By completing the programme, you will:

• Achieve a PCI-accredited, Advantage Level 4 Health Coaching qualification
• Develop recognised skills in person-centred communication and behaviour change
• Join a growing network of over 100 trained professionals across Buckinghamshire

Following the course, you will also be invited to take part in an ongoing Community of Practice, where you will:

• Continue developing your skills
• Share learning and real experiences
• Build relationships across organisations
• Stay up to date with local services and support

This community is a key part of embedding the learning and enabling long-term impact across the system. 

This four-day programme develops the skills, confidence and approaches needed to hold high-quality, person-centred conversations that improve health and wellbeing.

It focuses on helping you:

• Understand what matters most to the people you support
• Move from “fixing” to empowering and enabling
• Support individuals to find their own solutions and make sustainable changes
• Feel confident handling complex and sensitive conversations

Using the “Helping People Help Themselves” approach, the programme combines practical tools, behaviour change theory and real-world application.

You will learn how to:

• Use core coaching skills (listening, open questions, reflection)
• Apply motivational interviewing techniques
• Structure conversations that build trust and clarity
• Support behaviour change using models such as COM-B
• Use tools such as TGROW, MECC and SMARTER goal setting
• Tailor your approach to different individuals and situations

The programme is highly interactive and practice-based, helping you embed skills you can use immediately.

A key strength of the programme is learning alongside others from across the system.

Over the four days, you will:

• Build relationships with professionals from different organisations
• Develop understanding of how roles and services connect
• Strengthen your ability to work collaboratively across the system

“I was able to network, widen my knowledge of other services and also within my own area.” 

Open to anyone working with residents across:

• Health and primary care
• Social care
• Voluntary, community and charity sector
• Schools and education settings
• Youth and early help services
• Housing and community roles

Particularly valuable for those in front-facing or ‘first contact’ roles.

Improving health and wellbeing starts with better conversations.

By building these skills across health, care, education and community services in Chalfont and Gerrards Cross, we can:

• Support earlier intervention and prevention
• Reduce health inequalities
• Provide more personalised, joined-up support
• Help residents feel heard, empowered and in control