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