Inclusive Practices to Influence Healthy Behaviors and Address Barriers
Inclusive & Responsive Practices Domain
Inclusive and Responsive Practices,
Wellness Competency Model
Are you equipped with change-agent strategies to enhance multi-level,
multicultural wellness practices for individuals and organizations?
During this course, you’ll obtain tools and techniques to enhance
inclusive practices when working to address barriers for behavior
change, including motivational interviewing, active listening, goal
setting, and more. Increase your competence for developing effective
practices to engage and cultivate change among multicultural individuals
and groups.
Learning Objectives
- Understand cultural adaptation.
- Understand social determinants of health.
- Define health equity.
- Understand elements of change.
- Understand behavior change strategies, models, and theories.
- Describe the spirit of Motivational Interviewing.
- Explain the process of Motivational Interviewing.
- Define active listening.
- Understand the uses of active listening.
- Understand the benefits of goal setting.
- Describe the elements of a S.M.A.R.T. goal.
- Apply skills of goal setting.
- Identify signs of resistance and barriers to change.
Who Should Attend?
These courses are applicable to individual practitioners as well as anyone who promotes wellness within organizations or communities.Course Delivery
For the best learning experience, we recommend completing the courses in the order listed. Within these self-paced interactive eLearning courses, you’ll find knowledge checks or activities to enhance your learning as well as a variety of tools and resources you can apply in your work.Course Requirements
Time to complete the course varies by learner, but we suggest planning for a total of three to five hours for each course to complete all the learning elements, including any application activities and self-reflections.Continuing Education
About the Wellness Promotion Competency Model

The model serves as the standard for the gold-standard Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification.