Holistic health coach UK

London & Dublin

TBC

Online

February 2022

Read: Why Become a Health and Wellness Coach?

Health and Wellness Coaching has developed as an exciting and incredibly successful healthcare profession over the past 30 years in the USA, melding together the best of behaviour change theories, humanistic psychology and life coaching. It recognises that most individuals know what they should be doing to ensure optimum health, have been told what to do by numerous healthcare professionals but still cant change their habits.

Health coaches use specific communication techniques to empower individuals to take responsibility for their own health and to adopt long term healthier lifestyle choices. This can dramatically improve patient compliance and practitioner success rates making this discipline an excellent add-on for any healthcare professional.

Studying health and wellness coaching can propel you into a rapidly growing and well accepted discipline in both orthodox and complementary healthcare due to the evidence that demonstrates its role in improved patient outcomes, medical compliance, employee health and productivity, and lower healthcare costs.

This course ensures that students develop practical coaching skills in motivational interviewing, building an alliance with clients, understanding readiness to change, goal setting &planningandcoaching in different healthcare settings. It is important to note that health coaching is not, however, just about building a rapport with clients and communicating effectively with them.

Whilst these skills are hugely important, true health coaching requires the practitioner to step back from their usual role as educator and instead focus on becoming an ally to clients. This course will teach students how to do this effectively and to encourage individuals to take responsibility for their own health and develop personal strategies to change that work for them. This is a step-by-step process and may involve regular and numerous face to face, telephone and email consultations.

Read: More about how Health & Wellness Coaching Works, its Key Benefits & Career Prospects

Real Balance Global Wellness Services, Inc., in association with the Institute of Health Sciences, is proud to introduce this course to the UK. Real Balance Global Wellness Services, Inc. is approved by the International Coaching Federation [ICF] as an ACSTH [a training organisation offering Approved Coach Specific Training Hours]. This means that students taking this course through IHScan apply for 37 hours of ACSTH credit that can help them pursue an ICF professional credential in coaching, if they so choose.

Real Balance has trained thousands of wellness and health coaches worldwide and its training is recognised and approved by the American College of Sports Medicine, The American Holistic Nurses Association and The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing. Real Balance founder and CEO, Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, CWP, is a founding father of the wellness coaching field. A licensed psychologist and professional certified coach with over thirty years of professional contribution to the field of wellness, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The National Wellness Institute [www.nationalwellness.org], and is a founding member of the executive committee of the National Consortium For Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches [www.ncchwc.org]. Michael is the author of Wellness Coaching For Lasting Lifestyle Change the seminal book of the wellness coaching field, used by many universities and coach training schools. He keynotes, consults and trains on lifestyle improvement and wellness coaching, taking his message of wellness around the globe.

This course is the missing link in treatment plans it is possible to have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if you dont know how to support your client to make the changes, it is difficult to achieve the results. I believe that the coaching skills will help to transform my practice as a herbalist. Thanks for an excellent training!
Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching Graduate, Naturopath and Herbalist

What is the difference between a health coach and a nutrition coach?

Strictly speaking, health coaches solely use communication & behavioural change techniques to empower individuals to take responsibility for their own health and to adopt long term healthier lifestyle choices. They do not need to be an expert in any particular field health coaches do not give dietary advice. Nutrition coaches use a combination of health coaching skills and dietary analysis & advice with their clients. It is important to note, however, that these previously accepted definitions are changing and so the two titles are now considered to be interchangeable.For more information regarding our nutrition coaching course, please see our Diploma in Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching. This course is recognised by the UK Health Coaches Association for coaching skills CPD.

• Become a Health Coach. Join the new generation of healthcare professionals
• Help clients make a real, positive and long term difference to their lives. Develop the skills required to effectively help clients to facilitate changes in the long term, overcome barriers to change and improve their health
• Receive a Digital toolkit of all Wellness Mapping 360 paperwork needed to start practising.Wellness Mapping 360 is a health and wellness coaching model that gives graduates aframework that provides a systematic way to work with individualsover a number of coaching sessions
• Comprehensive and well structured study material supplied. Including presentation slides, written notes, case studies, video clips, quizzes and short answer questions and the opportunitiesto reflect on your knowledge all designed to make the learning experience as interactive as possible
• Dynamic and interactive lecture weekends and webinars. Designed to suit all learning types and engage students in the learning process. Lecture weekends include a mixture of formal lectures, group discussion, group exercises and role play
• Recognised for 37 Approved Coach Specific Training Hours [ACSTH] with the International Coach Federation [ICF]
• Open yourself up to limitless opportunities in the healthcare arena

• Wellness from the Inside Out: What determines our health? the illness/wellness continuum, defining wellness, taking wellness one on one
• The Mindset Shift: Moving from prescribe & treat and educate & implore to advocate & inspire, motivational mindsets & strategies for coaching
• Wellness Coaching Skills: Overview of coaching skills and the core competencies of coaching, creating the coaching alliance, the facilitative conditions of coaching, listening skills, how to effectively work with powerful questions & inquiry, support & accountability
• Readiness For Change: Prochaskas readiness for change theory, grief and readiness for change, development and readiness for change
• The Wellness Coaching 360° Methodology: Assessment & exploration, informal & formal wellness assessments, personal wellness map, the co-creation of the wellness plan, setting very clear goals, creating strategies to assist the client in makingthe changes they really want to make, accountability & support, evaluation, celebrating successes, creating strategies to maintain the change
• Powerful Wellness Coaching Tools & Methods: The self-care continuum, the power of habit, the use of motivational interviewing in resolving ambivalence, coaching for stress resiliency, ways to coach through habit, coaching the client in a stressful world
• Your Specific Coaching Challenges: Applying it all to your delivery system, working with the your specific clients, working with the your specific situations, making wellness coaching real and applicable in your establishment

• Coaching Clients with Health Challenges: Helping your client with the Lifestyle Prescription, coaching for medical compliance and beyond, specifics for recently diagnosed clients
• Specific Health Challenges: Coaching individualswith diabetes, heart disease and other health challenges, support for individuals with diagnosis, support for prevention, support for onset, support for adaptation recovery, rehabilitation, reclaiming

• Proficiency in wellness coaching skills
• Proficiency in the Wellness Mapping 360° method of wellness coaching
• Proficiency in the use of the wellness coaching with clients who have health challenges from prevention through recovery
• Knowledge of and the ability to use readiness for Change to support a clients forward movement toward health & wellbeing
• An understanding of the role of wellness coaching in medical compliance
• A grounding in health promotion concepts
• Proficiency in the use of the wellness coaching conversation to resolve client ambivalence
• A working understanding of Positive Psychology and Behavioural Change Psychology as they apply to lifestyle
• An understanding of how to apply wellness / health coaching skills in different settings
• Proficiency in the development and facilitation of wellness coaching groups

Please contact us for a lecture plan.

The in class version of this course includes 4 days of lectures/workshops/coaching practice and the online version 16 x 2 hour webinars with 2 x 4 hour online workshops at weekends. Both options include comprehensive home study [study manuals supplied].

The minimum academic entry requirement for this course is 4 GCSEs grades A to C. Equivalent international qualifications will also be accepted.A qualification in the healthcare or wellness industry, or in a similar related field is essential.

Applicants with Prior Learning and Experiential Prior Learning will also be considered. All knowledge, skills and competencies accumulated through life and work experience will be considered.

With Lecture Weekends

£895

Online

£895