ICF ADVANCE 2014
PRESENTER:
Wellness
From Surviving to Thriving
One of the most popular songs today (with more than 300 million
YouTube visits), Katy Perry’s “Roar” speaks to the power of the human life
force to make the world a better place. Katy sings from her jungle perch,
“I am a champion and you’re going to hear me roar.”
Sadly, our collective roar is weighed down by the realities of being human today.
Gallup’s 2013 “State of the American Workplace” survey shows that only 30 percent
of Americans are emotionally engaged in their work. Meanwhile, findings from the
Centers for Disease Control reveal that two-thirds of American adults are literally
weighed down by overweight or obesity, while 95 percent aren’t enjoying the physical
energy unleashed by engaging in the top health behaviors, including daily exercise
and adopting a Mediterranean diet.
Margaret Moore, MBA
Margaret (aka Coach Meg)
is a 17-year veteran of the
biotechnology industry.
In 2002 she founded
the Wellcoaches School
of Coaching for health
professionals, which has
trained 8,000 coaches in
47 countries. Margaret is
co-founder and co-director of
the Institute of Coaching at
McLean Hospital, a Harvard
Medical School affiliate, and
co-director of the annual
Coaching in Leadership &
Healthcare conference offered
by Harvard Medical School.
She co-leads the National
Consortium for Credentialing
Health & Wellness Coaches,
which is developing national
standards, certification
and collaborative research.
She is co-author (with Bob
Tschannen-Moran) of the
first coaching textbook in
healthcare, the “Coaching
Psychology Manual”
(Lippincott, Williams &
Wilkins, 2009), and (with
Paul Hammerness) the
Harvard Health Book,
“Organize Your Mind,
Organize Your Life”
(Harlequin, 2011). This
article is a preview of the
next Harvard Health/
Harlequin book (forthcoming
in 2015).
18 Coaching World
The big and brilliant human prefrontal cortex, upon which we depend to move
the human race onto a better trajectory, is struggling under terrible operating
conditions: chronic deprivation of sleep and reflection time, a low-octane diet,
nervous-system overload, and inadequate fuel sources (e.g., meaningful pu