Developing a business or coaching career is a slow grow of measured steps, pivots, learning, and moving through the ebb and flow of challenges and successes. Join us for a deep dive into business development. Together, we'll inspire you to create a clear vision and specific long-term goals. Then join us every other week for strategic conversations and breakout sessions that will empower you to set action steps that will guide your business choices between sessions. With the help of patience and perseverance, you will solidify your desired outcome and choose your own path for the journey to have the coaching career or practice you desire.

• You can expect Structure, Accountability & Confidence Building.

• Sessions will take place two times per month and will be 2 hours.

• There will be a theme for each session that will help you to forward your business goals and will answer some of your business questions.

• You will be assigned an accountability partner with weekly suggestions for your meetings.

• There will be group work and breakout sessions to help you discover your path forward.

• You will be expected to set action steps at the end of each live session.

Come in with an idea, leave prepared ready to launch and lead your unique group offering. This is for you if you are interested in developing your concept and deepening your group facilitation skills.

This course is designed for coaches and other individuals who have a group coach offering in mind and would like to learn group facilitation skills, and develop and launch their offering. It is also for seasoned group coach facilitators who would like to refine their skills. No prior group facilitation experience necessary.

Develop the skills and best practices you need to design, launch, facilitate and evaluate group coaching offerings. The course addresses both facilitation theory and practice, exploring the role of the coach as facilitator. You will gain confidence through practicing facilitation with feedback.

This experiential intensive both models and unpacks:

• advance design work

• the nuts and bolts of facilitating group sessions

• how to cultivate a safe and cohesive group environment

• creative ways to open and close sessions

• recruiting and curating a group for maximum success

• how to manage common challenges that can arise in group coaching

Broaden your coaching presence, awareness and skills through somatic awareness. As coaches, we learn to listen actively to what our clients say; yet, there is so much more information available to us if we learn to listen beyond the words to the energy of the client and to our own energy and response.

Using body-based practices, as well as those tailored just for coaches, we experiment, play and learn to heighten our presence to the signals we receive from the coaching space, the client and our own bodies. Explore how to tune into what your own body, intuition and awareness is telling you.

During this this two-hour, workshop, you will learn to:

• Quickly come into a calm, creative, resourceful state.

• Actively “listen” to the client’s words, energy and emotions.

• Bring more intuition and self awareness into your coaching.

• Find more freedom in your coaching through non-judgment of self and others.

• Integrate coaching competencies in ways that support client transformation.

In each 2-hour session, you will develop your skills as an individual coach as well as deepen your coaching skills for working with groups.

Student and professional coaches benefit from being coached, just as clients do!

Mentor coaching, whether individually or within a group, provides professional guidance to grow, strengthen, and achieve deeper levels of coaching competency and capacities. Successful demonstration of core competencies are required by coach training programs as well as other credentialing bodies, including the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF) for ongoing professional development. Additionally, these are the core tools of the profession that lead to being an effective coach.

During this four week/four session course, each week two students will coach for 30 minutes and the other two participants will be client and observer. After each round, the Mentor Coach will provide feedback and facilitate a discussion including observations from the other participants. There will also be an opportunity to discuss challenging scenarios in your coaching practice, such as red flag situations.

There is no predetermined agenda for the coaching, each student is invited to determine the area of focus and need within their coaching skills development. The Mentor Coach will tailor their feedback to assist each individual coach to develop their coaching skill set forward toward competency and mastery.

Join us for a deep dive into coaching session framework and ICF / NBHWC core competencies. We invite you to review, practice, deepen, and strengthen coaching skills essential to being an effective health coach.

Each week, the focus is on one element of coaching session/framework:

• Review of coaching framework and Opening/Engaging

• Focusing / Setting an Agenda and Coach / Client Agreement

• Evoking / Discovering

• Evoking Continued / Visioning and Long-term Goals

• Pausing and Planning

• Closing

• Putting it all together

The course consists of seven, 90-minute, weekly online sessions offered at the same time each week through Zoom. Each session includes review and discussion of core coaching skills (i.e., open questions, affirmations, reflective listening, summaries, sharing information, visioning, goal setting, and essential coach presence and being skills), instructor demonstrations as well as structured coaching practice with supervision and immediate feedback.

The course is limited to 10 students in order to promote individualized attention and supervision.

How to stay in scope and serve your clients.

For health coaches with experience in or interested in offering support to clients who are contemplating or have begun a medication taper, whether for the first time, or after previous attempts:

There is much need and opportunity for this kind of support, and in order to serve clients within our scope of practice and our code of ethics, it’s important to be clear on what health coaches can and can’t do. It is crucial that you know what is in scope and out of scope, how to ensure that clients have the level of support they need to undertake this process, how to handle red flags, and where to get further education for yourself and resources for your clients. This webinar/discussion is designed to explore these issues and guide those interested toward further education and resources to most effectively support clients through this challenging, rewarding process.

More and more, coaching is being offered via text only or in conjunction with other modalities. In this workshop, you’ll learn what is unique about text coaching and how to successfully coach in this format; the instructors share their experiences from working in various companies (including Noom, Ginger, Adapt180 Health) and in private practice, as well as tips and strategies. In this workshop, you will also put text coaching best practices to work by gaining experience with text coaching.

Offered in partnership with Erica Evans and Louise Buckley, National Board Certified and ADAPT Certified Functional Health Coaches.

For coaches who attended Part 1 and are eager for more! In the world of digital health, text coaching is often the only format of coaching delivery and companies are looking for coaches with text coaching experience. In this workshop we spend more time in experiential learning through peer text coaching and instructor feedback while going deeper into discussion around practical applications for this modality.

Offered in partnership with Erica Evans and Louise Buckley, National Board Certified and ADAPT Certified Functional Health Coaches.

For coaches with experience or interest in coaching teens and young adults:

• Where are opportunities and how do you find/create them?

• What do coaches need to know about working with minors? (Contracts, confidentiality)

• What's the same and different in coaching with this age group?

• How to bring creativity into your coaching with them?

Connecting & Communicating in the Virtual World with Sharon Jakubecy, M.AmSAT

Before the “new normal” of stay-at-home work and Zoom meetings, corporate employees were already sitting on average 9.1 hours a day. Currently, texting neck and virtual conferencing fatigue is impacting productivity and health. The increased screen time is challenging everyone’s ability to take care of their well-being, their confidence on camera, and their communication as a coach. Sharon Jakubecy offers a 60 minute live, virtual training to support you so you can better manage stress and communicate with confidence.

As coaches, we may have extensive expertise and training in our trade; yet, the need for website design and branding may be way out of our wheelhouse. This interactive workshop is designed to be the first step toward helping you weed through the overwhelm and quiet the anxiety that can accompany this aspect of creating a coaching practice or starting your career.

You will walk away from this workshop with practical insights and tangible steps toward visualizing your website. You’ll learn:

Branding - what is it and why does it matter

Websites - where to start and what to include

How to make them both work for you

This 90-minute experience incorporates collaborative exercises as well as breakout groups. An interactive workshop with Helena Mueller.