Pillar One: Wellness Training
Discover Our Unique Approach to Holistic Health & Wellness
Our Wellness 360 Education™ is the first learning pillar and a unique aspect of your wellness coach training and certification program.
During your Wellness 360 Education™ you’ll gain in-depth training in nutrition, natural health, and holistic health and wellness.
Our Wellness 360 Education™ is built around our proven, holistic philosophy that has been taught with amazing results to thousands of students and their clients over the past thirteen years.
You might be wondering what exactly Wellness 360™ is and why it’s so unique. Wellness 360 is different than other approaches to health and wellness for several reasons. Let’s take a closer look….
What makes Wellness 360™ the most powerful approach to health and healing?
First, Wellness 360™ is a truly holistic approach to wellness.
While some health and wellness theories use the word “holistic”, they don’t often examine all areas of a person’s life that impact their health.
For example, if you were using a traditional approach and wanted to help a person improve their food and nutrition, you might provide advice on what to eat, how much to eat and when to eat it.
In contrast, using a Wellness 360™ approach, you would also look at other factors that are at play with a person’s food choices. Perhaps their career life, mindset and stress levels are also impacting what they choose to eat everyday.
This is a simplistic example, but the point is….
If you simply look at a person’s nutrition in a box, you’ll likely miss important factors that are playing a big role in their health.
Ultimately, without a truly holistic approach, it’s harder for someone to reach and keep their goals for the long-term.
Holistic Wellness Coaches focus on the whole person. They start by helping their clients with “outer” health issues like nutrition, weight, fitness and stress but go deeper beyond the physical symptoms to examine a second “inner” layer including Relationships, Career, Finances, Mindset, Emotions, Spirituality and Purpose.
At the IAWP, we teach holistic wellness because we believe that all areas of a person’s life affect their health and well-being.
Our physical, emotional and mental health all play a role in our wellness as well as factors like our connection to our purpose in life, our financial well-being and our spirituality.
The second reason Wellness 360™ is unique is that it’s exponential.
What does that mean exactly in terms of your wellness training? You have probably heard the phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and this is true when it comes to how Wellness 360™ works. The various elements in a person’s life are not isolated in a box, they are actually interconnected.
Beyond taking a holistic approach and considering multiple factors in someone’s life, Wellness 360™ goes even another step further and considers how these factors are interconnected and how they impact one another.
For example, if your career is out of balance, what other areas of your life might that be affecting?
Perhaps your relationships are impacted. Or the food choices you make. Or your mindset. Wellness 360™ supports people to see this interconnection and provide real-life solutions that works with their lifestyle.
The third and final reason Wellness 360™ is so powerful is because it actually works!
How many health plans, diet books and prescribed therapies have you tried in your life? Most people encounter information overload when it comes to their health.
Unfortunately the system or advice they try doesn’t last forever. It’s usually a short-term fix. In contrast, Wellness 360™ is not a quick fix solution, but rather a lasting solution.
This is where IAWP Wellness Coaches come in to create transformations for their clients using Wellness 360™.
As an IAWP Wellness Coach, your holistic Wellness 360 Education™ will allow you to:
- Differentiate yourself among other coaches with your holistic approach to health and wellness
- Create meaningful changes and lasting transformations for your clients
- Stand out in the crowd to potential clients and organizations with a niche and a unique approach to health and well-being
Our comprehensive wellness training will allow you fully support clients with a variety of health and lifestyle goals. Our Wellness 360™ Education prepares you to approach the whole person, coaching them toward making positive changes that they can maintain for a lifetime.
After completing our wellness training, you’ll feel confident when you begin coaching clients recognizing that you have a depth of knowledge and tools to support them, plus a proven wellness system that helps them reach and keep their goals.
Above all, IAWP’s wellness coach training is focused on helping aspiring wellness coaches find success by providing you with a well-rounded education, proven systems, and personal support.
You’ll learn how to become a wellness coach that truly listens to your clients’ needs and addresses issues holistically with compassion.
An Overview of Your Curriculum in Pillar One
Our Wellness 360 Education™ provides you a comprehensive training in wellness, holistic health, nutrition and natural healing. You’ll feel confident coaching clients and supporting them to achieve their health goals.
But Wellness 360 is more than an education. It’s a powerful, multi-layered, dynamic system across 12 elements and three layers of well-being that allows you to provide a unique solution to your coaching clients.
Get oriented with our state of the art classroom and receive a complete guided tour of your journey as a Holistic Wellness Coach.
In Wellness 360, the body represents not only your physical body, but your internal one. In this module, you’ll learn what you can do to create a healthy body both inside and out.
This module includes:
- How to identify your unique body type and work with it rather than against it
- Understanding biochemical individuality and the role it plays in wellness
- The science of Ayurveda and how to coach clients based on various Ayurvedic types
- Holistic fitness and how to develop an exercise plan that supports you
- An understanding of alternative health therapies that complement Holistic Wellness coaching
- Plus, you’ll gain clarity on what lifestyle choices will support you to feel best for years to come in your own body.
Food is more than what you eat, it’s how you eat. In this module, you’ll cover both important aspects of food and dig into the fundamentals of holistic nutrition.
This module includes:
- Holistic Nutrition essentials including macronutrients, micronutrients, phytonutrients, antioxidants and various dietary theories
- The best way to supercharge your metabolism
- How to get to the root of food cravings and overcome them with simple strategies
- How to identify food sensitivities and create holistic meal plans for special diets
- How to help your client develop healthy cooking skills for life
- Why our connection to or food and the Earth matters
- Step-by-step method to develop a mindful eating practice
- Plus, you’ll learn about the greater connection between food and you so that you can finally answer the question “What truly nourishes me?”
Get ready to dive into what “rest” truly means on all levels – sleep, self-care and learning how to support ourselves while living a busy lifestyle. If you struggle with sleep or energy or want to help those who do, this module will show you how to naturally work with those challenges and create lasting changes so you can feel your very best, everyday.
This module includes:
- The top strategies to overcome stress without adding more to your to-do list.
- How to use natural solutions for common sleep challenges and clients experiencing insomnia
- Proven techniques to boost your energy naturally
- Lifestyle solutions to support clients who experience chronic fatigue
- The science behind the hormones cortisol and oxytocin and the role they play in stress management
- Self care strategies you can begin to practice as a coach and share with your own clients
In Wellness 360, Water is not just about what you drink, it also represents your emotional health and your ability to work through life’s challenges. In this element you’ll explore beverages for your body’s health, the food-mood connection and take a deep dive into your emotional well-being.
This module includes:
- The importance of water and how to determine the amount each individual should drink
- How to optimize health with wellness beverages and support your clients to reduce caffeine and sugar
- The interconnection between what we eat and how we feel
- How to support clients who experience emotional eating
- Proven strategies to create greater balance and get into the flow of life
Sun represents not only sunshine, but also our immune system and our personal power. You’ll take a deep dive into these three layers of the Sun element through lessons that include reducing inflammation, thyroid health, adrenal health, hormone health and much more.
This module includes:
- How to naturally boost and support your immune system using preventative health strategies
- Chronic Inflammation natural management approaches
- How to support your coaching clients to achieve optimum Vitamin D levels
- Expert protocols for clients with autoimmune concerns including thyroid disorders, adrenal fatigue and hormone imbalances
- Supplement approaches for immune health
- How to guide your clients to adopt an Anti-inflammatory lifestyle that increases their energy and improves their health
- How to develop your personal power on your journey to becoming a Wellness Coach
- Empowerment techniques both you and your coaching clients can practice to improve self-esteem, confidence and mental health
Air represents not only the air we breathe, but our ability to let go and adapt to change. In this module, you’ll explore the three layers of Air and how to create more balance within this element with strategies that support you to avoid toxins, breathe properly and tap into your life force energy so that you can open up to all that is possible for you on your wellness journey.
This module includes:
- Proper Breathing Techniques to reduce stress and improve overall health
- Simple methods to improve air quality at home
- How Nature impacts Wellness and how to support clients to incorporate green living
- Identifying and Avoiding Toxic Ingredients, including the top 20 Toxins to Avoid in Your Food
- How to develop a Local, Seasonal Nutrition Plan
- Discover steps to adapt to change and help others make life transitions with ease
- Techniques for Tapping into your life force energy so you can learn to let go of what no longer serves you
Often overlooked when it comes to wellness, how we view our life and our world directly impacts the choices we make and how we feel every day. During your Wellness 360 Mindset module, you will learn how to create a healthy brain, both physically and mentally.
This modules includes:
- The brain-gut connection and natural approaches to improving both
- A study of microbiome and it’s role in gut health, including how to coach clients with digestive concerns
- An understanding of the Acid-Alkaline Chemistry of the body
- Intuitive Eating and how to coach your clients to listen to their bodies using The Four Step Slow Eating Process
- Cravings – How to listen to your own body, identify the root of your cravings and reduce sugar without deprivation or dieting
- How to master your own mindset and easily overcome stressful situations
- A proven method for developing new patterns that will support you to make lasting changes
- How to use Mindfulness techniques to support busy, overwhelmed clients
Your health can be drastically affected by what you do every day. Learning how to balance our careers with the rest of our lives is important for overall wellness. In this module, you’ll learn how to develop healthy work habits and develop a career approach that helps you lead a fulfilling professional and personal life.
This modules includes:
How to create a healthy workplace
- Effective strategies for setting boundaries at work
- The top tips for healthy eating on-the-go and meal prep for busy clients
- Strategies to support clients to achieve work-life balance
- Navigating career transitions for Wellness Coaches
- How to support your clients to find a career they enjoy as part of their wellness plan
- How to create an impact in your career as a Wellness Coach
Our well-being is hugely dependent on the nature and quality of our relationships. This means all the relationships in your life, including partners, spouses, parents, siblings, coworkers, neighbors, and the most important relationship, the one with yourself. In this module, you’ll learn healthy relationship skills and how to navigate relationships on your path to wellness.
This module includes:
- How to coach clients for relationship health
- Healthy strategies for developing positive workplace relationships
- Developing healthy parent and child relationships
- Family Health and Wellness
- How to resolve conflict and develop positive communication skills
- Proven practices to support you in cultivating self awareness and self-love
- How to create community to enhance relationships
Financial health is all about our relationship with money. That relationship is so much deeper than just our budgets, financial investments, and spending habits. Money has its own energy that carries a certain weight and can affect us on a deep level. In this module, you’ll explore your own money mindset and financial well-being.
This module includes:
- An understanding of financial health and its impact on well-being
- How to heal your relationship with money
- A proven tool to assess your current financial well-being
- Coaching clients for financial health within Wellness 360
- How to overcome resistance to money
- Developing an abundance mindset
- A step-by-step guide to changing your money mindset
- Strategies to develop self-worth
In Wellness 360, we recognize that spirituality is a part of our well-being and an essential to creating a healthy, balanced life. In this module, you will take your own personal journey to discover what spiritual practices contribute to your wellness and learn how to support your coaching clients to incorporate this element into their wellness plan.
You’ll also examine a variety of strategies that will help you to stay connected and tap into your body’s innate wisdom.
This module includes:
- An understanding of spiritual health and its role in wellness
- A comprehensive study of Heart Health including both its role in spirituality and impact on our physical body
- Healing heart strategies for various disease states including hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol
- The Chakra System and its role in wellness
- How to connect with your own spirituality
- Powerful ways to support you clients to develop a spiritual practice
- Proven methods to tap into your body’s innate wisdom
Purpose is far more than what we do for a living. It’s an inner knowing that guides us as we move through the world, grow within ourselves, and tells us what we are here to do. In this module, you’ll tap into your true purpose, discover your passion and create more meaning in your life, while learning how to guide your clients to do the same.
This module includes:
- The element of Purpose and its role in Wellness 360
- How to find your purpose in life and help others to find theirs
- Proven methods to explore your passions and discover your purpose
- How to help your clients to find more meaning in their lives
- How to stay true to yourself
- An step-by-step process to develop authenticity and vulnerability
- Plus, embark on a journey to meet your true self and find fulfillment
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Frequently Asked Questions
Holistic Wellness Coaches are professionals who take an integrative approach to help people learn to make healthy lifestyle changes. They take into account more than just nutrition, fitness or simple habit changes, but all aspects of a person’s health and life in true holistic fashion.
IAWP Holistic Wellness Coaches are highly trained coaches, providing support and accountability for their clients so they can make lasting lifestyle changes.
Today there are many people calling themselves “Health Coaches”. They have varying educations and backgrounds, some with extensive training, others with no training at all. “Health Coaching” is a general term that does not tell people what area of health you help with or your specific approach. Many Health Coaches focus solely on nutrition, exercise and habit changes.
“Wellness Coach” is a more specific term. It denotes that more than just general health is being considered in the approach. Wellness signfies well-being and lifestyle aspects beyond food and exercise.
When evaluating various health and wellness coaching programs, it is important to understand the difference between becoming a generalist and a specialist. Whether a training program calls their graduates a “health coach” or a “wellness coach,” they often have a particular angle that they work from.
Holistic Wellness Coaching is a specialty term in which professionals will take a holistic approach to wellness, considering all aspects of a person’s well-being as well as the support provided involves holistic remedies, therapies, and a more natural approach to wellness.
While generalist coaches can be useful, you’re guaranteed greater success when you choose a specialist track like Holistic Wellness. You probably know that in the field of medicine a doctor who is a generalist is paid much less than a specialist. Generalists do not have the same level of training and the market allows for specialists to charge higher fees. This is also true for a Holistic Wellness Coaches.
The International Association of Wellness Professionals is recognized world wide and we have students participating from countries all over the world.
The IAWP offers accredited coach training and is aligned with several accrediting bodies.
Upon completion of our Holistic Wellness & Holistic Life Coach Dual Certification coaches can become a board certified Health and Wellness Coach with through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP).
Our Holistic Wellness Coach & Holistic Life Coach Dual Certification integrates three pillars of learning – holistic wellness, coaching and holistic business. Our coaching curriculum is CCE Accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). ICF has the highest standards for its approved coaching programs and we are proud to provide an advanced coaching education that meets their standards. Current coaches who are ICF accredited and complete our coaching pillar, are eligible for continuing coach education CCE credits with the ICF.
Our Certification program is also approved by the Canadian Health Coach Alliance.
With approval and accreditation from leading organizations across the globe, you can feel confident that our curriculum has met a high standard in terms of the education and support you will receive.
The IAWP is committed to supporting you during your training and for the life of your new career. Our curriculum is built on support and systems which set the foundation for launching a thriving coaching practice. Our certification is unique because it’s built on an experiential learning method where coaches-in-training receive a full immersion in their learning with unlimited support.
For example… You will have have unlimited opportunities to receive personal coaching from our IAWP Master Coaches during our weekly Live Coaching Labs. You can learn from multiple mentors and experience different coaching styles during these group coaching labs. We offer a wide variety of days and times so you will receive personal support in these highly transformational training sessions.
You will also have unlimited access to our live training calls and workshops each month, where you will receive personal support from a Master Coach, a guest teacher or our Founder, Suzanne Monroe.
These events are live, interactive workshops held over video conference and are a great way to connect with our faculty and fellow students, with a laser focus on subject matters related to wellness, coaching, business and mindset.
Our mission at the IAWP is to provide the most supportive online education experience in the industry and we take our mission seriously. The way we deliver our training and support is what makes our program unique from any other training in the online education field today.
Our unique training method is called The Immersive Transformation Training Method™ (ITTM), where you will personally experience and practice everything you learn in your program. This process allows you to master your own wellness, become a highly effective coach, and launch a profitable practice…all during your training.
Unlike most online education, where you “read, watch and learn”, here at the IAWP you will “read, watch, learn and DO” through our hands-on learning experience. ITTM includes interactive training, hands-on application, application modules, real-world experience, small group coaching labs and ongoing support.
This full immersion means you always have a place to get direct and personalized support and you not only end up with superior knowledge of coaching, but more importantly, you have the ability to coach.
We also give you all the tools and systems you will need to be confident as new Wellness Coaches, without having to reinvent the wheel or start everything from scratch. You’ll get to build on a foundation that’s guaranteed to help you create success in your new business or career path.
With a large international student population, you will form lasting friendships and peer support relationships with students from around the globe and in your local communities.
We don’t stop offering support after graduation, though.
One of the most impactful parts of an education with the IAWP is that we offer lifetime support for all of our students. Our community is always there to provide advice, feedback, and inspiration, no matter where you are in your Holistic Wellness Coach career journey.
Don’t just take our word for it, check out what our students are saying!
The short answer is Yes! In fact, we are so confident you will get your first client by the time you graduate, that we guarantee your success. If you follow the steps in our program and fail to attract your first client by graduation, we will refund your tuition and you can keep your certification.
At the IAWP, our program is based on our Immersive Transformation Training Method™. This method ensures you are applying your knowledge during every stage of your training and this includes taking the right steps to attract your ideal clients.
Through our business training, you will follow our Coach Launch system, which is designed to take you step by step through a process that will guide you as you attract and sign up your first 10 clients, or your next 10 clients, again and again.
When you enroll in our Holistic Wellness Coach Certification program, you will receive Lifetime Access to our training, plus continued education and support for the life of your career. This is very unique in the online education industry and we are unaware of any other organization that provides this level of access and ongoing support.
This also means that you will be part of a community that is committed to supporting one another. Unlike other training programs where access to other students might be limited to your current class, at the IAWP you will have the opportunity to connect with former students and grads who are always excited to share their experiences and pay it forward. It’s truly a unique community like no other.
While you do not need continuing education credits to maintain your IAWP Holistic Wellness Coach Certification, our training is recognized and accredited by several organizations, like the International Coach Federation where our program allows you to earn Continuing Education Credits.
Our primary focus is on giving you the systems and support you need to build a thriving practice, helping others.
Our business training can be applied to building a practice in your local community or creating an online coaching business. Some students prefer to work locally, others go straight to online. The choice is yours and will largely depend on your preference.
Through our Coach Launch Fast Track system, you will learn how to set up your business and determine which career track best fits for you. You will also learn the ins and out of online marketing, social media, video conferencing and other virtual business tools. You’ll also personally experience virtual coaching and online workshops through your training.
Because launching an online practice requires some additional technical skills, we encourage our students to apply our systems in their local community first and then expand to online as they build proof of concept with their niche, their signature coaching program and our client attraction strategies.
