Health Optimisation. Human Development. Conscious Living.
Syntony Institute is a professional education institute advancing a more integrated approach to health coaching, health optimisation and human development.
We believe the next generation of health coaches needs more than health information and behaviour-change skills. They need the knowledge, judgement and coaching capability to understand the whole person — across physical, cognitive, emotional and mental health — and help people create positive, sustainable change.
At the heart of our work are Health Coaching 3.0™ and the philosophy of Syntony — living consciously from our Core Self and bringing greater awareness, wisdom and care to how we engage with life.
OUR MISSION
Advancing the Science and Practice of Health Optimisation Coaching
To advance the science and practice of Health Optimisation Coaching by developing highly capable coaches who understand the science, work skilfully across physical, cognitive, emotional and mental health, and help people create positive, sustainable change.
Our programmes bring together areas that have often been taught separately: health and human development, body and mind, science and coaching.
HEALTH COACHING 3.0™
Defining the Next Generation of Health Coaching
Health Coaching 3.0™ is the next evolution of health coaching.
It builds on the foundations of professional coaching and behaviour change and expands the capability of the coach for a new era of personalised health optimisation, longevity science, health data, AI and human development.
The aim is to develop coaches who can understand the science, see the whole person, personalise the approach and help clients create positive, sustainable change.
WHAT SYNTONY MEANS
Living Consciously from Our Core Self
“Syntony is a way of being and living consciously from our Core Self in ways that enhance the unfolding present moment.
Our Core Self is the deeper dimension of who we are, beyond our personal stories, conditioned patterns and habitual sense of separation.
In Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Self is recognised through
We cultivate our capacity to live in syntony through five fundamental, interconnected processes
Self-Care
Meeting our fundamental physical, emotional and relational needs with awareness and compassion.
Self-Optimisation
Consciously enhancing the health, functioning and capacities of our mind-body system.
Self-Mastery
Learning to work skilfully with our nervous system, mind, emotions and relationships.
Self-Actualisation
Engaging in the essential inner work of growing up, waking up, cleaning up and showing up.
Self-Transcendence
Opening and surrendering to our Core Self and the unfolding flow of Life.
DEVELOPING THE WHOLE PERSON
Health and Human Development Belong Together
Our physical health influences how we think and feel. Our nervous system, thoughts and emotions influence our physiology and behaviour. Our beliefs, habits, relationships and environment shape how we live.
Physical
The health, function and capacity of the body.
Cognitive
How effectively we think, learn, remember, focus and adapt.
Emotional
Our capacity to experience, process and respond skilfully to emotion.
Mental
The quality of our thoughts, beliefs, attention, perspective and relationship with our inner experience.
But health optimisation does not end with better biomarkers, greater fitness or improved wellbeing.
As we develop greater self-awareness and learn to work more skilfully with our nervous system, mind and emotions, we can become more psychologically mature, less governed by unconscious patterns and increasingly able to live from our Core Self.
Health optimisation builds our capacity to flourish. Human development expands our ability to use that capacity wisely. Together, they support our ability to live more consciously, express our potential and make a positive contribution to the unfolding present moment.
WHAT WE TRAIN COACHES TO DO
From Better Health to Deeper Development
Our coaches are trained to meet clients where they are and work at the level appropriate to their needs, goals and professional scope.
They may help clients:
- achieve specific health, wellbeing and performance outcomes;
- improve physical, cognitive, emotional and mental health;
- create personalised health optimisation strategies;
- strengthen the foundations of functional longevity;
- understand relevant health information, assessments and data;
- change behaviours and habits;
- work more skilfully with stress, thoughts, emotions and nervous-system state;
- develop greater self-awareness and psychological flexibility;
- explore meaning, purpose and personal development.
The aim is to develop coaches with the knowledge, judgement and skill to help people move from where they are towards where they want to be.
THE ORIGINS OF OUR WORK
Developed Through Decades of Practice
Syntony Institute is rooted in more than 30 years of Dr Mark Atkinson's work across integrative medicine, coaching, health optimisation and human development.
Over the last 15 years, this approach has been further developed through working with clients, leading transformational programmes and retreats, and educating thousands of coaches and practitioners.
Health optimisation and human development are most powerful when brought together.
Defining the Future of Health Coaching
Syntony Institute is the global leader in Health Coaching 3.0™ — defining the next generation of Health Optimisation Coaching and setting the standard for advanced, science-informed, whole-person coach education.
Our broader vision is a future in which health and human development are understood as part of the same journey.
Body and mind.
Science and self-awareness.
Health optimisation and human development.
Healthier. More Capable. More Conscious.
That is the movement towards Syntony.