Welcome to our Health and Wellness Coaching programme

This isn’t your typical training – it’s all about real conversations, practical tools, and making a genuine difference in people’s lives (including your own).

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll get from joining us:

• You’ll get to grips with what a coaching approach actually means – and how it puts people at the heart of their own care.
• We’ll explore how coaching helps create personalised care by:
  • Working together as equals – no top-down stuff here.
  • Recognising that relationships are everything.
  • Really listening and learning from what actually works (and what doesn’t) in the messy, wonderful reality of people’s lives and workplaces.
  • Using team coaching to work with people in the context of their relationships – family, friends, community – to find solutions that make sense locally.

You’ll also:

• Grow your coaching toolkit with some easy-to-remember, trauma-informed, healing-centred resources you can use with any age group.
• Connect with a brilliant mix of professionals and people with lived experience through our WhatsApp groups – a space for sharing, learning and cheering each other on.
• Understand why being trauma-informed is at the heart of personalised care.
• Learn about groundbreaking research from Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child – showing how early adversity can have a lifelong impact on both mental and physical health.
• Build your awareness of how to stay compassionate and resilient over the long term – with self-care as a non-negotiable.
• And finally, get creative with new ways to support people who find lifestyle changes a real challenge.

 It’s all about working with people, not doing things to them – and bringing care, curiosity and connection into every conversation

Find out more and register to train with us

 

'Mindful Emotion Coaching is all about finding a framework for meaningful connections'

Mindful Emotion Coaching in summary:

• Focus: Practical tools and strategies for emotional regulation, self-awareness, and relational skills.
• Approach: Action-oriented, bridging the gap between theory and practice. It emphasizes “what to do” with emotions in real time.
• Accessibility: Uses relatable language, visuals like the hand model, and straightforward science to engage children, young people (CYP), and adults.
• Core Message: Encourages hope, mindfulness, and emotional connection, offering strategies to manage emotions and improve relationships—even in challenging contexts like trauma or insecure attachment.
• Applications: Versatile in settings like schools, families, coaching, and non-therapeutic environments. It’s about doing things “with” people, not “to” them, making it more relatable than traditional therapy.
• Strengths: Promotes immediate, actionable insights, making complex ideas simple and empowering. It fosters optimism and intergenerational healing by focusing on the present and future. It takes the "why" of attachment theory and offers practical “how-to” strategies for everyday emotional and relational challenges. It emphasizes the importance of emotional connection and managing relational dynamics providing an immediate and accessible framework for non-therapeutic settings. It helps individuals build better emotional and relational awareness leaning into mindfulness and hope.
   

What we know from the science (click here for our evidence base) is that those of us who experienced adversity in childhood- especially if either in the womb or the first three years of life- are likely to have biological reasons for experiencing difficulty managing emotions when under stress. Our 4 day training is accredited for health and wellbeing coach, health coach, trauma formed coach, children, young people and family coach training by the Personalised Care Institute and at foundation level by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). Our 2 day training is for those already working as a coach who would like to learn more about trauma informed coaching with all ages.

 

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'A person-centred relational approach shifts our mindset toward a universal solution. Keeping the family and child at the centre moves us away from assessments and fixes – 'to fix the problem'; it takes us away from the traditional trauma model of ‘identifying that family over there’ and then ‘doing something to them’. It moves us toward a coaching approach of encouraging everyone to tap into and grow their internal resources; it is an affirmative model rather than a deficit one, using partnership, collaboration, relationship development, a ‘working with’ approach to understanding, exploring and finding ways to strengthen core life skills and executive function.' Dr Sarah Temple for Visionary Education, Cambridge University Press

 'I can’t actually tell you just how powerful I have found this training, not only to the work I do but also on a personal basis, of course this makes absolute sense and proves how clever Sarah has been in nurturing an individual’s awareness of self-care whilst allowing them develop in other areas and constantly enhance their coaching skills. I also find that Sarah kind of drip feeds further optional development in order to expand knowledge, I have taken advantage of this and find I can’t get enough of it'.

'One of the most comforting things I have found is how welcome I feel within the programme, Sarah always answers any questions I have so quickly, I feel part of the ECHAP community, this is also thanks to the support chat group on WhatsApp, another amazing resource!' 

'I’ve taken so much from this course , however the golden nugget would probably be what I have learned about the science of the brain architecture, to understand what is happening within the brain as we are experiencing certain responses, using metaphors to adapt the explanation to suit our coachees - this always leads to a “beautiful light bulb” moment, this then lays the foundation for openness to mindfulness and we’re half way there!' 

'I am a parent diagnosed with ADHD, with 2 children with ADHD and I’m also a Play Therapist and Thrive Practitioner. I would say (for me as a mum with ADHD) it’s useful to understand your own ADHD and how it affects you and to be really open with your children about it in an age appropriate way. Not as an excuse but awareness that some things are just extra hard when you’re neurodivergent. The Rupture Repair Cycle is really key if Mum finds her own emotional dysregulation sometimes gets the better of her - so when things are calm, repairing any ruptures that have happened by apologising, playing together, being loving and if appropriate explaining the mechanics of why it happens sometimes. Then modelling what she can do for herself to ease her symptoms. Strategies, self care etc. So he can see it’s ok to feel big feelings, it’s not ok to hurt other people and we need to work on stuff to look after ourselves and these amazing brains we have and those around us. There are some great women with ADHD groups that are incredibly non- judgmental on Facebook that mum might find helpful. ‘UK Women with ADHD (inclusive)’ is one.' posted on our learning community August 2024 

Feedback from people experiencing chronic pain and  working with Sarah -

'Amazing. She is really starting to put my faith back into doctors and I'm looking forward to seeing her again and I've never said that about the Doc'

'Dr Temple spoke to my partner without judgement or making him feel he was wasting her time' (partner of a person with chronic pain)

 

As an alternative to the full training you can:

 purchase a pdf of our manual

 

join a CPD accredited e-learning platform