Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Level 2 builds upon the foundational principles covered in HLC Level 1, showing how to apply these with clients and patients. A key component of this level is learning how to use detailed questionnaires with your clients to obtain a starting point, identify potential roadblocks to wellbeing, prioritize issues and understand their motivation for change. As Paul Chek says, "If you are not assessing, you are guessing." Recognizing that food and lifestyle habits are powerful therapeutic mediums for maintaining and restoring health and wellness, you will discover the importance of balancing stress levels, identifying environmental toxicity issues, creating optimum sleep-wake cycles, maintaining optimal hydration and rotating foods. You will learn methods for creating individualized eating strategies to enhance the physiology of each client. Client and business management issues are discussed and the importance of a professional referral network is emphasized. You will understand effective exercise programming principles to reduce sympathetic nervous system overload and practice different types of techniques that help to balance total physiological load, such as Tai Chi, Qigong and other energy-balancing exercises.

In Level 2 you will:

• Learn how to perform an assessment that will help you identify your clients' problems in detail.
   
• Comprehend the necessary relationships between food and lifestyle habits and our ability to fully cultivate optimal spiritual, mental, emotional and physical abilities.
   
• Understand the correlation between digestion and immune system health.
   
• Learn how circadian rhythms integrate with hormonal cycles.
   
• Know how and why to decrease exposure to toxic environments.
   
• Understand disclaimers as they relate to the medical paradigm versus functional or preventive medicine.
   
• Know where and how to access multidisciplinary support systems to help you guide your clients.

Required pre-requisites and pre-course reading: