Studying Health Coaching with IIN
This blog post is for everyone that has been asking about studying with IIN, the nutrition and health coach course I did last year with Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
My journey with IIN started a year before signing up to their IIN health coach program. I found the health coach course online a few months before getting married but was not ready to sign up. I was also a little scared and busy with other things!
Fast forward a year later and I had started my blog, my Instagram account and had met lots of friends with similar interest in the health and wellness industry. The IIN health coach program came up again and this time I was ready to sign up! I am so glad I finally "took the jump" but also waited until I felt 100% comfortable with signing up. So read below if you too fill the pull to study nutrition or are interested in the IIN Health Coach Course and my journey!
// Quick facts about studying with IIN:
I liked this course as it did not involve having to go to university and study chemistry and other hard scientific subjects for 4 years! The cost of the course is also much smaller than a full on nutrition degree and the fact it is all online is a great benefit too.
The health coach course is all online but the community of students and past students is really big around the world and in Australia. As I said 6 other Perth girls were studying with IIN at the same time as me! That was great. We caught up once a month in healthy cafes talking about the lectures, helping each other with exercises and building friendships. Four of us are now bloggers/health coaches and 2 have opened a little business selling healthy breakfast bowls at farmers markets.
At the end of the course you don't have to be a health coach but you can use the knowledge in other ways like my friends above. I also think studying with IIN is great just for myself and my upcoming family.
Health coaching is also not very common and people are not sure of what it entails and might have a negative opinion of it due to the sometime negative image depicted in the media.
Not ready to sign up but have more question? Feel free to email me, I would be happy to answer your questions!
My journey with IIN started a year before signing up to their IIN health coach program. I found the health coach course online a few months before getting married but was not ready to sign up. I was also a little scared and busy with other things!
Fast forward a year later and I had started my blog, my Instagram account and had met lots of friends with similar interest in the health and wellness industry. The IIN health coach program came up again and this time I was ready to sign up! I am so glad I finally "took the jump" but also waited until I felt 100% comfortable with signing up. So read below if you too fill the pull to study nutrition or are interested in the IIN Health Coach Course and my journey!
- Length: 12 months (This isn't a 4 year commitment at uni!)
- Study options: Online only & part time.
- Based in New York, USA.
- Cost: around $5000. (You can get a discount - read the bottom of the page!)
- Weekly studying hours: between 2 and 4 hours at the most.
- Very flexible.
- Combines power points, exercises and videos/podcasts. You can study online anywhere and anytime!
- Strong community of students internationally and locally. When I did the course we were 6 Perth girls!
- Program is for people looking to improve their eating habits and live healthier lives as well as people who are passionate about wellness and looking to launch a new career as a Health Coach.
- At the start of the course you get a book, an exercise book, a water bottle and online content.
- Study over 100 dietary theories as well as self love, mindfulness, meditation, primary foods and more.
- Business training to launch a career as a Health Coach.
- 4 easy tests throughout the year.
- Health coaching practice exercices.
- Conference calls with other students.
- Videos and lectures from leading doctors, wellness experts and physicians.
- Upon graduating you become a Certified Health Coach.
// What I liked about the IIN course:
When I started the Health Coach course I was like a 6 year old going to school for the first time! I bought myself a new shiny notebook and pen and was ready to learn! I was so excited! The first part of the course was focused on explaining the role of primary and secondary foods. Each week we studied a new diet theory. I liked the fact that it would let us make our own opinion of each diet and even recommend trying them for a week for ourselves. I have gained great knowledge in foods and what works for my body as a result.
The second half of the year was a little bit more business and marketing orientated to help us set up a health coaching business and about studying wellness trends and theories. I have gained great tips from it even though I have studied a bachelor of Business & Marketing.
Each Tuesday (Monday in America), a new module will go live on the app from the course. Each module is broken down in smaller power points and videos. If sometimes I did not have time to study everything or not at all I could catch up later on. I sometimes studied the content of 3 weeks in one weekend. I found the workload to be easily manageable along side a full time job, social activities, my blog and my partner!
The health coach course is all online but the community of students and past students is really big around the world and in Australia. As I said 6 other Perth girls were studying with IIN at the same time as me! That was great. We caught up once a month in healthy cafes talking about the lectures, helping each other with exercises and building friendships. Four of us are now bloggers/health coaches and 2 have opened a little business selling healthy breakfast bowls at farmers markets.
At the end of the course you don't have to be a health coach but you can use the knowledge in other ways like my friends above. I also think studying with IIN is great just for myself and my upcoming family.
// Cons of the course:
Some people might be disappointed that the course content is much lighter than a nutrition degree but in one year you cannot learn what you do in 4 years or more! There isn't any biology of chemistry.Health coaching is also not very common and people are not sure of what it entails and might have a negative opinion of it due to the sometime negative image depicted in the media.
// Signing up:
If after reading the above you are ready to sign up for this Health Coaching course with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and join a great community email me at clairepower1003@gmail.com or mention my name to get a $1000 discount. As an ambassador of the course, you can get a $500 discount from my referral and another $500 discount by paying in full. I also get a small financial reward when someone signs up through me.Not ready to sign up but have more question? Feel free to email me, I would be happy to answer your questions!
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