Wellness Coaching Track

For those individuals interested in Wellness Coaching, we offer several innovative classes. Each is designed to enhance your knowledge of the wellness profession and provide opportunities for the expansion of your coaching skills in this area.

• Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Specialist Certificate Course:
  Using the Body to Deepen Awareness and Forward the Action
• Introduction to Wellness Coaching
• Wellness Inventory Certification Course

Date	Day	Time	Last Date to Register	Registration
Oct 5, 2010 - Feb 8, 2011 (no class 11/23, 12/21, 12/28)	Tu	7:00-8:30 p.m. Eastern	September 28	[Register]

This Certificate Course, designed for coaching over the phone or in person, will provide in-depth training for coaches in any niche to enhance and deepen their coaching skills. You will develop expertise in accessing the nonverbal dimension that exists in all interactions and communications.

Using Body-Mind Life Coaching™ tools, coaches will learn ways to work with the powerful messages of the body. It is said that the body never lies. Through habitual ways of thinking, acting and feeling, there is often a disconnection between the mind and body.

The main goal of this course is to teach skills and techniques for working with the fertile ground and wisdom of the body to help bridge the body-mind gap. Additionally, you will gain advanced understanding and practice in the many ways you can uncover, utilize and work with the information from the body.

The materials for the course will acquaint you with the fields of "Somatics" and "Body Therapy," which provide the foundation for Body-Mind Life Coaching™. The instructor has written a 225-page manual, filled with articles, references and specific papers on the Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Process.

The course content will focus on learning how to access the language of the body by paying attention to presence, physical sensations, breath, voice, posture, and unconscious habit patterns. Readings, discussion, class experiments, cases, role-plays, demonstration sessions, personal exploration and buddy work will provide different ways to work with non-verbal content. The techniques of ‘pausing’, ‘noticing’ and ‘practicing’ will be used to create and deepen awareness and forward the action.

In addition, halfway through the training, you will have the opportunity to coach a client who has volunteered to come into the class. Supervision and discussion immediately afterwards provides opportunities for self-assessment to increase awareness and to deepen learning in a safe and supportive environment. Role-plays will also provide opportunities to practice the skills and tools, using a co-coaching training model.

Examples of ways to use the body as an avenue to gain information to shift perspectives, explore possibilities and affirm the rightness of choices will be explored in depth, as you learn how to hone your skills in the last half of the course.

Course Objectives:

• To learn how to bridge the body-mind gap through body awareness and mindfulness experiments.
• To understand the universal application of Body-Mind Life Coaching™ skills in all forms of coaching.
• To understand the importance of breath and various ways to work with breathing in coaching.
• To experiment with different skills and exercises to access the language of the body.
• To understand when and how to use body-mind skills and techniques with clients.
• To learn embodied listening and attunement skills.
• To practice skills through role-plays and the opportunity to coach a volunteer client.
• To develop proficiency in integrating the Body-Mind Life Coaching™ process into your coaching style.

Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Specialist Certificate:
This certificate will provide you with advanced training in the ever-growing and popular fields of Wellness Coaching and Body Focused Coaching. Other coaching specialties, such as, Executive Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Career and Life Transitions Coaching and coach training and mentoring, can be enhanced through developing proficiency in this approach.

Required Manual: ($60.00) is ordered directly from Dr. Lauree Moss. You may contact her at 310-828-0234.

Instructor:
Dr. Lauree E. Moss brings to life coaching over 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist and a teacher of body-mind work. She has been adjunct faculty at the Institute for Life Coach Training for the last several years. For the last 20 years, she has been a core faculty instructor at the Institute of Integrative Body Psychotherapy in Venice, CA., where she teaches psychotherapists, coaches and allied health practitioners how to integrate body, mind, and spirit into their work. Currently her energy and professional interests are focused on life coaching and the integration of body-mind skills into training programs for coaches.

Dr. Moss is a Professional Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Life Coach and graduate from the Institute for Life Coach Training. Her areas of specialization include health and wellness, relationships, and transitions.

Her company, Cycles of Change Life Coaching, provides personal and executive coaching, training and mentoring. She is a Certified Peoplemap™ System Trainer and also holds certifications in the Wellness Inventory and the Seasons of Change. For more information, you can go to her websites: www.needtotalk.tv/moss.htm, www.body-mindlifecoachinginstitute.com.

Lauree Moss is an incredible coach and teacher, whose background, education and style of teaching is inspiring and motivating. She has a rich history in mind/body work, has brought that framework into coaching, and designed a fantastic course around it, so we coaches can use a mind/body focus with our clients when appropriate. I believe this to be some of the most valuable work I do in my coaching. I have taken two of her mind/body courses and loved them both. - Michelle K. Rios, MA, PCC, Igniting Excellence Coaching

LEARN MORE! Listen to the discussion with Michele Sutton and Dr. Patrick Williams about this exciting class!.

Introduction to Wellness Coaching
Prerequisite: 40 hour foundational class or approved equivalent 40 hours
Tuition: $400.
Sessions: Eight sessions, 60 minutes
Credits: 8 hours
Taught by: Michele Sutton
E-Mail: Michele@lifecoachtrainig.com

Date	Day	Time	Registration
Next Class Date TBA

Coaching wellness requires acknowledging many aspects of well-being that extend far beyond an attention to physical health. Wellness involves a holistic approach that integrates mind, body, and spirit to facilitate optimal living. Designed for coaches, wellness professionals, and laymen, this course discusses wellness concepts, explains scope of practice, reviews wellness assessments, and addresses the specific skill set of effective wellness coaches. Participants will learn the relevant theories, principles, and techniques that cultivate motivation for lifestyle transformation. Keys to lasting behavioral change are discussed and the importance of a personal wellness foundation is explored.

Course Objectives/Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Define wellness/optimal living
• Define wellness coaching and the related scope of practice
• Utilize wellness assessments
• Identify the Stages of Change and utilize 9 change processes
• Utilize foundational coaching skills to move clients through the stages of change
• Utilize Appreciative Inquiry within a coaching conversation
• Utilize Motivational Interviewing techniques to combat resistance to change
• Co-create wellness action plans
• Identify the significance of SMART goals in establishing accountability
• Conduct effective wellness coaching conversations

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	310-823-9553 / online
September 8 - December 8, 2010	W	1:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern	310-823-9553 / online
September 9 - December 9, 2010	Th	7:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern	310-823-9553 / online

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

To Register: Contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 or jim@healthy.net. Payment Plans available.

To register online: https://www.mywellnesstest.com/WL_CertifySignup.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