What you'll learn

  • Assess an individual's lifestyle, considering the societal and environmental factors that impact health.

  • Apply effective coaching techniques and relationship-building strategies to facilitate client behavior change.

  • Design and implement personalized health plans by incorporating tailored interventions for nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, and social support.

  • Evaluate and refine lifestyle plans using peer feedback and self-reflection, fostering a growth mindset and resilience in clients.

  • Explore how healthy lifestyles prevent and manage diseases and chronic conditions through evidence-based guidelines for nutrition and lifestyle choices.

  • Use the five-step collaborative cycle, growth mindset, and self-compassion to motivate clients to adopt and sustain healthy behaviors.

Course description

The 15-week Nutrition and Wellness Coaching learning journey is designed to offer an integrated experience of two popular online executive programs from Harvard Medical School—the Health and Wellness: Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan and Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching programs—and deliver a highly impactful curriculum that combines nutritional plans and health-coaching techniques to enable comprehensive wellness support.

You will learn directly from Dr. Elizabeth Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, a trained physiatrist as well as a health and wellness coach, who is recognized for her pioneering contributions to lifestyle medicine. 

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