Book Your 30-Min Discovery Call No obligation · No pitch · Just a genuine chat
A Personal Invitation from Andre Duquemin

I Want to Understand Where Your Clients Are. A 30-Minute Discovery Call for Coaches Working at the Edge of What Cognitive Tools Can Reach.

I have spent 25 years working at the edge of what coaching can reach. The clients who drop out, who you refer on, who "aren't ready right now" - I know that territory. I want to talk to you about it. If we both feel it's a genuine fit, I'll invite you onto the September waitlist for EPS Foundations - the 8-week cohort where this work goes deep.

30 minutes. Not a sales call. Not a pitch. Just an honest discovery conversation - you'll leave with something concrete about your own practice either way.

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3,000+
Clinical clients
300+
Executives coached
25+
Years clinical practice
Sept 2026
Next cohort
What I See
The Gap Every Coach Is Living With But Few Talk About
Most coaching approaches treat performance under pressure as a cognitive problem. Mindset, goals, strategy. I spent 25 years in clinical practice watching what actually happens when a human being is under sustained stress. Performance doesn't start in the mind. It starts with nervous system capacity. And that is the gap I want to talk to you about.
  • Your clients know what matters most but can't stay present to it under pressure
  • They understand their values but revert to survival mode when stakes are high
  • They've done every programme but still react the same way when tested
  • The problem isn't knowledge. It's regulation. And most coaches aren't trained for it.
82%

of executives operate under unsustainable pressure. Traditional coaching uses cognitive tools when the nervous system needs regulation first.

<5%

of coaches have nervous system regulation training. Demand has increased 347% since 2020.

Let Me Map This for Your Practice
30 minutes. I will show you exactly where your clients sit on the performance spectrum - and what that means for your next session.
What I Teach
The Three Systems I Want to Walk You Through
When your clients are under real pressure, they are not operating from one place. Three systems are running simultaneously - and in 25 years of clinical practice, I have found that most coaching only reaches one of them. Here is what you are working with in every session.
System 1

The Survival System

Communicates through physical sensation. When a client is at -4 or -5 on the performance spectrum, this system is dominant. Cognitive tools don't land here. The body has to be the entry point.

System 2

The Feeling System

Communicates through emotion. When your client is flooded, reactive, or disconnected - this system is running the session whether you acknowledge it or not. Regulation here unlocks everything else.

System 3

The Thinking System

Where most coaching lives. Goals, strategy, insight. Powerful - but only accessible when the first two systems are regulated. This is why so much good coaching doesn't stick under real pressure.

"In our conversation, I will ask you about a client who has felt hardest to reach. Between the two of us, we will work out which system was running that session - and what a different entry point would have looked like."

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What We Cover on the Call
The CORE Method - What I Will Walk You Through
This is not a fixed sequence. It is an assessment-driven framework - where I enter depends entirely on where your client is. In 30 minutes, I will show you how it maps onto the work you are already doing and where it changes your decisions inside a session.

Centre

Embody integration yourself first. Your own nervous system regulation is the foundation of the work.

Orient

Assess which of the three systems offers the most accessible entry point. Assessment determines approach, not a fixed formula.

Regulate

Guide the client to the Integration Point where all three systems unite. Uses both top-down AND bottom-up pathways.

Engage

Guide the client into purposeful, values-directed action from their regulated state. Regulation exists in order to Engage.

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I walk through the CORE Method live on every call using a real client you bring me. You will leave with a concrete picture of what a different entry point would have looked like. Book your 30 minutes with me.

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Why I Am Having These Conversations
Andre Duquemin

Andre Duquemin

Somatic Therapist and Executive Coach - 25+ Years

I spent 25 years in clinical practice - somatic therapy, craniosacral work, trauma-informed work with executives under real pressure. I saw what happens when the nervous system collapses under sustained stress. I learned what coaching alone cannot reach.

When I moved into executive coaching, I carried all of that with me. And I started noticing something coaches don't talk about enough: the clients who drop out, who get referred on, who "aren't ready for coaching right now" - they're not failing. Their nervous systems are just operating in territory that coaching tools were never designed for.

I'm having these conversations because I want to understand where coaches are right now. What their clients are bringing into sessions. Where the gaps are. And whether what I have learned over 25 years - the Three Systems, the CORE Method, the -5 to +5 spectrum - actually changes anything for you in practice.

The founding cohort of EPS Foundations launched in May 2026 - the first group of coaches taking this framework into their practice. I am now building the September cohort, and these discovery conversations are part of how I am doing that. They are genuinely valuable to me, which is why I want to make them valuable to you too.

If you get on a call and we find it is a real fit, I will invite you onto the September waitlist - you will get early access and full programme details when enrolment opens. If it is not a fit, I will be straight about that and you will still leave with something concrete about your own practice. There is no pitch and no hard ask either way.

Thirty minutes. No agenda other than an honest conversation. I would genuinely love to hear where you are.

25+
Years clinical practice
3,000+
Clinical clients
300+
Executives coached
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Discovery conversation, not a sales call. September waitlist invite if it's a fit.

What I Have Seen Change
What Shifts When You Can Work the Full Spectrum
I have watched this play out across 25 years and 3,000+ clients. When you understand where someone actually is - not just what they are telling you - everything about how you show up in that session changes.

You Stop Losing Clients at the Edge

Clients operating at -3, -4 or -5 don't need a referral - they need a coach who can read what system is running and respond to it. That is the gap this conversation is about.

Reach Clients You Currently Refer Out

When you can stay with clients further into difficult territory, you keep the relationship and reach work you currently signpost away. Coaches who can read the full performance spectrum hold a different kind of trust with the people they work with.

You Regulate Yourself First

The same tools your clients need, you need too. As sessions become more demanding, your own nervous system regulation is what keeps you present, clear, and effective when it matters most.

Which of these is costing you most right now?
That is exactly what I want to talk about. Bring me a real client situation and we will work through it together.

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What Coaches Say
From Coaches I Have Worked With
These are from coaches who have worked with this framework in practice. This is what shifts when you can read what system is actually running.
★★★★★
"I finally have tools that work when my clients are under real pressure, not just when things are calm. Andre's framework changed everything about how I show up in sessions."
Sarah Thompson
Leadership Coach, ICF PCC
★★★★★
"I had done every leadership programme. Nothing stuck under pressure. Andre's approach worked at a level that cognitive tools couldn't reach. My team noticed within days."
Louise Dunn
CTO
★★★★★
"I now have a systematic process I use in every session. My clients get results faster because I can read what is happening in their nervous system, not just what they are telling me."
James Hartley
Executive Coach, 12 years

Hear what this framework looks like in practice for your clients. Book the 30-minute discovery call →

Andre Answers
Questions You Probably Have
Experienced coaches - executive, leadership, or performance - who are noticing that some clients arrive in states where your usual tools don't quite reach. You don't need somatic training. You just need to have felt that gap. If you have ever referred someone out and wondered if you could have done more, this conversation is for you.
I will ask you about your clients - where they tend to be on the performance spectrum, what they bring to sessions, what you reach for when traditional coaching isn't landing. From there I will walk you through the Three Systems and the CORE Method. Bring me a real client situation and we will work through it together. You'll leave with something concrete.
Honestly, no. EPS Foundations runs in cohorts and the September 2026 cohort is being built now. These calls are how I get to know coaches working in this territory and figure out who would be a strong fit. If it is a clear fit, I will invite you onto the September waitlist. If it is not, you will still leave with something concrete about your own practice. No pitch, no follow-up sequence, no pressure either way.
If we both feel there is a genuine fit, I will invite you onto the September waitlist for EPS Foundations - that gets you early access and full programme details when enrolment opens. If it is not a fit, I will be honest about that and signpost other resources where useful. There is no follow-up sales sequence either way.
It is the clinical framework I use to assess where a client is actually operating right now - not what they say, but what their nervous system is doing. At -5 or -4, the system is in crisis. Somatic regulation must come before any coaching can land. At 0 to +1, clients are regulated and coachable. At +3 to +5, they are in growth and flow. Knowing exactly where someone is at the start of a session changes every decision you make inside it. I walk you through this live on the call.
No. I built this for coaches with traditional backgrounds. I spent 25 years bridging clinical somatic work and coaching practice so that you do not have to start from scratch. You bring your coaching experience. I bring the clinical piece. We work it out together on the call.
Nothing beyond 30 minutes of your time. I read every application personally. If I do not think the conversation would be useful for you, I will tell you honestly rather than waste your time. No follow-up pressure. No sales sequence. Just a genuine conversation.
Most coaches arrive here either through the Embodied Performance email sequence or after completing the ScoreApp self-assessment. Both are designed to surface coaches who are noticing client patterns that don't shift through cognitive work. If you are reading this, the topic is already on your radar - the call is for unpacking it together.

Book Your 30-Minute Discovery Call

I am personally handling every one of these conversations. Bring me a real client situation. I will show you what the Three Systems and the CORE Method actually look like for your practice - and if it's a genuine fit, I'll invite you onto the September EPS Foundations waitlist. Either way, you'll leave with something concrete.

What I See in Your Practice

You are losing market access you should not be losing

When a client tips into burnout at -4 or -5, coaching stops working and you refer them out. You lose the relationship, the referral, the next appointment. I want to show you how to stay with them in that territory - and bring them back.

What Coaches Often Miss

The tools work on you too - not just your clients

As your clients bring more extreme situations into sessions, the risk of overwhelm for you increases too. Every tool in this framework I have used on myself. Coaches I work with describe a different quality of presence - more stillness, more capacity to hold difficult work without absorbing it.

What I do with you in 30 minutes

1

I ask you about your clients

Tell me who is hardest to reach right now. Using the -5 to +5 Performance Spectrum, I will give you a fast, honest picture of which system is running that client - and why your current approach may be missing the entry point.

2

I walk you through the Three Systems live

Survival, Feeling, Thinking. I will show you how to read which is running the session and what the CORE Method would look like as a different entry point for the client you just described.

3

I tell you honestly where this fits

You leave knowing something concrete. Whether there is a natural next step together or not, I will be straight with you. I would rather have that conversation than spend 30 minutes on something that is not a fit.

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This call leads to the September 2026 EPS Foundations cohort waitlist - if it's a fit.
Early access. Full programme details when enrolment opens. No pressure either way.