Graduate Certificate in Health Coaching
Designed for Licensed or Certified Healthcare Professionals
Now Enrolling for April 2010
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Program Overview
Be at the forefront of a growing field in the health care industry. Enhance your existing skills and education to give you the competitive edge in less than a year with Tai Sophia Institute’s new Graduate Certificate in Health Coaching.
Health coaching is an evidence-based process that empowers people to tap into their own inner source of motivation and their body’s innate wisdom to restore and preserve health. Health coaches are established medical and allied health professionals who have received additional training in motivational skills that help their patients and clients adopt attitudes and lifestyle changes most conducive to optimal health and healing. Among the core competencies of health coaching are building rapport; helping people clarify their health goals and then implement and sustain healthgenerating behaviors and attitudes; guiding people in health-maintenance activities; and managing progress and accountability.
Although health coaches do not diagnose or treat illness, they often work with those with disease conditions to enhance their health, change their lifestyle patterns, and better manage the impact their illnesses have on their lives. Ideal candidates for this program include nurses, acupuncturists, naturopaths, chiropractors, physicians, pharmacists, mental health professionals, physical therapists, herbalists, and other allied healthcare practitioners.
This 11-month program consists of five courses delivered in an executive weekend
format to accommodate working professionals.
Program Outcomes
- To encourage a wider view of the field of wellness in contrast to the current disease focused model.
- To teach students to listen to the wisdom of their own bodies and learn to reconnect with the cycles of nature in order to teach clients to do the same.
- To develop both proficiency and excellence in the skills necessary to help clients adopt attitudes and lifestyle changes most conducive to optimal health and other issues that affect health.
Program Dates
ISci 632: Foundations of Health and Wellness
April 14-18, 2010
COA 601: Becoming a Healing Presence
May 22-23, 2010
June 12-13, 2010
July 31, 2010
COA 610: Fundamentals of Health and Wellness Coaching
August 1, 2010
August 21-22, 2010
September 19, 2010
October 9, 2010
COA 611: Principles and Practices of Health and Wellness Coaching
October 10, 2010
November 6-7, 2010
December 11-12, 2010
COA 620: Applied Healing Strategies
January 8-9, 2011
February 4, 2011
Plus Student-Designed Practicum
Tuition and Fees
Application Fee: $50
Matriculation Fee (due upon acceptance): $100
Tuition: $500 per credit for a total program cost of $7500
Financial Aid
A limited number of scholarships are available for this program. In addition, Tai Sophia’s Office of Financial Aid has resources available for private funding and alternative educational loans. Please contact the Director of Financial Aid John Gay, Federal financial aid is available for this program. To apply for federal financial aid, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Tai Sophia Institute’s school code for completing the FAFSA is G25784. A limited number of scholarships are also available. For additional funding options, such as private or alternative education loans, please contact Director of Financial Aid John Gay, Jr., at 410-888-9048 ext. 6628 or .
Course Descriptions
ISci 632: Foundations of Health and Wellness
This course provides a context for a wide variety of studies relating to perspectives on health and wellness by introducing basic health philosophies, history of the current healthcare system, proposed healthcare reform legislation, balance/imbalance in health, and the investigation of how these issues apply to an informed perspective on our current healthcare system. Concepts of wellness and sickness are discussed, including the role that language plays in supporting health and wellness. The foundations of health and wellness are further examined focusing on the current knowledge of the physiologic basis for wellness practices.
COA 601: Becoming a Healing Presence
This course focuses on exploring the implications that the rhythms of nature, life skills and language have on health and wellness. By observing their own ways of being, doing and speaking, students begin to embody the practices that guide them in becoming a powerful healing presence and a catalyst for change in others.
COA 610: Fundamentals of Health and Wellness Coaching
Students are introduced to theories and trends in health coaching. Contemporary coaching models are introduced and students begin to build a repertoire of coaching skills. This experiential course develops observation skills, active listening, the art of evocative questioning. and the ability to motivate change.
COA 611: Principles and Practices of Health and Wellness Coaching
This class delves deeper into the spirit and practice of health and wellness coaching using the theory and skills of Motivational Interviewing. Students receive practical skills for structuring a coaching session, planning, goal setting with clients, and insuring client accountability.
COA 620: Applied Healing Strategies
This class introduces students to modalities of complementary therapies, such as, acupuncture, herbal medicine, chiropractic, homeopathy, and energy medicine. Students will design a practicum to apply coaching principles and skills to their own specific field of practice. Students receive mentoring, coaching and feedback from instructor and peers as they develop the skills of mind and heart necessary to being effective health coaches.
Faculty
Tom Balles, M.Ac., L.Ac.(UK), Dipl.Ac.(NCCAOM)
Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac.(UK), Dipl.Ac.(NCCAOM)
Katherine E. Johnson, Ed.D., MAT
Cheryl Walker M.L., MCC
Stephen T. Wegener, Ph.D., ABPP (program advisor)
To learn more about this dynamic and life-changing program, contact the Office of Graduate Admissions at admissions@tai.edu or 410-888-9048 ext. 6647.