There are many reasons our course stands out from other coaching programs out there! Here’s what makes our NBHWC-approved program unique:

No prerequisites or requirements for recertification: No experience or degree required for Pathway! Anyone 18+ can enroll in our program. Become an Empowered Well-Being Coach and skip the recertification fees.

Personalized 1:1 mentorship & comprehensive, high-quality feedback: As a Pathway student, you’ll submit coaching session videos with transcripts for comprehensive feedback. Our highly-qualified instructors provide personalized mentorship and go beyond NBHWC requirements, offering both verbal and written feedback. Unlike other programs, recordings and transcripts allow for detailed assessment, ensuring specific feedback for your growth opportunities.

HCI-exclusive Empowered Well-Being Wellness & Reactive Distress models: Our program takes a holistic approach to health and wellness, teaching you two unique wellness models to assess clients and support their wellness across eight dimensions. With our in-depth curriculum, you’ll learn stress resilience techniques and build the skills to coach clients toward optimal health. And the best part? You’ll have these resources for long-term success in your coaching practice!

Functional learning: Our curriculum is hands-on and practical! You’ll get coaching practice and experiential exercises, plus a buddy partner to practice with in a safe, supportive environment.

Robust Instruction in Coaching Skills: Learn Appreciative Inquiry, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness, and Nonviolent Communication tools. Other program goes beyond others by providing comprehensive training in all these tools!

Vibrant & global supportive community: Join our tight-knit HCI community of 20,000+ and experience the benefits of a small, supportive learning cohort! In our live classes, you’ll make lasting connections with peers who will challenge and uplift you. Learning together has never been so fun! Build a network of like-minded friends that will last beyond graduation.

Personal transformation: At HCI, we practice what we preach! Join Pathway to work on your own personal transformation while learning to coach others. Using the Empowered Well-Being Model, you’ll identify areas of wellness that need improvement, increase your stress resilience, and level up your self-care. With coaching and mentoring support every step of the way, Pathway promises to be a truly transformational experience. Join us today and start changing lives!

The Pathway program teaches the foundations of effective health and wellness coaching outlined by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), which includes competencies in coaching structure, coaching process, health and wellness, and ethics and legal.

Our 6-month training, led by board-certified health & wellness coach professionals, is designed to help you take control of your life and become the person you want to be. The comprehensive curriculum is rooted in HCI’s exclusive Empowered Well-Being models, which will increase your own and your clients’ empowerment across eight dimensions of wellness. Our program will teach you potent coach tools and techniques such as Motivational Interviewing, Appreciative Inquiry, and Nonviolent Communication, as well as how to cultivate mindfulness, lead centering practices, and support your clients with increasing their stress resilience.

After you complete the course, you’ll have a thorough understanding of the key elements of a successful coaching relationship, how to guide a session effectively, the importance of coaching presence, techniques for active listening, how to utilize Appreciative Inquiry-based coaching, Motivational Interviewing skills, and strategies for evoking intrinsic motivation to address any client concern.

Additionally, you will have evidence-based information and practices to to support clients with health concerns, such as stress management, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, arthritis, and weight management.