Free online class for health coaches — Mindful Interventions for Health Coaches
Tips on how to add mindfulness to your health coaching toolbox
Are you a health coach with a meditation practice who wants to share mindfulness with your clients?
Are you a health coach who does not practice mindfulness but you are intrigued by evidence that aspects of mindfulness may improve your client’s success with motivational interviewing and goal setting?
Awareness and nonjudgemental acceptance are so important in the conversations we have as health coaches. What does incorporating these practices in our health coaching sessions look like? As our clients discuss their health issues, invite them to notice what arises — are they feeling emotions, anxious thoughts or discomfort? Instead of ignoring these or pushing them away, invite them to make room for all the things they are feeling. Whatever arises is a normal part of the human experience. They are not stupid or weak for having these experiences.
Of course, this is easier said than done. Mindfulness is not a simple skill we can master in a few days. But it CAN be practiced without giving up our job and family and moving to the top of a mountain.
Mindful Interventions for Health Coaches is a free, online class that gives health coaches introductory knowledge of short mindfulness practices that may assist clients in motivational interviewing and behavior change.
Course Objectives include:
Experiencing several mindfulness techniques and describing the aspects of mindfulness
Describing several mindfulness techniques that help during motivational interviewing
Learning about mindfulness techniques that help with anxiety before surgery
Learning about MBSR
Learn more about four key aspects of mindfulness in this video:
Find the link to take the free online class on mindfulness for health coaches here: http://kathleenhelenlisson.com/
Resources:
Roche, A. I., Kroska, E. B., & Denburg, N. L. (2019). Acceptance- and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Health Behavior Change: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Journal of contextual behavioral science, 13, 74–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.06.002 Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442228/
Sohl SJ, Birdee G, Elam R. Complementary Tools to Empower and Sustain Behavior Change: Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2016 Nov;10(6):429–436. doi: 10.1177/1559827615571524. Epub 2015 Feb 18. PMID: 28239308; PMCID: PMC5319432. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319432/
