Did you know?

The holistic coaching industry is global, and rapidly expanding. When you become a Certified Holistic Life Coach, you will have the opportunity to help people improve their health, well-being, happiness and fulfillment. In return, you will develop a coaching practice which lets you work from anywhere while you feel a great sense of accomplishment each day.

Think about it…

You will help people gain optimal balance and harmony in their life with your holistic life coaching practice!

Holistic simply means “holism” or being “whole”. You can think of it as enhancing personal development from a multi-directional approach. In a holistic perspective, we view the person as a complete being, rather than an individual who may have an unresolved challenge. When we view ALL possible contributions to our client’s current state, a better and more comprehensive resolution becomes clearer.

What are my career options? How will I make a living with this credential?

The great thing about being a Certified Holistic Life Coach is that you have endless career and business opportunities.

Some primary careers include: coaching clients one-on-one in their home, your home, or your office. Many coaches coach in groups to help more people and earn more money per hour. In addition, you can seek out alternative (and frequently very lucrative career opportunities) as a blogger, writer, podcast host, author, online content provider, online video host or publisher of digital education products.  You can also offer your services online to individuals, small groups or large groups.  So, earn your credential – then get ready to go out and make a difference!

Living successfully is living harmoniously and fully balanced. Holistic life coaching is strategically developed to unblock your client’s emotional pathways, liberate his or her body, mind, and spirit. With Holistic Life Coaching, your clients can discover their own personal path to holistic wellness, with lasting results.

“As a holistic person, you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate” – Dr. Wayne Dyer

As a Holistic Life Coach, you will work with clients on two primary levels.

“Primary” because of the endless options for coaching your clients on success in life from a holistic perspective.

On the BODY, or physical level, you will be working with what is happening with your client’s whole physical experience. You will coach your clients to create environments and action plans that support their physical goals and desires for a healthy body thriving lifestyle.

On the MIND or mental level, you will work with your clients to uncover the underlying limiting beliefs and patterns that cause physical manifestations such as a headache or other signs of stress. You will coach your clients to create and incorporate new thoughts, beliefs and actions that are aligned with their values, goals and desires.

As the name implies, as a Certified Holistic Life Coach, you will work with clients on a variety of levels. People are experiencing life on a multitude of levels and often become out of balance in one area or another. These imbalances can lead to serious challenges in one’s life, as well as in their relationships with others. This can ultimately lead a person into major obstacles in pursuit of their personal and professional goals.

Course Modules Outline:

 Module 1 – An Introduction to Holism

• Students learn to understand what the holistic movement involves and how it has evolved to impact our population.  This is explained as resulting in an increase of client awareness related to living holistically.  Essentially, more people are learning the benefits of living holistically.
• Students learn different dimensions of holism; we distinguish the coach from holistic practitioners, and we define the current state of coaching as a way of building structure into a coaching model.
• The first module introduces the student to the CHLC Manual,  with content for coaches looking to learn holistic principles that are coachable and a detailed coaching model.

Module 2 – Essential Coaching Skills

• This lesson ties in aspects of holism to the coaching actions by defining the coach’s presence, specifically the “Doing Skills” used in coaching.
• Detailed descriptions of coaching skills are described to support information on assessments that follow.  The coach in training is taught the need to use certain skills at just the right time to make coaching more effective.
• Coaches learn what to listen for when working with clients, we begin the exploration into positive and negative energy from the client in this module.
• Students are introduced to the importance of client assessments from this module.

Module 3 – Essential Coaching Skills

• Coaches learn to complement their skills by discovering the “Being Skills” of coaching – including a coaching cornerstone, mindfulness.  Mindfulness becomes the basis for powerful coaching interactions.
• Awareness of being skills is required, as coaches project their being skills to their client(s).
• Training includes the search for positive feelings from our client and powerful motivators we can access.  The coach learns to maximize effective coaching by motivating change connecting our client’s internal and external influences.

Module 4 – Client Assessments

• Coaches learn the value of doing accurate assessments; coaches are instructed on understanding the client’s actions and words that are shared during early sessions in the coaching relationship.
• Training includes the need to evaluate the client in holistic terms, coaches are instructed on the components of a good assessment, including the planned structure of the assessment, the explanation of assessment protocols for each client and the way the information will be used once assessed.
• Assessments for mind, body and spirit are included and explained as part of a larger need to assess how holistic our client is living currently.

Module 5 – Coach self-evaluation

• The course concludes with an in-depth self-assessment for the coach, including an evaluation into 6 key areas of holistic coaching.
• The content for this module is interactive, students can navigate through different aspects of coaching to determine self-assessment criteria.
• Recommendations are made for coaches in each area, based on their informal self-review; coaches also submit a self-evaluation to The Spencer Institute.

If you are a nutritionist, you can help your client eat better, but this does not address other concerns about the need to change behaviors, to be more physically active or to live holistically. A personal fitness trainer’s primarily focus is often based only on the physical aspects of health and holism.  But there is more.

As a Certified Holistic Life Coach, you will assess all the dimensions of holism within your client, and then guide and coach. With this credential, you will fully understand various dimensions of holism, and step-by-step coaching applications to help clients reach their desired outcomes for holistic living.

This course is based on what great coaches do each day, and how these skills will apply to holistic life coaching.

You will learn to coach and teach awareness of body, mind and spirit. This means that you (the coach) has to understand a great deal about the client and what options are available, and those most appropriate to help a client live a more holistic lifestyle.

As a Certified Holistic Life Coach, you will also learn how to assess attitudes and values from your clients. This gives you the needed information to create a balanced and appropriate plan of action for maximizing a holistic lifestyle.