Health Coaches fill a gap in the Healthcare system where clients are looking for support in making lifestyle changes. Sometimes we know what needs to change and yet actioning that change seems challenging. Health Coaches walk along side their clients on this journey and work as a supportive mentor in finding the motivation required to make lasting changes and feel their best.

Whitiwhiti kōrero is a verbal exchange encouraging the development of a collaborative kaupapa (platform/ agenda) as the framework for the realisation of hauora. Within the context of Rongoā Māori, it provides space to explore patterns, challenges and solutions through the four pillars of hauora: taha tinana (physical health/ wellbeing), taha hinengaro (mental and emotional wellbeing), taha whanau (social wellbeing) and taha wairua (spiritual wellbeing). 

Thus these two modalities share many common threads in terms of a holistic lifestyle approach to wellness/ hauora.

As behaviour change experts, Health Coaches are trained in the latest science on lifestyle medicines. Their goal is to help the client to be living their best life through building new habits that make for change that lasts. This is what makes health coaches unique in the healthcare industry—they are not just a source of information but a catalyst for transformation.

Whitiwhiti kōrero with health coaching makes for a powerful combination and service for individuals and whanau looking for support in achieving greater levels of hauora within their lives.

Tihei Mauri ora!

How can this help me?

Whether you have a desire to implement some new healthy habits into your life, have significant health challenges to work through, are looking for more information and support on your path to optimal health, or just need support navigating the many obstacles that come up in daily living, a health coach can help.

Sometimes we need to talk it out, unpacking and working through what challenges are presented and possible options moving forward. Other times we may need assistance in finding motivation and know-how to follow something through to its end. What do we do when things get hard? How do we recover and get back on the horse so-to-speak?

A Health coach is your personal cheer-leader, they acknowledge you are the expert on you and thus only support you in what it is that YOU desire. Although the client remains in charge throughout the relationship, the health coach may challenge you to take an honest look at what’s really going on under the surface to aid you in breaking through any barriers holding you back. This is done in various ways many of which focus around powerful conversations and attentive listening and reflection for the client.