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Health Coach Collaborative/Introduction to Wellness Coaching
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Introduction to Wellness Coaching

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  • 30 Lessons

Do you work one-to-one or in groups with clients and want to become more proficient in coaching? Learn to build a deep connection with your clients and help them achieve the long-lasting results that they want and deserve! We teach you practical coaching skills, including motivational interviewing, and take you through an entire coaching session flow showing you how to conduct an effective coaching session. Price in CAD.

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What's Included

You will learn why the coaching approach is so successful, how it differs from consulting, and what the attributes and characteristics of successful Coaches are. You will also gain an understanding of how a client’s mindset, values, beliefs, aptitude for learning, communication style, and the coaching style they prefer, can be utilized to provide the coaching environment they need to realize their goals and obtain a successful outcome.

NNC 2.1 - Understanding Your Role as a Nutrition Coach

Module 1 - 10 hours

This course is an introduction to the world of coaching, and a prerequisite for the coaching series. You will gain an understanding of what coaching is, why the coaching approach is so successful, how it differs from consulting, and what the attributes and characteristics of successful Coaches are. You will explore the core competencies that are necessary for effectively coaching clients and learn about the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics that every Natural Nutrition Coach must adhere to. A workbook of activities that the student must complete is provided with this course.
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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to:
  • Provide a definition for coaching and the coach approach
  • Define the attributes of a successful Coach
  • List some of the clients’ outcomes from the coaching session
  • List the ways a Coach interacts in a coaching session
  • Understand the difference between an expert approach and a coaching approach
  • Identify the four areas which help the Coach to determine the ideal coaching approach for their client
  • Identify factors that contribute to a client’s aptitude for learning
  • Define coaching style and know the coaching styles that a Coach can use in a session
  • Know when to refer clients to other professionals for support
  • Understand how an NNC can support those living with chronic diseases
  • Provide a definition for core coaching competencies
  • Learn the nine core coaching competencies that an NNC is expected to demonstrate
  • Provide examples for each of the core competencies
  • Relate how a Coach uses these core competencies in a successful coaching practice
  • Know and understand the NNC Code of Ethics, Scope of Practice, and how it affects an NNC’s practice
  • Review and understand how privacy laws affect an NNC’s practice

NNC 2.2 - Facilitating Behaviour Change

Module 2 - 17 hours

Change can be hard! How your client learns and processes information can determine their mindset, values, and beliefs, which in turn can affect their readiness for change. In this course, we learn about the process and elements of change, beginning with how our brains are wired to resist change and how we create habits. We discuss establishing a vision, setting SMART goals, and the action steps that build change behaviours. Theories such as Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and the Stages of Change Model (The Transtheoretical Model) are explored, and examples of assessing your client’s readiness for change to facilitate their desired outcome are provided. Various learning activities and tools to reinforce each principle are included in the textbook.  Students will have an opportunity to practice these activities in the workbook that accompanies the course.
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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to:
  • Define neural pathways, neural plasticity, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, and synaptogenesis
  • Know the types of memory processes in the brain and how memories are stored
  • Define the NLP Model of Communication
  • Understand the differences between social and individual constraints
  • Provide examples of the NLP universal modelling process
  • Understand our internal map and how it is created
  • Understand how to use the anchoring response loop for the benefit of the client in a session
  • Understand the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind
  • Understand how visualization can help clients to achieve their goals
  • Learn to use the self-distancing technique
  • Know the meaning of mindset and learn ways to unfix a fixed mindset
  • Explain why core values are important for the client's goals and outcomes
  • Define beliefs as they relate to the client’s experiences
  • Know and be able to define the three processes in the habit cycle and the characteristics of an automatic behaviour or habit
  • Define extrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation and provide examples
  • Understand the concept of the Coaching Matrix- the ability and motivation trade-off relationships and how they relate to a coaching style
  • Define behaviour change
  • Define the theory of planned behaviour and the three predictors of intentions
  • Define social cognitive theory, understand the sequence of four processes that need to happen and the three personal factors that are included in this theory
  • Understand the four important elements of change
  • Know the 6 Stages of Change (the Transtheoretical Model) and strategies that can be used with clients to help them move through each one
  • Understand the progression and process of change
  • Understand the importance of a client’s vision and how to help them create one
  • Define SMART goals and how to make goals SMARTer
  • Understand the importance of utilizing a coaching model to provide a framework for a coaching session

NNC 2.3 - Techniques for Coaching Your Clients

Module 3 - 15 hours

In this course, you will learn more about the art of coaching and building rapport with your clients and how to actively listen and use both verbal and nonverbal communication effectively with your clients during a coaching session. You will gain an understanding of the principles of Motivational Interviewing and how to use OARS skills: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summarizing, to establish an open dialogue with clients. Various learning activities and tools are included in the textbook and a workbook of activities that the student must complete is provided with this course.
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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to:
  • Explain the importance of effective communication in the coaching process including the difference between verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Understand the difference between body language and paralanguage and their importance in a coaching session
  • Understand the concept of VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) communication and learning style and how to identify the client’s preferred VAK learning style(s)
  • Understand the concept of active listening, the levels of listening, and how to promote active listening in a session
  • Know and apply the techniques for building rapport in a coaching session
  • Explain the concept of motivational interviewing
  • Understand the scientific theory behind motivational interviewing
  • Identify the four key concepts of the Spirit of MI
  • Understand the importance of partnership in the coaching relationship
  • Understand and define the four concepts of the MI Spirit of Acceptance and Evoking
  • Know the difference between compassion and empathy
  • Know and understand how to use the four processes of MI in a coaching session
  • Identify the barriers to engagement
  • Understand the importance of recognizing change talk and how to respond
  • Demonstrate how to use the Elicit-Provide-Elicit technique
  • Define OARS and know how each core skill is used in a session
  • Know the difference between open-ended and closed-ended questions
  • Know how to rephrase close-ended questions into open-ended questions
  • Know the difference between problem-based and solution-based questions
  • Understand how and when to use scaling techniques
  • Understand how to use silence effectively in a coaching session
  • Define affirmations in the context of MI and know how to construct and use affirmations in the coaching conversation
  • Help clients with self-affirmation
  • Define reflections in the context of MI
  • Understand the benefits of using reflections in the coaching conversation and the difference between simple and complex reflections
  •  Know how to construct reflections and which to use based on the client’s statements
  • Define summary statements in the context of MI, and demonstrate how summary statements are constructed and used in a coaching conversation

NNC 2.4 - Practical Applications: Conducting a Coaching Session

Module 4 - 10 hours

This course unites the techniques learned in the three previous courses and provides a framework for designing a personalized coaching program from start to finish. You will learn effective procedures for prequalifying a prospective client, establishing a Coaching Agreement, conducting the initial assessment, creating timelines, assessing progress, and more. Upon completion of this course, you will have the knowledge and tools needed to successfully conduct a Natural Nutrition Coaching session.
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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to:
  • Conduct a discovery call to pre-qualify clients
  • Know how to ask for the sale.
  • Create a Coaching Contract and Session Agreement
  • Understand how to prepare for a coaching session
  • Understand the process for the initial coaching session
  • Understand how to conduct the Assessment conversation
  • Know and practice the competencies that should be displayed throughout the coaching session
  • Know how to conduct a visualization exercise with the client
  • Understand the process for the follow-up sessions
  • Understand session timing and the transitions in the session flow
  • Understand what to expect working with clients in the first three months
  • Understand what is similar and what is different between group coaching and individual coaching
  • Understand the group coaching process and how to manage group coaching dynamic
  • Understand how to work with dependent clients
  • Understand how to work with clients who may become emotional
  • Understand when it may be necessary to let the client go and how to do it

Practical: Coaching Skills Development & Case Studies

Practical skills development is an important part of the NNC certification program. In addition to case studies that are submitted for evaluation, students must complete a minimum of three practice coaching sessions. Each coaching session should be at least 20 minutes in length each and can be presented live (via zoom) or submitted as a recording. Each practice coaching session will be assessed by a Health Coach Collaborative faculty member. Students will be evaluated on their ability to implement the core coaching skills and competencies.

Contents

Welcome & Introduction

How to Navigate This Course
Instructions for Using The Course Workbooks

NNC 2.1 - Understanding Your Role as a Nutrition and Health Coach- Module 1

This course is an introduction to the world of coaching, and a prerequisite for the coaching series. You will gain an understanding of what coaching is, why the coaching approach is so successful, how it differs from consulting, and what the attributes and characteristics of successful Coaches are. You will explore the core competencies that are necessary for effectively coaching clients and learn about the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics that every Natural Nutrition Coach must adhere to. A workbook of activities that the student must complete is provided with this course.
Course Outline: Understanding Your Role as a Nutrition and Health Coach
Textbook - Understanding Your Role as a Nutrition Coach
Workbook: Understanding Your Role as a Nutrition Coach
NNC Code of Ethics
NNC Scope of Practice
Wheel of Life Exercise
Quiz - Understanding Your Role as a Nutrition Coach

NNC 2.2 - Facilitating Behaviour Change- Module 2

Change can be hard! How your client learns and processes information can determine their mindset, values, and beliefs, which in turn can affect their readiness for change. In this course, we learn about the process and elements of change, beginning with how our brains are wired to resist change and how we create habits. We discuss establishing a vision, setting SMART goals, and the action steps that build change behaviours. Theories such as Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and the Stages of Change Model (The Transtheoretical Model) are explored, and examples of assessing your client’s readiness for change to facilitate their desired outcome are provided. Various learning activities and tools to reinforce each principle are included in the textbook.  Students will have an opportunity to practice these activities in the workbook that accompanies the course.
Course Outline: Facilitating Behaviour Change
Textbook - Facilitating Behaviour Change
Video: Using NLP to Understand How Clients Process Information
Workbook: Facilitating Behaviour Change
Identifying Values Exercise
Five Things Gratitude Exercise
Quiz - Facilitating Behaviour Change

NNC 2.3 - Techniques for Effectively Coaching Your Client- Module 3

In this course, you will learn more about the art of coaching and building rapport with your clients and how to actively listen and use both verbal and nonverbal communication effectively with your clients during a coaching session. You will gain an understanding of the principles of Motivational Interviewing and how to use OARS skills: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summarizing, to establish an open dialogue with clients. Various learning activities and tools are included in the textbook and a workbook of activities that the student must complete is provided with this course.
Course Outline: Techniques for Effectively Coaching Your Clients
Textbook: Techniques for Effectively Coaching Your Clients
Workbook: Techniques for Effectively Coaching Your Clients
VAK Questionnaire
Quiz - Techniques for Effectively Coaching Your Client

NNC 2.4 - Conducting a Coaching Session- Module 4

This course unites the techniques learned in the three previous courses and provides a framework for designing a personalized coaching program from start to finish. You will learn effective procedures for prequalifying a prospective client, establishing a Coaching Agreement, conducting the initial assessment, creating timelines, assessing progress, and more. Upon completion of this course, you will have the knowledge and tools needed to successfully conduct a Natural Nutrition Coaching session.
Course Outline: Conducting a Coaching Session
Textbook - Practical Applications: Conducting a Coaching Session
Workbook - Practical Applications: Conducting a Coaching Session
Editable Coaching Contract and Session Agreement Forms
Visualization Script for Client
Quiz - Practical Applications: Conducting a Coaching Session

NNC 2.5 - Practical: Coaching Case Studies

Practical skills development is an important part of the NNC certification program. In addition to case studies that are submitted for evaluation, students must complete a minimum of three practice coaching sessions. Each coaching session should be at least 20 minutes in length and can be presented live (via Zoom) or submitted as a recording. Each practice coaching session will be assessed by a Health Coach Collaborative faculty member. Students will be evaluated on their ability to implement the core coaching skills and competencies.


Coaching Case Studies Practicum

Coaching Module Resources- Coaching Exercises, NNC Code of Ethics, NNC Scope of Practice

Coaching Exercises Resource Library

Final exam

How to Access the Final Exam

Frequently asked questions

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Are there any prerequisites to taking this course?

No, there are no prerequisites to this course. However, a high-school diploma or equivalent is recommended.

How long is this course?

It is estimated that this course will take 60 hours to complete. 

How is the course presented?

This is an online course, that is 100% self-paced. Your learning materials include a downloadable PDF textbook, online quizzes, assignments, and videos to review.