Harness your strengths and your individuality. 

Strengths development is at the very CORE of what we do. It serves as a counterbalance to the problem-based focus of healthcare. It allows us to shift the focus to what’s right and build on THAT.

As coaches, we are recognizing each person’s unique gifts and their individuality. This course offers strategies beyond simply acknowledging the clients' unique strengths – we’re also supporting the development of strengths like self-awareness, focus, confidence, and self-discipline. We are facilitating transformation: helping clients access and grow their capabilities, and empowering them to live into and from their strengths. 

In this course, we'll delve into the science of individuality for added perspective and depth, recognizing that each person's path forward is uniquely their own. 

Finally, you’ll be invited to look at your own strengths and at what makes you unique. 

You’ll be invited to identify the strengths needed to achieve your goals and rise to challenges - and to explore practices for strengthening those qualities within yourself.

Upon completion of this course, the coach will be able to:

1. Connect strengths development with the process of intentional change.
2. List strategies for incorporating strengths development into the coaching dialogue.
3. Explore and describe one’s own unique constellation of strengths.
4. View the science of individuality through the lens of coaching.  
   
   

Kathleen Jones (MA, LMP, NBC-HWC, CYT) is an NBHWC certified Health and Wellness Coach, and board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional.  

Kathleen has a unique and impressive career path that includes 22 years as core faculty within a distinguished family medicine training program.  In that role, she developed one of the first lifestyle medicine training tracks in the US, coordinated a lifestyle medicine CME conference, and pioneered a state-of-the-art lifestyle medicine clinic integrating primary care with individual and group coaching.  

At that time, the profession of health and wellness coaching had not yet formed, and Kathleen brought her expertise in Motivational Interviewing, Intrinsic Coaching, and Lifestyle Medicine to train a team of graduate student health coaches to staff the clinic. 

As the managing editor of Lifestyle Medicine in Action at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, she curated relevant research articles and interviewed key leaders in the field.  

Her leadership extended to 7+ years of mentoring and training a team of health coaches at Humana using a positive-psychology based model developed by the VIA Institute on Character Strengths.

She holds faculty positions at Real Balance Global Wellness Services, Weljii Health and Wellness Coach Training, and Front Range Community College, all NBHWC-approved training programs.

More recently she served as one of the core writers at eMindful, authoring over 350 articles, blogs, and mindfulness activities.

She is co-author of the best-selling book, For the Love of Transformation.

As the visionary founder of Embody Change Coaching, she elevates health & wellness coaching through an array of premier continuing education courses. Her impact resonates, shaping lifestyle medicine and establishing her as a thought leader in the field of health & wellness coaching.