Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Advanced Skills & Craft
COURSE OUTLINE 
Purpose: Participants will deepen their interpersonal coaching skills and better understand the individual coaching process. Moving from competent to masterful coach.
Structure: This is 28-hour course with 20 live, interactive class hours and 8 web-based, self-paced hours.
Registration Fee: $995.00 (If not bundled into the Professional Wellness & Health Coach Certification - NBHWC path)
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will demonstrate increased self-awareness and ability to self-monitor
- Participants will achieve an improved ability to coach clients dealing with emotions and conflict
- Participants will gain greater awareness of behavioral change theory as it applies to wellness and health coaching
- Participants will gain increased ability to use stages of change theory when coaching clients
- Participants will expand and enhance their coaching skills as defined by the ICF (International Coaching Federation) and the NBHWC Core Competencies
- Participants will increase their ability to provide coaching structure and coaching presence
- Participants will gain greater understanding of how to coach clients with health challenges
- Participants will progress toward a greater level of coaching mastery through instructor and group feedback and self-evaluation
- Participants will be able to define major theories and behavioral change techniques and their application
Completion Information
- Successful completion of the 28 contact hours of training (with class practice and observation sessions) 20 interactive hours and 8 web-based, self-paced hours.
- Completion and review using self-observation form of 5 recorded wellness coaching sessions with a client or a volunteer with submission of self-observation forms
- Submission of 1 recording for skills review in class
- Creation of and submission of your own Professional Development Plan
- Submit a recording for a graded review – arrange mentor coaching session to review the recording
Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Advanced Skills & Craft
Training Outline
The live, interactive portion of this training is a balanced blend of didactic, participative and experiential training with emphasis on demonstration of skills and practice by the instructor and the participants. The web-based, self-paced 8 hours include 3 hours of Complementary Theories and 5 hours of Living Well with Illness modules all of which will be discussed in class.
Introductions
- Overview of educational outcomes
- Introductions and details
- Wellness coaching and the transformation process
Life Transformation – The Client
- People are transforming the way they live for the rest of their entire lives, not just reducing the frequency of a targeted behavior.
- How people transform their lives and make LASTING Health Behavior Change
- Coaching for A Lifetime of Wellness – A Five Point Method
- Meaning and Purpose
- Coaching Ethics – Codes of Ethics, etc.
- Distinguishing Coaching vs. Therapy
Exercise
Transformation for the Coach: Wellness Coaching as An Integral Craft
- What does it mean to be a craftsperson?
- Research on developing expertise
- FIVE KEYS TO MASTERY – George Leonard
- Self-mastery for the coach.
Exercise
Being and Doing
- Being in the Coaching Process
- The Coach’s Personal Wellness Foundation
- What centers you in your life?
- Centered, Grounded And Aware
- The Tao Of Wellness Coaching
Exercise
Co-Creating the Coaching Alliance
- Coaching Mindset
- Awareness – internal and external
- Mindfulness
- Coaching Presence - Providing the Facilitative Conditions of Coaching
Coaching practice
Co-Creating the Coaching Alliance
- Dancing In The Moment
- Self-Disclosure
- Collusion
- The Coach Holds the Structure for the Clients Agenda
Exercise
When Coaching Isn’t Easy
- Client-Centered Directedness
- Self-Deception and Living Well
- Aikido Moves: Coaching the Difficult Client
- Coaching the Reluctant Client
- Seven Expressions of Courageous Coaching
Exercise
Advanced Coaching Skills and Methods – Increasing Awareness
- Deepening Active Listening Skills
- The Fine Art of Coaching Questions
- Linguistics and effective coaching Refining Coaching Linguistics: Verbal Tics, Placeholders and Fingerprint Words
- Appreciative Inquiry– the coaching mindset and the Power of Positive Questions
Coaching Practice
Framing, Reframing and Perspective
- Explore the nature of perspective
- The Use of Metaphors and Analogies in Coaching
- Reframing
- Creativity in Coaching
- Coaching with Tools
Exercise
Forward Momentum
- Productive Exploration
- Sharing Observations – Saying What Is So
- Forwarding the Action
- Designing Actions – The Wellness Plan
Coaching practice & exercise
Coaching Through the Internal & External Barriers to Change
- Examining belief systems, etc.
- Process Coaching - The Great Utility of Coaching in The Emotional Realm
- How to coach through emotions and respect the therapeutic boundary
- Compassionate Detachment
- Exploring limitations
Coaching Demo & Exercise
Lasting Improvement In Health Behavior –
- Co-Creating Lasting Lifestyle Improvement
- Integrating the Treatment Plan and the Wellness Plan
- Coaching for Self-Efficacy Lessons from Albert Bandura For Wellness Coaches
- Lasting Professional Development for The Coach
- Review of Leonard’s Five Keys
Exercise and Coaching Practice
Self Determination Theory and the Trans Theoretical Model
– Readiness for Change in Health Coaching
- What we know about Motivation
- Understanding TTM as a continuum
- Using TTM in Health Coaching Across the Readiness Continuum
- The many uses in Health Coaching Across the Readiness Continuum
Exercise
Motivational Interviewing and techniques for resolving ambivalence
- Identifying the language of ambivalence
- Facilitating a shift in perspective
- Working with Sustain Talk
- Working with Change Talk
- Shifting from Evoking Change to Planning
Exercise and Practice
Resolving Ambivalence
The conversation for change
- Change Talk
- Shifting from Evoking Change to Planning
- Fish bowl coaching
- Small group work
Exercise
Coaching People With Health Challenges
- Case Study reviews
- What holds true when coaching people with any health Condition
- Review of Living Well With Illness modules ( In class review of the 5 modules viewed online)
Coaching Practice- Observations
- COACHING PRACTICE – Observations & Feedback
- Review
- Completion Requirements & next steps