In this episode of The Health Coach Show, I'm joined by Jason Stuart. Jase is a dietitian, personal trainer, and coach with 20 years experience in the healthcare industry. He is the founder of the Better Body Academy, a successful group coaching program with 300 members and a team of 6 coaches, of which he is the lead coach.  Join us, as we unpack how to structure and deliver a successful group coaching program and the many benefits from switching from a 1-1 client approach to a group approach. Jase shares his learnings, challenges, as well as future plans to hit his target of changing 1 million lives! Connect with Jase on Facebook under his name Jason Stuart or The Better Body Academy. At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/ In the spirit of reconciliation Accredited Health Coaching Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/ In the spirit of reconciliation Accredited Health Coaching Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

In this episode Sharon Curtain talks to Dr Shami, an integrative GP who is director and co-founder of the MINT clinic, about health coaching and how it changed her practice. Dr Shami has been a GP for 23 years and has been an integrative GP for 10 years. She has seen first hand how burnout can happen in a system that creates co-dependency when the GP is supposed to provide the answers/fix the medical problems while patients are passive and not encouraged to take responsibility. Her approach changed completely when she started with ACNEM to have an emphasis on empowering patients to take responsibility for their lifestyle behaviours. She noticed how her patients flourished when they were encouraged to create a plan based on what they think would work for them. Studying health coaching was life changing and has transformed all her consults. Clients leave feeling empowered and happy as they come up with their own solutions, matched to where they are ready to start. Dr Shami looks forward to her consults, and is always curious about her clients and what might work for them. She discusses the simples changes she's made and the difference they make. She also discusses how the environment set up also leads to collaboration. Dr Shami is the Director and Lead General Practitioner at MINT Clinic https://www.mintclinic.com.au Follow Dr Shami's Podcast SIX HATS PODCAST At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/ In the spirit of reconciliation Accredited Health Coaching Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

In this episode, we are talking about how you can use stages of change to meet your client where they are at, and what to do so you don’t inadvertently push clients further away from change. Health professionals can assume clients are ready to change simply because they booked a consultation, or they are discussing changing. The reality is people can be at varying degrees of readiness for health behaviours, and they may need support with tapping into their motivation or overcoming barriers before they are ready to take action. If we don’t take the time to assess a client’s readiness to change, and mismatch our communication and approach we can risk pushing clients further away from change. How can we tell where someone is at? What language gives clues? How do we tailor our approach? In this episode we provide strategies, tips and tools you can implement in your practice to ensure an effective client centred consultation where change is way more likely to happen! At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/ In the spirit of reconciliation Accredited Health Coaching Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

In this episode of The Health Coach Show, we discuss the importance of silence in consultations and why clients should be doing most of the talking in conversations and not the health professional and/or coach.   We discuss the concept of "holding the space", allowing clients time to process their thoughts and emotions without us feeling the need to jump in and provide solutions or advice.   We may fear silence and assume a need to fill it with ideas and answers. However coaching is not about fixing or rescuing clients, but rather about facilitating their growth and learning. We also discuss how provision of information or opinion which may have the intention of being inspiring or empowering can in fact create discord, as the coach grabs the talking stick and takes the focus away from the client.   Coaches need to stay present, curious, and allow our clients to do the work. Holding the space is where the magic happens: clients begin to understand themselves and their behaviours, and what it takes to create sustainable change. At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/ In the spirit of reconciliation Accredited Health Coaching Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

In this episode of The Health Coach Show, Sharon Curtain and Caitlin Cotter talk about the coaching competency of being calm, present and emotionally available.  Caitlin is a health coach and graduate of Accredited Health Coaching Australia, a mental fitness coach, and a weight management practitioner. When we start our coaching consultations, it’s important that we’ve put our own thoughts and concerns to the side, and have created a calm environment, free of distractions for our clients, allowing them to be present and providing space for insight, reflection and growth. In this episode we discuss why being present is so important and also give you some tips and techniques for how you can be more calm and present and emotionally available in your consultations . These techniques help us drop into level 3 listening and also create a space for our clients to look deeper.  These techniques are useful before and during a coaching session, and can be used to help centre/ground/calm clients who might be feeling, overwhelmed, distracted, or frazzled when they arrive at a coaching session.  It’s great to develop a practice of mindfulness to reset your focus between clients and ensure you are fully calm present and emotionally available. We take you through a short mindfulness breathing exercise that can help ground you and bring you into the present, and can be used to recentre at anytime.  Caitlin can be found on Instagram as Zesthealthcoaching.au To find out more about Positive Intelligence : https://www.positiveintelligence.com/ At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/ In the spirit of reconciliation Accredited Health Coaching Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/

At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we train you in behaviour change. Our health coach training courses incorporate evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ Proudly recognised as a HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/

In this episode Sharon and Shivaun, dietitians and HCANZA accredited health coaches, explore common excuses, what we may feel or do when we hear our clients give us 'excuses' for why they haven't made a change. Excuses are in fact valuable, as they are the client telling us exactly why they are stuck, or feel unable to take action. What can we do when we do hear excuses? Get curious, acknowledge and validate the client's experience, support them to discover all the barriers so they can evaluate and sort them, and then explore what can they do to overcome these obstacles. The final step is to support clients to come up with a plan. At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we've developed health coach training courses, incorporating evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/

In this episode Sharon and Shivaun dig into what motivation is and how we can harness it to achieve our goals. We discuss the role that external and internal (intrinsic) motivators can play on behaviour change, and how we can move along the spectrum from external motivation, to the place where our identity shifts and we become intrinsically motivated. Sometimes we wait for motivation to hit before we take action, although we can find motivation comes from the actions we take! We can support people to explore how values can drive behaviour and find their deep 'why' for changing what they do, and create healthier habits. Helping people imagine their future self and linking to values and identity creates an energy around what is possible that can drive positivity, creative solutions and fuel changes in behaviour. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we've developed health coach training courses, incorporating evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/

There are a number of commonly used communication strategies that we think are helpful, however can often do the opposite of the intended action. Thomas Gordon came up with 12 roadblocks that get in the way of effective communication. We'll go through 8 that we find get used a lot in conversations around changing health behaviours and explain why they aren't helpful. 1. Telling, directing or ordering 2. Warning & threatening 3. Advice giving, providing solutions and suggestions 4. Judging, blaming, disagreeing 5. Lecturing, judging, disagreeing 6. Reassuring, sympathising & consoling 7. Distracting or diverting 8. Praising, approving, disagreeing Which ones do you notice you use? What to do instead? - Take off the expert hat - Get curious - Be open - Help people find their own motivation and solutions - Affirm their strengths, efforts and progress Communication is a foundation skill of supporting clients to change behaviour. If you're looking for strategies to be more effective in consultations, join us is one of our training courses! --------------------------------- At Accredited Health Coaching Australia, we've developed health coach training courses, incorporating evidence based health behaviour change interventions and techniques that promote self-efficacy, self-determination and self-responsibility. You'll be introduced to a toolbox of motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the transtheoretical model and health and coaching psychology to assist you in supporting clients to achieve sustainable health behaviours and outcomes. ​​ HCANZA approved program provider. You can learn more at https://www.accreditedhealthcoaching.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accredited_healthcoaching_au/