Health and Wellness Coaching Community of Practice - How to Make a Powerful Case for Health and Medical Coaching

Join the Health and Wellness Coaching Community of Practice leaders Ellen Kocher and Shiri Ben-Arzi for an informative discussion with Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a physician and certified health and wellness coach on why health coaching is useful. He will reveal scientific evidence backing its effectiveness for improving the health and well-being for clients. Attendees will learn how to discuss the economic benefits and create a business argument for health, wellness, and medical coaching for individuals, medical practitioners, and organizations.

Successful completion of this learning activity is worth 0.75 CCE Units in Resource Development and 0.25 CCE Units in Core Compentencies.

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Activity Number	Credit Amount	Accreditation Period
ICF Global - September 2020	0.25 Core Competencies	from January 01, 2020
ICF Global - September 2020	0.75 Resource Development	from January 01, 2020

Instructor

Peter Grinspoon Instructor

Peter Grinspoon, M.D. is the author of the memoir Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction. He currently practices as a primary care physician at an inner-city clinic in Boston and is on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital. He teaches medicine at Harvard Medical School. He spent two years as an Associate Director for the Physician Health Service, part of the Massachusetts Medical Society, working with physicians who suffer from substance use disorders.<br>Dr. Grinspoon graduated with honors in philosophy from Swarthmore College. Before medical school, he spent five years as a Campaign Director at Greenpeace, working on the nuclear free seas campaign. He attended medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. His internship and residency were in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Today he is proudly 10 years clean. He lives in Newton, MA with his wife Liz Grinspoon, and his blended family."

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