No matter how eager and excited you are to go out there and coach, something always happens. Nothing! Doubt, fear and frustration stop you dead in your tracks.

You’ve done what they taught you. You’ve held a few free workshops, you’ve had tons of informational phone calls, you’ve even booked several discovery sessions. But then… nothing happens. The next thing that you know your motivation and self-confidence starts to spiral in a downward path.

Know you are not alone. Fear and lack of confidence are the most common stumbling blocks to getting your coaching practice up and running.

The Art of Health Coaching’s Coaching Concepts: Putting the Pieces Together will guide you over and around those stumbling blocks.

  • 32 Lectures with 50+ Activities PLUS BONUS MATERIAL including video clips of .real coaching sessions
  • 20 CE contact hours towards National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching recertification.
  • Build your coaching and client confidence.
  • Explore topics such as limiting beliefs, self-motivation, taking self-responsibility and looking at the power of choice.
  • You will learn why being authentic, how creating good first impressions and setting boundaries are good for your business.
  • Examine current trends in weight loss management, including looking at the contributing factors to the obesity epidemics, pitfalls in conventional weight management and the diet craze.
  • Piece together the effects of metabolism and the influence of behavior on weight management.
  • Dive deep into the power of choice and learn how to use persuasion to help direct positive choices.
  • Have a better understanding of behavior and learn behavior modification techniques to help you guide your clients through the stages of change and ultimately to successful, sustainable weight loss.
  • Explore our relationship with food
  • Learn the difference between a hardline versus a soft approach to foster change.
  • Master the art of listening.
  • Take an in-depth look at the coaching process, including the first two visits and subsequent visits as well as meal planning.
  • Understand the concept of IGE™ (instant gratification experience™) and learn how to leverage IGE™ to keep your clients motivated and coming back.
  • Learn how to charge and how to set up a process to decrease wasted time on potential clients not ready to commit.
  • Explore ways to find clients.
  • Learn how to deal with challenging clients and situations.

Coaching Concepts: Putting the Pieces Together will give you the knowledge and tools you need to master the art of health coaching.


Course Curriculum

  Getting Started
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  Section 1 Foundations: Building Coaching and Client Confidence
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  Section 2 Prepping the Stage
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  Section 3 Tipping the Scales
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  Section 4 Nuts and Bolts of Coaching
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  Section 5 Open For Business
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  Wrap up
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Barbara Crosby


Barbara Crosby, a coaching phenomenon and founder of The Art of Health Coaching and The Motivational Center shares the secrets behind her years of weight loss coaching success. Barbara offers the strategies and concepts that helped build her practice and sustain a successful health coach business before the boom of the profession. She shares secret insights into the "art" of connecting and establishing relationships with clients.

Barbara is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, The Dietary College of Nutrition and Adelphi University. In her practice, she has coached over 7,000 individuals spanning over three decades. Barbara became an expert in the weight loss coaching industry long before it became popular. She has been featured on Fox News, WNBC-TV, WABC-TV, The Daily News, The New York Times and The Bloomberg Forum. She has also been featured in national magazines including GQ, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Fitness and Elle.

Barbara consulted for and created an exclusive program with the national gym chain Equinox Fitness and Discovering the Thin You. Barbara is also the accomplished author of The Art of Weight Loss Coaching and co-author of Your Decade Diet: How Your Body Changes Through The Decades.

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