Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Advanced Skills & Craft

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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: $995.00 (If not bundled into the Professional Wellness & Health Coach Certification - NBHWC or ICF paths)

Required Text:  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