Course Summary: 

This course focuses on identifying gut related issues and how to support your clients to wellness and health. So often as coaches we’re focused on goals, outcomes and the mental health of someones’ progress. This opens up a possibility of understanding the link between physiological challenges (specifically gut related issues) and how they can contribute to the challenges that our clients may face. 

This course will be a hands-on learning experience that uses case studies derived from course member’s lab reports* to better understand these links. Additionally, this course will teach you how, as a coach, you can work closely with a physician to support the overall wellbeing of your client. Not only will your understanding of your personal health improve, but you will enhance your professional scope of training as a coach. This course is the beginning of a focused track in health coaching that EBI will be developing over time. 

Coaches are wanted in the health field. Physicians offices, naturopathic offices and integrative healthcare clinics are eager to work with coaches who have an understanding of how to support the medical process that their patients are going through. This opens up a huge opportunity within business development as a coach, as well as specialized niche development.  

*lab work included in cost of course

Course Overview

This is a live, 2 month training that meets weekly for 2 hours at a time through video conferencing. The course will be interactive, case-based and experiential.

Health Coaching is an emerging field that aligns with rising trends across the country showing that people are looking for guidance and support on diet, nutrition, physical fitness, stress management, lifestyle, and behavior change. Understanding the connections between physical and mental health can enhance your coaching and skills and add to your professional coaching repertoire. Imagine guiding your clients into deeper understanding of how their physical systems are impacting their ability to reach their personal and professional goals.

At its heart, the immune system recognizes ‘me vs. not me’.  If something is seen as ‘not me’, our body will attack it.  However, we are immersed in a world of ‘not me’….including our food. Our bodies often solve this problem through our digestive tract. Through examination of your own lab results (included in the cost of the program), we’ll explore the process of how this should work and the reasons that process can go sideways. Because so many health problems can be traced back to the gut, this is where we’ll focus for this course.

Course schedule

Week 1: Introductions and Foundations of the Gut 1

Week 2: Foundations of the Gut 2

Week 3: Intestinal Permeability – “The Leaky Gut”

Week 4: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Week 5: H. pylori & other bacteria

Week 6: SIBO & SIFO – Candida

Week 7: Parasites & Mold

Week 8: Putting it all together

View Course Outline Here

*Syllabus is subject to change dependent on student needs.

Schedule of Live Sessions 

All sessions are held on Tuesdays 5pm-7pm MT

May 4th, 2021 

May 11th , 2021 

Week Off 

May 25th, 2021

June 1st, 2021 

 June 8th, 2021 

 June 15th, 2021 

June 22nd, 2021

June 29th, 2021