Group Coach Mentoring

Exclusively for NIWH Students

Are you preparing for the Nurse Coach exam?

Our Group Mentoring course will help you fulfill the requirements for certification as well as hone your coaching skills.

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Course Details

Classes meet for two hours via Zoom video conferencing for four times over four months. At the beginning of the course, Wisdom of the Whole faculty will ask for your learning goals, then design the course around the goals of all students so that you can accomplish your desired skill building and reach your next level of coaching mastery. The classes are interactive, inspiring, and fun and offer the gentle support and feedback customary to the Wisdom of the Whole culture. We also highly recommend out-of-class practice sessions with a classmate to help further develop skills.

Registration

We offer three cohorts per year and 2025 classes are held on Mondays. Click the button below to email info@wisdomthewhole.com for availability in the upcoming cohorts and to request class schedules. Be sure to mention that you are an NIWH student.

Cohorts fill up quickly as there are only ten (10) seats available per cohort.

Welcome, National Institute of Whole Health Students! We are excited to have you with us!

As a student of the National Institute of Whole Health, your Group Mentoring course sign-up includes three 30-minute individual bonus mentoring sessions! Any practice hours completed during this course can be counted towards the required 60 supervised practice hours that you submit to AHNCC for the Nurse Coach exam application.

What You Will Get With Our Program

  • ✺ Guidance

    Seven hours of group coach mentoring by one of our certified ICF coaches and experienced faculty.

  • ✺ Resources

    Feedback on your coaching approach aligned with your learning goals.

  • ✺ Insights

    Learn to facilitate powerful client transformation with masterful coaching.

  • ✺ Connection

    Connect with classmates and fellow coaches

At the end of the program, you will be able to

  • Identify the coaching core competencies as informed by the Gebser’s Structures of Consciousness

  • Perform an integral coaching session with clients or patients

  • Analyze an integral approach in a coaching session

  • Classify the integral tools used in an integral coaching session

  • Critique the outcome of an integral coaching session

Meet Your Mentors

Heidi Ochtrup

Heidi Ochtrup, BSN, RNCC, ACC, NC-BC. She has been a faculty member of Wisdom of the Whole since 2014, and she has trained hundreds of coaches as a WOW faculty member. Beyond WOW, she has also integrated coaching tools into other parts of her clinical and administrative work for 14 years when she worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She is a Certified QHHT Practioner.

Susan Ezra

Susan Ezra, RN, NC-BC, NBC-HWC, ACC, has been core faculty with Wisdom of the Whole since 2015, a Certified Nurse Health Coach, and an Integrative Imagery Specialist who has been in practice for over 30 years. Susan is co-author of the book Guided Imagery and Beyond: Stories of Healing and Transformation

This program is designed to be experiential. Each session offers an opportunity to observe, do, and discuss coaching, get feedback, and get mentored in alignment with the international professional coaching standards. All coaches get feedback on coaching skills to take their practice to the next level.

Kind Words

  • "The Mentoring Class is like the cherry on top of the delicious Wisdom of the Whole Course. It was the perfect compliment to the program and added to the richness of coaching! I highly recommend it to graduates. Delightful!"

    — Linda, RN, New York

  • "Wisdom of the Whole instructors continue to provide the space necessary to grow as a coach, offering excellent opportunities to learn and improve techniques that provide client centered, client led coaching. I greatly appreciate the curriculum and the instructors knowledge and expertise in delivering that curriculum."

    — Lisa, California

  • "Linda has been a mentor since 2015 and I value her spiritual, soulful & integral approach! She honors synchronicity and holds a positive, appreciative space. Thank you so much!"

    — Dayna, Texas

  • "Wisdom of the Whole is a whole program to teach coaching from multiple angles. The theory is embedded and it takes a series of classes to understand how to be integral and to label the other 4 aspects of being. The instructors are very knowledgeable and non judgmental when correcting or emphasizing. I like the options for certification (Nurse Coach, ICF or NBHWC), no other program will provide this option. It is up to you to decide which is the best fit for how you want to apply coaching in the world. We have an international class and this was special to see different culture and language in our class experience."

    — Katie, RN, Illinois

  • "While I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the programs I've taken and have been able to apply my knowledge to be a better coach, the skills I learned in the mentoring class were extremely meaningful and practical! The warm and encouraging and "it's ok, you can't mess up" attitude of Dr. Linda Bark is amazing! She makes you feel like you are the expert instead of a student, and that warmth and compassion that she teaches us to use during coaching sessions is vibrantly present during sessions she facilitates with us. I appreciate so much her unconditional, accepting and compassionate approach, and I hope so much to be a fraction as good as her one day!"

    — Gloria, RN, Texas

  • " Wisdom of the Whole Coaching has impacted my nursing a midwifery practice by giving me tools to partner with my clients in a new way by empowering them to cultivate trust in themselves and their partners. Learning the coaching framework as a tool for deep listening and powerful questions to encourage my clients to solve their own problems is very deeply aligned with the midwifery model of care and with my personal values of self care and self love as a root of health. Thank you Linda Bark and the Wisdom of the Whole team for creating this beautiful supportive community so that we can continue to practice these valuable life skills."

    — Kiana, Hawai’i

  • "Working with Linda in the mentoring program was a very pleasant experience. I enjoyed getting to know the other students and having the opportunity to get expert feedback from Linda. It can be uncomfortable to get feedback in a group setting but Linda made it as painless as possible. I am grateful to her for offering this program and helping me grow in my confidence and skills as a coach!"

    — Kelly, Tennessee

  • "The course was small enough to communicate freely. I got to learn some tips of using tools and polish my style of coaching."

    — Kanako, Japan

  • "This course gave me further confidence and practice in coaching and allowed me to refresh my use of the tools I learned in my initial coaching training. Linda is amazing with her tone and calmness that guides the session every time and I value learning this ability. The course was right on time for me."

    — Dashika, RN, Georgia

  • " This course was a great follow-up to the Wisdom of the Whole Coaching Mastery program. It helped build my confidence as a Nurse Coach and develop my own personal coaching style. Linda brings such amazing skill and energy to each class. It is also very helpful and inspiring to see the coaching styles of my cohorts. This was an awesome experience."

    — Janet, RN, New Jersey

  • "This course was so helpful and helped build my coaching confidence. Being able to work with Linda is amazing, she is so knowledgeable and being able to get her feedback and upgrades for my coaching makes such a difference. Linda teaches in a way I really understand. Linda makes me feel so comfortable and accepted, which made it even easier to work on improving my coaching skills in the course."

    — Pamela, RN, Texas

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