Share Your Wellness Journey & Get Featured by the IAWP
Congratulations on graduating from our Wellness Coach Certification program. The time and effort you have put into completing your studies, passing your Coach Demo Evaluation and earning your certification is an amazing accomplishment.
At the IAWP, our community is at the core of everything we do. As a valued member of our community, we want to share your story and celebrate your success in graduating from our program.
We love celebrating the accomplishments of our community and providing opportunities for you to promote your practice.
We would love for you to share your story and tell us more about your journey to becoming a Certified Wellness Coach. When you do, we will use your video to promote you and your practice on our website and via social media.
Outline Your Wellness Journey Story
Today, we’d like you to think back on your Wellness Journey and tell us a bit more about your story.
Now, a good story usually has three distinct parts and you can use these steps as a guide…
- The Set Up: What were you doing before you became a Wellness Coach?
- The Confrontation: What happened in your life that drove you to make the leap and start training as a Wellness Coach?
- The Resolution: What is your life like today after completing your Certification? What sort of transformation have you made personally and or professionally?
The best story is simple and comes from the heart. So we encourage you to make a few notes, or simply answer the survey questions below to help you get started.
Don’t worry about getting it perfect. Just speak from the heart and tell us more about how you have transformed your life on your wellness journey.
Share Your Success!
Success comes in many shapes and sizes, so be sure to tell us more about how you have. . .
- Impacted the health and wellness of a family member
- Improved your own health and well being
- How you have contributed to the health of your community via workshops, community outreach or through the media
- How you attracted your 1st, 5th or 10th client
- How you left your day job behind to focus on your coaching practice
- It’s your story, so tell us what you are most excited about!
A Few Tips for Your Video
- Introduce yourself as an IAWP Certified Wellness Coach. Tell us your name, your practice and be sure to share your website so potential clients will know how to connect with you.
- Follow the three part story format and share some details about what your life was like during all three stages.
- Keep your video to under 5 minutes
- Be sure to shoot your video horizontally like the picture below!
- Make a few bullet points that will help guide your answers to the questions above.
- Speak from the heart, don’t script it.
- Lighting – Be sure to have your light source in FRONT of you. Remove all lighting behind you as it will darken your face.
How to Film Your Video
- Use the webcam on your computer or simply use your smartphone, but be sure to use it in the horizontal position.
- Run a quick test to ensure you record in a horizontal position.
- Be aware of your background. You don’t want too much going on behind you, else it will distract the viewer from your story.
- Make sure that your lighting source is in front of you rather than behind you to avoid darkening your face. If you are near a window or light, you should be facing the window with the computer between you and the light source.
- Turn off your phone and other devices so you don’t get interrupted.
- Smile and have fun!
Here is a great example of how you want to crop your video:
How to Upload Your Video
- Once you film your video, you will need to upload to a site where it can be shared and the IAWP can download it. (YouTube, etc)
- You will enter the URL in the form below
Please Answer the Following Questions About Your Journey
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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 less than a specialist simply because of their training and industry demands. This is also true for a health and wellness coach.
The International Association of Wellness Professionals is recognized world wide and we have students from numerous countries all over the world.
Our Holistic Wellness Coach Certification Program is CCE accredited by the International Coaching Federation, the international gold standard in training accreditation.
The IAWP is an accredited school by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and approved by the Canadian Health Coach Alliance. Our Wellness Coach Certification program is also approved by the UK Health Coaches Association.
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 our students while in the program and for the life of their 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…
Our students have unlimited opportunity 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 for our students to gain personal support in these highly transformational training sessions.
Our students 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 our students all the tools and systems they’ll 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, our students form lasting friendships and peer support relationships with students from around the globe and in their 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 allow you to 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 ICF where our program can earn you CCEs.
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 your 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 learn online marketing basics, 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 most of 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.
