Connecting Coaches to Communities™ Program

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Connecting Coaches to Communities™ Program

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COLLABORATE

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CREATE A HEALTHIER WORLD

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Welcome!

Connecting Coaches to Communities™ is a new program connecting health coach graduates with community members serving our community population through nonprofits or other service professions and who are ready to improve or enhance their health and wellness. 

  • New health coach graduates need to accrue 50 coaching sessions before taking the National Medical Board Exam to become a nationally certified health and wellness coach.

  • We are looking for community members who would like to receive free health coaching to improve or enhance their health and wellness and help trained health coach graduates complete their coaching requirements for their national board exam.

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Nonprofits we work with

Your organization logo goes here when you sign up with one of our coaches!

Coaching for Community Members

Get connected with one of our health coaches

Health Coaching is a space to assess an area of a person’s life to improve; to generate ideas; and to implement those ideas while your coach guides you to a healthier wellbeing using gentle accountability, evidence-based skilled conversation, clinical interventions, and coach approach strategies. Health coaching is not talk therapy. With the help of a coach, small SMART goals and tiny habit changes are the main focus.

Common health coaching topics include improving healthy lifestyle habits such as

Improve stress management

Create healthier meals and snacks

Increase sleep quality

Add more physical movement

Maintain a positive mindset

Discover more joy

What our community says

  • “After working with my coach, I’ve seen improvements in mood, improved concentration, more energy, quality sleep, improved blood pressure, and feeling happier. I appreciate this program and having a coach in my life.”

  • “Having a coach is terrific! My concentration has improved and receiving resources has been super helpful.”

  • “Working with a coach is so powerful. When I have a coach, my focus and commitment is so much more and my success rate skyrockets through the roof! Everyone should have a coach like this!”

  • “I am so excited to share how much better I feel and I know it is all because I worked with my coach. She gave me space to figure things out while gently guiding me through challenges that seemed overwhelming at the time. Our sessions always went by so fast and I felt better every week. Highly recommended.”

  • “Spending time with my coach is so valuable to me because each time we have a session, I feel so much more motivated afterwards. I look forward to sharing my successes and enjoy the momentum that is building with each new strategy we add. I am on track with reaching my ideal weight and achieving my target A1C levels.”

  • “My coach did a great job with the initial consulting and making sure I was prepared for the coaching process. She comes ready to engage every session. She always touches base on our previous session goals and I feel very open and comfortable to share.”

How it works

Coaching sessions are approximately 20-30 minutes per session, once a week for four weeks. Longer session time and more sessions are offered as agreed upon between coach and community member. Coach and community member matches can be discontinued at any time by either party. New coach matches are available upon request.

*Coaching sessions are confidential except when the client has clearly stated indications of self-harm or harm to others then the coach will proceed with calling mental health professionals to provide wellcheck services. Coaches are not responsible for the client’s behavior or health outcome. Coaches do not give advice but offer evidence-based resources vetted by research with permission from the client.

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Fill out an interest form

Receive a welcome letter

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Begin coaching by voice or video

Connect with your health coach

The benefits of working with our coaches

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Supporting our new health coach graduates for success is paramount as we expand our healthcare resources and support our community!

Additionally, health coaching is fully supported by evidence-based research showing powerful benefits such as:

1. Improve overall well-being

2. Build mental fitness

3. Enhance personal accountability 

4. Foster sustainable healthy lifestyle habits

5. Reducing risk of chronic illnesses

Get started

Fill out an Interest Form to be connected to a Health Coach.

Have questions before you begin? Schedule a call to speak to Jeni.

Health Coach Graduates

Join our program to attain hours by coaching our community members

When you join our program, we will connect you to a community member interested in receiving complimentary coaching so that you can more easily complete your 50 coaching session requirement for the NBC-HWC exam.

How It Works for Health Coach Graduates

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Complete the Interest Form (link below)

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Receive an email confirming availability

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Confirm availability and submit copy of certification

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Receive an Introduction Email connecting you with a community member

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Initiate contact by email, voice message, and text within one business day

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Schedule a quick voice/video call to introduce yourself and answer questions

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Share your agreement, confidentiality policy, and liability waiver

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Collect signed agreement and start coaching

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Complete a Check-In Survey a few weeks after sessions begin

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Mentor Coaching is available if desired

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Join the Health Coach Directory today

All Health Coach Graduates in the Connecting Coaches to Communities™ program have completed an NBC-HWC approved program.

To get started, fill out the form and you will get placed on the directory.

Have questions?

Talk with Jeni.

What our community says

  • “Working with Jeni has been fantastic! She helped me accrue my coaching sessions and provided as-needed mentoring along the way!”

  • “Knowing that I would be able to meet my 50 coaching session hours in time to register for the next national board exam registration open date was such a relief. I wanted to obtain my credential as soon as possible. I am so appreciative of this program connecting us to community members quickly.”

  • ”I loved how I could quickly go from finishing up my health and wellness coaching program to being able to support my local community while also meeting my requirements was amazing!”

  • “Learning from Jeni on specific coaching session situations was incredibly valuable. Having a mentor is a game-changer!”

  • “I feel super confident after finishing my program and completing my coaching requirements within such a short period of time. Having a community of coaches and receiving mentoring really made a difference!”

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A warm welcome from Jeni

I have always believed in community service and helping others. From childhood memories at school events, community projects, and church missions, there was always something to participate in that provided community support. As I became an adult, I did not know how to combine all of my interests into one role where I could continue to make a difference on a bigger scale. I volunteered and staffed many nonprofits over the years and know first hand the power of combining big-hearted people with grassroots efforts. On a personal note, there was a time in my life that various community organizations provided me support through a hard time and now I can pay it forward to support them by creating the Connecting Coaches to Communities™ program. 

Our Mission

Connecting communities with trained health coaches creating positive impacts throughout the world

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The Need

People often struggle with fatigue, overwhelm, frustration, unfocus, and poor health practices. Our healthcare system often have long wait time for services, unaffordable costs, or other challenging obstacles.

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Solution

When trained health and wellness coaches are connected with community members who are ready and open to possibilities, positive behavior change in lifestyle habits, mindset, relationship engagement, and personal development lead to positive impacts in their personal and professional lives.

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Our Vision

The Connecting Coaches to Communities™ program envisions that every community member has access to health and wellness coaching in which they feel safe, supported, valued, appreciated, positively regarded, confident, clear-headed, and capable enough to set themselves up for success and live out their ideal outcome while creating positive impacts in their community.

Our Values

We seek to strengthen our community by sharing our strengths to create positive impacts together.

COMMUNITY

We honor our differences in styles, beliefs, communication, culture as a way of providing positive regard and safety to share what is truly on our mind.

HONOR

We build trust as we actively listen with respect and communicate with kindness believing that the person sharing has the best intentions for themselves and others.

TRUST

We value working together as team knowing that more hands make a light work.

COLLABORATION

We show uncommon compassion to ourselves and each other as we grow deeper in understanding and acceptance.

COMPASSION

We visualize unity within ourselves and the community stepping forward with the knowledge that unity is already there and cultivating a safe place for people to come together to support one another.

UNITY