Our wellness coach & health coach certification program leads to not only a personal transformation, but it will rapidly and profoundly improve your ability to help your clients make breakthroughs and lasting behavioral change towards health, fitness, and wellness!

Blending the best from the wellness field with the practical and effective skill-base of coaching, The Wellness 360°™ model of wellness coaching gives wellness and healthcare professionals the skills they need to help their clients make lasting lifestyle change. It is a systematic wellness and lifestyle coaching process, based on evidenced based behavioral change psychology, human motivation, cultural support, and professional coaching competencies.

There is a lifestyle aspect to all health challenges and lifestyle improvement that is much easier with allies. For many people their success at lifestyle change is largely determined by how well connected they are to a supportive culture of wellness around them. Healthcare and wellness professionals with wellness coaching skills can effectively guide their clients towards the lifestyle changes prescribed by the physician. The Wellness 360°™ certification training provides a structured, proven methodology that effectively supports the individual’s movement toward healthy lifestyle change.

Training in wellness coaching helps healthcare and wellness professionals shift the responsibility for change to the individual.  Learning to create a true alliance with their “coach”, the individual discovers how to better form needed alliances with others and ask their environment for what they need.  Together the client and coach create a wellness plan that will help the client to achieve their lifestyle improvement goals in any and all areas of wellness.

The Wellness & Health Coach Certification Training Program is a 2-part, 32hour certification program designed for the participant who wants to add wellness / health coaching skills to their existing professional education. Our Wellness & Health Coach Certification Training Program is a deep, Interactive training opportunity delivered either live on location, or via interactive webinar. The program is designed to train and certify health, fitness, and mental health professionals as wellness and health coaches.

Class formats (Trainings may also be scheduled for organizations either live on location or via webinar)

Webinars: This format is a two part - 8-week learning experience with classes being held twice a week for two hours each session.  (Buddy coaching, reading, final exam, and case study completion take place outside of class)

Live on-Location Intensive: This format is a four-day, 32 hour learning experience held four times a year nationally. (Buddy coaching, reading, final exam, and case study completion take place outside of class) 

• Part 1 - The Wellness 360°™ Coach Certification Course: Partipants learn a holistic coaching process that empowers the client and focuses on positive lifestyle change. Wellness 360°™ “Wellness Coach” Certification Process: Certification is achieved by successful completion of the 20 hours of training and completion of a case study. To ensure continued skill development of your wellness coaching skills and quality of the WM360 Certification Program the WM 360º© “Health Coach” Certification must be completed within 2 years.

Wellness 360°™ Wellness Coaching - Learning Objectives

1. Participants will demonstrate proficiency in wellness coaching skills including:

- Creating the coaching alliance based on the facilitative conditions of a coaching relationship

- The ability to create an effective wellness map / plan

- Coaching competencies that move a client from reflection to action

- Creating client support & accountability

2. Participants will demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to use "Readiness for Change" to support a clients forward movement toward health & wellbeing

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

5. Participants will demonstrate the use of the wellness coaching conversation in resolving client ambivalence.

6. Participants will gain a working understanding of Positive Psychology and Behavioral Change Psychology as they apply to lifestyle change.

• Part 2 - Wellness 360°™ “Health Coach” Certification Process: The prerequisite for the Health Coach Certification is successful completion of the Wellness Coach Certification. In this 12 hour training, health professionals learn how to apply the Wellness Mapping 360°™ model of wellness coaching to assisting people with specific health challenges and how to effectively use the model with groups. Health Coach Certification is achieved by successful completion of the 12 contact hours of training and the final exam. To ensure continued growth of the wellness coach the Wellness 360°™ “Health Coach” Certification is renewable every two years with ten Continuing Education Hours in a related field and a $75 processing fee.

Wellness 360°™ Health Coaching - Learning Objectives

1.     Participants will demonstrate proficiency in the Wellness 360°™Wellness Coaching framework from prevention to recovery

2.     Participants will understand the role of the wellness coach in Lifestyle Medicine

3.     Participants will demonstrate knowledge of "Readiness for Change" as it applies to major health challenges and the impact of grief on the process

4.     Participants will demonstrate in-depth coaching competencies

5.     Participants will demonstrate competency in coaching for medical compliance

6.     Participants will be able to adapt Wellness Coaching to different environments and formats including the facilitation of wellness coaching groups