The Baraka Institute Wellness Coaching Program

Lifestyle/Wellness coaching focuses on sustainable healthy lifestyle changes --- behavioral changes that enhance both the well-being and happiness of the client. The wellness coaching program specializes in fitness, lifestyle changes, stress management and realistic weight loss. The program’s design, factoring in realistic health targets and physical condition, stems absolutely from the client and is shaped solely by the client’s agenda on any scheduled day of a session.

The beauty of lifestyle coaching is that it supports clients’ efforts to attain a healthy lifestyle while providing the tools and techniques to not only reach their goals more rapidly but also maintain the changes for the rest of their lives.

What is wellness coaching?

Wellness coaching is based on the philosophy that when holistically balanced and well, living the lifestyle that suits your individuality, you are in alignment with your soul’s purpose; victorious. When correctly employed, lifestyle coaching allows you to more readily understand your higher sense of purpose and provides you with the tools necessary to achieve your lifestyle goals. Lifestyle coaching looks at the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of your life and works toward bringing those aspects into harmony.

A Wellness Coach works in partnership with you exploring your goals, habits, values, attitudes, perceptions, life choices, habits and barriers. You then discover and begin utilizing your unique talents, abilities, passions, desires and sense of purpose to manifest holistic wholeness, personal fulfillment and life success.

Who would benefit from wellness coaching?

Just about any one could benefit from whole person wellness coaching, including those wishing to:

• Set clear fitness and health priorities and goals
• Find a solution to permanent weight management
• Develop a support network of caring people
• Improve time management, reduce stress and eliminate procrastination
• Develop consistent motivation to maintain an exercise inclusive lifestyle
• Sharpen skills, attitude and increase confidence
• Understand undesirable habits and be able to replace them with healthier ones
• Take responsibility for follow-through on declarations made for desired lifestyle plan
• Enjoy a more satisfying personal and/or professional life
• Create a balanced, harmonious life

What can you expect from working with a Whole Person Wellness Coach?

Here are a few reasons individuals seek the assistance of a Wellness Coach:

A lifestyle coach will help you restore, achieve and maintain a balanced lifestyle. Together you discover the essence of whom you are and who you want to become. When you are struggling with self-limiting beliefs such as procrastination, resistance to change or fear of success, your coach will provide insight and encouragement. You profit by actively engaging in processes that help you understand your own personal roadblocks. Your coach is committed to helping you remain focused and establish the mindset you need to make lasting changes and will also challenge you to become successful in reaching your chosen goals. As you achieve a milestone, your coach will help you evaluate, acknowledge and celebrate your success.

Your wellness coach will work with you to strengthen the foundations of your life, helping to set up supportive systems, resources and networks. This is an essential part in developing your action plan for change. Your commitment to open, honest communication with your coach can yield a balanced, vibrant, happy life.

Partnering with the right coach will unquestionably improve your life! A successful coach/client alliance provides discovery, enlightenment and direction on the path to your lifestyle vision, aligning what's most important to you with your chosen goals. A wellness coach can empower you to reach or even exceed your wellness goals, make ready for healthy relationships or tackle many other aspects of life.

Do you need wellness coaching?

• Do you feel overwhelmed and stressed out?
• Are you stuck in habits that sabotage your health?
• Are you unsatisfied with the body you’re in?
• Are you familiar with healthy eating habits but don’t actually do them?
• Are you neglecting yourself, your family, and/or your work?
• Do you just react to life versus creating the life you want?
• Are you seeking a personalized program?
• Ready to remove barriers to success and make changes that last?
• You need a new approach.

Your wellness coach will help you break out of self-defeating behaviors instead of allowing the continuance of a purely reactive mode; set and achieve proactive goals and reward you for doing so! Your life coach will unfetter you so you may accomplish more than you thought possible!

Still not sure? Try our free 7-week FootSteps Virtual Life Coaching Program

We know the value of the personal coaching experience and that some of us love to try before we make a commitment. Although many of our coaches offer short coaching sample sessions another option is to enroll in our FootSteps Virtual Coaching Program. This 7-week e-mail distributed online experience will walk you through the basic steps of a coaching session and give you some of the tools you need to self-coach yourself. It's our way of sharing the experience and letting you explore deeper some of the tools our coaches learn to work with clients just like you! Sign up for your free FootSteps program.

How does the program work?

I- Information Gathering

You provide background information through a comprehensive written questionnaire and orally during the first coaching session. This ensures that your wellness coach is well-informed on your key issues, desired outcomes and agenda. You confirm that you are ready to make changes, discuss a personal vision and set priorities and realistic goals for the next 3 months. You agree to define and accomplish 3-5 interim goals, or small steps, toward the larger 3-month goal during the following week.

II- Motivation & Strategy

Together you and your coach perform a comprehensive assessment of your current lifestyle, fitness habits and physical condition from your viewpoint. You create a plan for motivation and exemplify the “you” that you would like to ultimately become. Using this current information and the description of your desired outcome, you jointly formulate achievable objectives that can be measured and assessed. Only by understanding your needs and desires will this partnership forward the achievement of your goals. The coach will help you seek inspiration from within and identify inner resources, providing tools invaluable during this program and after. You develop a strategy for the future, which empowers you to activate change.

In effect, you will have a comprehensive self-designed program, to include exercise and dietary behavior changes, tailored to your individual lifestyle and schedule along with personal goals (both short and long term) related to your focus in the wellness coaching program.

III- The Journey

In each subsequent coaching session, scheduled three times a month or as needed, you and your coach review the progress made toward the previous week's goals and either proceed to something new or develop a solution to overcome an obstacle. You then agree on a set of goals for the following week.

After a few weeks of coaching sessions, you should begin to notice improvements in your motivation as you begin to advance more strongly in the direction of your goals. Some may hit one or more obstacles in the second and third months, but both coaches and clients collaborate creatively to innovative solutions for overcoming each roadblock on the path to success.

IV- Reflection and Beyond

At the end of 3 months, most clients have accomplished more than 70% of their 3-month goals. They are energized and confident about committing to further life improvements. If you are seriously ready to improve your life and are prepared to make the commitment for change, then you are ready to experience this program that will transform how you see yourself and the world around you. Why not live the dream and be in the body and mind you love?

Who do you contact?

Contact Baraka Institute and begin on your path to a more rewarding life. What could be better than living the life you want in the body you want?

Phone: 503-241-2200 or email us