Course Description
This experiential course introduces the theory and practice of coaching. Students will demonstrate the skills and qualities of a wellness coach as they create alliances with clients who are aiming to achieve high-level wellness and to manifest their full potential in life. Key concepts include: core coaching values and beliefs, essential wellness coaching concepts, skills and processes.
Course Content
Coaching Values in Practice
- Views people as creative, resourceful and whole
- Values excellence, realizing maximum human potential
- Acts upon the principles of self-determination and self-efficacy
Coaching Concepts
- Co-Active Coaching
- Active collaboration, alliance between coach and client
- Fulfillment, balance and process
- Coaching specialties
Core Wellness Principles and Coaching
- Illness/Wellness continuum
- Tenets of wellness
- Dimensions of wellness, wellness models
- Lifestyle improvement model
Health Coaching Skills and Qualities
- Establishing a relationship based upon authenticity and connection
- Levels of listening
- Empowerment skills
- Challenge skills
- Designing a partnership, collaborating to achieve optimal potential
- Holding the client’s agenda and moving action forward
- Designing your niche as a coach
- Wellness mapping: assessment, planning, support and evaluation
Learning Activities
- Lecture/Discussion
- Role play coaching and feedback
- Media
Means of Assessment
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Written assignments
- Presentations
- Testing
This is a graded course.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- apply core coaching values to the coaching process
- analyze essential coaching concepts
- apply core wellness principles to the coaching process
- apply wellness coaching skills and concepts.