Current research reveals that group-based health and wellness coaching and support are a breakthrough for leveraging change in diverse populations of people who want to regain health, prevent disease, and improve the quality of their personal lives. Medical expenditures decrease and outcomes increase (health status, productivity), as group-based coaching is very cost effective. Group-based wellness coaching is the “new wave” in corporations, agencies, hospitals, clinics, parishes, agencies, universities, and corporations.

The Power of the Group Process & Accountability

Working within a group increases almost every aspect of the process of self- improvement. A group provides expanded resources for information, feedback, coping, experiences, the group’s “resident wisdom,” support, and the power of the accountability. Harvard research states that we are 85 percent more likely to succeed in taking positive actions if we have accountability.

Additionally, groups can create a climate in which participants are valued, strengthened, and inspired by one another. Group health and wellness coaching provide supportive social connection which research proves to have a measurably positive effect on immune function. Testimonial. We are so incredibly influenced by each other that the power of testimony is big medicine. When participants in a group share how they have implemented self-care practices in their lives or how they have succeeded in discontinuing a damaging behavior we are inspired and encouraged. When a peer breaks through to victory, we feel that we can, too. We are each other’s mirrors.

The Benefits of Group-Based Health & Wellness Coaching

*The cost decreases and outcomes increase with group-based coaching support.

*Trained health and wellness coaches can provide effective coaching results without needing expensive experts.

*Provides people the opportunity to work in group, in addition to or as an alternative to one-to-one work—allowing for the advantages of both contexts in a more affordable context.

*Creates the opportunity for many people who could otherwise not afford conventional coaching to learn the powerful lifelong tools for healthful living.

*Creates dynamic, empowered families, community and peer accountability.

• Equally effective for groups for effective outcomes related to stress mastery (resiliency), work performance, work and home life balance, and team building