A newsletter made just for coaches like you...a space designed to elevate your skills, strengthen your confidence, and keep you connected to the evidence-based heart of our profession. Whether you’re just beginning your coaching journey or advancing toward the NBHWC credential and beyond, this newsletter will deliver the tools, insights, and support you need to grow with purpose.
Each month, you’ll find practical skill-building tips, research-based guidance, cohort announcements, NBHWC-exam study support, and resources you can use immediately in your coaching sessions.
Our mission is simple: to help you master your craft, stay inspired, and feel empowered as a leader in the field of professional health and wellness coaching.
Let’s grow, learn, and lead...together.
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Skill Builder of the Month: Generative Moments
Every coaching session has a peak; a pivotal point where everything shifts. That's the generative moment, and it may be the most powerful tool in your coaching toolkit.
A generative moment is what happens when a client becomes aroused along their path of change and growth. It might arrive as high energy and excitement, or as the quiet calm that comes with a new way of thinking. Either way, it's where clients co-generate fresh perspectives, uncover hidden capacities, and design bold next steps. As one description beautifully puts it, these collaborations feel like an "intuitive dance" between coach and client. They're called generative because they inspire clients to generate new ideas, insights, and actions that can positively alter their future.
Here's the key insight for coaches: it's not your job to create the moment. The client shows up with the energy and the desire to learn. Your role is to listen mindfully for what's "alive" in them, reflect it back, and support them through the flow. Like a midwife guiding a mother through delivery, you hold the space rather than force the outcome.
These moments thrive in a judgment-free environment built on trust, safety, and unconditional positive regard. When clients know you believe in their ability to change, they're far more likely to get out of their own way and try something new.
Watch for the emotional cues that signal a topic ripe for a generative moment. For example, a client moving from stuck toward free to move, from unsure toward certain and willing, or from self-sabotage toward self-support. When you spot that energy, slow down, ask permission to explore it, and let the moment unfold.
The generative moment is the energetic epicenter of your session. Allow time for it, honor the silence within it, and trust your client to lead. That's where transformation lives.
Resource: Coaching Psychology Manual, pp 141-146.
Coaching Asset: 4 Ways to Support Brain Health
Brain health isn’t a separate health topic- it’s the operating system underneath behavior change, habit formation, emotional regulation, and resilience. Integrating this into your coaching program can increase positive outcomes for your clients in more than one area. Remember, many clients share that increasing their longevity is one of their main reasons for pursuing coaching and embarking on a wellness journey.
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Summer 2026 Coaching Cohort (Accelerated)
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NBHWC Exam Study Hub
Testing in Fall of 2026?
Stay tuned for our next peer-led study cohort. Dates to be released soon.
Course Spotlight:
NEW!! Coaching Case Studies: (11 NBHWC CECs)
Enroll to embark on a deep dive into 8 client case studies.
Each case study review will support the exploration of:
• A new coaching client and their biometric data, medical history, demographic info, hobbies and support systems
• Example dialogues of motivational interviewing & active listening
• Values clarification & vision-building strategies
• Goal-setting using the SMART goal framework
• Behavior change strategies for a wide variety of clients
• Cultural competency & trauma-informed coaching examples
• A 12-week arc of the coaching relationship
Perfect for new and experienced coaches alike. Not a coach, but exploring the field? Join us to see if coaching is a career path you'd like to pursue.
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Building Your Coaching Business: Did you hear?
Expert Coach Center is collaborating with Coach Business Training to offer 5 individual courses, including options to bundle! All approved by the NBHWC for continuing education credits.
Courses include:
AI Powered Marketing (3 CECs; $87)
Building Collaborative Referral Networks (3 CECs; $87)
Time Management and Productivity for Solo Entrepreneurs (4 CECs; $97)
Launching your Business (11 CECs; $287)
Applied Business Launch 1:1 Coaching (6 CECs; $597)
Instructor: Karin Mayer, NBC-HWC, ICF ACC
Karin uniquely combines a health coaching certification with an MS in Computer Science and 30+ years in corporate America and management consulting. As both a practicing health coach who has built her own private client practice and a college instructor teaching Business and Computer Science, Karin understands exactly where coaches get stuck on marketing - and how AI tools can solve those specific problems without compromising professional integrity. She bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology and ethical coaching practice.
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~Holly Miller, Owner of Expert Coach Center
