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Earn your CHEF Coaching culinary medicine certificate with our Clinicians CHEF Coaching Program. Advance your skills and join us today! Clinicians CHEF Coaching Culinary Medicine Program: About CHEF Coaching CHEF Coaching Research CHEF Coaching in the Press Culinary Medicine Resources CHEF Coaching Faculty Testimonials Subscribe to CHEF Coaching Newsletter Culinary Medicine Course Clinicians Culinary Healthcare Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching is a two-part evidence-based training program focused on culinary coaching--a novel, evidence-based approach to improve nutrition that combines culinary training, health coaching principles, and telemedicine tools and resources. The program is designed to train clinicians, health & well-being coaches, and chefs to provide easy-to-follow culinary instruction and education directly to patients and clients in order to improve the quality – and often reduce the cost – of food preparation in the home. Upon completion of the two-part program, participants should expect to improve both their culinary and coaching skills and translate this new knowledge to empowering clients and patients to improve and expand home cooking. This evidence-based tool will help improve your patients' and clients' nutrition, overall health, and longevity. This program is for Physicians, healthcare professionals, health and wellness coaches, and chefs who would like to: Improve their competencies in culinary medicine Deliver the evidence-based culinary coaching program Improve their culinary skills and self-behavior Lead a culinary medicine program Want to learn more? Join us for an info session at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 3. If you cannot attend live, register to receive the recording. You can view a previous info session hosted in May here. Register Part I: CHEF Coaching - The Basics Date/time: 8 - 9:30 p.m. ET Tuesdays, September 15-October 13 7.5 CEUs: Wellcoaches, ACSM, NBHWC, NCHEC Pending approval: AAFP ECs and CDR The Basics course fee: $495 Part I: September 2026 Part I +Part II:September/October 2026 CHEF Coaching the Basics offers a deep dive into culinary coaching. Attendees receive the latest updates on culinary medicine and the culinary coaching approach and acquire new skills, tools, and resources to empower patients to adopt sustainable and nutritious home-cooking behaviors. This course provides education and experience that will keep graduates of the program at the forefront of this critical global trend, leading by example to improve and increase healthy eating for patients and themselves. Participants will learn: Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine and Culinary Medicine The nutritional science of home cooking; why doesn’t my patient cook? The Basics for Healthy Cooking; getting patients into the kitchen Cooking with little time or budget; mastering home cooking In-office culinary education tools and delivery strategies Mastering the Culinary Coaching approach Learn More: CHEF Coaching the Basics Syllabus Part II: CHEF Coaching - Beyond the Basics October Class Schedule Options Beyond the Basic course fee: $495 7.5 CEUs: Wellcoaches, ACSM, NBHWC, NCHEC Pending approval: AAFP ECs and CDR Part II: October 2026 Part I +Part II (September/October 2026) CHEF Coaching Beyond the Basics builds on the foundational components of the CHEF Coaching Basics course. The series consists of weekly skills-development sessions with opportunities to practice culinary coaching with peers, making staple recipes, and working toward personal culinary goals, including one hands-on culinary telemedicine class. In this series, participants will: Experience how to put the skills from Part 1 into practice with small-group learning. Explore new culinary practices in your own kitchen. Practice culinary coaching strategies with your colleagues. Improve your competencies to prescribe nutrition through reflections with a program faculty member. Learn More: CHEF Coaching Beyond the Basics Syllabus Who can take this course? Participants who have completed the CHEF Coaching Basics Course through Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, or Wellcoaches. 2026 Beyond the Basics Schedule Beyond the Basics beginning the week of October 19 (following September's CHEF Coaching the Basics) Group 1 - 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET Mondays, October 19-November 23 (Facilitator Laura Klein - coach/chef) Group 2 - 11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. ET Tuesdays, October 20-November 24 (Facilitator Jane Barg- coach/chef) Group 3 - 6 - 7:30 p.m. ET Wednesdays, October 21-December 2 (Facilitator Karla Arancibia- physician) Group 4 - 8 - 9:30 a.m. ET Fridays, October 23-November 20 (Facilitator Laura Klein - coach/chef) Wellcoaches Cancellation Policy Cancellations and refund requests must be received in writing via mail or email. Any applicable refund will be determined by the date that the request is mailed or sent (if requested by email) according to the following policy: •If you request a refund prior to the class start date, you may receive a refund for 95% of the course fee. •No refunds will be granted after the first class. June Beyond the Basics Basics September October Beyond the Basics Schedule

Wellcoaches training is science-based & innovative health, wellness and personal coach training. Flexible options ranging from in-person to 100% on-line. Endorsed by American College of Sports Medicine, American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Coach Training. Life-changing. Evidence-based. Coaching excellence. Become a National Board Certified Coach & Become an ICF Credentialed Coach Free Information Session Register and Get Started Train where coaching science began - and history is still being made. 24 peer-reviewed studies. The field's textbook. CEO Co-Founder of the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching and the Institute of Coaching. 94% board exam pass rate. And the first AI Coach Assistant . Video didn't open? View it here . Register for classes now Register for a free information session 1. Begin with Wellcoaches Health & Well-being Coach Training & Certification Foundational coach track for those who want to master coaching competencies. There are three pathways: Certified Health and Well-being Coach (a Wellcoach®) Certified Health and Well-being Coach with a Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine Requirements, Costs & Timelines Register for a free information session 2. Next, earn the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching Certification Once you have achieved the Wellcoaches Certification, you may be eligible to become a National Board Certified - Health and Wellness Coach. Requirements, Costs & Timelines 3. Then, earn the International Coaching Federation Certification Once you have achieved the Wellcoaches Certification and completed our Advanced Coach Training and Certification, you may be eligible to earn an ICF Certification. Requirements, Costs & Timelines When you invest in a coaching credential, you want to know it means something. Wellcoaches is the school behind the science, the textbook, the national standards, and the future of the profession — so your credential carries weight from day one. Register Now Get more info Why Wellcoaches The Science of Coaching How Coaching Works Coaching Excellence We collaborate with partners, including the American College of Sports Medicine and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, to help everyone who works in healthcare and wellness learn how to coach to improve health, well-being, and quality of life. We are also an approved training program for the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching. Together, let's create a world where everyone welcomes change, enjoys growth, and is good at both. Statistically significant positive outcomes 211 coaches, 31,060 patients/clients, 128,676 coaching sessions The Wellcoaches Protocol of health/well-being coaching is the most thoroughly tested coaching protocol in the healthcare and well-being domains, resulting in positive, statistically significant outcomes in all 24 peer-reviewed studies . Wellcoaches Research How Coaching Works video The Science of Coaching Learn More About Your AI Coach Assistant Testimonials I studied Athletic Training in my undergraduate years, then went on to become a graduate assistant where I was able to use my athletic training skills as a Certified ATC while obtaining my Master’s Degree in Human Services: Health and Wellness. I chose Wellcoaches for my road to the NBHWC because I really wanted to be a part of the best of the best! I wanted a program that really cared for its student success, was life and health-changing for future clients, and used evidence-based practice and research while always being open to learning! I’m in Module 2 currently and so far, Wellcoaches has far exceeded my expectations! Nicole Dowman Continuing Education For coaches: ICF and NBHWC For physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants: AAFP For health educators: NCHEC For RNs, APRNs, and LPNs: ANCC For exercise science professionals: ACE , ACSM and NASM For RDs, RDNs, DTRs and NDTRs: CDR I'm a Physician. Is coaching right for me? I'm a Nurse. Is coaching right for me? Get Hired. 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For only $30 per month, our Wellcoaches Membership enables you to be a confident, masterful, and successful coach. Learn more about membership benefits. Become a Member - A Community of Thousands Three Ways to Join! Wellcoaches Membership includes several one-hour classes each month on: Business development class (classes such as creating policies and procedures in your business, how to be HIPAA compliant, etc.) Coaching specialty (highlighting topics such as cognitive resilience, mindfulness in coaching sessions, etc.) Coaching skills in action (Each month, a specific theory, skill, or approach will be highlighted by a Wellcoaches faculty member to help coaches continue to hone their abilities.) These sessions will include a detailed review time followed by a coaching demonstration that utilizes the skill or theory covered.) Access a recorded library of more than 200 past member classes. Earn continuing education credits when participating in monthly Member Classes. Coaches can earn credit toward Wellcoaches recertification (or other organizations' credential renewal). Purchase monthly subscription Purchase Unlimited Membership Purchase annual subscription How to Enroll Join Membership Upcoming Classes Here are the classes our members will enjoy in September! * Applying the Four Tendencies: Using the framework to support self-understanding and behavior change with Melissa Troncoso * Cancer Health & Wellbeing Coaching: Supporting Patients in Anti-Cancer Lifestyle Practices with Julie Bach and Nicole Jones * Coaching Skills in Action: The First Five Minutes: Mastering the Art of the Session Opening with Ellen Goldman * September Coach Chat - networking event * September Town Hall: Analog as an Antidote Be Our Guest! Each month, Wellcoaches offers an open member class. This is a chance to experience a session and learn more about membership and coaching. Cancer Health & Wellbeing Coaching: Supporting Patients in Anti-Cancer Lifestyle Practices CEA-110043-1 With Julie Bach and Nicole Jones 2-3 p.m. ET Thursday, September 17 Register for free session Registration with Education Credit ($10) Open Member Class Want to Know More? Join us for our Monthly Membership Update. This session is open to members and those interested in membership. It's a great way to ask questions, request class topics, and learn more about the program. For more information, contact Angela Miller Barton at amillerbarton@wellcoaches.com or call 866-932-6224 ext. 715 JOIN US Our next membership update is at 9 a.m. ET Tuesday, September 1. If you cannot attend live, go ahead and register. We will email you the recording. Monthly Membership Updates Wellcoaches Membership The science foundation for mindset and behavior change is growing and evolving quickly. Our Wellcoaches Membership enables you to be a confident, masterful, and successful coach: be well-informed and up to date upgrade your skills continually expand your tools and resources be inspired by thought leaders get support in building a coaching business earn continuing education credits Our Membership provides an affordable, cost-effective option for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches to earn continuing education hours each month for courses that meet their continuing education content requirements. Sample Classes You're Certified, Now What? with Cynthia Luna, NBC-HWC How to Have a Good Day with best-selling author Caroline Webb Coaching Demonstration with Michael Scholtz, Wellcoaches Faculty, PCC, NBC-HWC Why are Contracts and Terms the Foundations you Need for your Coaching Business? with Sarah Waldbuesser, Esq., NBC-HWC Business Start-up Membership subscription also includes: Monthly business development classes focused on key topics important to the entrepreneur coach Once you become a Certified Wellcoach®, your membership provides the additional benefit of using Wellcoaches-branded tools: 1. Wellcoaches marketing website for your coaching business 2. Listing in Find-a-Wellness Coach search option 3. Use of the Wellcoach trademark 4. Wellcoach email address 5. Networking with other coaches for support, business building and practice Each month, one of our Wellcoaches facilitators, or seasoned coaches, will host a member class highlighting what they view as best skills, techniques and tips for becoming an even more masterful coach. Each session will include a live coaching demonstration. Coaching Demos Help Clients Find You Our Certified Wellcoach® Members are listed at the "Find-a-Coach" site, a searchable page that enables potential clients to search for coaches by name, state, zip code, licenses, education, price, specialities and certifications. The search links to a uniquely branded marketing site for you to share more about your unique talents and skills. Start growing your coaching business today. Wellcoaches has partnered with RoundTable Health to help provide business support to our coaches! RoundTable Health helps health, wellness & life coaches create successful businesses and get a steady stream of new clients. Through their online courses, guided group coaching, and 1:1 business mentorship with industry experts, you’ll gain the exact tools, strategies, and support needed to attract clients, deliver impactful services, and build long-term stability in your business.Our Wellcoaches' members will receive a 25% discount on RoundTable Health offerings, both live and recorded options. Wellcoaches has also partnered with Zoee , a coaching business platform built specifically for the practicing professional. Scheduling, secure client messaging, video sessions, packages and subscriptions, invoicing, intake, and progress tracking — integrated into a single workflow designed around how coaches actually deliver care. You practice at the highest standard of evidence-based coaching. The platforms supporting that work should meet the same bar. What this means for you: A coaching business platform purpose-built for solo and small-team practitioners — not adapted from a generic CRM. 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Karla Arancibia, MD, MPH CHEF Coaching Faculty Karla Arancibia is a lifestyle medicine physician and health and wellness and culinary coach providing services in Latin America, Europe and the United States. She is the co-founder of the Latin American Lifestyle Medicine Association (LALMA). She is a graduate of the CHEF Coaching program and is co-founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinics in Latin America and owns her own health and wellness coaching practice Healthview Lifestyle Institute in the U.S. Karla has also served as professor at Ricardo Palma University in the first accredited specialty in Lifestyle Medicine in Latin America for physicians and health professionals, where she was director of the culinary medicine workshops. She has been a speaker at several international symposiums, on radio, and on television. Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef CHEF Coaching Faculty Jane Barg is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness coach and a chef. She received her health coach training from Duke Integrative Medicine, Durham, NC. Jane oversees the education for the CHEF Coaching Program and serves as a member of the program faculty. She provides patient education as part of the CHEF Coaching study. In her private practice, Jane works with individuals and groups to help them make the changes needed to live healthier lives. She offers both culinary and health coaching programs in person and remotely. She is the founder of the Artful Palate catering company and has taught culinary classes in the Philadelphia region. Laura Klein, MBA, Chef, Health Coach CHEF Coaching Faculty Laura Klein is the owner of Well Seasoned Coaching and faculty for the CHEF Coaching program. As a Culinary Coach, Laura focuses on the challenges of maintaining a healthy lifestyle in today’s busy world. Through a combination of nutrition education, healthy goal setting and home cooking skills Laura helps her clients achieve their wellness goals. Laura’s coaching credentials include certifications from the Coaches Training Institute, Wellcoaches, The American Council on Exercise and Genavix Wellness Corporation. Additionally, Laura holds a certificate in culinary nutrition from the Natural Gourmet Institute and is a graduate of the CHEF Coaching program and the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. Laura collaborates with physicians to teach healthy cooking classes to their patients and the public, both live and virtually. Laura is also a chef instructor at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA, ICF-PCC Director, CHEF Coaching Program Culinary Medicine Training Lead, Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health Dr. Rani Polak is the founding director of both the Culinary Healthcare Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching program at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, and the Center of Lifestyle Medicine at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. His work, alongside lipid clinical care, focuses on translational research related to the Culinary Coaching method, which combines culinary training with health coaching principles. Dr. Polak is the principal investigator of the Culinary Coaching research group, which was the first to demonstrate the impact of a culinary medicine intervention on weight in a bi-center randomized controlled trial. After over a decade at Harvard Medical School, he now leads the CHEF Coaching program through Wellcoaches and directs culinary medicine training through the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, helping to disseminate culinary medicine to thousands of clinicians and health coaches worldwide. Dr. Polak’s work has been featured in many media outlets, including Scientific American, the International Herald Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, and USA Today.

Our CDR continuing education courses are for: Registered Dietitians (RD) Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDN) Dietetic Technician, Registered (DTR), and Nutrition and Dietetics Technician, Registered (NDTR) If you're seeking to expand industry knowledge and meet your professional development requirements in the nutrition field, our courses are for you! Our teachings are evidence-based and will lead you and your clients to feel confident, inspired, and ready to take action. View our CDR approved courses below. CDR Continuing Education Courses for Dietitians Core Coach Training: Module 1 - Cohorts prior to July 2026 - 27.5 CPEUs Cohorts after July 2026- 38.75 Attend in our virtual classroom with real-time instruction Wellcoaches supports dietitians throughout their careers by providing high-quality, engaging continuing education that meets CDR accreditation standards. 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. See all upcoming classes. Lesson topics include:​ ​​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 "I personally had such an amazing experience, I honestly didn’t want it to end! Thank you for your time and dedication to our training. You created a welcoming and comforting environment for all of us, which I believe was a crucial part of the training success and how we all felt as participants. I am very excited to have had this opportunity and look forward to continuing to grow and expand my knowledge in the coaching area. I also hope to continue working with you!" - Erica Cook, Wellness Program Coordinator, Clinical Exercise Physiologist Core Coach Training: Module 2 - Cohorts after July 2026 - 19.25 CPEUs Module 2 consists of 9 courses designed to deepen your coaching skills through demonstration, practice, and real-world application. You'll begin by strengthening core coaching abilities through hands-on practice in Organizing Your Emotions, Organizing Your Mind 1 and 2, Wellness Visions, and Generative Moments. These classes explore strategies based on brain science, steps based on coaching science, habits based on self science plus help develop the student's awareness of the connection between emotions and needs, while taking a new look at additional ways to create visions with clients that enable them to tap into the most creative process for creating a picture of their best life From there, you'll build the skills to support the whole patient — developing awareness of mental health conditions, cultural dynamics, and the broader environmental forces that shape health behaviors. You'll learn to recognize mental health warning signs and make appropriate referrals, develop cultural competence and humility, examine your own biases and assumptions, and explore how Social Determinants of Health and ecological systems shape a patient's perspective and well-being. Through self-reflection, skill-building, and practical application, you'll emerge equipped to practice with greater cultural responsiveness, psychological awareness, and respect for each patient's unique lived experience. A Certificate of Attendance is awarded upon completion of class attendance, all 7 feedback surveys, and a score of 80% or higher on all knowledge assessments. Professional Coach Training - 95 CEUs (Pending Prior Approval for 2027 cohort) This advanced program is specially designed for Certified Wellcoaches®, or Nationally Board Certified Coaches or ICF-ACC/PCC/MCC Coaches only Attend in our virtual classroom with real-time instruction and two on-site sessions Once you have completed our Core Coach Training & Certification program, start making plans to lift your coaching mastery to a galactic orbit with our nine-month advanced Professional Coach Training & Certification Program. This program is developing the future leaders of the health and wellness coaching industry. We built and continue to upgrade an innovative, science and neuroscience-based, robust coaching framework we call the "Onward & Upward Model" designed to enable Certified Wellcoaches® to help clients optimize mental and physical well-being. This is a hit-the-ball-out-of-the-park opportunity for Certified Wellcoaches®, Nationally Board Certified Coaches or ICF-ACC/PCC/MCC Coaches who want to be masterful coaches. The Professional Coach Training course includes: Two 2.5 day on-site sessions in January and September each year 32 ninety-minute virtual classes with the ability to practice new tools and skills in class, including 8 group coaching sessions. Six private mentor coaching sessions with feedback from coaching masters regarding the application of Wellcoaches protocols and International Coach Federation Competencies A reading list of over 20 carefully chosen books written by scientists and psychologists with a strong evidence basis Cost: $4100 A "Certificate of Attendance" is provided following class attendance, completion of a feedback surveys and all mentoring sessions. "The great thing about the PCT is not only the professional growth that you get from all of the tools and skills that you learn from all of the mentor coaching, and from all of the great Wellcoaches faculty, but the greatest value is the personal growth. The books that you read and the way that you process all of the new information is truly life-changing and transforming. It makes you a better professional but, more importantly, it makes you a better person." - Noah Gentner, PhD CDR Continuing Education Requirements Once all requirements are complete, a Certificate of Attendance will be provided to the dietitian professional. Participants will use this certificate to report completion of the course to CDR for continuing education credits Have questions about a course? Your Coach Concierge, assigned by the first letter of your last name, is here to support you: Telephone: (866) 932-6224 (866 WE-COACH) Your Last name A - G: Julie Cummings [ext 712 ] Your Last name H - O: Joanna Thomas [ext 743] Your Last name P - Z: Angela Carter-Lanon [ext 742]