What is Wellness Coaching?

Wellness Coaching is a partnership between you and your coach designed to enhance your quality of life. Coaches provide accountability, support, education, advice, guidance and motivation to you. At your initial meeting you explore with your coach a vision for your future state of wellness. On a weekly basis you work to set realistic goals, developing a plan and a process for achieving your goals, working through barriers and making decisions on what motivates you.

Wellness coaching is a process where your coach assists you in developing new habits through incremental lifestyle change. Your plan is customized to meet your needs. Areas of work include such things as weight loss/ management, nutrition, fitness, stress management, health risk management and other health behavior needs.

How does Wellness Coaching differ from Personal Training?

• Wellness Coaching is a process of setting a clear vision, 3 month goals, weekly goals surrounding all of your wellness behaviors.
  
  
• Wellness Coaches work with you on an action plan. They do not guide you through structured exercise programming each week, like a Personal Trainer. Rather, they work to motivate you to take action on your own and report back your progress each week.
  
  
• Wellness Coaching does not require you to meet in person. You may meet either in person or via the telephone.
  
  
• Wellness Coaching involves you taking ownership of your own health and wellness, as your coach guides you through a series of inquiry, reflection, self-discovery and planning through obstacles.
  
  
• Wellness Coaching works on 'where you are now, where you want to be in a future state, and how to fill in that gap'. Coaches do not spend a lot of focused energy on your past behavior.
  
  
• Wellness Coaches provide you with the tools, support and structure to assist you in reaching your goals that you are unable to reach on your own.
  
  
• Wellness Coaches provide you advice and education in all areas of wellness based on your needs. However, Coaches believe you have the natural creativity and resourcefulness within yourself, which we help to bring out.
  
  
• You are the driver along the path of your wellness road. Your coach is your passenger that helps you along the way when you have gone off course.