Wellness Coach Certification Program

(FUTURE GOAL)

This is your step-by-step blueprint to become a successful Certified Wellness Coach

“Wellness” is now a 1 trillion dollar industry. As a Certified Wellness Coach, you will be in high demand and have endless opportunity.

The time is now for you to enjoy this exciting and rewarding career, which offers you personal fulfillment while enhancing the lives of others.

The Spencer Institute continues to set standards for the coaching industry. Our Wellness Coach Certification expands beyond coaching models currently used in wellness coaching. You will understand concepts tied to the overall coaching experience, from how you train to be a coach, on up to application of skills with clients. As a Certified Wellness Coach, you can choose from a long list of career opportunities. Wellness is rapidly evolving and lucrative industry. You will learn how to position yourself for maximum success.

Wellness is a dynamic concept comprised of an interrelated set of dimensions including emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual factors. Wellness is an active, lifelong process that involves expanding knowledge, skills, values, practices, and supportive environments that increase one’s ability to enjoy a balanced and fulfilling life.

Wellness Coaching is a combination of traditional life coaching, lifestyle fitness coaching, green living, sound nutrition, exercise and stress management. You can run your wellness coaching business online, from your home, on the beach, or at your own wellness center. You can write a book, create wellness information products, or even have your own TV or radio show if you like.

Our Wellness Coach Certification program is designed to empower coaches. The course is presented as a client-centered approach to facilitate wellness coaching, through the use of behavior change strategies and sound coaching practices used in the field currently. Our philosophy is to then empower the client with what is needed to make lifelong behavior changes. Required skills include being able to help clients when setting goals and to assist in planning strategies for change.

Who should enroll in this Wellness Coach Certification program?

Students with a basic level of knowledge in one or more of the related fields of exercise science, health promotion, behavioral science, wellness, anatomy, physiology, biology, kinesiology, biomechanics, nutrition are encouraged to both master and apply this courses’ core components to their existing job descriptions. This is not an all-inclusive list. The wellness coach course content has multiple relevant applications.

our Wellness Coach Certification program outline:

Part 1 – What is wellness and wellness coaching?
Understanding Foundations of Wellness
The Dynamics and Diversity of WellnessPart 2 – Being a Wellness Coach
One-on-one Wellness Coaching, Corporate Wellness Coaching
Marketing Your Skills
Personal Inventory and Assessment of Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesPart 3 – Wellness Coach Skills
Changing Behaviors
Behavior Change Basics / How People ChangePart 4 – Foundations of Emotional Wellness
Social Components of Wellness
Emotional Components of Wellness

Part 5a/5b – Foundations of Physical Wellness
Preventing Cardiovascular Diseases and Improving CV metrics
Managing Risk Factors
Muscular Strength (a) and Flexibility (b)
Understanding Body Composition and Weight (b)
Nutrition for Wellness Coaches and the Clients They Serve (b)Part 6 – Building a Wellness Coaching Model
The Transtheoretical Model
Stages of Change / Stage of ReadinessPart 7 – Lifestyle Risk Factor Coaching
Common Conditions Requiring Wellness Strategies
Special Populations
Strategies to Help Manage Stress

When you successfully complete this Wellness Coach Certification course, you will be able to:

• Describe what wellness coaching is, and how it has evolved into its current state.
• Understand the different ways you can apply wellness coaching among populations requiring different strategies
• Know how people go about the process of changing behaviors
• Learn both emotional and physical aspects of wellness
• Apply different coaching strategies
• Master the Wellness Coaching Model

You will learn the following:

• The definition of effective wellness coaching
• Scope of practice as a wellness coach
• How to create optimal health
• The business of wellness coaching
• How to motivate your client to take charge of their wellness
• How to create lasting lifestyle change
• Working with medical professionals
• How to work from home
• Dimensions of the wellness industry
• Internal dialog and its effects of our wellness

• Combining wellness coaching with weight-loss programs
• How to conduct a detailed wellness inventory
• How to create a stress reduction plan
• Appropriate integration of a fitness program into an overall wellness plan
• Appropriate integration of nutrition into a wellness program
• Working with clients with disease and illness
• Daily wellness habits and practices
• Organic living for increased vitality