Product Description

For the first time the principles of wellness promotion and personal life coaching are brought together in one volume. Guided by his long experience as a wellness coach, Dr. Arloski blends the wisdom of the coaching profession to bring us an easy-to-use training tool perfect for: wellness professionals, professional coaches, managers, EAP professionals, counselors, and wellness educators. The coaching processes outlined in the book will help you work with your clients to empower them to draw on his or her own abilities and resources to make lasting changes for better health.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58139 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 251 pages

About the Author
Micahel Arloski, PhD, PCC is a licensed psychologist and a professional certified coach. Involved in the field of wellness since 1979, Dr Arloski keynotes, consults, and trains with hospitals, companies and spas around the world.

Customer Reviews

Wellness Coaching At Its Best
Michael Arloski has produced a thorough coaching manual. This book is based upon a review of the wellness concept as pioneered by leading practitioners over the past 30 years, particularly Dr. John Travis and the National Wellness Institute. In "Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change," Arloski guides the reader who seeks to coach others. He employs a variety of effective techniques to organize a lot of information. Among the major themes that coaches are urged to master are wellness mapping, making connections and understanding core competencies. All three are thoroughly explained - and they do make sense.

A wide range of health-related practitioners will find solid ideas in this book for motivating clients (and themselves) to reach improved levels of performance both professionally and personally. While the focus is behavioral change, Arloski presents a solid groundwork in health education history, change theory and traditional methodologies. A central coaching idea continually reinforced is the mindset shift from prescribe and treat (or educate and implore) to advocate and inspire.

Among the key chapters are sections devoted to medical coaching (persons with health challenges), unique coaching issues in different kinds of settings (e.g., hospital versus corporate programming) and attending to the interpersonal dynamics within coaching (e.g., "calendarizing" and body/mind concerns).

Generous, easy-to-understand graphic illustrations and an extensive recommended reading list add to the value of "Wellness Coaching."

Michael heads the Ft. Collins, CO based "Real Balance Global Wellness Services" organization. He is a licensed psychologist, consultant and wellness advisor for "The Institute for Life Coach Training." He has served as president of the Northern Colorado Association for Training & Development, the Ohio Society for Behavioral Health And Biofeedback and the Colorado College Counselors Association.

Good For Therapists Working with College Students
As an Educational Psychologist and School Psychologist, I found portions of the book to be useful in my work as a Student Success Coach with college students with learning disabilities, ADHD, and NonVerbal Learning Disorders. I appreciated the positive focus of the book, as well as the paradigm shift away from "prescribe and treat" to self-discovery and self-advocacy, which is more developmentally appropriate for college students. I would hesitate to recommend this book for use with younger students. It is clearly geared toward adults, but portions can be modified for older adolescents.

This was a refreshing read because it dovetails nicely with the research in Humanistic and Positive Psychology. In particular, I found the tools in the appendix to be useful for the initial rapport-building and goal-setting sessions. My students have enjoyed the "Wellness Wheel" activity, which is a self-assessment tool for rating satisfaction in many areas of their lives (not just school or work). My only disappointment was that the materials in the appendix appeared to be scanned in and were too small to reproduce.

Mapping a Clear Pathway to Wellness
Michael Arloskis wonderful book on Wellness Coaching brings to the reader insight & clarity into wellness coaching as well as providing a step by step coaching process giving the reader a clear overview of all the elements that one needs to consider as part of the wellness or health coaching process and plan.

Starting with Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the development of wellness models, Arloski also addresses in detail the subtle but essential ingredients often overlooked that make for successful coaching. From the qualities needed to be a successful coach to his Wellness Mapping 360 approach including useful worksheets and tools, this book provides a highly skilled practitioners insights and process. I highly recommend it for any health professional wishing to improve their ability to support their patient or clients in changing behavior. I will be using this book in teaching Wellness Coaching to University students next year.

Eva Migdal (B.App Sc (physiotherapy), M.Env.Sc, Dip Ed, Grad Dip(media)