Are you interested in becoming a health coach? Our Health & Wellness Coaching Certificate offers you a key credential, linking you with prominent figures in 21st century healthcare and providing a supportive educational community in which to learn vital skills.
The certificate includes five key courses, four residential conferences, and a capstone integrative essay. For more information on this certificate, please fill out the request form on the right.
Curriculum
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Mind-Body Medicine - An Overview: This course begins with the Center Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) initial mind-body medicine training, introducing the student to a specific model for imparting mind-body skills in a group process format. The training takes place in conjunction with the School of Mind-Body Medicine Residential College. Students continue with eight weeks of online learning, reading and research on mind-body medicine, and supervised practice with volunteers.
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Imagery for Healing: This course reviews the place of imagery and the imagination in traditional healing practices, and the applications of imagery in healthcare. Students review the experimental evidence for the impact of imagery on immune function, neurochemistry, and medical illness. Students learn to utilize imagery as a diagnostic tool, as a medical rehearsal for coping, and as a therapeutic tool for medical illness and emotional disorders. Students complete a two-day residential training, as well as related readings, online discussion, and course assignments.
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Coaching for Health and Wellness: This course provides students with an overview of the wellness field and coaching profession, an understanding of the principles of health and wellness coaching, an introduction to the science of lasting behavior change, and mentored practice in all of the core coaching skills and competencies defined by the International Coach Federation. This course reviews research documenting the effectiveness of health and wellness coaching in corporate wellness programs, hospitals, clinical practices, and through independent wellness coaching partnerships. The course includes a two-day residential conference and online learning.
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Intermediate Health and Wellness Coaching: This course introduces a variety of advanced techniques for health and wellness coaching. Students learn to use a number of assessment tools to help facilitate awareness and accountability in the coaching partnership. They hone basic coaching skills and refine their process coaching skills, allowing them to better support their clients in moving through resistance and fears. Students are introduced to the fundamentals of establishing their own coaching practice, as well as connected to professional organizations that will provide networking and continuing education opportunities. The course includes a two-day residential conference and online learning.
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Advanced Coaching Practicum: This course provides advanced supervised experiential learning and skills development in health and wellness coaching. It also provides regular online and video-conference call discussions, and mentoring with faculty and fellow coaching certificate students. Students will complete a capstone integrative essay during their Advanced Practicum class, summarizing their learning in this course sequence.
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The sixteenth credit is a one-credit Graduate Colloquium course, continuing through the entire time the student is in the Certificate program. The student is assigned a mentor, who conducts the Graduate Colloquium and provides academic guidance and support. To enroll in this program, go to Apply Online and select your desired Non-Degree choice.
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School of Mind-Body Medicine students already take a two-credit Graduate Colloquium and have an assigned mentor. They will not need to take this additional one-credit Graduate Colloquium. If you are a current student in the School of Mind-Body Medicine or in another Saybrook degree program, talk with your faculty mentor about enrolling for this certificate.