“Great coaches are great listeners and enjoy your stories. They foster self-acceptance and self-respect. They arouse, engage, energize, and challenge you to reach higher at the right moment. They have an ability to highlight your strengths, values and desires. They are playful when appropriate. They take risks and ask courageous questions. They don't rescue you from emotional muck - sometimes you need to sit in it for a bit to energize your desire to change. They know that your life is at stake if you don't take care of yourself. And they know how to celebrate your successes.”
-Wellcoaches School of Coaching
Health Coaching
[Verb] Empowering a person to realize their most limitless life, focusing on mental and physical health as the most impactful medium to get there. State of Rise Health Coaching:
Provides space for engaging conversation fully focused on the individual and their goals, strengths and values.
Meets the individual where they’re at. Coaching is focused on what fits their lifestyle, desires and goals.
Leverages positive psychology to inspire and challenge the individual to reach beyond what they would do alone
Creates a safe, judgment-free space
Supports the individual in setting and achieving challenging, yet realistic goals
Emphasizes holistic health and mind-body connection
Encourages lifestyle medicine and health-promoting behaviors as a supplement to traditional cognitive and medicinal therapies and regular contact with a physician
Digs deep with the individual to uncover belief patterns, motivators, values, fears and motivators. If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.
Is a true partnership
Creates sustainable lifestyle behaviors and mindsets the individual will leverage for a lifetime
What health coaching is not
A one-size fits all approach
A prescriptive program
Lecturing about right and wrong health behaviors
Diagnostic - Mental and physical conditions will be referred to specialists as a supplement to coaching
What to expect from your coach
The relationship with your health coach is unique and one of the most important aspects of coaching. Your coach is your champion, your confidant and your mirror, reflecting back your inner desires, beliefs and solutions. You can expect your coach to:
Be 100% present with you
Keep conversations confidential
Challenge you and ask the tough questions
Meet you where you’re at while shining a light on where you can go
Provide a safe, judgment-free space
What your coach expects from you
You have a big role to play in this relationship! A few things you’ll bring to the table:
Presence - be in the moment with your coach
Preparation - come with an idea of what your desired outcome is for each session
Openness - an open and willing mindset will go a long way in helping you see possibilities and achieve your goals
Willingness - to try, to go deep, to take action
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow