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# Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Advanced Skills & Craft

## **Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Advanced Skills & Craft**

## **COURSE OUTLINE ![AdobeStock 66689229](https://realbalance.com/images/2020%20Stock/AdobeStock_179831130.jpeg)**

**Purpose:** Participants will deepen their interpersonal coaching skills and better understand the individual coaching process. Moving from competent to masterful coach.

**Structure:** This is 20-hour course

***Registration Fee: $1,095.00*** (If not bundled into the Professional Wellness & Health Coach Certification - NBHWC or ICF paths)

*This class is also approved for Continuing Education Hours for NBHWC  - CEA-000199-2*

Required Text:  *Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change*, by Michel Arloski and *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*, by Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, NBC-HWC

**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 refine both their tangible and intangible coaching skills as defined by the ICf such as coaching presence
- Participants will gain greater understanding of how to coach clients with health challenges
- Participants will progress toward a greater coaching mastery through instructor and group feedback and self-evaluation methodology
- Participants will be able to define major theories and behavioral change techniques and their application

**Experiential Learning:**

The last 30 minutes of each class will be devoted to either live coaching practice or to in-class review of recordings of students coaching with actual clients.

Each Student will practice/present at least one recording to be reviewed in class

Completion Information

- Successful completion of the 20 contact hours of training (with class practice and observation sessions) 8 self-paced hours.
- Completion and review using self-observation form of 6 recorded wellness coaching sessions with a client or a volunteer with submission of self-observation forms and coach notes
- Submission of 1 recording for skills review in class
- Creation of and submission of your own Professional Development Plan

**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 5 hours of Living Well with Illness modules will be talked about in class.

**Introductions**

- Overview of educational outcomes
- Introductions and details
- Wellness coaching and the transformation process

LESSON ONE

**Transformation – Life Transformation – The Client **

(ICF CORE COMPETENCY – A. FOUNDATION}

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter One - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- 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 DEMONSTRATION** and analysis

LESSON TWO

**Transformation Of The Coach: Wellness Coaching As An Integral Craft**

(ICF CORE COMPETENCY – A. FOUNDATION)

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Two - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- What does it mean to be a craftsperson?
- Research on developing expertise
- FIVE KEYS TO MASTERY – George Leonard
- Thoughts on the Mastery Path – Who do I want to be as a coach?
- Self-mastery for the coach. The Self-Vigilant Coach
- Finding Your Own Path
- **Coaching Practice**and analysis

LESSON THREE

**HOW TO BE -** **Being And Doing**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – A. FOUNDATION, B. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Three - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- The Equal If Not Greater Importance of How To Be 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
- Coaching Mindset
- Awareness – internal and external
- Mindfulness
- **Coaching Practice**and analysis or **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON FOUR

**HOW TO BE - Co-Creating The Coaching Alliance**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – B. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Four - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- Coaching Presence - Providing The Facilitative Conditions of Coaching
- Empathy – deeper exploration, the Sound of Empathy (how to put it into words)
- Brene Brown Video & discussion
- Dancing In The Moment
- Client-Centered Directedness
- **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON FIVE

**HOW TO BE - Being Isn’t Always Easy**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY ­– A. FOUNDATION, B. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP, C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Five - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- Self-Compassion
- Self-Deception and Being Well
- Aikido Moves: Coaching with Difficult Clients
- Coaching the Reluctant Client
- Self-Disclosure in Coaching
- Collusion & Projection
- **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON  SIX

**WHAT TO DO - Advanced Coaching Skills And Methods – Motivation**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, D. CULTIVATING LEARNING AND GROWTH

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Six - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- Self-determination theory
- Building Intrinsic Motivation
- Social Cognitive Theory
1. Causal Structure
  2. Social & Environmental Determinants of Health & how to coach them.
- Bandura’s 4 ways to Build Self-Efficacy
- Mobilizing Motivation
- Motivation and Awareness
- **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON SEVEN

**WHAT TO DO - Framing, reframing and perspective**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, D. CULTIVATING LEARNING AND GROWTH

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Seven - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- Deep Listening
- Active Listening Skills & Questions
- The Use Of Metaphors And Analogies In Coaching
- Reframing
- Creativity In Coaching
- Coaching with Tools
- **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON  EIGHT

**WHAT TO DO - Forward Momentum – The Change Process**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, D. CULTIVATING LEARNING AND GROWTH

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Eight - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- Productive Exploration
- Sharing Observations – Saying What Is So
- Forwarding The Action – **TTM – Readiness for Change**
- Coaching through Precontemplation
- Designing Actions – The Wellness Plan
- **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON NINE

**WHAT TO DO  - Coaching Through The Internal Barriers To Change**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – B. CO-CREATING THE RELATIONSHIP, C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, D. CULTIVATING LEARNING AND GROWTH

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Nine - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- **Process Coaching** - The Great Utility of Coaching In The Emotional Realm
- How to coach through **emotions** and respect the therapeutic boundary
- Distinguishing Coaching vs. Therapy
- Resolution vs. Relevance
- Referring to a Mental Health Professional
- Motivational Interviewing and techniques for resolving ambivalence
- **Coaching Recording Review** **and Feedback**

LESSON  TEN

**Lasting Improvement In Health Behavior**

ICF CORE COMPETENCY – C. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, D. CULTIVATING LEARNING AND GROWTH

PPT Presentation and Discussion through whole group and breakout rooms.

Chapter Ten - *Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft*

- Coaching Clients with Health Challenges
- Integrating the Treatment Plan and the Wellness Plan
- Lasting Professional Development For The Coach
- Review of Leonard’s Five Keys
- Any Additional **Coaching Recordings Review** **and Feedback**
- Review Requirements
- SUMMARY AND TAKE AWAYS
