What Does A Health Coach Do? Flashcards
Why is active listening important?
You are “witnessing” your client, or simply offering your full presence and holding space for them to experience whatever it is that they are experiencing without trying to change it, give advice, or share your opinion.
How does a health coach “elicit experience”?
This comes after active listening and giving the client space…
The objective is to get curious and ask questions that will get the client filling details to form the bigger picture. This gives the client the feeling of being heard even more and gives the coach a clearer picture of how the client sees the world.
*The clients answers will be useful to the coach as things progress.
What are health coaches?
They are masters of habit change which occurs when you can retire neural pathways using coaching methodology.
What is great coaching?
It’s about asking the right questions, not knowing the right answers.
How should a health coach be commensurate?
Fees should be based on the quality of the questions asked, not the quantity of the answers given.
How does knowledge factor into health coaching?
Knowledge does not equal behavior change. It’s about facilitating simple changes which sometimes can be hard to make for a client.
How can a health coach reduce stress and overwhelm for a client when facilitating with simple changes?
By curating information that is relevant, teachable, and actionable.
A client is not investing in a health coach because they want more information. They are looking to invest to get results.
The more curated the information for a client, the more impact a health coach can make.
What do clients really want from their Health Coach?
They want someone who is holding their WHY for them. To “collapse” time for them by holding the belief that there is a future version of them that already exists and has met their desires.
What is knowledge worth in health coaching?
Knowledge doesn’t equal behavior change. When you share knowledge with a client about WHAT to eat in a way the client can take action, stay motivated and follow through is the worth in knowledge.
What is an important thing to understand about a client who needs to make a lot of changes in their diet and lifestyle?
The more they need to change, the less they can handle and it’s a health coach’s job to help them move one SMALL step closer to their goal.
