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Karen Lawson, MD, ABIHM, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s Family Medicine and Community Health, is Director of Integrative Health Coaching at the Center for Spirituality and Healing (www.csh.umn.edu). She is a physician, board-certified in both Family Medicine, and Integrative and Holistic Medicine. She was the 2003/5 President of the American Holistic Medical Association, and a founding Diplomat of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine. Non-medical trainings have included mind-body techniques (e.g. MBSR), yoga, dance/movement therapies, nutrition, homeopathy, and a 20-year study of shamanic practices. Dr. Lawson is active in undergraduate and graduate medical education; teaches in the Center’s graduate courses; and founded and directs the MA and graduate certificate programs in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching. Karen is a co-founder and executive leader of the National Team for Standards, Certification & Research for Professional Health & Wellness Coa

Join Jody Hereford and Dr. Joel Kreisberg for a fascinating conversation on furthering the understanding of Motivational Interviewing and how it can effect change when combined with Health Coaching. Bio: Jody found her passion when first introduced to health coaching and has deepened that passion through the practice of Motivational Interviewing. She’s been fortunate to learn and practice her passion within many roles and organizations. She is the Principal of Hereford Consulting Group. www.jodyhereford.comJody Hereford is a Registered Nurse, exercise physiologist and coach with a passion for creating health and care in individual lives, and within organizations and populations. Jody is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and a Past President and Master Fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). In her free time, Jody can be found exploring and enjoying the Colorado high country with her Golden Retriever Therapy Dog, Pearl.

Based on the working title of her forthcoming book, Who’s Stopping You? – How Your Hidden Inner Selves Hijack Happiness and Sabotage Success – and How to Transform Them into Powerful Allies, in this conversation Bridgit focuses on those of us who work hard toward a goal and find ourselves inexplicitly stuck with the finish line in sight – what she likes to refer to as the final one-eighth of our journey. The first seven-eighths include everything that brought us to this moment of stuckness. Examples of the first seven-eighths include discovering your passion but not knowing how to manifest it in the world; achieving, but not being able to maintain physical or emotional health; and saying goodbye, but being unsure of what to say hello to. Tune into Bridgit’s passionate expertise on our relationships with our hidden inner selves! Bio: Bridgit  Dengel Gaspard is the founder of the New York City Inner Voice Dialogue Center and a Senior Practitioner and Professional Trainer of Voice Dialogue. She has presented

Under the Covers was born when Kent Frazier realized that the tune he’d been carrying for so long – his way of approaching music and life as “The Way of the Celebrated Cover Guy” – was no longer acceptable.    It is an intimate conversation with the self, a conversation about getting real and finding one’s own voice, and sharing it unabashedly from the heart. It is a conversation that unfolds when a man has the courage to really look at what’s hidden beneath the layers he’s wrapped around himself in order to feel safe – to fully open his heart to the audience members who sit as witness, watching him stand in his own spotlight. In Kent’s own words: “…my life as a musician playing other people’s music, my life as a leader evangelizing other people’s material, and my life in general wanting and needing the applause and approval of others to feel like I am enough no longer sounded good to me, and needed to be set free.”  Under the Covers extends the unnerving yet provocative invitation to men to find their prec

Interview with Lois MacNaughton, BA, ACC End-of-Life Coaching is a process of being with people who are dying and those who are grieving.  This process recognizes the person who is dying or who is grieving as the expert of his/her life.  An End-of-Life Coach is responsible for creating a ‘safe place’ in which the person feels free to share without self-censorship. The End-of-Life Coach asks powerful questions: questions that are born out of the coach’s deep listening.  These questions invite the person to look within to find the answers that are already there yet have gone unacknowledged. Dr. Don Eisenhauer, PCC is here with Lois MacNaughton, BA, ACC to teach us more about these powerful questions.

Interviewed by Reggie Marra Reggie Marra interviews his coauthors as they explore the connection between Coaching and Healing and lead us on what promises to be an informative, insightful and enlightening journey into the nature of healing and our own person healing narratives.

Interviewed By Reggie Marrra Through movement meditation, spoken word, writing, and sharing our work, we encourage deepening into the next level of healing practice, and of freedom.

Interviewed by Dr. Joel Kreisberg Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD, the CEO and Program Director of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, discusses with Dr. Kreisberg the emerging working relationship between health coaches and Functional Medicine practitioners.

Interviewed by Dr. Joel Kreisberg In Leslie’s search for guidance when she founded her change work practice in 2008, she discovered a dizzying array of business growth offerings. Seeking to find “a better way,” she developed a method for working through business challenges while maintaining integrity. 

Interviewed by Reggie Marra Listen in to Jay Stearns, Th.M. and Teleosis Creative Director, Reggie Marra, as they explore what we (think we) know, what we embody and live, and what we do in order to escape from discomfort in our lives.

Interviewed by Reggie Marra  Dr. Michael Brant DeMaria in conversation with Reggie Marra on moving the ongoing conversation from mind-body-soul-spirit to intentionally name the role of heart as the central missing dynamic in our human experience and current cultural struggles.

Interviewed by Dr. Joel Kreisberg Since health coaches work with diet and nutrition, we’ve asked Nicole Hodson, the Executive Director of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals to discuss the role of nutrition professionals in the growing health and wellness perspectives in modern health care.

Interviewed by Reggie Marra  Join Dr. Joel Kreisberg in a conversation about Narrative Healing and how you can apply it to your everday life and/or coaching practice. Narrative healing invites us to ask, what’s really happening right now – what’s true in this moment? and then provides space to interpret this ‘truth,’ telling our story in a way that supports and nurtures us.

Interviewed by Dr. Joel Kreisberg Join physician Karen Wyatt in a conversation about the Wisdom Path – a transformational program based on the lessons learned through Dr. Wyatt’s experiences with end-of-life patients.

Interviewed by Reggie Marra  Dr. Janisse presents original work for interpretation and conversation in this unique opportunity to listen and learn about the healing power of poetry. 

Interviewed by Reggie Marra Join Dr. Wolever as she discusses how the National Consortium for Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches' (NCCHWC.org) work toward credentialling professional health and wellness coaches will impact the health coaching profession. 

Interviewed by Dr. Joel Kreisberg As a specialist in oncology nutrition Helayne focuses on recurrence prevention, addressing both fundamental topics such as hydration, physical activity and stress management as well as specific nutritional strategies designed to create an anti-cancer lifestyle.

Interviewed by Reggie Marra Join Dr. Kegan as he applies his Immunity to Change model to not regaining weight that we've lost. It is not about willpower or genetics, but primarily about uncovering a hidden mechanism in your mind that is designed to keep you safe.

Interviewed by Dr. Joel Kreisberg Listen in on Dr. Mehl-Madrona's conversation on the furthering of a paradigm shift within medicine, psychiatry, and psychology toward aligning with indigenous knowledge systems and providing healing activities more in line with what traditional cultures have offered.

Interviewed by Reggie Marra Jeremy takes us on a journey of open, healthy breathwork including experiential exercises you can use yourself and with clients. We went over time on this one!