World Mental Health Day Masterclass Series

Monday │12 October 2026

In celebration of World Mental Health Day, IAPC&M brings you a special series of three expert-led masterclasses exploring wellbeing, emotional change and embodied coaching practice.

Coaches regularly hold space for other people’s challenges, emotions and ambitions. But effective coaching also requires us to pay attention to our own capacity, boundaries and wellbeing.

Across these three sessions, our expert speakers will explore practical approaches to protecting your energy, understanding emotional memory, working more effectively with the body, and creating sustainable coaching practices that support both coach and client.

Whether you want to strengthen your professional boundaries, deepen your understanding of emotional change, or bring more embodied awareness into your coaching, these sessions offer practical insights you can take straight into your work.

With more than three decades of leadership experience in the corporate world, including leading global programmes and championing Diversity & Inclusion, Hulya Kurt made a purposeful transition to focus on what inspires her most: empowering people to unlock their full potential.

Today, Hulya works as a capacity builder, transformational coach, lecturer and author, supporting individuals and teams to grow with greater clarity, confidence and cultural intelligence.

Drawing on her extensive senior management experience, she helps professionals and entrepreneurs navigate challenges in leadership, communication, negotiation and personal branding. Her practical, engaging approach includes hands-on workshops, innovation hackathons and design thinking facilitation, helping participants move from ideas to meaningful action.

Hulya brings a strong global perspective to her work and has a long-standing leadership involvement with the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), where she currently serves as President of OWIT International.

At the heart of her work is a clear mission: to help people move forward, bridge gaps and create meaningful impact in their careers, classrooms and communities.

Anne-Marie Mayers is a Master Coach, author, professional trainer and founder of Soul Awakening Academy, where she has trained more than 7,000 students in professional coaching, spiritual development and transformational practices.

Her work integrates neuroscience, energy psychology, somatic approaches and trauma-informed coaching, equipping practitioners with tools to support deeper and more lasting change in their clients.

Anne-Marie is the creator of Somatic Memory Repatterning Technique™ (SMRT™), an innovative approach informed by memory reconsolidation and the mind-body connection. She also developed the Seven Steps to Spiritual Alchemy™ and is the author of Alchemy for the Soul.

Through Soul Awakening Academy, Anne-Marie delivers professionally accredited coach training and continues to explore the intersection of science, spirituality and transformational coaching.

At the heart of her work is a passion for bridging the gap between science and spirituality, helping coaches and practitioners create meaningful transformation that goes beyond insight and supports lasting change.

Mark Walsh is the founder of the Embodied Facilitator Course and an internationally recognised trainer in embodiment and embodied coaching. He has trained more than 2,000 embodiment coaches across over 40 countries, helping coaches and facilitators bring greater awareness of the body into their professional practice.

He is the author of The Body in Coaching and Training: An Introduction to Embodied Facilitation and host of The Embodiment Coaching Podcast, which has received more than 3 million downloads.

Mark is also the founder of Sane Ukraine, a trauma education charity established during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. After travelling to Ukraine twice, he helped create the initiative to provide trauma-informed and embodiment training. The organisation is now run entirely by Ukrainian professionals.

Known for making embodiment practical, accessible and grounded, Mark’s work supports coaches, facilitators and leaders in using the body as an important source of information for self-regulation, resilience, communication and effective coaching practice.