Foundations of Health and Wellness Coaching for Diabetes Educators
Four modules, practical tools now.
Recognition towards a future coaching qualification.
Build your coaching toolkit
with the all-new Foundations of Health and Wellness Coaching Microcredentials
Explore practical coaching strategies to support lasting behaviour change in diabetes care.
Designed as a four-part microcredential series, this programme focuses on empowering diabetes educators with essential coaching skills. It covers practical strategies like person-centred care and motivational interviewing, directly supporting your ability to foster lasting behaviour change in diabetes care and meet ADEA's CPD and Credentialling standards.
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Immediate, practical coaching strategies you can use in client conversations
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Applicable across diabetes-specific and broader health settings
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Complete all four modules to gain advanced standing in future qualifications with Wellness Coaching Australia
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Earn CPD hours to support recredentialling, or strengthen the core coaching skills valued in initial Credentialling assessments.
Gain full access to all four Health and Wellness Coaching microcredentials
for a special Bundle Price of $250 AUD!
Modules overview
The four modules guide you through the core principles of health and wellness coaching—starting with foundational coaching language and progressing through positive psychology, readiness for change, and action planning. Together, they build your capacity to support self-management, strengthen client motivation, and navigate boundaries with confidence. Each module is grounded in practical strategies designed for everyday clinical conversations.
In this microcredential, you’ll explore why traditional expert-led approaches may be less effective in supporting people with diabetes to make sustainable lifestyle changes. You’ll gain an understanding of what health and wellness coaching is, how it differs from other coaching styles, and how it can be used to empower more person-centred, collaborative care. The module introduces key definitions of coaching and wellness, showing how these concepts work together to support behaviour change. You’ll also learn the core principles that underpin health and wellness coaching and how they can be applied to improve client outcomes.
This microcredential explores how Health and Wellness Coaching can support people to self-manage diabetes by building motivation, confidence, and autonomy. You’ll develop foundational coaching skills underpinned by positive psychology and learn how to apply them in a diabetes care context. The module also covers strategies to build a health vision with clients, assess readiness for change, and strengthen self-efficacy. You’ll gain practical tools for ethical coaching, including action planning and goal setting.
In this micro-credential it introduces how Health and Wellness Coaching can enhance your role by empowering clients to take greater ownership of their diabetes self-management. You’ll build essential coaching skills grounded in positive psychology to support more meaningful, client-centred interactions. The course will guide you in helping clients create a clear health vision, assess their readiness for change, and build self-efficacy to sustain long-term improvements. You’ll also learn how to facilitate ethical coaching conversations that incorporate action planning and goal setting to drive practical, achievable outcomes.
In this microcredential, you will build on your understanding of vision-setting, readiness for change, and self-efficacy by focusing on how to turn insight into meaningful action. You’ll learn how to support clients in developing realistic, behaviour-based action plans that align with their readiness and confidence levels. The course covers the use of SMART goals, the difference between behavioural and outcome goals, and techniques for helping clients reframe their intentions into achievable steps. Additionally, you will explore key ethical considerations in health and wellness coaching, including maintaining professional boundaries, ensuring confidentiality, and understanding your scope of practice.
What will I gain?
You’ll walk away with:
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Practical frameworks you can use immediately in your client conversations
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Stronger confidence in supporting behaviour change
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Strategies to work with resistance and ambivalence
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Expanded career flexibility through coaching skillsets
This evidence-based program also introduces foundational principles from coaching psychology and equips you with the practical tools to connect, engage and empower clients to make sustainable changes. It includes:
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Coaching ethics and the three core coaching skills to build relationships, create rapport and self-efficacy
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The GROW model and how to use it with clients to identify health goals, understand their current situation, explore possibilities and commit to action
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An introduction to positive psychology – a framework that underpins the entire health and wellness coaching process
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How to use the Stages of Change model to identify where clients are in their readiness to adopt new habits
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Strategies to build self-efficacy and encourage individuals to take ownership of their lifestyle choices
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SMART goal-setting techniques to support clients in planning achievable actions
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Practical coaching strategies to help individuals overcome barriers and find realistic pathways forward
You’ll also strengthen key CDE competency domains, including person-centred care, communication and critical reflection.
Study Pathway to formal Health and Wellness Coaching Certification
Completion of the 4-part series provides ‘recognition of prior learning’ for the first Foundation Coaching unit in Wellness Coaching Australia’s larger certification course, which would provide formal accreditation with the Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA). Contact Wellness Coaching Australia for more information.
See how these modules are already making a difference
“Health and Wellness coaching is a powerful skill that helps support clients managing diabetes by focusing on behavioural change, sustainable lifestyle adjustments and emotional support.
It uses techniques such as motivational interviewing; encouraging self-reflection, personal values and builds confidence in a non-judgmental approach using client-centred dialogue.
It allows clients to be heard without feeling overwhelmed and assists in reframing their setbacks into learning experiences, creating empowerment. It is a great additional skill to add to your own toolbox that will help your clients with diabetes.”
Mauretta Johnston, CN SJOG Hospital Bunbury