Health Coaching Awareness Week

Health Coaching Awareness Week 18th September – Friday 22nd September Get involved with Health Coaching Awareness Week. The aims of the week include to: Raise awareness of the opportunities and benefits of health coaching by highlighting how it can increase Read More …

Edinburgh Workshop: Ecopsychology informed coaching and counselling practice

Ecopsychology informed coaching and counselling practice: One step at a time! Location: Scots Club, Edinburgh, Scotland Date: 17 July, 2019 Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm (Registration at 9.15am) Trainer: Prof Stephen Palmer PhD CPsychol CBiol Ecopsychology is the study the relationship Read More …

Social prescribing: The prescription for enhanced wellbeing

Can positive and coaching psychologists become more involved in social prescribing? The prescription for enhanced wellbeing. New article published on social prescribing in Coaching Psychology International by Prof Stephen Palmer. This short paper will describe social prescribing, highlight some of Read More …

What is Health Coaching?

What is Health Coaching? Health coaching is the practice of health education and health promotion within a coaching context, to enhance the well-being of individuals and to facilitate the achievement of their health-related goals (Palmer et al., 2003: 92) This Read More …

Definition of health coaching

What is health coaching?   There are a number of definitions of health coaching that have been developed over the past two decades. One of the earliest definitions published in an academic journal was developed by the Co-Director of the Centre Read More …