comprehensive well-being certification – NBHWC
- Upon completion apply for the NBC-HWC credential
- Use the Hero’s Journey® Change Model with clients
- Improve your flexibility with clients with nature coaching techniques
- Recognize subconscious emotional blocks and thinking obstacles
- Integrate evidence-based somatic and artistic expression methods

Objectives
- Design your coaching practice to be an entrepreneur or work for an organization
- Practice coaching using the core competencies from the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches and the International Coaching Federation
- Apply unique communication techniques that enhance client motivation
- Demonstrate competence with evidence based coaching models including the exclusive Hero’s Journey® Change Model
- Practice Nature Coaching techniques to give your coaching practice more flexibility
Certification details
- Units: 87
- Instructors: Dr. Julie Elledge, Dr. John Bucher, Alice Ford
- Schedule: 6/7 – 11/16 plus self-paced material
- Language: English
- Prerequisite: High School Degree
- Investment: $3375
Who should take this certification?
If you are interested in:
- Health and wellness coaching
- Sitting for the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching Certification (NBC-HWC)
- Expanding you human resource skill set
- Expanding your therapist skill set
Courses Included in this offering:
Introduction to Raconteur Coaching
Trainees will explore the power of storytelling with Dr. Joesph Campbell and Dr. Julie Elledge. In addition, they will be introduced to PCC coaching markers and how to set a session agreement and facilitate client growth.
- Units: 6
- Self-Paced: 4 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: one (1) 2-hour class
- Schedule: Tuesday 6/7
- Time (MST: Denver): 10am
Financial Well-Being, Ethics, and Coaching Engagement
Trainees explore financial mindsets, ethics, and coaching agreements in order to create successful coaching partnerships that honor both the coach and the client.
- Units: 8
- Self-Paced: 2 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: three (3) 2-hour classes
- Schedule: Tuesdays 6/14 – 6/28
- Time (MST: Denver): 10am
Hero’s Journey® Change Model
Trainees will learn how to partner with clients using storytelling methods combined with the coaching structure to develop a coaching plan. The Hero’s Journey® Change Model is complete with stage specific coaching tools and techniques to help clients smoothly transition through the change process.
- Units: 22
- Self-Paced: 14 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: four (4) 2-hour classes
- Schedule: Tuesdays 7/12 – 8/2
- Time (MST: Denver): 10am
Nature Immersion
Trainees will learn somatic and story-based nature coaching techniques that can be used in any environment ranging from public lands to parks or urban locations.
- Units: 12
- Self-Paced: 2 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: five (5) 2-hour classes
- Schedule: Thursdays 7/7 – 8/4
- Time (MST: Denver): 1pm
Story Quest Walks
Trainees learn how to use natural elements to raise clients’ emotional tolerance along with using ancient and modern storytelling techniques to overcome their resistance unlocking creativity.
- Units: 12
- Self-Paced: 2 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: five (5) 2-hour classes
- Schedule: Thursdays 8/18 – 9/15
- Time (MST: Denver): 1pm
Storytelling for Coaches
Trainees will advance their storytelling coaching techniques to enter into clients’ story and identify themes, patterns and positively reshape their thinking, feeling, and behavior.
- Units: 8
- Self-Paced: 0
- Live – Zoom: four (4) 2-hour classes
- Schedule: Wednesday 10/26 – 11/16
- Time (MST: Denver): 10am
3 Gems for a Thriving Mind: Purpose, Creativity and Nature
Trainees are introduced to practical applications and activities to disrupt stress, stimulate relaxation, and cultivate positive emotions.
- Units: 6
- Self-Paced: 6 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: 0
- Schedule: Available Immediately
- Time (MST: Denver): N/A
3 Gems for a Good Health Course Series
Trainees learn how to guide clients to explore, plan, and implement healthy lifestyle routines surrounding diet, exercise, and sleep.
- Units: 3
- Self-Paced: 3 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: 0
- Schedule: Available Immediately
- Time (MST: Denver): N/A
Chronic Illness and a Healthy Lifestyle
Trainees learn an overview of the signs, symptoms, and risk factors associated with the most common chronic diseases and the standards of a healthy lifestyle.
- Units:2
- Self-Paced: 2 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: 0
- Schedule: Available Immediately
- Time (MST: Denver): N/A
Heal: The Award Winning Documentary
Trainees will learn cinema coaching techniques to facilitate learning and ways to reframe clients’ health and wellness journey. From the award-winning documentary, HEAL, trainees will engage in a vicarious scientific and spiritual journey where individuals discover that by changing one’s perceptions, the human body can heal itself from dis-ease.
- Units:4
- Self-Paced: 4 hours available immediately
- Live – Zoom: 0
- Schedule: Available Immediately
- Time (MST: Denver): N/A
In The News
Check out what Dr Elledge has to say in her interview with Candice Georgiadis interview on the Women In Wellness: Julie Elledge of Mentor Agility On The Five Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Help Support People’s Journey Towards Better Wellbeing:
Women In Wellness: Julie Elledge of Mentor Agility On The Five Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Help Support People’s Journey Towards Better Wellbeing
Changing your lifestyle is never easy. In this article Dr. Elledge talks about how to turn new years resolutions into lifestyle realities.
https://www.newyou.com/health/three-secrets-to-keeping-new-years-resolutions/
To get a taste of Dr. Elledge’s approach to financial well-being follow the link below
Explore the power of nature to heal with Dr. Julie Elledge in Health & Sustainable Living, Issue 81 in February 2022
https://sevenseasmedia.org/the-nature-coaching-cure-to-eco-despair-is-right-outside/