Advancing The Craft Of Health & Wellness Coaching
The Best Coaching Question
The Best Coaching Question
As a guest on Mike Vera’s Podcast Healthy & Awake (https://mikevera.com/healthy-%26-awake-podcast) I was surprised to be asked “What’s your favorite question to use in coaching?” For a brief moment I was puzzled by the question, then I immediately said
“What are you aware of right now?”
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Coaching With a Positive Psychology Approach to Wellness Motivation Using PERMA-V
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter F. Drucker
As a psychologist I’ve often been asked by professionals in the healthcare and health promotion fields “How do you motivate these people?” I’ve never liked that question. The use of the term ‘these people’ often meant the person…
Coaching Emotions for Better Lifestyle Choices
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Lifestyle behavioral change is not simply a rational process. Emotions influence or sometimes completely determine the outcome of decisions we are confronted with every day.
When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Wading Into the Lake of Emotion: a Metaphor for Coaches
Health and Wellness Coaches seek to serve their clients the best they know how. People have been drawn to do this work because they care about people and want to assist them in their journey to living their best life possible. To do this we bring forward our best utilization of coaching competencies, behavioral change theories, evidence-based practices and methodologies.…
Coaching About Fear: A Wellness Coaching Perspective
One of the biggest barriers to our success in life, or with our Wellness Plan is our fears. What holds us back from making the changes in our lives we know we need to make? How do we coach with someone around their fears while staying within our Scope of Practice? (https://nbhwc.org/scope-of-practice/)
Fears and Consequences
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Coaching Habits That Can Take Away From Your Effectiveness
The longer we do anything the more we fall into habits. Habits are time savers. They help us avoid making our lives more complex than they need to be. They often are shortcuts that help us to experience less stress and get things done, sometimes quite efficiently. Doing certain things by rote can serve us well. Health and wellness coaches…
The Growth Mindset vs. The Fixit Mindset in Coaching
“We define mindsets as core assumptions that we have about domains or categories of things that orient us to a particular set of expectations, explanations, and goals. So to put that a little bit more simply, mindsets are ways of viewing reality, that shape, what we expect, what we understand, and what we want to do.” Alia J. Crum, PhD…
The Zone of Compassion: More Thoughts on the Heart of Coaching
How do we allow ourselves to enter the zone of compassion, and what holds us back from going there? How do we keep our “coherent sense of self” that Erik Erikson talked about intact when we connect with the ‘other’? (Allow me to use the term ‘other’ to refer to a person or persons, clients, or otherwise throughout this piece.).
…Top Ten Books for Health & Wellness Coaching
Winter is a great time for coaches to rest up, reflect and recharge their energy. It’s a great time to also work on your ongoing professional development and what better way this time of year than to cozy up with a good book!
Many of you are taking your professional development as a health & wellness coach seriously and…
More Creative Health & Wellness Coaching
A stimulating conversation with a colleague launched me on an exploration of how we can allow ourselves to be more creative in the coaching work we do. A mark of a more masterful coach that I’ve always observed is their ability to be creative in the moment in ways that enhanced the coaching process. Watching them work, I would see…
The Coaching Conversation: Facilitating Versus Contributing
Coach training often talks about the importance of the ‘Coaching Conversation’. What is it exactly and how is it very different from a Social Conversation?
Coach Patrick Williams (https://drpatwilliams.com) describes the Coaching Conversation as:
Coaching is a conversation where the client gets to say what they have not said, think what they have not thought, and…
Busting Out of Precontemplation: TTM and Wellness Coaching
James and Janice Prochaska were kind enough to edit the section of my new book Masterful Health & Wellness Coaching: Deepening Your Craft https://wholeperson.com/store/masterful-health-and-wellness-coaching.html that conveys how coaches can make use of their model for behavioral change – The Transtheoretical Model. I am deeply grateful to them for this. While many coaches are familiar with their work on the…
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