WinSkill

Course Content

Individuals working in healthcare who wish to expand their options with a coach approach.
Health educators who want to learn the latest research and skills in coaching psychology.
Anyone who has a desire to work in healthcare but is lacking a clinical degree.
Also ideal for physical therapists, nutritionists, dieticians, nurses, doctors, Ayurvedic practitioners, Chinese medicine practitioners, fitness trainers, yoga teachers, counselors, physicians, human resource managers, psychologists, personal trainers, alternative therapy practitioners, and anyone passionate about health & wellness coaching.

Define health, health promotion, disease prevention, and applying a whole-person perspective.
Identify five major risk factors (sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking, stress, and poor nutrition) and their proximal causes for most common chronic conditions (obesity, hypertension, and diabetes).
Understand the basic availability, usage, and interpretation of 6 standard biometric measures, lab and screening tests, including B.P., BMI, fasting glucose, HgbA1C, lipid panels, and inflammatory markers.

Understand evidence-based suggestions for:

Optimizing nutrition and healthy weight.
Understand the basics of a healthy diet—unprocessed (or minimally processed) whole foods, lean proteins (heavily plant-based), adequate fiber, mono- and poly-unsaturated fats, fruits, and vegetables.
Recognize current evidence-based nutritional interventions for the top, most prevalent health conditions—obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.
Discuss controversial nutritional issues and be able to analyze the current research regarding these issues.
Be familiar with the frameworks for a healthy diet, using both the conventional approach to nutrition and the evolving framework of integrative nutrition, which considers the understanding of dietary effects on the inflammatory response underlying most chronic disease conditions.

Know current recommendations for healthy adult exercise in aerobics, flexibility, strength/endurance, and balance.
Be versed in various ways to generally increase one’s daily activities level apart from conventional exercise.

Basic understanding of sleep and the essential role it plays in overall health and well-being.
Be familiar with common recommendations for healthy sleep hygiene.

Basic understanding of emotional intelligence and its importance in healthy management of relationships with self and others.
Be a professional life coach with several tools and practices for fostering emotional awareness and agility in clients and self.
Life coaching on how a sense of purpose or life meaning impacts health.

Basic understanding of sleep and the essential role it plays in overall health and well-being.
Know when and how to make appropriate professional referrals for clients whose dynamic risk behaviors exceed the scope and practice of coaching.

Basics of the physiology of stress and stress management.
Ability to apply and teach several healthy mind-body practices, such as breathwork, mindfulness, imagery, relaxation techniques.
Preventing illness and chronic conditions related to lifestyles, such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.