Inclusive Practices to Influence Healthy Behaviors and Address Barriers
Inclusive & Responsive Practices Domain
Course Description
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.
The Wellness Alliance offers nine e-learning courses intentionally designed to cover foundational topics within the five domains of the Wellness Promotion Competency Model. The researched-based model serves as the standard for the Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification. This is the second of two courses supporting the Inclusive and Responsive Practices competency domain.
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?
This course is applicable to individual practitioners as well as anyone who promotes wellness within organizations or communities. Discounts are available for educational institutions, associations, and organizations wishing to train a team or integrate courses into their curriculum. Contact [email protected] for details and rates.
Course Delivery
Within this self-paced interactive e-learning course, 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. 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.
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4-week access
Member: $195
Nonmember: $225
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6-week access
Member: $350
Nonmember: $405
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For information, email [email protected].
Continuing Education
This course is preapproved for 3.0 CE credits for: CWP (Category 1), NCHEC (Category 1 Advanced-Level CHES), and NBC-HWC (Activity ID: CEA-000249-5). View our CE Credit page for more details.
About the Wellness Promotion Competency Model

The research-based Wellness Promotion Competency Model
encompasses a total of 27 competencies grouped into five domains. This
ground-breaking resource aids in curriculum development, recruitment and
hiring, continuing professional development, and certification in the
wellness field.
The model serves as the standard for the gold-standard
Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification.
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