The process of working with the Wellness Wheel helps to develop greater coherence in your personal life and teaches you how to use this whole person process in your coaching to facilitate greater coherence in your clients' lives. By owning the material in your personal life, it makes your professional use of the tools much more potent.

Structure of the Program

• To prepare for the weekend, you will read the informative commentaries from the Wellness Inventory looking at the 12 dimensions of wellness as well as articles about the the Wellness Inventory coaching process, the Wellness Wheel, and the 6 Stages of Change (the Transtheoretical Model of Change). This information gives you a good didactic grounding so that you will have more time during the weekend for experiential learning.
• The course will begin with a 90-minute teleconference call at least one week prior to traveling to the Intensive site. You will get an overview of the program, have the opportunity to ask questions, and get to know other intensive participants and the instructor.
• You will travel to the Intensive site and stay in a hotel suite where the program will be conducted. It runs from Friday noon to Sunday afternoon.
• After the weekend, you will arrange to have a minimum of three phone buddy coaching sessions with another participant of the Intensive.
• You will also have a 90-minute follow-up teleconference call with the instructor and other participants approximately two weeks after the weekend program.
• The instructor will be available to answer your questions and will offer additional optional paid consultations/coaching should you feel you need it.
• For certification, you are required to complete a Proficiency Portfolio, consisting of four written or taped projects, two of which portray your personal proficiency and two of which portray your professional proficiency with the material taught in the course. The Portfolio is due one month after the course end.

An Overview of What You Get
On the client side, you will gain greater insight into the key elements of the Wellness Inventory:

• Assessment questions
• Wellness and Satisfaction Scores
• Personal Wellness Plan
• My Wellness Journal
• Self-Study Center
• 12 Resource Centers
• Test comparison feature

On the administrative/coaching side, you will receive in-depth training in the suite of wellness program On the administrative/coaching side, you receive in-depth training in the Wellness Inventory's suite of program management tools. These tools facilitate coaching, reporting, and communicating with clients to support implementing the Wellness Inventory within individual, group, and organizational settings.

From a business and marketing perspective, you will learn strategies for using the Wellness Inventory to:

• Create a wellness dimension in your practice
• Quickly determine client's "change readiness" in each dimension of wellness
• Create the context for ongoing wellness coaching
• Build your practice and increase client retention
• Create new profit centers
• Work with individuals, groups and organizations

COST: $1,500 per participant

INSTRUCTOR: Bobbie Burdett, Director of Training for HealthWorld Online, was a co-creator of The Wellness Resource Center in 1975 with John W. Travis, MD., which was the first wellness center in the U.S. She co-developed the wellness coaching process for the Center, which, to our knowledge, was the first of its kind. She was instrumental in the development of pioneering Preventing Burnout programs for helping professionals, which were conducted in many locations in the continental US, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, and Costa Rica. She has also been a featured speaker for large and small audiences on the subject of wellness. She has continued to coach and hone her craft for the past 30 years. In the process, she has developed an unparalleled depth of understanding of wellness and the Wellness Inventory. Recently, she has been instrumental in revising the Inventory and its commentaries. As a young adult, she realized the limits of conventional medicine. Being a lifelong learner and independent scholar, she has studied many aspects of wellness and alternative medicine for nearly 40 years. In recent years, she has focused her studies on Positive Psychology with Martin Seligman, PhD, and Social Neurobiology with Dan Siegel, PhD. She co-organized The Mindsight Symposium in Portland, OR, in 2005, on the subject of social neurobiology. Ms Burdett now brings her depth of experience and broad knowledge base to the co-creation and implementation of the Wellness Inventory Certification Training for HealthWorld Online, as well as maintaining her coaching practice, Authentic-Life Coaching, in Asheville, NC.

A Sampling of Kind Remarks from Students:

"You are the BEST! You are fun, flexible and generous. Thank you for getting me on my path in terms of doing the wellness coaching. It has been personally enriching for me to work with you…I hold you in the highest regard."

               K.C., Baltimore, MD

"Thanks for making the course not only educational but fun. I learned so much about myself as well as the wellness program. It will forever change my life."

               H.M., New York City, NY

To Register or for More Information
For information on the Wellness Inventory Certification Training, please contact:

James Strohecker
President
HealthWorld Online
jim@healthy.net
310-823-9553