To World Health

Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

It is a step-by-step process that moves the Client toward their health and wellness goals, empowering them to create permanent changes they have found difficult to do on their own.

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Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They provide support, educational resources, weight loss, stress management and other health improvement tools, as well as motivation to achieve your goals.

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Your Coach will work within the uniqueness of your life and your challenges to develop a step-by-step plan for you to achieve your optimum weight, stress management, lifestyle balance, diet and nutrition, rest and physical activity. Our Clients-only website also features a virtual personal fitness training program, a journal to track your progress, and assessments to track your progress.

• We identify areas you would like to see transformed
• Look at your current situation in each area
• Create an ideal picture of how you’d like that area to be
• Prioritize each ideal picture in order of importance to you
• Then we get to work!
• Clarify what needs to happen in order for your ideal to become reality
• Strategize specific steps you need to take in the coming weeks to move closer to the ideal picture
• Look at what might get in your way and how to dissolve those obstacles
• Define a means of keeping those same obstacles from getting in your way again

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Health Coaching does require a commitment of time. Typically, you will meet with your Coach via telephone once a week for 30 minutes, three or four weeks per month. (Your chosen individual program option may have a different schedule.) You will have small ‘baby steps’ that you will be doing each week to develop new health habits. The amount of time these ‘baby steps’ take vary depending on your goals. The ‘baby steps’ start out as very small changes to guarantee your success and gradually build on each other each week. You will determine how much time you have to devote toward improving your health and wellness.

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Consulting: Health Coaching is a form of consulting, but the Coach stays with the Client to help fully implement the new skills, changes and goals to ensure the changes become a permanent part of the Client’s life.

Therapy: Health Coaching is not therapy. Coaches don’t work on ‘issues’ or delve into the Client’s past or focus on understanding human behavior. Coaches partner with their Clients to assess their challenges, set goals, and move forward to achieving those goals to help them reach the life they really want. When Coaches identify the need for therapy, they refer their clients to trained therapists.

Sports Coaching: Health Coaching includes several principles of sports coaching like teamwork, going for the goal, being your best. But unlike sports coaching, most professional coaching is not competition or win/lose based. We strengthen the Clent’s skills rather than helping them ‘beat the other team.’ Instead, Health Coaching is a win/win.

Best Friend: A best friend is wonderful to have; however, it is unlikely that your best friend is a professional whom you can trust to advise you on the most important aspects of your life. For the best set of beneficial relationships, have a best friend AND a Coach!

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Many people are tired of doing what they ‘should’ and are ready to do something special and meaningful for the rest of their lives. When the Client cannot see the way to achieve their goals, a Coach can guide them on the journey to those goals. A Coach is not a miracle worker, but s/he does have a large tool kit to help your wellness goals become a reality.

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Coaching fees have a wide range, depending on the amount of time and interaction in the chosen coaching program, the pricing structure of the Coach’s program, and the length of the agreement. The Coach you are considering working with should have a published set of coaching program options available where the amount of time, length of agreement, and all costs and any available discounts are clearly stated.

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You will instantly gain new tools to effectively manage your journey to better health. See your life and struggles from a new point of view, making it easier to implement positive changes. Hiring a Coach usually results in you making a more serious commitment to your life and health, which should encourage you take more effective and focused action immediately.

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Health Coaching is not a ‘vaccination’, but requires your time and effort to obtain results. Typically Health Coaching takes a commitment of 3 to 12 months to achieve permanent change. Research has shown it takes at least 6 months to condition the body and mind to create lasting new health habits. Most people have taken much of their lives to create their current lifestyle and it takes a period of time to undo a lifetime of unhealthy habits.

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Take this brief “How’s Your Vitality?” quiz and see if you agree or disagree with the following questions:

• I run out of energy well before my day is over
• I could stand to lose (or gain) a few (or a lot) of pounds
• I seem to catch every little bug that comes around
• There aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish all I have to do
• I’m frustrated with myself for not knowing how to say ‘No’
• I’m would like to make positive and lasting changes in my life
• I’m not as successful as I would like to be
• My family is important to me, but I’m not spending enough time with them
• I don’t have any time in my life to take care of ME
• My health is preventing me from enjoying my life to the fullest
• My job is suffering because I’m pulled in too many different directions
• My family is suffering because I’m pulled in too many different directions
• My health is suffering because I’m pulled in too many different directions
• I’ve forgotten how to have fun
• I’ve forgotten how to relax
• I get really stressed when anything goes wrong in my life
• Exercise? Sure I know I need to, but who has the time or energy?
• I know I could benefit from someone who will help me sort through my priorities and help me get back on track

If you answered Yes to four or more of these questions, you may be an excellent candidate for our Health Coaching program.

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Request your free 30-minute health Coaching session. During this session, you will experience one-on-one coaching and you will:

• Discover the 8 keys to health and wellness
• Identify some of the challenges in achieving your weight loss or health goals
• Create a visual picture of where you are in relation to the 8 keys of health and wellness
• Experience working with a professional Health Coach
• Take home a ‘baby step’ to move you closer to your health and wellness goals

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Most of our coaching program options include what we call ‘Just in Time’ calls. These are short, focused calls on just such a topic where you need help quickly. Look at the coaching program options.

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Our Health Coaches are members of ICF and abide by their standards and code of ethics, including confidentiality. The Client Wellness Portal is extremely secure so you can feel comfortable being open and honest with your Coach.

And remember, it is only an open and honest relationship between Coach and Client that will result in goals being reached in a timely manner.

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The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the largest worldwide resource for business and personal coaches. The ICF is a nonprofit, individual membership organization formed by professionals worldwide who practice business and personal coaching.

It is the globally recognized association for professional coaching. ICF has more than 14,000 members in nearly 90 countries and 160 local chapters in nearly 50 countries.

The ICF exists to Build, Support and Preserve the integrity of the coaching profession through programs and standards supported by the individual membership. It develops and implements programs that assist in the professional development of its membership.

The ICF developed and promotes an industry-wide Code of Professional Standards. It also developed the first universally-accepted Accreditation process which will preserve the integrity of coaching through standardized credentials that will assist consumers in choosing professional coaches.

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