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Health Coaching: Using Healing and Spirituality in the Behavior Change Process


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The definition of community in an individual's change process is unique to that individual, explains Dr. Karen Lawson, program director for the health coaching track at the Center for Spirituality and Healing, the University of Minnesota. In this interview, Dr. Lawson discusses healing and spirituality within the framework of a health coaching exchange and the appropriate moments for a coach to broach these subjects. While a health coach cannot be an expert in all available therapies, the coach can be a "curious explorer" who "dips their toes" into alternative health therapies and systems along with the client. Dr. Lawson, along with Ruth Wolever, Ph.D., clinical health psychologist and director of research at Duke Integrative Medicine, examined integrative health coaching --- how health coaches can benefit from training in motivational interviewing, self-management and even spirituality and healing --- during, From Passive to Partner: Integrative Health Coach Training Using Motivational Interviewing for Behavior Change.
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