Foundations Depth-Oriented Coaching (Level 1)
Build the embodied foundation that holds transformational coaching.
A 12-week live, small-group training for coaches to deepen mindfulness, somatic awareness, and parts-informed practice - and begin applying these foundations in client sessions.
As a Coach, Have You Found Yourself Here?
- A client begins coaching with energy and insight—but a few weeks later, their momentum has stalled. You want to support them without pushing, but feel unsure how to move forward.
- You catch yourself rushing, filling silence with questions or reflections, rather than trusting the space to unfold.
- You notice a client’s body tense, their voice tighten, and sense something deeper is happening - but you hesitate to name it, afraid of overstepping.
- You find yourself face-to-face with resistance, avoidance, or emotion, and wonder how to meet it without rescuing or redirecting.
- Or perhaps you leave a session feeling drained, doubting your impact, and longing for the kind of depth you know is possible.
If so, you're not alone. These moments don’t mean you’re failing as a coach. They mean you’re being invited to slow down and root into a deeper ground of coaching and presence.
Why Depth-Oriented Coaching?
More and more, clients are seeking coaching that feels real, relational, and transformational. They want support that helps them access clarity, emotional steadiness, and authentic alignment - not just surface-level change.
Depth-Oriented Coaching meets this need by helping you bring mindfulness, somatic awareness, and parts-informed understanding into the heart of your coaching presence.
But beyond client impact, this approach changes you as a coach. It deepens your steadiness, strengthens your attunement, and expands your capacity to hold space with safety and depth.
When you cultivate depth-oriented presence, you:
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Trust what emerges instead of reaching for what’s next.
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Attune to subtle somatic cues - breath, posture, tone - that reveal the truth beneath words.
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Hold resistance and emotion with calm curiosity, creating safety for transformation.
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Support clients to stay connected to themselves, even in discomfort.
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Leave sessions feeling resourced, steady, and aligned rather than depleted.
Depth-Oriented Coaching isn’t a technique - it’s a way of being. It invites a slower, more embodied pace that transforms not only how you coach, but who you are when you coach.
About the Program
This training offers a live, high-touch experience designed for coaches who want to deepen how they show up, how they sense, and how they hold space with greater safety and stability.
You’ll learn to develop and deepen your own embodied presence, to work with clients from that place, and to begin shifting the quality of what becomes possible in your sessions.
You’ll learn to:
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Cultivate embodied presence and mindful awareness in yourself and in sessions.
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Track somatic cues in both yourself and your clients and use them as guideposts rather than distractions.
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Recognise protective parts (such as the rescuer, the optimiser, the avoider) that can pull you out of presence and work gently and clearly with them.
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Hold safe, grounded space for clients so they feel supported, regulated, and able to access deeper insight.
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Introduce and apply parts-informed language and somatic awareness in coaching with integrity.
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Begin applying these foundations with your clients so you can see palpable shifts in the coaching field.
Delivery & Experience
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12-week program with 10 live weekly modules + 2 integration weeks during the program.
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90-minute live sessions on Zoom.
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Guided practices, peer discussion, and reflection workbooks.
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Peer Practice groups to integrate what you're learning.
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Small group size limited to support interaction and integration
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International Coach Federation (ICF) CCEU's in Core Competency and Resource Development.
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Recordings available if you can’t attend live.
- To encourage live attendance and ensure no one misses out sessions are scheduled at two different times to suit Australia, Asia, UK and US time zones.
This program is Level 1 of the Depth-Oriented Coaching pathway. Graduates are eligible to continue into Level 2 – Deepening Depth-Oriented Coaching and Level 3 – Advanced Depth-Oriented Coaching.
About the Facilitator:
Satyam Veronica Chalmers, founder of Depth-Oriented Coaching™, is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 25 years of experience coaching, training and mentoring coaches worldwide. Author of Mindfulness Coaching, she weaves together mindfulness, somatics, parts-work, transformational principles to support coaches in cultivating presence, attunement, and depth in their work. Known for her grounded, compassionate approach, Satyam helps coaches slow down, listen deeply, and create the conditions for transformational change.
Enrolments open in early 2026
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