Empowerment in Health and Wellness

PRACTICAL EMPOWERMENT NAVIGATE CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY This book offers approaches from professionals working with the mind-body connection to reduce stress and anxiety, build motivation and enable individuals to understand and respond to their needs. You will discover the impact of three pillars of health and wellness: Awareness, Information and Learning. This provides you with the framework to deepen your professional knowledge, skills and confidence to support others in times of uncertainty and crisis. The methods and content outline the experiences that continually come from supporting cancer patients, carers and their families at the Fountain Centre, a UK charity working with the National Health Service (www.fountaincentre.org). CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: Gavin Andrews, Jackie Arnold, Victoria Hamilton, Enrico Illuminati, Sue Jackson, Aga Kehinde, Ann Lewis, Silvia Mirandola, Andrew A Parsons, Fiona Stimson, Chris Ullman and Amanda White.

Jackie Arnold is an ICF Executive Coach and Dip CSA Coach Supervisor. She is an assessor for the CSA Diploma in Coaching Supervision. She has run her executive coaching and supervision practice since 1998. Jackie is an Ambassador for the Association of Coaching Supervisors AOCS worldwide.

The coaching service has taken the Fountain Centre to a new level of support for patients, families and carers living with and beyond cancer. This book shares the professionalism, deep expertise and collaborative nature of this innovative volunteer service.

Empowerment in Health and Wellness offers a rich and engaging read, drawn from a breadth of complementary and differing professional perspectives. Being informed by both experience and expertise, it is practical in nature: through accessible language, clearly introduced concepts and illustrative examples. Moreover, it is comprehensive in form, exploring a broad range of topics that extends our appreciation in this arena. Each chapter provides gifts of insight for us to weave into our understanding and draw upon to inform our practice. I would recommend this book as being a go-to reference guide within the field of health and wellbeing.

This is a much needed, holistic mind-body-spirit approach to health that provides practical guidance to enable us to take highly motivated purpose-led actions that are sustainable. A must-read for all healthcare practitioners that want to take their impact to the next level, this book shows us how to better manage our wellbeing, develop deeper relationships with ourselves and with others and ultimately lead more fulfilling lives through taking control in whatever situation we find ourselves.

We live in uncertain times. Life no longer functions as it did before and we are thrown back on ourselves. At the same time this time brings many possibilities. It is a question of how to look at it – as an opportunity or a problem. This book offers a wonderful overview of how to ground yourself, to empower and motivate yourself to move forward. It shows tips and tricks both for private and professional use on what it takes to thrive in this challenging time. It has something for everyone and considers the uniqueness of everyone. I can highly recommend it.

Having worked as a nurse for a long time in cancer care and now as a coach I was interested to read how the authors of Empowerment in Health and Wellness used coaching principles and approaches in their work with people with cancer. The book was easy to read with chapters that you could dip in and out of depending on your interest. The holistic approach and the information from the perspectives of different professionals in this area made it much more than just a coaching book, which would be of interest to people with cancer as well as the people that treat and care for them. I like the practical and easy to apply Top Tips at the end of each chapter which makes the book a very useful addition to anyone with an interest in how to put coaching into practice in daily life for an improvement in health and wellbeing.