Wellness Inventory Certification Training
Prerequisite: 40 hour foundational class or approved equivalent 40 hours
Tuition: $1,195 (Payment plans available)
Sessions: 14 (two hours each)
Credits: 28 hours
Taught by: Jim Strohecker, Bobbie Burdett
E-Mail: jim@healthy.net

 

Date	Day	Time	Registration
September 7 - December 7, 2010	Tu	7:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern	[Register]
September 8 - December 8, 2010	W	1:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern	[Register]
September 9 - December 9, 2010	Th	7:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern	[Register]

The Certification Training will provide in-depth personal experience and practical knowledge of the Wellness Inventory change process as well as a unique coaching skill-set to maximize the program’s effectiveness in creating change in your clients’ lives. The goal of the course is to create competence in delivering the program to both individual and organizational coaching clients.

The Wellness Inventory is an online assessment and life-balance tool that focuses on the whole person in 12 key dimensions of wellness. A powerful tool for coaches, the Wellness Inventory is an advanced version of the life wheel (coaching mandala), and provides invaluable insight into your client and as well as a framework or "organizing principle" within which to work.

Participants will gain proficiency in working with clients with the 12 part wellness wheel (Wellness Energy System) via an ongoing exploration of the wellness wheel as a dynamic hologram of interdependent elements. The process of working with the Wellness Wheel helps to develop greater coherence in your personal life and teaches you how to use this "whole person" process in your coaching to facilitate greater coherence in your clients’ lives.

From a marketing and business perspective, you will learn strategies for using the Wellness Inventory to:

• Create a wellness dimension in your practice
• Quickly determine client's "change readiness" in each dimension of wellness
• Create a framework for ongoing wellness coaching
• Build your practice and increase client retention
• Create new profit centers
• Work with individuals, groups and organizations

The Wellness Inventory was created over 30 years ago by John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H , one of the founders of the modern wellness movement. Dr. Travis opened the first Wellness Center in the U.S. in 1975 and created the Wellness Inventory as an intake tool for the center. Earlier, while at Johns Hopkins and the National Public Health Service, Dr. Travis was a protégé of Dr. Louis Robbins, creator of the HRA (Health Risk Appraisal). Unlike the HRA which is a diagnostic tool to determine health risk, the Wellness Inventory is primarily an educational tool that focuses on the whole person. The online version of the Wellness Inventory was created by HealthWorld Online in collaboration with Dr. Travis.

ICF Credit: 28 hours continuing education credit. 28 hours towards portfolio certification.

INSTRUCTORS:

Bobbie Burdett was a co-creator of the first wellness center in the U.S. in 1975 with John W. Travis, M.D. She co-developed the wellness coaching process for the center and has been coaching for the past 30 years. In the process, she has developed an unparalleled depth of understanding of the Wellness Inventory. A lifelong learner, she has studied many aspects of wellness for nearly 40 years, and has been instrumental in honing and updating the assessment and commentaries of the Wellness Inventory.

Jim Strohecker is CEO and co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net), the world's first Internet network for wellness and complementary/alternative medicine, and co-creator of the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program (www.WellPeople.com) and certification training. He has co-authored five books, including Natural Healing for Depression: Solutions from the World's Great Health Traditions and Practitioners (Perigee, 1999), and has collaborated on over 20 titles in the fields of natural health, psychology, human potential, yoga, meditation, and world spiritual traditions. He has served on the numerous boards, including the President's Advisory Council for Bastyr University and the Board of Trustees of the American University of Complementary Medicine

For more information about the Wellness Inventory Certification Program, visit: www.CertifyWellness.com

Listen to Interview with the Training Co-Creators: The interview focuses on the Wellness Inventory and our wellness philosophy, our wellness coaching method and holographic change process, as well as our Certification Training. The interview is with the training's co-creators, Bobbie Burdett and Jim Strohecker. (Bobbie co-created the first wellness center in the United States with John W. Travis, MD, MPH, creator of the Wellness Inventory, in 1975.) The interview gives an excellent understanding of our wellness approach and our certification training. To listen: http://tinyurl.com/well-interview

Testimonials from Certification Graduates: http://www.mywellnesstest.com/Certification_Testimonials.asp

"The Wellness Inventory is a powerful tool for health and wellness coaches and their clients. Coaching is all about motivation, intention and follow through, and the Wellness Inventory provides clients with invaluable feedback and the ability to track progress in any of the 12 areas of life. This tool should be part of every coach's tool box."
Dr. Patrick Williams, MCC, CEO, Institute for Life Coach Training

"This pioneering program gives individuals personal insight into 12 dimensions of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness, and provides tools to transform this new awareness into lasting lifestyle change and a heightened sense of health and wellbeing. An invaluable program."
Larry Dossey, M.D., Executive Editor, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing