Become a Personal Coach

To begin: Verify your educational eligibility for the personal coach certification track.

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The "Certified Personal Coach" pathway is for non-health professionals who wish to use coaching skills in areas such as leadership and executive coaching to improve performance and wellbeing. As a Personal Coach, you can apply the universal principles of behavior change to support clients in increasing productivity, satisfaction with life and work, and the attainment of relevant goals.

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Eligibility with one of the following:

1. Associate’s Degree or higher 
2. Any current fitness certification 
3. Current health-related designation such as Certified Dental Assistant, Licensed Massage Therapist, or Registered Yoga Therapist

Step 1: Complete the Core Coach Training.
Cost: $1475 18-week & 9-week/$1775 residential

 

​To meet the needs and learning preferences for all of our students, we provide two options for training in Module 1: an 18-week teleclass, 9-week teleclass or a 4-day session. All courses provide the same educational content and coaching practice opportunities. Lesson topics include:​

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• Differentiating the coach from the expert

• How to establish growth-promoting relationships

• Coaching presence

• Expressing compassion through empathy

• Building positive emotions for resilience

• Eliciting motivation

• Building self-efficacy

• Readiness to change

• Building powerful visions

• Crafting designs for behavior experiments

• Creating generative (ah-ha!) moments

• Appreciative goal review

• Coaching habits e-course

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Completion of Module 1  (including 100% attendance, completion of all lesson feedback surveys and a score of 80% or greater on quizzes) is required for course completion and to receive a Certificate of Attendance.

 

This module is a pre-requisite for the next step, Module 2. 

Step 2: Deepen knowledge and practice.

Cost: $175

 

To further develop your skills, Module 2 offers several live classes and e-courses to deepen your understanding of the concepts and skills presented in the Core course, making the completion of Module 1 a pre-requisite to Module 2. Topics such as Organize Your Emotions (2-hr teleclass), Organize Your Mind (4-hr teleclass+e-course), Wellness Visions (2-hr teleclass), and Generative Moments (2-hr teleclass+e-course) will include additional demonstrations and practice opportunities.

 

Completion of Module 2  (including 100% attendance, completion of all lesson feedback surveys and a score of 80% or greater on quizzes) is required for course completion and to receive a Certificate of Attendance.

 

You must complete Module 1 before proceeding to Module 2. Module 2 is a pre-requisite for the next step, Module 3. 

Step 3: Become a Certified Personal Coach
Cost: $700

 

​To demonstrate your learning, and to pursue Wellcoaches Certification, Module 3 is focused on the application of learning.

 

This includes:

• a multiple choice written exam

• a 30-minute coaching skills assessment

• three, 1-hour individual mentoring sessions

• submission of examples of goal writing and vision statements

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Following completion of Module 3 you will earn the Wellcoaches designation of "Certified Personal Coach".