ARISE May Webinar 2022: Why should one be a health coach? And what does it take to become one?

Adage Prevention is better than cure calls to action. COVID-19 pandemic might have taken our attention away from the immense burden of another pandemic of lifestyle influenced chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. Both pandemics represent a challenge that healthcare professionals cannot tackle on their own. Patients need to fight too in both prevention and management of the disease.

Here, health coach can come to aid. Coaches push us to achieve more and support us when we’re struggling, fostering self-motivation. Managing chronic disease and changing lifestyle needs just that.

Health coaching represents a paradigm shift. It aims to change the phenomenon of “outsourcing health management” to doctors and healthcare. In this talk we will discover the potential of health coaching in our society as a vehicle for helping people achieve better wellness and health on the population level, how digital technology can help make it possible, and what will it take to create a conducive environment for coaching and healthy lifestyle to become a fundamental skill of all.