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There are three pathways: Certified Health and Well-being Coach Certified Health and Well-being Coach with a Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine Requirements, Costs & Timelines Watch certification video 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 Coach 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 Statistically significant positive outcomes 194 coaches, 30,984 patients/clients, 128,076 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 22 peer reviewed studies . One-page Summary All Research How Coaching Works video The Science of Coaching 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! 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Class Schedule: Module 2 Module 2, a deeper dive Once you have completed Module 1, your next step is Module 2, an advanced series of classes designed for you to take a deeper look at two key topics introduced in the core course: Generative Moments and Wellness Visions. Additionally, you will be introduced to two new topics: Organize Your Mind and Organize Your Emotions - key coaching skill sets. Organize Your Mind - Part 1 To further develop your skills, this Module offers two live classes (Part 1 and Part 2) and an e-course to deepen your understanding of the concepts and skills presented in the Core Coach Training (Module 1). This lesson is a companion to our Organize Your Mind® e-course, building on the bestselling Harvard Health book, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life. It explores 5 strategies based on brain science, 5 steps based on coaching science, and 5 habits based on self-science. In addition to completing the e-course, students are required to complete two teleclasses in order (Part 1 and then Part 2). Upcoming Part 1, two-hour classes (listed in ET). For those students living outside of Eastern Timezone, here is a timezone converter . 5/2/2024 10a 5/20/2024 8p 6/6/2024 11a 6/18/2024 7p 7/8/2024 11a 7/21/2024 7p 8/7/2024 10a 8/15/2024 7p 9/5/2024 10a 9/17/2024 7p ​ This schedule is updated each quarter. Organize Your Mind - Part 2 To further develop your skills, this Module offers two live classes (Part 1 and Part 2) and an e-course to deepen your understanding of the concepts and skills presented in the Core Coach Training (Module 1). This lesson is a companion to our Organize Your Mind® e-course, building on the bestselling Harvard Health book, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life. It explores 5 strategies based on brain science, 5 steps based on coaching science, and 5 habits based on self-science. In addition to completing the e-course, students are required to complete two teleclasses in order (Part 1 and then Part 2). Upcoming Part 2, two-hour classes (listed in ET). For those students living outside of Eastern Timezone, here is a timezone converter . 5/12/2024 6p 5/29/2024 11a 6/11/2024 7p 6/26/2024 11a 7/17/2024 11a 7/23/2024 7p 8/14/2024 10a 8/25/2024 8p 9/11/2024 11a 9/25/2024 7p ​ This schedule is updated each quarter. Organize Your Emotions To further develop your skills, this Module offers several live classes and e-courses to deepen your understanding of the concepts and skills presented in the Core Coach Training (Module 1). This lesson will develop the student's awareness of the connection between emotions and needs. Upcoming two-hour classes (listed in ET). For those students living outside of Eastern Timezone, here is a timezone converter . 5/7/2024 7p 5/23/2024 10a 6/12/2024 11a 6/23/2024 8p 7/15/2024 7p 7/31/2024 11a 8/8/2024 7p 8/26/2024 10a 9/15/2024 8p 9/24/2024 10a ​ This schedule is updated each quarter. Wellness Visions To further develop your skills, this Module offers several live classes and e-courses to deepen your understanding of the concepts and skills presented in the Core Coach Training (Module 1). This lesson focuses on the process of Wellness Visions, 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. Students are required to attend one 2-hour class. Upcoming two-hour classes (listed in ET). For those students living outside of Eastern Timezone, here is a timezone converter . 5/1/2024 7p 5/13/2024 10a 6/4/2024 7p 6/25/2024 10a 7/7/2024 8p 7/24/2024 11a 8/6/2024 7p 8/19/2024 10a 9/4/2024 6p 9/19/2024 11a ​ This schedule is updated each quarter. Generative Moments To further develop your skills, this Module offers several live classes and e-courses to deepen your understanding of the concepts and skills presented in the Core Coach Training (Module 1). This lesson will develop the student's awareness of the connection between emotions and needs. Students are required to attend one 2-hour class. Upcoming two-hour classes (listed in ET). For those students living outside of Eastern Timezone, here is a timezone converter . 5/5/2024 7p 5/22/2024 10a 6/5/2024 7p 6/20/2024 10a 7/10/2024 8p 7/25/2024 11a 8/4/2024 7p 8/21/2024 10a 9/9/2024 7p 9/23/2024 10a ​ This schedule is updated each quarter.

Free Information Session Registration - the keys to earning your Coach Certification Health and Well-being Coach Lifestyle Medicine Coach Professional Coach No pressure + great conversation - come meet us! Quick 30-minute Ask Me Anything session Don't have time for the full walk-through of our curriculum? Join us to get the information you need to move forward. Beth Tansey Peller, Student Enrollment Coach, will answer your questions about our training and certification process. ​ Just click the Join Us button at the time and date below. Wednesday, May 1st at 1:00PM ET Join Us! Wednesday, May 15th 1:00 PM ET to 2:30PM ET Join Us! Full 90-minute session Learn why earning a certification from a credible coaching school such as Wellcoaches matters and how you can help others thrive. CEO Coach Meg will answer questions and provide insights about the future of coaching. You’ll walk away with a deep understanding of the Wellcoaches curriculum and the steps to become certified. Watch a previous session here. Group meetings aren't your thing? Ask your questions one-on-one! We would love to learn more about you and help you thrive on your coaching journey! Contact Beth Tansey Peller (866) 932-6224 (ext. 706), schedule a meeting or send us your questions here. ​ Send your question Schedule time to chat Testimonials Participating in the 4-day Wellcoaches training & certification process was a rewarding experience. The pace of the program was just what I needed as a busy mom with a demanding career in healthcare. The curriculum was well put together and the instructors were simply amazing. I loved that they offered real life experiences and presented the content in a manner that was easily understood. The self paced modules provided me with an opportunity to review them at my convenience, some of which I reviewed multiple times because the information was so intriguing. At the completion of the Wellcoaches training & certification program, I feel I have learned priceless skills that I can use in my everyday life as a nurse, leader, coach, and entrepreneur. I am thankful to have found such an amazing program that has provided me with a solid foundation to coach clients with confidence. Kai Lang DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CHWC

The professional lives of nurses demand the highest-ever levels of internal resources and well-being to meet the growing challenges faced by patients, as well as healthcare practices and organizations. ​ As a Nurse Wellcoach® you can become a new force for good - helping your patients, colleagues, and leaders tap into their deepest motivation, draw out their strengths, set their compass on their best selves, and shift their mindsets and behaviors to enable positive, lasting change. ​ All the while, you will be transformed through your own self-coaching journey, rediscovering your deepest values and resources, and rising above the tide of burnout. ​ Why become a Nurse Wellcoach®? Improve your own well-being. Learning about, and applying, key coaching concepts like self-compassion, growth-mindset, and wellness visioning will inevitably have a positive impact on your own life. Increase patient satisfaction and engagement. Your patients will experience you as a more empathetic listener who delivers patient-centered care. Change the culture of your organization. Gain valuable skills for communicating with colleagues and building trusting, and collaborative relationships. Enjoy your professional development and earn CEs. Module 1 of our Core Coach Training is approved for 38.25 CEs. Curious about your own well-being? Wellcoaches has developed a validated inventory to support you in reflecting upon your own well-being in the areas of life, work, body, and mind. Take the Inventory or share it with a patient! Coach with confidence When you use our coaching tools, you can be assured that they work!  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 22 peer-reviewed studies. 194 coaches, 30,984 patients/clients, 128,076 coaching sessions What you will learn The keys to improving patient well-being (and your own) How to differentiate the coach approach from the educational approach How to establish growth-promoting relationships Ways to display deep coaching presence Expressing compassion through empathy The value of building positive emotions for resilience Strategies for eliciting motivation The process for building self-efficacy The stages of readiness to change The protocol for building powerful visions Inquiries for crafting designs for behavior experiments What it takes to create generative (ah-ha!) moments Meet a Few of our Faculty and Team Members who are Nurses Kim has an extensive history working with medical centres and Primary Health Networks to train medical professionals in behaviour change therapy and chronic disease management. She was awarded the 2015 Australian Best Practice Nurse award in Chronic Disease Management. She is currently training Health Professionals across Australia in chronic disease management, prevention screening, and Quality Improvement strategies. She regularly presents at national conferences as a keynote speaker on Change Management, Teaming, Coaching, Chronic Disease Management, Creating Efficiency in General Practice and Care Co-ordination. With over 25 years of clinical practice, research and teaching background in the healthcare industry, Darlene is an experienced family nurse practitioner, professional coach, consultant, educator, and researcher. Darlene received her academic training at the Universities of Virginia, Washington, North Carolina and Harvard and has many years of clinical, research and faculty appointments at these institutions. Darlene is faculty in multiple ICF-Approved Coaching Programs and graduate university programs, delivers workshops in evidence-based coaching strategies and provides services as a health/well-being coach and consultant to individuals and organizations. Darlene is a guest lecturer for the Science of Coaching courses at Harvard and a contributing team member for NBHWC. Beth is a Certified Professional Health and Wellness Coach, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, and took the first exam offered to become a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She has served as a Wellcoaches Practical Skills Assessor and Mentor Coach for many years, wrote Going from Beginner to Brilliant, A Practical Guide to Passing Your Practical, and contributed to our National Board Prep Exam and Lifestyle Medicine for Coaches module. Participating in the 4-day Wellcoaches training & certification process was a rewarding experience. The pace of the program was just what I needed as a busy mom with a demanding career in healthcare. The curriculum was well put together and the instructors were simply amazing. I loved that they offered real life experiences and presented the content in a manner that was easily understood. The self paced modules provided me with an opportunity to review them at my convenience, some of which I reviewed multiple times because the information was so intriguing. At the completion of the Wellcoaches training & certification program, I feel I have learned priceless skills that I can use in my everyday life as a nurse, leader, coach, and entrepreneur. I am thankful to have found such an amazing program that has provided me with a solid foundation to coach clients with confidence. Kai Lang DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CHWC Meet a Few of our Nurse Coach Graduates Christine Buckley, DNP, Certified Health and Well-Being Coach, March 2021 As a Professor of Nursing at  Endicott College, she focuses on integrating mindfulness and resiliency training into the formal education of nursing students as a tool to cultivate resiliency and mitigate burnout. She offers Mindful Wellbeing & Resiliency programs in academic and clinical settings and teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts. Her individual and group Mindfulness Based Health and Wellness Coaching fosters the creation of sustainable, personalized pathways for mindfulness and well-being. Elizabeth Peltz, RN, Certified Health and Well-Being Coach, NBC-HWC, December 2021 Elizabeth lives in Wyoming and devotes one to two days per week to coaching. She has a strong interest in collaborating with primary care providers to support patients in making and sustaining lifestyle changes. Elizabeth also does pro bono coaching for www.anisehealth.co, a startup created by a Wellcoaches graduate, Alice Zhang. Linda Mikitish, Certified Health & Well-being Coach, NBC-HWC, August 2018 Linda is the Nurse Health Coach who helped to build and expand the group Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at St. Luke’s in Meridian, Idaho, using the Wellcoaches model of coaching. Linda finds coaching as a nurse “exhilarating.” Cardiac and Pulmonary rehabilitation nurses shadow Linda in the Lifestyle Medicine clinic. Doretha Anthony Thomas, LPN,  Certified Health & Well-being Coach, January 2022, NBC-HWC Doretha is focused on caregivers to provide coaching to them as they navigate often challenging times. She works part-time as a nurse as she is building her coaching business.

Physicians are leaders in addressing the root causes of chronic diseases in primary care and establishing reimbursed Health and Well-being Coaching Services. Physicians who are trained as coaches are pioneers who will shape the future of healthcare. Why become a Physician Coach? Improve your own well-being. Learning about, and applying, key coaching concepts like self-compassion, growth-mindset, and wellness visioning will inevitably have a positive impact on your own life. Increase patient satisfaction and engagement. Your patients will experience you as a more empathetic listener who delivers patient-centered care. Change the culture of your organization. Gain valuable skills for communicating with colleagues and building trusting, collaborative relationships. Where are our Physician Coaches? Wellcoaches has trained and supported hundreds of physicians as coaches through Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Stanford University Hospital, Emory University Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and members of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine community. Curious about your own well-being? Wellcoaches has developed a validated inventory to support you in reflecting upon your own well-being in the areas of life, work, body, and mind. Take the Inventory or share it with a patient! Additional Resources on Physician Coaching The American Medical Association's Coaching in Medical Education (contributions by Wellcoaches CEO Margaret Moore) Foundations in Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course (contributions by Wellcoaches Chief Coaching Officer Erika Jackson) Two Randomized Controlled studies of Wellcoaches coaching for physician burnout show robust efficacy Coaching for primary care physician well-being: A randomized trial and follow-up analysis. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2020 Physician Coaching by Professionally Trained Peers for Burnout and Well-Being: A Randomized Clinical Trial, JAMA Network Open, 2024 AAFP Lifestyle Medicine Course (coaching content developed by Chief Coaching Officer Erika Jackson and presented by Faculty Member Charles Inniss) Mayo Clinic Proceeding study defining physician coaching competencies (contributions by Wellcoaches CEO Margaret Moore)

Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published an article entitled “Coaching for Better Health: Lessons from Elite Sport.”  (Volpp K, Camplin-Warner A) The paper was published as a NEJM Catalyst article, which is the journal where NEJM presents innovative ideas to improve and transform health care delivery. To understand the importance of this Health Coaching article appearing in the NEJM Catalyst, we must appreciate the standing of the NEJM as the most important medical journal in the United States and probably the world. This is not mere opinion but backed by the objective measure of Impact Factor (IF), calculated by an independent firm and based on frequency of journal citations in a given year.  The IF of the NEJM for 2022 was 158.5.  To put this in context, the IF for Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2022 was 120.7.  Another example is the Annals of Family Medicine (AFM) which has an IF of 5.70.  AFM is a good journal, with a high IF compared to most scientific journals whose IF falls below 2.0, with less than 2% achieving IF > 10.0.  The takeaway point is when the NEJM publishes an article it is a huge accomplishment – for health coaching to be recognized as an innovative and potentially transformative health care strategy in NEJM Catalyst is a very big deal for Health Coaching! The purpose of the article was to draw a parallel between Health Coaching and the coaching of elite athletes.  Given both these practices have the objective of improving (health or performance), through the achievement of goals and skill building, it is easy to see the broad foundation for this comparison.   The corollary is furthered by describing the “coach” as someone who cultivates motivation, and helps the individual to learn and grow, while engaging in a supportive and caring relationship.  Within this context, the article goes on to emphasize the following points about coaching: engage the whole person – physically, mentally, and emotionally. purpose-led, personalized goal-setting scenario planning, change management, and resilience training improving self-awareness, expectation management, and learning from setbacks forming better habits and routines, and removal of obstacles that cause friction modifying the choice environment so that defaults favor the desired behavior leveraging technology, social support, and enhancing external accountability focusing on the process, not only outcomes, while celebrating personal growth and progress The authors go on to explain that the U.S. Health care system is not set up to support patients to achieve personal health care goals.  Currently, patients typically have inadequate support and are seen as disengaged.  Well-meaning clinicians do not have the time and likely not the training to effectively guide, or coach, their patients. The authors propose an integration of coaches in an innovative care delivery team. Coaching sessions will allow patients to genuinely feel supported by their extended medical team, encouraging them to try harder to change and improve health.  Moving to this model will require a shift in mindset to a preventative, rather than simply treat or fix, strategy.  Further, a change from fee-for-service to value-based care with reconsidering what success looks like needed.  This new system can then emphasize improved patient choices, sustainable behaviors, and outcomes while improving the trajectory of health care costs. Wow – this is tremendous endorsement of health coaching offered by a prestigious and influential organization.  The newly approved CPT reimbursement codes for health coaching are not mentioned in the article and it is probable this paper was written well before the codes were approved.  Over the coming years, these codes should be a tremendous boon to health coaching once the final protocols and utilizations are fully determined.  It is also curious that the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching or an outstanding coach training program (e.g., Wellcoaches) was not mentioned in this piece – maybe the authors were trying to remain unbiased in their endorsement of any particular coaching agency.  Finally, the authors could have simply cited “The Coaching Psychology Manual 2nd Edition” for much of the information presented.  This publication is an industry-standard, and fully explains most of the coaching principles presented in the NEJM Catalyst article while delving much further into techniques employed by a masterful health coach. Health and Well-Being Coaching (HWC) is quickly rising in esteem as regarded by the medical community.  This can be no better evidenced then a publication emphasizing HWC by the prestigious NEJM in their journal (i.e., Catalyst) which introduces innovative and contemporary intervention techniques.  This point is further evidenced by the recent AMA and Medicare Services approvals of a temporary CPT codes for the reimbursement of coaching services.  The future for HWC is bright ... and that future is now ! References 1) Volpp K, Camplin-Warner A.  Coaching for Better Health: Lessons from Elite Sport. 2023.  NEJM Catalyst 4:6.  doi:10.1056/CAT.22.0272 2)  Moore M, Jackson E, Tschannen-Moran B, Wellcoaches Corporation. 2016. Coaching Psychology Manual Second ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.