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Health Coaching Australia conducts health coaching workshops in-house at your organisation's location or other venue. The in-house training option provides a cost effective alternative to sending staff to HCA-organised workshops that are open to individual registrations in capital cities. Organisations are able to make cost savings on venue and catering costs as well as staff travel and accommodation.

HCA provides the following professional pathways and organisational capacity building options in health behaviour change using Health Coaching for health professionals:


Training Pathway for Staff:


Capacity Building & Implementation Options for Organisations:

 Notes:
  • Items marked with an asterisk (*) are the basic courses recommended for all practitioners, case managers or key workers working with clients for prevention and/or self-management of chronic disease or other health conditions.
  • Items marked with a tilde (~) are recommended for all team leaders, program managers and middle level managers whose role it is to support practitioners or to implement, support and evaluate programs.
  • The mauve-coloured items are additional options that organisations can elect to build capacity and sustainability, and to develop a higher level of skill and effectiveness within organisations.
  • Peer Leaders have a higher level of skill and understanding of health coaching techniques and applications. They are supported by HCA to develop skills among their peers and to implement health coaching-based interventions effectively. Contact HCA for more information about Peer Leader development and support.

Overview of core workshop content 

Introductory training in HCA health coaching involves attending two workshops, ideally spaced approximately 3-6 months apart.  However, the second workshop can be held at any time in the future and regardless of the time lag will benefit the participants' skills development.


HCA Introduction to Health Coaching for Health Professionals - 2-day workshop

This workshop provides information about the basis HCA health behaviour change model and processes that are required for clinicians to increase patient or client adherance to treatment and lifestyle recommendations. 

The workshop provides a stepped checklist of processes to consider, and optional tools and techniques to use when a patient or client is blocked from engaging in, or maintaining behaviour change.  It pays particular attention to dealing with patients or clients who are low in readiness to change, while also reviewing techniques to use once a decision has been made to work on a particular health issue.  

HCA Review & Update - 1-day workshop

The Review & Update workshop builds on the 2-day Introduction workshop by assisting clinicians to adapt the full model to their particular role and clinical practice.  It reviews and practices the most critical processes to apply, particularly when patients or clients are low in readiness to make changes.  The workshop format allows participants to ask questions, clarify principles, processes and techniques, and to provide feedback regarding their progress in using the HCA Model.  It provides participants with the opportunity to tailor the content to their own needs and to work through common challenges encountered with applying the model in practice.

HCA Managers' Health Coaching Implementation - 1/2-day workshop

This workshop provides an overview of the HCA health coaching process, in order to support staff using the model and to align organisational systems with this approach.  Management input is usually required to support staff in implementing self-management behaviour change strategies because in addition to learning new skills, health coaching often represents a change in the way that clinicians practice.  It also often requires subsequent changes to paperwork and/or other data collection systems, reflection on key performance indicators, and allocation of time and human resources to skills development and systems integration.

The HCA Managers' workshop presents an overview of the HCA Model itself, the rationale for using the model within community and other health agencies, and discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing health coaching into disease prevention programs, chronic condition self-management programs and usual clinical practice.  Managers are invited to raise issues and concerns for discussion with their peers in the workshop.

Pricing for HCA Core Workshops

Inclusions 

2-day Intro 

1-day Review & Update

1-day Review & Update + 1/2 day Managers Implementation 

2-day Intro + 1-day Review & Update + 1/2 day Managers Implementation 
Days of training 

2

1

1 + 1/2 

2 + 1 + 1/2
Number of visits to organisation 

1

1

1

2
All inclusive price (excl. GST) * 

$10,500

$5,750

$8,450

$18,000
All inclusive price (incl. GST) * 

$11,550

$6,325

$9,295

$19,800

 * All inclusive prices include facilitation fees, two nights accommodation in location for two facilitators, air and/or road transport costs for facilitators, printing of workbooks and loose leaf handouts for participants and administration fees.  Travel, accommodation, printing and freight are all booked and administered by HCA and printing is delivered to the workshop organiser.  Organisations need to book and pay for venue hire and catering and take registrations from participants.

Please note that running a 2-day Intro for new participants and Review and Update for previous participants consecutively will attract a discount.

HCA Core Workshops

HCA Introduction to Health Coaching for Health Professionals - 2-day workshop

HCA Health Coaching for Health Professionals Review and Update - 1-day workshop plus HCA Managers Implementation - 1/2 -day workshop

 

HCA Skills Development and Capacity Building Options

HCA Model Certificate of Competency - Level 1

This is for invididual candidates and is a collection of case-study based assignments assessed at a University Post-graduate level for evidence of competency in using the HCA Model and 10 Step process for facilitating health behaviour change.

Pre-requisite: Attendance at an HCA Introductory Two-day workshop at any time in the past AND attendance at an HCA Review & Update workshop in the previous 12 months.

  • Cost: $395 (not including marking of resubmitted assignments)

 HCA Model Certificate of Competency - Level 2

Upon successful completion of HCA Model Certificate of Competency - Level 1, participants are eligible to become candidates for HCA Model Certificate of Competency - Level 2. 

Pre-requisite: Attendance at an HCA Introductory Two-day workshop at any time in the past AND attendance at an HCA Review & Update workshop in the previous 12 months AND succesful completion of the HCA Model Certificate of Competency - Level 1

  • Cost: $545 (not including marking of resubmitted assignments)

  • Certification: HCA Model Certificate of Competency - Level 2

  • Download more information here

Peer Leader Development & Support


Coming soon - please contact HCA for more information.

Train the Trainer

Train the Trainer package is suitable for those organisations in Australia with large numbers of staff to train.  Click here to view the proccesses involved and the indicative timetable for the TTT package.  

Please contact Janette Gale [via e-mail] or via telephone at the HCA Office on (02) 4465 2185 to discuss.

Specialist Workshops

HCA Health Coaching Overview for GPs - Half-day workshop

This workshop is ideal for GPs and other health practitioners with short consultation times as it focuses on an overview of the HCA Model and how to implement it into a quicker time-frame.

View organisations that have conducted in-house training in health coaching with HCA.

Click here to access the HCA Introductory and Review & Update workshops that you can send individual staff to.  Registration can be completed online with an option of "Payment by Organisation" (either by credit card or by payment to follow at a later date - by cheque or direct debit).

 

 

 

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