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Training Overview
The Wellness Mentor Program was
created to enhance the quality and quantity of peer support for
achieving healthy lifestyle goals. Coworkers,
housemates, family and friends can have an important role in helping their peers achieve
lasting and positive changes.
Goals for getting fit, losing
weight, managing stress, stopping smoking, sleeping and other
health behavior changes are rarely achieved without substantial
support.
The Wellness Mentor Program
also increases knowledge about lifestyle
change. Health promotion and wellness research has revealed
new understandings about how to set the
best goals, work with role models, create
supportive environments, work through relapse and
how to reward positive practices. Although much of
this information is based in academic research, it has
practical implications for all of us. The practical use
of these new understandings is a major thrust of the
Wellness Mentoring Program.
A Flexible Framework
Over
the last decade the Wellness Mentor Program has been
tailored for diverse audiences including workplaces,
schools and community organizations. At the core of the
program are eight skills sets: (1) building trust
and openness, (2) explaining the wellness mentor role,
(3) setting goals, (4) identifying role models, (5)
eliminating barriers to change, (6) locating supportive
environments, (7) working through relapse and (8)
celebrating success. The training has been delivered in
classrooms, as part of a game, online and even through a
book club format. Typically, participants have worked in
pairs to practice the mentoring skills. The training is
sometimes offered to new employees, as part of ongoing
professional development and as a follow-up to health
surveys and medical screenings.
Wellness Mentor Training
Textbook
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Healthy Habits, Helpful
Friends is the latest addition to the Wellness
Mentor Program. Each book chapter covers a different
peer support skill. The book includes in depth
discussions of key ideas as well as useful
self-assessments, checklist and case stories. It is a
text for both the online Wellness Mentor Training and
the classroom style training. The book retails for $14.95.
Individual copies of the paperback can be
ordered
online. For the audio book version and for
volume discounts, call the Human Resources Institute at
(802) 862-8855. |
Online Training
The online training features
video and reading content. There are eight learning units.
Each unit takes approximately one hour to complete. This
time includes 45 minutes for a practice mentoring
session. Participants
view each unit's online content, read a chapter in
Healthy Habits, Helpful Friends and meet with a peer
to practice their new mentoring skills. Participants
also submit answers to unit questions for feedback from
the instructor. The cost per participant is $95. This
includes the book, access to online resources and
feedback from a skilled instructor. Volume discounts are
available.
The Human Resources Institute offers custom training
website that feature your organization. A member of your
team would receive email unit reports and generate
participant feedback. The cost of the site is $500 plus
a $60 per month hosting fee.
Train-the-Trainer Resources
for Workshop Delivery
A four hour workshop format is
supported by a train-the-trainer kit, the
Wellness Mentor Facilitator Package. It includes a
reference manual, a DVD of a live training at Union
Pacific Railroad, and materials for participant
recruitment and program evaluation. The DVD is organized
into ten segments. Small group discussions and
assignments are suggested in each DVD segment. The cost
of the kit is $250. This includes a one hour consult.
Substantial volume discounts are available.
Judd Allen, Ph.D. and Joe Leutzinger, Ph.D. are available to
facilitate a train-the-trainer seminar. Participants
learn how to organize the Wellness Mentor Program and
how to conduct the Wellness Mentor Training. The seminar
is suitable for up to 75 people. The cost is $2,000 plus
travel expenses.
Workshop Materials
Training participants receive the Healthy Habits,
Helpful Friends book, the a workshop manual and a
DVD.
The Wellness Mentor Resource Manual supports group exercises and includes a
reference list as well as the Lifestyle Assessment
Inventory. The questionnaire assists in setting
physical, social, emotional and economic wellness goals.
The resource manual references pages in Healthy
Habits, Helpful Friends.
The Wellness Mentor DVD includes two short films,
With a Little Help from My Friends and The
Perfect Miss-Fits. With a Little Help from My
Friends features five people who made significant
and lasting lifestyle changes. They discuss the
supportive role of family, coworkers and friends. The
Perfect Miss-Fits is a fun detective story about a
suspicious wife who learns from a private detective
about her husband's wellness mentor.
The cost of the participant manual, Healthy Habits,
Helpful Friends book and DVD is $25. Substantial
volume discounts are available.
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