This document summarizes a training program for wellness coaches that aims to help participants gain the skills and competencies needed to coach clients in making lasting lifestyle changes. The training covers topics like behavioral change psychology, nutrition, health promotion concepts, and coaching methodologies like wellness mapping and assessing readiness for change. Participants will learn how to create wellness plans with clients, support medical compliance, and address specific health challenges through coaching. The training uses a blended approach including didactic, participative, and online elements with a focus on demonstrating and practicing coaching skills.
2. A
program designed to train
professional Wellness coaches,
with a wide variety of
backgrounds from H R
professional’s doctors,
therapists, health auxiliaries
and physical fitness trainers
come to pursue a career in
health & wellness industry.
3. It
is a systematic wellness and lifestyle
coaching process, based on behavioral
change psychology, human motivation, basic
medical sciences, holistic nutrition, cultural
dynamics , wellness business and social
psychology to deliver professional coaching
competencies and skills they need to help
their clients make lasting lifestyle changes
for wellness.
4. Training
in wellness coaching helps healthcare
and wellness professionals to shift the
responsibility for behavioral change to the
individuals themselves.
Learning to create a true alliance with their
“Wellness coach”, the individual discovers how
to better form needed alliances with others
and ask their environment for what they need.
5. A
wellness coach Together the
client and the wellness coach
create and execute
wellness plan / map
that will help the client to
achieve their lifestyle
improvement goals in any and
all areas of wellness.
6. 1.
Participants will demonstrate proficiency
in the Wellness mapping for wellness
coaching and the use of the materials and
tools.
2. Participants will demonstrate knowledge
and the ability to use "Readiness for Change"
to support clients forward movement toward
health & wellbeing
7. 3.
Participants will understand the
role of wellness coaching in
medical compliance.
4. Participants gain knowledge of
health promotion concepts and its
role in Wellness Coaching
8. Training Outline
This training will be a balanced
blend of didactic, participative as
well as online (Hybrid) training
coupled with assignments and
projects with emphasis on
demonstration of skills and practice
by the instructors and the
participants
10. The
mind set shift
Moving from “Prescribe & Treat”
and
“Educate & Implore”
to
“Advocate & Inspire” Mind set.
Motivational Mindsets & Strategies
for coaching
11.
Wellness coaching skills
Overview of coaching skills and the core competencies
of coaching :
Creating the alliance through trust, clarity and
connection
The facilitative conditions of coaching
Listening skills
How to effectively work with Powerful Questions &
Inquiry
Support & Accountability
12. Practicing the basic skills as they apply to
wellness work
Readiness for Change
Wellness principles for coaching
Gain an understanding of how a person’s readiness
for change influences their ability to change
Grief and readiness for change
Development and readiness for change
Applying readiness to change theory to wellness
coaching and putting it to practice in your wellness
13. The
Wellness Mapping Methodology
Assessment & Exploration
The value of self-exploration
Methods for self-exploration that fit in a
very brief coaching opportunity window
Informal wellness assessments & formal
wellness assessments
Personal Wellness Map or Plan
14. The Co-creation of the wellness plan
Focus on areas that matter
Setting very clear goals
Essential components of the Wellness Map
Strategizing to assist the client make the changes they
really want to make
Accountability & Support
The power of the alliance for support
15. Evaluation
& Measurement
Strategizing to maintain the change
Connections to be made for the client
Creating Well Life Vision
Co-creating the Plan
Forward Movement
Chosen Lasting Behavior Change
16. Coaching
Clients With Health
Challenges
The Behavioral side of medical
compliance – helping your client
with the
“Lifestyle Prescription”
Coaching beyond the compliance
Specifics for recently diagnosed
clients
17. Brief
- Coaching people with
diabetes, heart disease and other health
challenges
Support for individuals with diagnosis
Support for prevention
Support for reclaiming
Your Specific Coaching Challenges
Applying it all to your delivery system
18. Exploration
and focus on your particular
and frequent challenges
Working with the your specific clients
Working with the your specific situations
Making Wellness coaching real and
applicable in your establishment
Further Application
19. Case
study, live demonstrations, live
practice
Staying connected.
Creating commitment to self &
others to keep the learning “alive”.
How we can support and assist as
you go forth as a Wellness Coach.