Become a Wellness Coach - 2 day ILM Endorsed Programme

Event Details

Wellness or health coaching has emerged as a fresh approach to health improvement, aimed at enhancing motivation and commitment to healthy behaviours. It can support lifestyle changes or prevent exacerbations of chronic illness.

Course description

This 2 day ILM Endorsed programme will help you to empower clients with the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to make necessary lifestyle and behavioural changes to improve their health and quality of life.

The course covers key areas including:

Core health coaching skills Types of health coaching ‘Setting the scene’ Improving self-esteem Lifestyle changes The link between wellbeing and human spirituality

This programme is currenlty being reviewed to be a ILM Development programme.

This course is for you if...

You have a passion for helping others You are considering going into wellness/health coaching You are a conventional or complementary healthcare/wellness professional or healthcare advocate wanting to integrate wellness coaching into their practice Wish to further your health improvement practice

This programme is designed to help novices, health coaches, wellness consultants, health advocates, and other healthcare professionals to learn to perform health coaching, consultations, and other services to their clients, who are seeking guidance with their health issues.

Tutor Profile Brenda McKay Senior tutor RN, DipN, MBA, ILM L7

As a previous Director of Clinical Programmes & Chief Nurse of Cromwell Hospital in London, Brenda has many years of experience in providing coaching as a fundamental solution to staff performance, collegiality, morale and support. She was a board member with responsibilities for 65% of a multidisciplinary and trans-cultural workforce which included senior clinical & non clinical managers, team leaders and staff. She was responsible for setting strategic direction, ensuring management capacity and capability, to monitor and manage performance.

In her capacity as senior tutor at BSC, she now uses these experiences and qualifications to deliver coaching and mentoring workshops as well as the ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Management.