Join us for a deep dive into coaching session framework and the 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

• 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 secure 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, and is open to students who are preparing for the Practice Skills Assessment (PSA) or have already passed the PSA and wish to advance their skills further. Optional practice with partners between sessions is encouraged, yet not required.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate core coaching skills outlined in the NBHWC coaching competencies.

• Demonstrate framework and coaching skills (Opening/Engaging, Focusing/Setting an Agenda, Evoking/Discovering, Pausing and Planning, Closing) in the spirit of the NBHWC coaching competencies.

• Self-evaluate coaching skills through supervised mentor coaching and ongoing feedback.

• Integrate learning into coaching conversations.