching Federation
Some students may be eligible for the “Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Portfolio Path Credential for Non ICF-accredited programs” through the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
In addition to completing the Coaching program, students will also need to have completed:
- If your intention is to apply for this credential, you must attend a minimum of 30 hours live via Zoom. Please keep a record of all live sessions you attend.
- 100+ hours of coaching experience
- 10 hours of coaching from a mentor - students will need to find a mentor according to ICF standards
- Successful completion (passing score) of a performance evaluation given by the ICF
- Successful completion (passing score) of the ICF Credentialing Exam give by the ICF
- For eligibility and the latest information, please check with the ICF for specific details click HERE.
PROGRAM REGISTRATION
120 HOUR ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
CHOOSE YOUR PAYMENT OPTION BELOWWith great appreciation for Reverend angel Kyodo Williams who created this format of the sliding scale in the Embodied Social Justice Certificate program, we are continuing to offer a scaled pricing structure for this program.
The scaled pricing offers three options rather than one fixed price. This structure makes it possible for more people to access the program, supported by the community and those who have access to more resources. Your enrollment also helps us to add more scholarships. Please choose the option that feels appropriate to you and your circumstances.
Upon registration, you will receive a welcome email with details on how to access the program.
SUPPORTED ACCESS
For those with limited financial resources who will benefit from community-supported access.
$1974 USD
FAIR ACCESS
For those with sufficient financial resources and who can pay fair value for the experience.
$2374 USD
REBALANCING ACCESS
For those with a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.
$2974 USD
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Why wait for the information session? Our registration guarantee means that if you register but decide the course isn’t for you, we’ll refund you - no questions asked - up to 48 hours before the course start date.
