Advancing The Craft Of Health & Wellness Coaching
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…
Health & Wellness Coaching via ZOOM: Tips for Better Sessions
Most coaching has always been done remotely, primarily via telephone. Nowadays coaches and clients hold many, if not most, of their sessions via some form of video conferencing platform. Zoom, GoTo Meeting and many other apps and services allow us to coach clients all around the globe. What fun it can be to have clients on several continents…
Clarity on Scope of Practice: The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement
Health and wellness professionals are sometimes confused about the role each professional might play in helping individuals to live their best life possible. Our clients are seeking to be healthier by attaining such goals as losing weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, becoming less isolated, and often, managing a health challenge of some kind. To do so they need:
• excellent…
Compassionate Detachment
January 2022! Welcome to a New Year and all of its potential. Ready to put the stresses and the tragedies of 2021 in the rearview mirror it’s a time to set intentions for a better year ahead. Hopefully you had some respite over the winter holidays and are ready to charge ahead in a positive way. Yet, the carryover, perhaps…
Consciously Well Holidays
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” This cheery tune becomes an earwig for many of us as we wander through any kind of store playing holiday muzak. However, “According to a survey, 45% of…people living in the United States would choose to skip out on the holidays, rather than deal with the stress of it all.” (https://www.claritychi.com/holiday-stress/…
Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 3 Accountability and Support
This is the third of a three-part series on Coaching Structure. In our first blog we showed how a coach can use structure by Co-Creating The Agenda for the session to get off to a great start. In our second blog – Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 2 Process and Progress we explored how effective processing leads to…
Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions – Part 2 Process and Progress
Though every coaching session is unique, coaching sessions that follow a general structure are usually more productive. In our last blog post we showed how a coach can use structure by Co-Creating The Agenda for the session to get off to a great start.
In that beginning structure we followed this basic sequence:
• Greet and Connect. Small…
Structuring Great Wellness Coaching Sessions: Part One – How to Get Started
“So! What do you want to talk about today?” Your client responds with the first thing on their mind. You start processing the topic with them and then…what? Or, you greet your client and start checking in on what they had made commitments to working on and when the first one is brought up you begin processing it and…then what?
Health and…
Coach Like Hemingway: Confident, Succinct, Effective
Use short sentences. Use short paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. Opening lines from 110 Stylistic Rules given to each reporter by the Kansas City Star where Hemingway got his first job in journalism (1917).
Ernest Hemingway certainly picked up on those dictums and put them to good use over an extraordinary career as a writer. When we think of these…
The What, the How and the Why of Lifestyle Improvement
Health and wellness folks are sometimes confused about the role each professional might play in helping individuals to live their best life possible. Our clients are seeking to be healthier by losing weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, becoming less isolated, and often, managing a health challenge of some kind. To do so they need:
- excellent wellness information
- …
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