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 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