Acquire strategies for designing tailored and targeted methods to influence positive holistic change in others. During this interactive eLearning course, we explore evidence-based and culturally competent processes to implement person-centered approaches for communication, education, behavior change, and program development.

This course is one of nine eLearning courses intentionally designed to support competency-building in the five domains of the NWI Wellness Promotion Competency Model. Specifically, this is the second of two courses that support the model's “Whole-person and Systems Approaches" domain. The model serves as the standard for the Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification. This course supports the following wellness promotion competencies:

• Adopt person-centered communication practices that consider the whole person, recognizing the influence factors such as socio-demographic variables and worldview have on the communication process.
• Provide developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant evidence-based information to educate individuals and the public about wellness.
• Use appropriate techniques (e.g., strengths-based, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral) to encourage individuals to be active participants in their personal wellness journeys.
• Use participatory, humanistic, and strengths-based processes to design opportunities that will lead toward achieving established objectives and outcomes.

See "Getting Started" below for the full list of learning objectives for this course.

This self-paced interactive eLearning course must be completed within four weeks of registering. Within the 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 to complete all the learning elements, including any application activities and self-reflections. You must complete the full online course and submit the course evaluation to earn your certificate indicating the number of continuing education credits earned.