MentorCoach is proud to announce the following exciting master class:

Mastering Wellness Coaching: Healthy Lifestyles
with Darlene Trandel, Ph.D., MSN, RN/FNP, PCC

Mondays at 4pm Eastern
All Other Time Zones are here
Begins October 10, 2011
14 classes of 60 minutes each
Counts toward MentorCoach Certification
Required for Certification in Wellness Coaching
$595.00 (plus optional $75.00 for CEU's)

Enrollment closed. Class is full.

This class--Mastering Wellness Coaching--is required for certification as a Certified Wellness Coach. There is no prerequisite for it.

There are two classes that are appropriate as your first wellness coaching class. One is this class--Mastering Wellness Coaching. A second is Becoming a Wellness Coach--Part I. Both are required for certification. Either can serve as your initial class.

ABOUT MASTERING WELLNESS COACHING

Mastering Wellness Coaching: Healthy Lifestyles is Part I of the wellness certification classes that provides you the heart and soul of wellness coaching and is incredibly important. A vast majority of people -- your clients -- die prematurely and unnecessarily because they didn't crack their lifestyle code. We are about cracking that code and helping people make and sustain healthy changes.

This is also the post domain of positive psychology that was ignored for years, largely because positive psychology was founded by self-described middle aged, overweight, white men who lived in their heads.** But new research now establishes that there is a clear connection between happiness and a healthy body.

While this area looks maddeningly simple, the statistics on change and personal experience reveal it is incredibly difficult to alter lifestyle behavior. In this class we will look at everything we know about what a healthy lifestyle requires and how to help people have a fighting chance to bring it about.

A large portion of your wellness coaching will fully or intermittently focus on lifestyle. This course content is your bread and butter -- where the rubber meets the road. This is where you can give people years of life.

** Chief among those men who lived in their heads was, of course, Martin E. P. Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. Now momentum is shifting so rapidly toward the arena of wellness coaching. As evidence, see Marty's call for a new field of positive health, his five-million-step a year goals, and his newest book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being. The tide has turned.

CLASS DESCRIPTION

To hear Darlene talk with Ben Dean about this class (25 minutes):
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To hear their short, informal second call, right after the first (10 minutes):
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Are you comfortable with your own body so that you feel confident with the basic body maintenance necessary to avoid the things that cause the most wear, tear and aging?

Do you live a lifestyle that places you in the best position to increase your longevity and quality of life?

Do you feel at ease coaching clients about their wellness goals or issues?

This class is designed, in part, to help you to take control of your own health so you understand what steps will move you towards living a healthier, younger and zestful life. You will learn how to become a wellness role-model for your clients while "being the change you seek" and "walking your talk."

Why Take The Class?

While most of us long for better physical and mental well-being, considerable evidence suggests that we're moving in the opposite direction.

Although we desire to be well, there's an enormous gap between wanting to be well and the everyday reality of living with the physical and mental health consequences of overeating, under-exercising and having too little down time to recharge our batteries.

This class will help you create a blueprint for well-being that will challenge the belief that there is a quick fix to overcoming your challenges -- and replace it with evidence-based strategies for mastering your health and well-being and making changes that last.

What You'll Be Doing:

First. We'll explore your body and lifestyle to see what factors contribute to helping it work well and function better.

We'll concentrate on the body components and conditions most important in the aging process as well as disorders that are the most preventable. You'll find out how unhealthy habits affect your wellness status and challenge your quality of life.

You'll be able to answer the question: What is essential for healthy aging? -- And find that the answers lie in lifestyle changes that can keep you healthier longer, and embracing the aging process with good humor, grace, and engagement.

In addition, we'll explore what science-based lifestyle factors and integrative/complementary interventions prevent disease and facilitate health.

(No, you don't need a background or understanding of human biology to take this class. You will learn about your body and your lifestyle in a manner that is fun and interesting)

Second. We'll discuss the what and how of wellness assessments to help you create your own user-friendly assessment for your clients. You'll learn how to design a wellness vision and plan, set goals and conduct continued wellness coaching sessions.

What You'll Learn To Do:

Curriculum Part I

1. Introduction - Wellness coaching in health
2. Envisioning the "Best Self" and the Behavior Change Pyramid - Assessments and evaluation tools
3. Building growth-promotion relationships with the wellness client - vision, goals, planning, tracking and outcomes
4. The Healthy Body--Part 1
5. The Well-conditioned Body--Part 1
6. The Well-conditioned Body-- Part 2
7. The Healthy Body--Part 2
8. The Well-nourished Body--Part 1
9. The Well-nourished Body--Part 2
10. The Healthy Body--Part 3
11. The Healthy Body--Part 4
12. Mental/physical stress: coping, adaptation & adjustment
13. Overview of integrative/complementary therapies--Part 1
14. Overview of integrative/complementary therapies--Part 2

About Darlene Trandel

DARLENE TRANDEL, PhD, MSN, RN/FNP, PCC as an experienced advanced practice nurse clinician, educator, researcher, and coach, understands the importance of caring for the whole person. With her knowledge of healthcare research, clinical experience and coach training, her passion focuses around assisting clients to reach higher levels of health/wellness/vitality, prevent and reduce the risk of disease and better manage chronic conditions with lifestyle adjustments.

After years of teaching, research and clinical practice handing out prescriptions for chronic disease she became frustrated knowing that clients needed more than the healthcare system offered to keep patients healthy, prevent disease and better manage chronic conditions -- they needed help to live at their best with their health state. She believes that help is coaching.

Darlene received her academic training at the University of Virginia, University of Washington and Harvard University and has many years of clinical experience coupled with faculty appointments in research and teaching at University of Virginia, University of Washington and University of North Carolina. She is licensed as a Family Nurse Practitioner and certified in chronic care. As an author, Darlene published over 30 articles in professional journals and text book chapters and authored the 364-page book, Nursing and the Law. Darlene is an advisory board member and research consultant in chronic care for the Health Sciences Institute.

Humanitarian work plays an important role in Darlene's life. For the past 12 years she has organized, directed and led, Building Bridges with Ecuador, an ongoing humanitarian program providing supplies, support and community service to indigenous Andean villages near Otavalo, Ecuador. Each summer, she and her family organize 40-50 volunteers to provide medical care, school education programs and community construction services in the rural villages.

Out of her passion to assist and partner with clients and organizations who are motivated to optimize their health status, prevent or reduce the risk of chronic conditions, and manage self-care in chronic disease, she founded The HealthCare Coach.

Darlene is a fulltime wellness coach. She lives with her family in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her website is www.TheHealthCareCoach.com and she can be reached at darlene.trandel@gmail.com