Integrative Health Coaching Professional Training Program

If you’re a medical or allied health professional looking to develop your capacity to help others attain their maximum level of health and wellness, Duke Integrative Medicine’s new Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program could be the ideal choice for you.

CEU's Available: By participating in the Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program you can earn 11.3 CEUs. More >>

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Call 1-866-313-0959 toll-free to register.

What is Health Coaching?
An exciting initiative designed to teach participants to work as integrative health coaches, this professional training program:

• Promotes a thorough understanding of the integrative health care model
• Develops effective health coaching skills for individuals and groups
• Enhances participants’ skill sets, knowledge, and professional marketability

Health Coaches:

• Help people clarify their health goals, and implement and sustain behaviors, lifestyles, and attitudes that are conducive to optimal health
• Guide people in their personal care and health-maintenance activities
• Assist people in reducing the negative impact made on their lives by chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes

Learn From the Leaders
Duke Integrative Medicine is the country’s first academic medical center to develop a health coaching program based in clinical experience and research. In fact, the leaders who helped establish the field of integrative health coaching are the same professionals who lead our program modules.

About the Curriculum
The program consists of four educational modules delivered over several months—with breaks in between the modules for participants to practice the skills they’ve learned. Those who successfully complete all four modules will earn a Certificate of Completion.

During the course of the program, participants will:

• Gain a thorough understanding of integrative medicine, the Wheel of Health, mindfulness, the science of behavior change, and personalized health planning—and learn how to incorporate these foundational elements into coaching practices that motivate others to adopt behaviors necessary to achieve optimal health and wellness
• Learn about nutrition and other key components that make up a healthy lifestyle, common physical and mental health issues, stress management, mind-body-spirit modalities, and the key components of complementary and alternative medicine
• Learn health coaching skills for individuals and groups—and have the opportunity to practice these skills with one another
• Develop personalized health plans for themselves, incorporate the plans into their own lives, and practice coaching others with their plans during the remaining modules
• Learn about career opportunities and ways to develop a client base
  

To best accommodate the schedules of working adults, we offer the four-day modules from Thursdays through Sundays, with each module consisting of 25-30 hours of in-person, classroom, and experiential learning. All training is delivered at the state-of-the-art Duke Integrative Medicine facility, located on the beautiful Duke University campus in Durham, North Carolina.

Register Today!
Enrollment in the Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program is limited, so we encourage you to register early.

Call 1-866-313-0959 toll-free to register.

Early registration discount: The fee for those who register by June 19, 2008, is $4,495. After June 19, registrants must pay the full fee of $4,995.

2008 Schedule
August 7-10: Module 1
September 11-14: Module 2
October 9-12: Module 3
November 13-16: Module 4

2009 Schedule
January 15-18: Module 1
February 26-March: Module 2
April 2-5: Module 3
May 14-17: Module 4

(Please note that we collect the full registration fee at the time of registration, and that standard Duke Integrative Medicine cancellation policies apply.)

For specific questions or concerns, contact Duke Integrative Medicine
program director Linda Smith at linda.smith@duke.edu.

CEU's Available
By participating in the Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program, you can earn 11.3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Duke University Health System Education Services Department has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. In obtaining this approval, Duke University Health System Education Services Department has demonstrated its compliance with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/IACET standards, which are internationally recognized as standards of good practice. As an Authorized Provider, the Duke University Health System Education Services Department may offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET standards.