Health coaching or wellness coaching is an interdisciplinary practice that encompasses credentialed coaches clinically engaging with an individual referred to as the patient or client, aiming for personal, ethical, social and/or spiritual welfare on a voluntary approach. In view of today’s immensely mechanistic world with cut-throat competition, it has been found to be an effective practice for moral upliftment, replenishment and individual development. It includes the skillful usage of a host of tools such as clinical mentoring, motivational interviewing, reiterating confidence, etc.
The key concept that plays the most crucial role in health or wellness coaching is the coach-patient relationship. A positive rapport between the coach and the client brings about positive consequences for the sessions. A sharp and skillful coach devotes special attention towards building this comfort and familiarity in the professional relationship, that makes it easier for the individual to open up, let go of inhibitions and address the issue at hand with complete transparency and honesty. It helps the patient to feel at ease and connect with his or her healer at a non-superficial level. However, healers and coaches avoid or resist emotional relationships or personal attachment with their clients in order to prevent complications in the course of treatment and issues that can negatively impact the client’s progress.
Tools of Wellness Coaching:
- Clinical Mentoring
Clinical mentoring includes listing the patient’s strengths and weaknesses and actively guiding him in identifying and addressing both. It encompasses mentoring him or her to strengthen the strengths and to gradually work on the weaknesses and not feel bogged down by momentary success or failure. It includes professional understanding of the patient’s psyche and realistic solutions that have practical significance.
- Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing includes the effective usage of oration and articulation to morally uplift the client and aid in his holistic rejuvenation. It includes the unhindered audition of his insecurities, issues, worries and anxieties and to provide accurate and contextual advice on methods to alleviate them. Motivational interviewing is an umbrella term that consists of social, spiritual, vital and psychic aspects of healing.
- Reiterating Confidence and Refashioning Goals
In wellness coaching sessions, reiterating confidence and re-encouraging aspirations also holds prime relevance. The wellness coach refuels the client’s desire to work towards his goals and artfully refashions his haywire plans of getting closer to them. The healer rebuilds his broken foundation and works towards making him realise his full potential and the importance of those inherent abilities to attain self-sufficiency.