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Wellcoaches Corporation is building the new profession of health & wellness coach. Professional health and wellness coaches facilitate the psychological processes of change that generate sustainable healthy lifestyles and optimal health and well-being. Seventy percent of today’s healthcare costs are related to preventable lifestyle-related diseases: more than ever before, we need well-educated, skilled, credentialed coaches to help shift healthcare to address wellness and prevention and empowe... moreWellcoaches Corporation is building the new profession of health & wellness coach. Professional health and wellness coaches facilitate the psychological processes of change that generate sustainable healthy lifestyles and optimal health and well-being. Seventy percent of today’s healthcare costs are related to preventable lifestyle-related diseases: more than ever before, we need well-educated, skilled, credentialed coaches to help shift healthcare to address wellness and prevention and empower people to become the CEOs of their health and well-being. Wellcoaches, in collaboration with its shareholder and strategic partner the American College of Sports Medicine, has worked for ten years to build a science-based coach training curriculum and a psychometrically-valid coach certification for health, fitness, and wellness professionals. The Wellcoaches coach training school, led by a team of 30 managers, faculty, mentor coaches, and certification examiners, has trained more than 4,000 coaches in 32 countries since 2002, and trains 1,000 health professionals as health and wellness coaches per year –including nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, physicians, psychologists, social workers, dietitians, exercise physiologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, personal trainers, and other healthcare providers. Lippincott Wilkins & Williams published the Wellcoaches Coaching Psychology Manual in 2009, the first coaching textbook in healthcare. Wellcoaches delivers a variety of best-in-class coach training, educational, and support programs. less
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Certified Professional Health and Wellness Coach

DescriptionWe have built an innovative and robust coaching model we call the Onward & Upward™ model designed to enable professional health and wellness coaches to help clients optimize both mental and physical well-being. The need for coaching skills is compelling given that only 20% of adults are flourishing today by two independent and validated measures. More and more evidence is emerging to show that mental flourishing improves physical health which provides the basis for health and wellness coaches helping clients envision and achieve life goals that allow them to flourish and thrive physically and mentally. The experiential workshops provide many fun, engaging, and transformational tools and exercises that you can use in your own workshops. The training topics delivered in teleclasses and workshops cover many evidence-based domains and their translation and integration in innovative ways into coaching principles, tools, and skills. We deliver a broad and deep approach to a variety of types goals that support outgrowing of old lifestyles – including performance, skills development, behavior change, and psychological skills. We deliver introductory training in Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey’s “Immunity to Change” program which is an elegantly succinct model of cognitive behavioral coaching – helping coaches help clients identify and overcome “hidden” or unconscious dysfunctional patterns – allowing coaches to work with clients with challenging life situations.
Course Material Price $3,250.00
Exam Price $495.00
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Practical Exam RequiredYes
PrerequisiteWellcoaches Core Health and Wellness Coach Certification
Renewal Period3 years
CECs/CEUs per renewal period0
Renewal Fee
Term Used for Continuing EducationContinuing Education Credit (CEC)
One Hour of Continuing Education Equals0 CEC
CategoryLife & Wellness Coaching

Certified Health & Wellness Coach

DescriptionLooking for a new career in healthcare? Become a healthcare leader and train to become a Certified Health & Wellness Coach! Our coach school was an industry first to be endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine. We specialize in supporting health and wellness professionals in: -Understanding human behavior change -Leveraging the science of Positive Psychology so clients flourish and thrive -Utilizing Motivational Interviewing techiniques which support a client in uncovering intrinsic motivation -Overcoming the resistance to change and uncovering self-efficacy All of our coach training programs are drawn from our work in developing the core coaching competencies explored fully in the Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins Coaching Psychology Manual.
Course Material Price $1,095.00
Exam Price $495.00 Note: Certification/Exam Fee is separate from Training/Program fee
Exam Delivery Method In Person, Proctored In Person
Practical Exam RequiredYes
PrerequisiteCompletion of 13-week program; Education in Health and Wellness; see website for full listing of prerequisites
Renewal Period3 years
CECs/CEUs per renewal period0
Renewal Fee
Term Used for Continuing EducationContinuing Education Credit (CEC)
One Hour of Continuing Education Equals0 CEC
CategoryLife & Wellness Coaching

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what is the best way to become a wellness coach? Is cerification a must?

4 Answers | Asked by lisa wolkind 240 days ago
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Samantha Fetveit
On Sep 06, 2012
We are wanting to be invoiced for this course monthly - is that a possibililty? We are paying the first month with a corporate credit card but can not have it come out on automatic withdrawal - please advise thanks Samantha Snichols-fetveit@krmc.org
Terese Shelton
On Jul 23, 2012
Are there any Wellcoach-Certified professionals that might give us an evaluation of why this training is effective, once the certified coach is in the field? How well, does this certification train you for work in the multi-cultural populations that are most underserved ?

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