Upcoming Trainings and Conferences
Health Coaching Australia
The HCA model of health coaching enables health practitioners to undertake three critical tasks to empower clients or patients to engage in their own health management. These tasks are 1) assisting clients to decide that it is in their own interests to engage in health behaviour change, 2) increasing clients' chances of success by identifying and addressing barriers to change, and 3) providing treatment recommendations and health education in a way that doesn't inadvertently create resistance. Although powerful in all aspects of health and lifestyle management, health coaching is proving to be particularly successful in the area of chronic disease prevention and self-management and with the World Health Organisation predicting that by 2020 ¾ of all deaths will be from chronic disease, changing the health behaviour of the population is becoming all the more critical.
Introductory Training by Health Coaching Australia
Introduction to Health Coaching for Health Professionals Two-Day Workshop
Sydney, 16 & 17 September 2010
Brisbane, 5 & 6 August 2010
Melbourne, 13 & 14 September 2010
The two-day introductory workshop equips participants with the core skills and foundation knowledge to enable implementation of health coaching practice into their clinical practice and programs. The workshop is intensive and fast-paced utilising lectures, forum discussion, case studies, demonstrations and practical skills sessions to teach health coaching techniques. It also provides a guiding structure for health practitioners to follow to facilitate health behaviour change regardless of the initial levels of readiness, willingness and ability of clients to engage in change.
Workshop numbers are capped at 24 to enable the best balance between group discussion and practical learning. The workshops are facilitated by teams of two health coaching health practitioners.
For more information, or to register for Introductory Workshops please follow this link and click on the required workshop: Health Coaching Australia - Introductory Workshops
Advanced Training by Health Coaching Australia
[please note the pre-requisite for attendance is completion of a Two-day Introduction Workshop]
HCA One-day Review & Update Workshop for Health Professionals
Melbourne, 22 November 2010
This one-day workshop provides participants with the opportunity to review and practice key skills and principles taught in the Introductory Workshop. Through revisiting the model and exploring in more depth the interrelationships between the tools and techniques, previous participants have indicated that this workshop significantly helps to consolidate their learning and increase competency and confidence in using their health coaching skills.
For more information, or to register for Skills Development Workshops, please follow this link and click on the required workshop: Health Coaching Australia -Review and Update Workshops
Heart Research Centre: Motivational Interviewing (MI): An essential tool to help patients improve their health behaviours Melbourne, 26 August 2010
MI is an evidence-based technique for helping people change unhealthy behaviours in favour of healthier lifestyles. These techniques aim to elicit behaviour change by helping patients to explore and resolve ambivalence to change (Rollnick & Miller, 1995). MI is based on specific interviewing styles and change processes that acknowledge the patient's stage of readiness to change a particular behaviour.
Chronic illness can produce considerable personal, social and financial hardship for those with such diseases. Many patients find it difficult to adopt and sustain lifestyle changes. Health professionals who use motivational interviewing techniques can help patients overcome their resistance to adopting healthy behaviours.
For more information, or to register for this workshop, please follow this link and click on the required workshop: Motivational Interviewing: An essential tool to help patients improve their health behaviours
