"Wellcoaches is widely regarded as the leader in setting the gold standard for professional coaches in the health, fitness, and wellness domains, in collaboration with our strategic partner, the American College of Sports Medicine. We have worked for nine years to build the highest possible standard in teaching science-based coaching knowledge and delivering training in coaching skills and processes to enable health professionals to reach a basic level of coaching competency.
Our coaches are passionate and skilled in helping clients take personal responsibility and develop healthy lifestyles that last. Health coaches combine their clinical background with coaching skills, helping clients manage health conditions and improve lifestyles, while wellness coaches combine coaching and their health and wellness knowledge to help people prevent disease and thrive.
Coaches are experts in facilitating the process of change over a period of months and longer and they work with clients to accomplish more than they thought possible. Clients learn to be in charge and they improve their health and well-being in ways that are a stretch yet within reach. They outgrow their old ways. They build psychological skills including motivation, focus, optimism, flexibility, resilience, and confidence. They say things like “I love my energy and vitality and I’m not going back to where I was.” “My new lifestyle allows me to realize my life’s purpose and be at my best. It is non-negotiable.”
The science of coaching psychology is both integrative and innovative. We apply many domains of psychology to teach coaches:
- Principles of self-motivation and meaning
- Characteristics of growth-promoting relationships that elicit personal responsibility as well as development
- Psychological processes of change and development
- Requisite resources for successful and sustainable change
- Design of the coaching session dynamic which generates self-awareness, breakthrough insights, and forward action
- Cultivation of the coach’s being and presence which enables a productive partnership
- How to integrate just-in-time learning of knowledge and skills
- Use of assessments and metrics to track coaching outcomes
Our How Coaching Works video is a quick way to get a sense of the coach-approach.
All of this material is efficiently organized, integrated, and distilled down to basic coaching skills and processes including a highly practical coach toolbox. Our coaching curriculum also covers the International Coach Federation core coaching competencies. The coaching curriculum is presented in the new Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Wellcoaches Coaching Psychology Manual.
Through a strategic partnership started in 2002, the American College of Sports Medicine assists Wellcoaches in the ongoing development and delivery of gold standard coach certifications and coach certificate programs which are valid tests of core coaching competencies in health, fitness, and wellness. With practice, mentoring, and application coach trainees acquire a basic competency in coaching, as evidenced by passing the Wellcoaches coach certification for health coaches and wellness coaches." This overview of coaching was written by the Wellcocaches organization. Our mission is to help clients create sustainable changes that will lead to living a lifestyle with habits that enhance a more vibrant spirit and overall increased well-being." This information was provided by Wellcoaches Organization. You can go to www.wellcoaches.com to learn more.