AAHWC Newsletter

What is a Health Coach?

What is a Health Coach?

franklindorsey2024-03-25T17:12:42-04:00

What is a Health Coach? Health and wellness coaching is a collaborative partnership between the coach and the client. A coach meets clients where they are in their health journey, discovers where they want to be, and facilitates forward movement toward their self-directed vision and goals. They meet regularly to discuss their progress, discover and resolve any roadblocks, co-create weekly action steps, and celebrate their accomplishments. Throughout the process, the coach encourages the client to discover the answers for themselves by asking thought-provoking questions and making reflective statements (1,2). In coaching, the client is the expert; [...]

What is a Health Coach?franklindorsey2024-03-25T17:12:42-04:00

What Motivates You?

What Motivates You?

franklindorsey2024-03-07T15:43:20-05:00

What Motivates You? Health coaching is all about growing and discovering how to implement ways to become one's best self. One of the most important aspects of coaching is the motivation for change, but what exactly is motivation and how does it tie into our Christian walk? Motivation is "... a condition inside us that desires a change, either in the self or the environment" (1). All motivation falls into two categories: extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic motivation involves doing things because they lead to an outcome, such as performing a task because a reward is attached. [...]

What Motivates You?franklindorsey2024-03-07T15:43:20-05:00

Member Feature: Kimberly Peters

Member Feature: Kimberly Peters

franklindorsey2023-12-19T14:13:01-05:00

Member Feature: Kimberly Peters The year was 2020. I was a mental health office coordinator, but I resigned to focus on my family and my personal development. I have always loved working in healthcare. I spent over a decade in medical administration, and I left to become a stay-at-home mother. I continued working with other health-related companies, but when COVID-19 appeared, I saw a great opportunity to witness. I was not sure what I wanted to do, but I knew my heart ached to minister to my community and the world. As I started prayerfully researching, [...]

Member Feature: Kimberly Petersfranklindorsey2023-12-19T14:13:01-05:00

What is AAHWC?

What is AAHWC?

franklindorsey2023-11-30T16:33:11-05:00

What is AAHWC? The Adventist Association for Health and Wellness Coaching, or AAHWC, is an association within the North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists, made up of members and leaders with a passion for health ministries, from all over North America. The idea for the association was born many years ago, when Rick Mautz, our current President, sparked a conversation with the Director of Health Ministries at the NAD (then and currently Angeline Brauer) about the potential of coaching in equipping health ministries to reach people for Jesus. Late in 2020, a Planning Committee [...]

What is AAHWC?franklindorsey2023-11-30T16:33:11-05:00

Telephone Lifestyle Coaching Effectiveness

Telephone Lifestyle Coaching Effectiveness

franklindorsey2023-11-30T11:37:44-05:00

Telephone Lifestyle Coaching Effectiveness One-on-one telephone health coaching is gaining popularity. Case in point: the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention has implemented a version of telephone lifestyle coaching to address some of the health issues many veterans are currently experiencing. In fact, a randomized control trial titled “A Coaching by Telephone Intervention for Veterans and Care Team Engagement” (ACTIVATE), was born out of the health issues veterans were facing related to diet and lifestyle (1). The study’s purpose was to determine the effectiveness of telephone lifestyle coaching. Researchers [...]

Telephone Lifestyle Coaching Effectivenessfranklindorsey2023-11-30T11:37:44-05:00

AAHWC Member Update

AAHWC Member Update

franklindorsey2023-10-16T16:22:00-04:00

AAHWC Member Update Dear Members: As we near the end of our first term in our AAHWC, I felt that it was important to connect with our members in a more personal way. To review the purpose and goals of the organization and to get your feedback so that the next term would be even more beneficial in serving each of you. Our original plan was to contact each of you by phone. We wanted to connect with each of our members in person to know how to better direct the association in the future. We [...]

AAHWC Member Updatefranklindorsey2023-10-16T16:22:00-04:00

God Was at Work

God Was at Work

Angie.David2023-06-27T17:59:23-04:00

God Was at Work God was at work in Lexington, Kentucky -- calling, equipping, inspiring, and training His people for the ministry of care, compassion, healing and restoration in their local communities. It was an opportunity to be equipped, to meet others with similar callings, to look for opportunities for service, and to be inspired by stories of restoration. As a functional nutrition health coach, I found opportunities to grow, be challenged, and expand my tools and vision for ministry. The morning plenary sessions helped us see what was new, interesting, and practical. From Pastor Shawn [...]

God Was at WorkAngie.David2023-06-27T17:59:23-04:00

Health Summit Blessings

Health Summit Blessings

Angie.David2023-06-27T18:11:08-04:00

Health Summit... What a Blessing What a blessing to have experienced Health Summit 2023, with a wonderful “Power to Heal” theme! I had the privilege of attending the full Summit, from the General Session on Sunday evening to the Sabbath afternoon activity to the Ark Encounter! If you couldn’t make it, here’s the inside scoop on what you might’ve missed out on... Our general sessions included various health ministry topics, including health evangelism, health disparities, environmental health, child mental health, among others. Our leadership development sessions included classes on understanding your community, how to connect with [...]

Health Summit BlessingsAngie.David2023-06-27T18:11:08-04:00

Pickleball

Pickleball

Angie.David2023-06-27T18:12:00-04:00

Pickleball... The Newest Form of Health Evangelism How can the fastest growing sport in the USA also be used for health evangelism? That’s what Loma Linda University School of Public Health Assistant Professor and AAHWC board member, Ernie Medina, Jr., DrPH, NBC-HWC, talked about at the recent NAD Health Summit in Lexington, KY. Pickleball is a paddle sport where you hit a plastic ball over a net on a small court. Think ping pong on a court. On Monday night, Dr. Medina gave a brief presentation on how pickleball is being used by churches as a [...]

PickleballAngie.David2023-06-27T18:12:00-04:00

Introducing LIFT

Introducing LIFT

Angie.David2023-06-27T18:17:54-04:00

Introducing LIFT Christ's Way of Coaching The NAD Health Summit in Lexington, KY, USA provided the perfect venue for the new Adventist Association of Health and Wellness Coaching (AAHWC) to introduce Health Partner - Jesus’ way of coaching. The Health Partner program grew out of the coaching community initially as a means of making our health programs more successful. We needed to add ongoing personal support to the information given, which is Jesus’ way of coaching. By doing this, we could not only help people achieve lasting lifestyle changes but also develop lasting friends through the [...]

Introducing LIFTAngie.David2023-06-27T18:17:54-04:00