Coaching fits in with all aspects of health and wellness through the health continuum from maintaining good health, addressing perceptions of decreasing health, or partnering with health professionals so individuals create meaningful and sustainable change. Coaching can start with creating risk awareness, will support prevention, helps create a forward focus after diagnoses, and is a powerful tool when strategizing treatment engagement.
Coaching is a formal partnership in managing a client’s health and wellness. It involves the client completely and is focused on partnering with the client for their health and wellness.
| Health Care | Coaching |
| Observation/Interview | Self-Inquiry |
| Assessment | Self-Inventory |
| Diagnosis/Prognosis | Defining Goals |
| Assigning or Prescribing | Developing personal accountability |
| Follow-up visits | Sustainable Change |
Health and Wellness Coaching has been shown to favorably impact ROI — so much so the Accountable Care Act funded education and coaching in the PPACA as just one example.
When considered, it absolutely makes sense that coaching is a significant tool for health and wellness. Coaching fully engages the individual in awareness of their current health and wellness, exploration of their options, defining of their chosen strategies, developing their own plan of action, empowering individual control, motivation, and providing accountability for sustained change. Because coaching puts the individual in the driver seat, health and wellness coaching empowers new habits and results.
