The Behavior360 course provides health coaches with a systematic approach to effectively drive behavior creation and change. Through the critical components of identifying goals, understanding capabilities, assessing the environment, identifying triggers, and designing prompts, you’ll gain the necessary strategies to empower your clients. This process is learned alongside in-depth analysis of behavior change keys for each of the HealthTypes.

By following this sequential process and applying the strategies learned in the Behavior360 course, you’ll be equipped to facilitate behavior change more effectively. This step-by-step approach ensures that your coaching strategies are well-aligned with your clients’ goals, capabilities, environment, triggers, and prompts.

When looking at opportunity for the Guardian, to support creating new behaviors, its essential to include scents. Guardians are driven by their senses. Their first cranial nerve, the olfactory, is larger than that of other HealthTypes . Couple that with with prolactin which activates sensitivity to smell and you realise how important scents will be to a Guardian. Learn how to support behavior creation with your Guardian clients using smell!

We talk about emotion as an important driver for behavior and there is an assumption that this emotion is a positive emotion. However, the Crusader differs from other HealthTypes with this. The positive emotion is driven by catecholamines which means that Crusaders may actually be in pain and that is not seen as something to avoid. In fact, they can lean into this pain to work harder towards their mission.

The Sensor has some very specific needs from their relationship with their coach. How will you prove your trustworthiness to your Sensor clients? How will you find the balance between being an energizing figure but also be a reference point of serenity and safety for your Sensor client? 

Characteristics that we perceive as positive can also have their challenges. Your relationship with the Connector and your understanding of their social environment is essential. This is because their extraversion, coupled with low limbic activity means they are ‘saints’. They are masters of tolerance but this can also be to their detriment.

A part of our environment is the psychological/emotional surrounds. This means, WHO is around you and how their attitude toward you affects your capacity to move into the changes you are creating. The Activator, because of their high amygdala reactivity is very influenced by early childhood experiences and they need a very specific type of environment to thrive.

When working with a Diplomat, a core motivator is the development of wisdom through acquiring more and more knowledge and experiences. With bursts of Gamma, the Diplomat needs an environment that provides mental stimulation because more knowledge equals more sustainability and safety.