Step Into Transformational Leadership
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Become a Certified Mindful Leadership Coach and empower professionals to lead with clarity, presence, and emotional intelligence. Through this powerful certification, you'll help clients permanently reduce workplace stress, improve focus, process emotions, and step into a leadership style grounded in self-awareness and compassion. Guide them to manage more effectively, tap into visionary thinking, and lead with purpose and wisdom.
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This training is ideal for those who want to bring mindfulness into corporate spaces. You’ll learn how to:
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Design and facilitate impactful corporate wellness programs
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Lead mindfulness workshops for teams
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Coach executives and managers through high-stress scenarios with confidence and care
​You'll be equipped to work in organizational settings that value emotional intelligence, conscious communication, and purpose-driven leadership. You’ll gain access to a robust inventory of over 200 coaching tools—including protocols for stress assessment, productivity enhancement, and emotional regulation—designed to support leadership development at all levels. Plus, you’ll learn how to customize wellness strategies for a variety of workplace cultures, from fast-paced startups to established enterprises.
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By the end of the program, you’ll be ready to lead change from the inside out—helping individuals and organizations thrive through mindfulness, resilience, and human-centered leadership.
TSD Emotional Clusters:
Use this tool to help clients identify their specific emotion, selecting from a chart of over 300 emotions.
TSD Overthinking Versus Openness Tool:
Use this tool to help clients avoid being mentally drained by identify their overthinking and learning how to disengage from their thinking.
TSD Setting Boundaries to Decrease Stress Tool:
Use this tool to help clients identify what what boundaries they need and how to implement them to reduce stress.
Learn how to use mindful leadership tools for:
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Present-Moment Awareness in Decision-Making
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Recognizing, regulating, and communicating emotions effectively.
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Building trust and connection through human-centered leadership.
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Enhancing collaboration through intentional and open dialogue.
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Techniques to prevent burnout and sustain long-term effectiveness.
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Using mindfulness to access innovation and big-picture awareness.
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Practical tools for daily integration within teams and organizations.
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Transforming tension into growth through conscious resolution skills.
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Designing systems and strategies that promote mental and emotional wellness across teams.
TSD Mindfulness Coaching Training and Certification Schedule and Cost
You will participate in private personal online coaching sessions with TSD founder, Sarah Vallely. You will also complete six classes, participate in six private training sessions to round out your coach training and gain support with coaching your own clients.
Course Syllabus
Part 1
Months 1 - 3 (Videos, reading course text and six personal mindful leadership coaching sessions)
Foundations of Mindful Leadership
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Cultivating Awareness of Thought Patterns in Leadership
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Emotional Mindfulness for Clearer Decision-Making
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Navigating Distraction and Attention in Fast-Paced Environments
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Building Resilience and Stress-Reduction for Leaders
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Introduction to the Mental, Gut, and Heart Intelligence Centers
Embodied Tools for Leading with Presence
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Techniques for Taming Overthinking and Mental Fatigue
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Soothe the Gut: Managing Workplace Anxiety and Instinctive Stress
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Heart-Centered Practices for Compassionate Leadership
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Breaking Emotional Patterns (Shame, Resentment, Guilt)
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Transforming Leadership Through Healthier Workplace Relationships
At-home practice: Minimum of 90 minutes of mindfulness practice per week
Homework: Weekly reflections on personal growth
Reading: Tame Soothe Dwell, Chapters 1–26
Part 2
1 - 3 months (Six personal one-on-one training sessions)
Leading with Depth and Insight
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Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Leadership Growth
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Deepening Emotional Awareness for Conflict Resolution
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Spiritual Insight and the Role of Meaning in Leadership
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Integrating Mindful Practices into Organizational Culture
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Coaching Leaders with Attention and Focus Challenges
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Best Practices for Coaching Professionals and Executives
At-home practice: Minimum of 120 minutes of practice per week
Homework: Reflective writing on leadership transformation and coaching experiences
Reading: Tame Soothe Dwell, Chapters 27–55
Clinical practice: Begin leading mindful leadership coaching sessions (one-on-one or groups)
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