MentorCoach is proud to announce the following exciting master class:
Mastering Wellness Coaching: Healthy Lifestyles
Led by Eva Schmidt, FNP-BC, NBC-HWC, CMC, CEC, PCC
Mastering Wellness Coaching: Healthy Lifestyles
Starts April 2025
8 classes of 90 minutes each and a
9th class of 120 minutes
Tuition:
$695
Or 3 Payments of $249
(plus optional $75 for CA BBS CEs)
(plus optional $20 for ICF CCEs)
14 hours of CEs and ICF CCEs
14 required hours toward Health and Wellness Coaching Certification
14 hours toward Certified MentorCoach Certification
This class–Mastering Wellness Coaching: Healthy Lifestyles–is required for certification in Wellness Coaching. It counts toward MentorCoach Certification as an elective as well. It is offered once a year in the fall. Enrollment is capped on a first-come, first-served basis. There are no prerequisites for this class. It is open to all.
Become a Certified Wellness Coach. By taking this course, you will have completed 14 hours toward certification as a Certified Wellness Coach.
ABOUT MASTERING WELLNESS COACHING
Mastering Wellness Coaching: Healthy Lifestyles is one of four master classes that make up the wellness certification program. It provides you the heart and soul of wellness coaching and is incredibly important. A vast majority of people — your clients — die prematurely and unnecessarily because they didn’t crack their lifestyle code. We are about cracking that code and helping people make and sustain healthy changes.
This is “positive health”, the post domain of positive psychology that was ignored for years, largely because positive psychology was founded by self-described middle aged, overweight, white men who lived in their heads.** But new research now establishes that there is a clear connection between happiness and a healthy body.
While this area looks maddeningly simple, the statistics on change and personal experience reveal it is incredibly difficult to alter lifestyle behavior. In this class we will look at everything we know about what a healthy lifestyle requires and how to help people have a fighting chance to bring it about.
A large portion of your wellness coaching will fully or intermittently focus on lifestyle. This course content is your bread and butter — where the rubber meets the road. This is where you can give people years of life.
** Chief among the men who lived in their heads was, of course, Martin E. P. “Marty” Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. Now momentum is shifting rapidly toward the arena of wellness coaching. As evidence, see Marty’s call for a new field of positive health, his five-million-step a year goals, and his latest book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being. The tide has turned.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Are you comfortable with your own body so that you feel confident with the basic body maintenance necessary to avoid the things that cause the most wear, tear and aging?
Do you live a lifestyle that places you in the best position to increase your longevity and quality of life?
Do you feel at ease coaching clients about their wellness goals or issues?
This class is designed, in part, to help you to take control of your own health so you understand what steps will move you towards living a healthier, younger and zestful life. You will learn how to become a wellness role-model for your clients while “being the change you seek” and “walking your talk.”
Why Take The Class?
While most of us long for better physical and mental well-being, considerable evidence suggests that we’re moving in the opposite direction.
Although we desire to be well, there’s an enormous gap between wanting to be well and the everyday reality of living with the physical and mental health consequences of overeating, under-exercising and having too little down time to recharge our batteries.
This class will help you create a blueprint for well-being that will challenge the belief that there is a quick fix to overcoming your challenges — and replace it with evidence-based strategies for mastering your health and well-being and making changes that last.
What You’ll Be Doing:
First. We’ll explore your body and lifestyle to see what factors contribute to helping it work well and function better.
We’ll concentrate on the body components and conditions most important in the aging process as well as disorders that are the most preventable. You’ll find out how unhealthy habits affect your wellness status and challenge your quality of life.
You’ll be able to answer the question: What is essential for healthy aging? — And find that the answers lie in lifestyle changes that can keep you healthier longer, and embracing the aging process with good humor, grace, and engagement.
In addition, we’ll explore what science-based lifestyle factors and integrative/complementary interventions prevent disease and facilitate health.
(No, you don’t need a background or understanding of human biology to take this class. You will learn about your body and your lifestyle in a manner that is fun and interesting)
Second. We’ll discuss the what and how of wellness assessments to help you create your own user-friendly assessment for your clients. You’ll learn how to design a wellness vision and plan, set goals and conduct continued wellness coaching sessions.
What You’ll Learn To Do:
- Use coaching skills, tools, and processes in client wellness interventions
- Take steps toward becoming a professional and confident certified wellness coach
- Systematically collect, assess, and evaluate health information regarding the health risk status of clients in such areas as physical activity/energy, stress management, and nutrition/weight management
- Apply science-based coaching skills with wellness issues.
- Guide the development of client visions and goals while utilizing accepted national standards and guidelines
- Discuss what research-based factors contribute to healthy body functioning and reduce the effects of aging.
- Understand how unhealthy lifestyle habits affect a client’s wellness status and quality of life
- Learn which evidence based lifestyle management and integrative/complementary health interventions are known to prevent and reduce the risk of future disease.
- Empower your clients to establish and sustain a higher level of wellness than they can do alone
- Apply the ICF Competencies and Markers, specifically the Direct Communication competency and markers included in this particular ICF Competency. Learn to remain focused on coaching competencies and to avoid becoming an educator re: health and wellness. Clarifying the importance of how you assess and share information, knowledge with health and wellness coaching clients.
Curriculum
- Introduction – Wellness coaching in health
- Envisioning a healthy best self and the Behavior Change Pyramid – Assessments and evaluation tools
- Building growth-promotion relationships with the wellness client – Vision, goals, planning, tracking and outcomes
- Body intelligence
- Healthy lifestyle habits that support the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
- Healthy lifestyle habits that support the skeletal and digestive systems
- Healthy lifestyle habits that support the central nervous system, brain, and sensory system
- Healthy lifestyle habits that support the hormonal and immune systems
- Healthy lifestyle habits: Nutrition and healthy eating
- Healthy lifestyle habits: Physical activity
- Healthy lifestyle habits: Sleep, rest and energy
- Coaching to match level of consciousness; Mindful health
- Healing practices: Overview of integrative/complementary therapies, Part 1
- Healing practices: Overview of integrative/complementary therapies, Part 2
- Emphasis on ICF Coaching Competencies (specifically Direct Communication) versus becoming an educator as a health and wellness coach.
- Strategies for working with health/wellness clients on coaching strategies for self -management using ‘just-in-time’ evidence of health risks and health behavior change using mobile health technologies.
Class Time and Schedule
Starts April 2025
8 classes of 90 minutes each and a
9th class of 120 minutes
Who Should Attend?
This course is relevant for anyone who cares about their health and longevity and is concerned about how to take care of themselves to feel better and optimize the function of their body. It is for coaches, therapists, health care professionals (nurses, dieticians, physical therapists, etc), consultants, teachers and all other who work to improve the health and wellness of others.
What You Will Learn:
- how to shape and refine your coaching skills in helping clients reach their wellness goals/potentials
- how to systematically collect, assess, and evaluate health information regarding the health risk status of clients in such areas as physical activity/energy, stress management, and nutrition/weight management
- to use specific wellness tools and processes in client wellness interventions
- to apply science-based coaching skills with wellness issues.
- how to guide the development of client visions and goals while utilizing accepted national standards and guidelines
- what research-based lifestyle factors contribute to healthy body functioning and reduce the effects of aging.
- how unhealthy lifestyle habits affect a client’s wellness status and quality of life
how to take control of your health as you age and avoid key concerns - which evidence based lifestyle management and integrative/complementary health interventions are known to prevent and reduce the risk of future disease.
- how to empower your clients to establish and sustain a higher level of wellness than they can do alone
- Take steps toward becoming a professional and confident certified wellness coach
- Learn how to leverage scientific knowledge and increase self-awareness with health and wellness coaching clients to changes in body, heart rate, breathing and other symptoms that the body sends to clients to pay attention to changes in health risk and management.
Why is Wellness Certification Important?
- Establishes a minimum standard for credentialing professional wellness coaches
- Assures the public that participating wellness coaches meet or exceed these minimum standards.
- Builds a network of credentialed wellness coaches.
- Meets the growing demand by clients to hire a credentialed wellness coach that is professionally set apart from other coaches.
Coach Certification
This class provides 14 hours toward Certification as a Certified Health & Wellness Coach for students meeting the attendance requirement. This class also provides 14 hours toward MentorCoach Certification as a Certified MentorCoach as an elective for students meeting the class attendance requirement. It can also provide 14 hours toward ICF Certification via an Accredited Coach Training Program such as MentorCoach or via the ICF Portfolio Approach.
ICF Coach Continuing Education
This class is approved for 14 hours of CCEs from the International Coaching Federation for students meeting the class attendance requirement of being present, “live”, for 80% of the classes (See Attendance Requirements below). There is a $20 fee for ICF CCEs.
Board Continuing Education (CEs)
This class is approved for 14 hours of CEs (continuing education) for Marriage and Family Therapists in California (CA BBS). The CE administration fee is $75. CEs for psychologists (APA) are not provided for this class.
To receive credit for CEs, students must pay the CE fee and be present for 11 of the 14 class hours (See Attendance Requirements).
Note: The CE fee is $75 and applies only if you are a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and need CEs. Otherwise, when you register, indicate that you do not need to pay the CE fee by choosing the “Base Unit Price with NO CE’s” registration option.
Attendance Requirements
Every class is recorded. You may listen to some or all of the classes by recording at your leisure.
However, to receive credit for CEs, ICF CCEUs, credit toward Health & Wellness Coaching Certification or MentorCoach Certification, or to receive a Certificate of Completion, you must be present for 11.5 of the 14 class hours.
Listening to the class by recording CAN count toward 14 hours of ICF CEs in Resource Development. To pursue this option, contact Pat (Dr. Walker) after you enroll.
Refund Policy
You may withdraw your registration at any time before the beginning of the second class and receive a full refund. You are responsible for the full tuition amount if you do not withdraw before the beginning of the second class.
About Eva Schmidt, FNP-BC, NBC-HWC, CMC, CEC, PCC
Eva Schmidt has unusually rich experience in both the wellness and business coaching arenas. With 5000 hours of coaching experience, Eva is an NBHWC Certified Health and Wellness Coach, a Certified Executive Coach (CEC), a Certified MentorCoach®, an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. As founder of 3 Springs Coaching, she combines her nearly two decades of experience in healthcare and business coaching to serve her clients.
Eva is also the former owner and partner of a large family practice in Eugene, Oregon. She recently served as the Clinical Director and medical provider for one of the largest employer-based healthcare companies in the country, where she integrated health coaching into patient care.
Eva’s deep corporate experience includes her time serving as a corporate executive in the banking industry. Eva knows first-hand the importance of good leadership. Her experience includes several years in the banking and mortgage industry overseeing multimillion-dollar business loan portfolios and serving as Operations Manager for the construction lending division of a large East Coast bank.
A Certified Executive Coach, Eva enjoys working with life and business issues for executives, contributing to the success of individuals and organizations. And having made a midlife career change, she lends unique insight to that process and understands the stress and often paralyzing anxiety that can sometimes accompany a life or career transition.
A gifted teacher, Eva loves working with students, supporting them in building exciting and rewarding coaching practices. She serves as a senior member of the MentorCoach Trainer Team and the MentorCoach Health and Wellness Faculty.
Eva lives with her husband near Eugene, Oregon. In her free time, she enjoys writing, gardening, and enjoying the beauty and many outdoor offerings of the Pacific Northwest. Eva’s website is 3springscoaching.com.
