Primary Certificate in Health Coaching, Counselling and Training

CONTENT
This intensive 2-day workshop focuses on the theory and practice of primary and secondary preventative health programmes applied within coaching, counselling, training and group work settings. Health coaching is the practice of health education and health promotion within a coaching context, to enhance the wellbeing of individuals and to facilitate the achievement of their health-related goals. The course will include the exploration of evidence-based understanding of ‘health’ relating to primary factors such as genetics, childhood conditioning, environment, economic, cultural and religious aspects and the exploration of societal changes in health awareness and practice today which can lead to ill-health.

All encompassed within a framework of examining inhibitors and enhancers of a healthy lifestyle i.e.

• physiological (biological-neurological) in particular the immune system
  
• psychological triggers related to health-inhibiting beliefs (hibs) and health enhancing beliefs (hebs) behavioural outcomes of reactive unhealthy lifestyle inhibitors (hibs) and their opposites, proactive health enhancing beliefs (hebs)
  
• specific aspects of health inhibiting or health enhancing practices related to diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol, relaxation, imagery, breathing, stress and primary preventative and secondary preventative programmes for all age groups

Within the structure of this course you will attain hands-on experience of assessing, monitoring and evaluating specific health-inhibiting presentations culminating in the development of effective health enhancing programmes to assist individuals in making informed choices that provide the impetus to practise lifestyle changes that can enhance their health.

AIMS

• to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of health coaching within coaching, counselling, training and group work settings.
  
• to develop evidence-based understanding of ‘health’, relating to primary factors such as genetics, childhood conditioning, environment, economic, cultural and religious aspects and through the exploration of societal changes in health awareness and practice.
  
• to review current research data in order to develop understanding of the way an individual’s lifestyle can lead to ill-health

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• develop knowledge through the exploration, discussion and evaluation of theoretical concepts of ineffective and effective health practices
  
• systematically review inhibitors of a healthy lifestyle i.e.

- physiological (biological-neurological) in particular the role of the immune system and factors
that can inhibit its effectiveness

- behavioural outcomes of unhealthy lifestyle inhibitors leading to health inhibiting beliefs (hibs)

- specific aspects related to stress, diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol, and their consequences

• systematically review enhancers of a healthy lifestyle i.e.

- physiological evidence of changing health practices

- psychological triggers that can provide physiological change through the desensitising of the
stress response (hebs – health enhancing beliefs)

- behavioural change that can be established through specific, individually tailored

health programmes. Programmes exploring diet, exercise, alcohol, relaxation, imagery and
breathing.

• to examine primary preventative and secondary preventative programmes for all age groups
  
• to examine the skills necessary to coach individuals or groups related to the delivery ofhealth orientated programmes
  
• as coaches to practise assessing, monitoring, and evaluating specific health inhibiting presentations by individuals
  
• as coaches to develop effective health enhancing programmes to assist these individuals to make informed choices that provide the impetus to practise lifestyle changes that can enhance their health