Personal visions have a long history in coaching and form the backbone of our work done with clients. For a client to reach holistic goals, there has to be a clear vision, and yet holism itself implies more than a single facet of our client. But getting to our client’s vision is so coveted, that it is a model used in other health, fitness, and wellness settings. [Read more…]
You can make a great living by helping others reach their health goals, and improve your clients’ happiness and overall well-being. With a coaching career, you have the power to decide who you would like to serve, and you also have the ability to expand your career and industry knowledge whenever you feel ready to do so.
There are many different types of coaching you can offer. Figuring out what niche you want to focus on can be a challenge, but if you mind-map your passions, interests, experience, and knowledge you can narrow it down relatively easy.
Emotional wellness is your client’s ability to control their stress and to be able to openly express emotions appropriately and comfortably. From the client’s perspective, it is also the ability to both recognize and accept feelings that they have naturally, while not being defeated by any setbacks or failures they perceive.
Achieving emotional wellness will allow your client to cope with life’s ups and downs effectively. Many studies have reported on the connection between wellness and emotional health. [Read more…]
When you work in the field as a wellness coach, you will notice a fair amount of diversity within the dynamics of coaching people. You will find your skills will include and draw from life coaching, spiritual coaching, health, and fitness coaching, and even some diversity coaching, to help others embrace and celebrate who they are and who they want to be.
Despite all of the advances that are seen in medical science, there are still a lot of people who live an unhealthy lifestyle. These people can be your clients and they are overweight, stressed or indulging in unhealthy behaviors that might include smoking or consuming alcohol excessively, or even using illegal or illicit drugs. The wellness coach needs to be trained to be able to work one-on-one with clients and to help them to find better ways to pursue healthier lifestyles.
Wellness is a choice – a decision your client makes to move toward optimal health.
Wellness is a way of life – a lifestyle you design with your client to allow them to achieve their highest potential for well-being.
Wellness is a process – a developing awareness where there is no end point, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now.
Your clients will come to you, as a wellness coach, for various reasons. Maybe the client has come to realize that they need and want to start new fitness, wellness, or health related behaviors. Usually, this type of client is very committed to the process. But as we already know, making changes to fitness, wellness or overall health can be challenging for the client. If your client felt that they could be successful on their own, they would probably not be looking for you to help them, or the client may have already been successful making changes and sustaining them.
Emerging research has demonstrated that behavior change is typically seen to be done in what is known as stages. In general, your clients will be in different stages, anywhere from having not even thought about changing behaviors, on through to the stage of trying to maintain a certain behavior. This process also includes thinking about making a change, making plans to change, and using our vision to try different ways to make behavior change work.
There is a new opportunity rearing its head in the field of wellness. It’s called Interim Stage coaching. This is a descriptor related to those people who are seeking to make a change in their overall wellness and set out with the best of intentions… yet they might fall through the cracks, due to a lack of intervention or follow through. This is where the role of the wellness coach is most likely to be useful.