Health and Life Coach certification program is open to anyone interested in learning health and life coaching skills principles, or to any wellness professionals who partner with clients to facilitate positive behavior changes and goal achievement. .
A health coach is a mentor who supports clients in making sustainable lifestyle changes to improve physical and mental well-being.
- Primary Focus: Improving physical health, nutrition, fitness, sleep, and stress management.
- Key Roles:
- Helping manage or prevent chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension.
- Translating a physician’s general advice (e.g., “eat better”) into actionable daily habits.
- Using evidence-based strategies to bridge the gap between medical recommendations and daily implementation.
- Share core techniques like motivational interviewing and accountability, they typically focus on different domains of an individual’s life
- Work Settings: Healthcare clinics, insurance companies, or corporate wellness programs.
A life coach is a strategic partner who focuses on personal growth and professional development.
- Primary Focus: Achieving personal and professional objectives, such as career
- transitions, relationship improvements, and financial planning.
- Key Roles:
- Identifying obstacles and limiting beliefs that hinder progress.
- Developing action plans for significant life changes, such as switching careers or improving time management.
- Applying positive psychology principles to build confidence and resilience.
- Work Settings: Private practice, corporate leadership programs, or virtual coaching platforms.
Course duration is 6 months
Course Content
Basics of Professional Coaching
- What Is Professional Coaching?
- Our Coaching Toolbox: Principles, Objectives, and Techniques
- Objective-Based Coaching
- Coaching Conversation and concepts
- The Primary Tool of Professional Coaching
- Applying Professional Coaching to Teams and Organizations
Professional Coaching in Depth
- Professional Coaching Process
- The Session Purpose
- Exploring the Coachee’s Mental Landscape
- Forward Motion
- Closing a Coaching Session
- Coaching Techniques
Acting as a Mirror
- Neutrality: The Absence of Distortion
- Fully Absorbing Information
- Consider Your Response
- Reflecting the Coachee in Your Response
- Helping the Coachee Focus
- Using the Team to Augment Your Coaching
- A Complete Summary of Professional Coaching
Offering Expertise and Advocacy
- Resisting the Urge to Provide Unsolicited Expertise
- Handling Explicit Requests for Expertise
- Sharing the “Minimum Viable” Amount of Expertise
- Safe use of self and becoming aware of Blind Spots
- Applying a Coaching Mindset to Teaching
- Creating a Self-Serve Knowledge-Sharing Environment
- Guidelines for Sharing Feedback and Expertise
- Additional Considerations for Sharing Feedback and Expertise
- Receiving Feedback as a Coach
Review common diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, stress and heart disease
Coaching toward Performance
- Connecting People with Their Best Selves
- Shifting from Obstacles to Goals
- Providing Feedback on the Coachee’s Journey
- Rewiring Our Thought Patterns
- Team Self-Coaching
- Supporting Coachee Improvement Efforts
Being the Best Coach You Can Be
- Bring Your Whole Self to Coaching
- Leverage Your Emotional Intelligence
- Experiment and Take Risks to Grow as a Coach
- Consider Specialized Tools and Techniques
- Incorporate Coaching Skills into Your Everyday Interactions diseases
Leveraging Group Facilitation
- The Best Results Emerge from Self-Organizing Teams
- Facilitation Structures and Practices That Maximize Coachee Choice
- Powerful Activities–Powerful Questions for Teams
- Additional Opportunities for Team
- Coaching Case Studies
The Coaching Engagement
- Discovering the Work That Needs Doing
- Doing the Work
- Measuring Agility
- What’s Your Coaching Engagement Model?
- Coaching Contrasted with Other Services
- The Coaching Agreement for the Coaching Engagement
- Coaching case studies
Upon completion of this program a certificate is awarded and a 2 year membership as a License Holistic Health practitioner LHHP.