Training for experienced executive and leadership coaches
Bring somatic work into your coaching with greater confidence
Practical training to help you integrate somatic work into your existing coaching practice.
Join the waitlistYou’ve probably had this session.
A client you’ve worked with for months, someone who is usually capable and articulate, starts telling you about something at work that has gone badly wrong.
And as they talk, you can see them beginning to struggle. The words speed up, the story starts spinning, and you can see what looks like frustration or anxiety surfacing before your eyes.
So you slow things down and ask a good question, but it goes nowhere.
And although the session ends fine, you’re still thinking about it that evening. You come up with some questions of your own.
"What am I missing here?"
"And where should I have taken the session anyway?"
The coaching tools you used in the session were good. But perhaps the person in front of you simply wasn’t in a position to use them.
There’s another way in.
Most coaching training is built around cognitive work. When a client can reflect, consider, and see something differently, a well-timed question is still hard to beat.
But thinking is only one way into a conversation. Sometimes the body offers another entry point, and sometimes the person's emotions do, too.
Embodied Performance training helps you work with all three of these entry points, and move between somatic, emotional and cognitive work with more confidence.
A practical way to choose where to begin your sessions
Where should I enter?
Notice when a conversation isn’t getting anywhere, and get curious rather than simply reaching for another tool.
Choose which pathway to move your session forward, based on what your client is showing you.
And learn to adjust your approach as your client changes and shifts during the session.
If somatic and nervous system work has interested you without ever quite fitting into your executive, leadership or performance coaching, this is the training on when to use it, and why.
This isn’t just a collection of somatic techniques. You’ll also learn the science underneath the work, including regulation and arousal, interoception and exteroception, breathing and attention, so you have a clearer understanding of what you're doing and why you're doing it.
The sessions you were least sure about.
When you learn to work with all three pathways, confidence grows first. Conversations that used to leave you uncertain and second-guessing yourself start to feel easier.
Let’s say a client arrives looking overwhelmed or shut down. Embodied Performance training gives you a clear rationale for where to begin, which tools might help, and how to move the session forward as things change.
What you're really building here is flexibility. You'll notice it when a session that once threw you off starts to feel more manageable.
What coaches are saying about the training
Louise, a coach who trained in the Embodied Performance approach, on what changed for her.
“The space between [my clients] coming up with an action and actually doing it is shifting. It’s becoming much shorter… and they seem calmer and able to deal with their emotions better as well.”
Louise Dunn, Coach
I’m Andre.
I’ve spent more than twenty-five years working with people, much of it one-to-one and often when they’re under considerable pressure. My work, first as an osteopath, and then as a somatic therapist and executive coach, has taken me across the body, emotion, psychology and performance.
What I’ve ended up with is a practical way for an experienced coach to draw on the body, on emotion and on thinking inside executive coaching. Some of this work can move beyond coaching, so our training also builds the skill of knowing what you can usefully work with, where your own range ends, and when to refer someone on.
That’s what I teach in Embodied Performance Foundations.
Embodied Performance Foundations
Eight weeks, live. Starting 15 February 2027.
Group
A maximum of 15 experienced coaches
Each week
About 40 minutes of recorded teaching, in your own time
A 90-minute live session with me
Peer practice
Four sessions across the eight weeks
This is a practical skill, and you don’t get it by watching.
Alongside the practical frameworks, you’ll learn the science underneath them, so you understand why you’d do something, not just what to do.
£995
Next cohort starts 15 February 2027. Join the waitlist and I’ll let you know when enrolment opens, along with the full joining details.
If you’re interested but not ready to decide, I’d recommend starting with the report.
"When Thinking Isn’t Enough" is free. It’s a solid read, and it will quickly tell you whether this way of working is for you.