Why sign up for Wellness Coaching?
Students can receive individual wellness coaching through our Institute for Wellness Coaching to develop personal strategies to improve health behaviors. We believe health and wellness is the foundation for everything we do, and it鈥檚 important to take time to invest in it during your time at 涩里番下载.听
Wellness Coaching is an evidence-based and solution-focused conversation structured around the changes that you want to make in your life when you are ready to make them 鈥� you are empowered through this process to identify the life you want to be living and design actionable goals and strategies to get you there. Trained Peer Wellness Coaches apply strategies and practical skills as they partner with you to work through lifestyle challenges and to help you reach a quality of life that is meaningful, self-sustaining, healthy, and value-driven.
Sign up for Wellness Coaching
Be Well
Learn how to take care of your mind, body, and soul by improving your sleep, nutrition, exercise, stress levels, time, prioritizing your mental health, reflecting on your substance use, developing healthy relationships, and engaging with your faith community.听
Choose Well
Choose Well is a peer facilitated wellness session on the impact of alcohol use on the individual as well as on the 涩里番下载 community. Peer wellness coaches use an open and non-judgmental approach to help students better understand and navigate alcohol use.
Graduate Student Be Well
A traditional Be Well session designated and adapted for 涩里番下载 graduate students. Meet with another graduate student in one of our confidential meeting rooms or virtually over Google Meet.
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Note to graduate students: Please make sure to select a calendar appointment labeled, "Graduate Be-Well 1:1." If you don鈥檛 see an opening that works for you, please email bwell@bc.edu.
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Take a Wellness Screening
Take a quick self-assessment of your wellness in BeWell: General Health or ChooseWell: Substance Use to explore your successes and challenges in different areas and to connect to campus resources.
Meet some of our Wellness Coaches
Trained Peer Wellness Coaches apply strategies and practical skills as they partner with you to work through lifestyle challenges and to help you reach a quality of life that is meaningful, self-sustaining, healthy, and value-driven.
Wellness Coaching FAQs
What is Wellness Coaching?
Trained Student Wellness Coaches will meet with you in- person to facilitate a one-on-one coaching conversation. The initial wellness coaching session is an hour and follow-up sessions are encouraged and can be scheduled as needed.
How does it work?
Wellness Coaches take a holistic approach to personal wellness and work with you through a collaborative and non-judgemental partnership to:
- Explore how dimensions of well-being connect to your strengths, values, and motivations
- Help students to set and achieve wellness goals and learn coping skills to thrive personally and acade
What do the Wellness Coaching topics include?
A peer Wellness Coach provides support, tips, resources, and accountability to help you set and reach your goals around any of our 12 areas of health focused on caring for your mind, body, and soul. Topics include:
- Building a healthy relationship with food and body image
- Exploring fulfilling ways to exercise and move
- Improving your sleep
- Managing your stress, time, and academics
- Prioritizing your mental health
- Reflecting on your substance use
- Developing meaningful relationships
- Cultivating a satisfying social life
- Engaging with your faith and spirituality
- Finding belonging in your community听
How can I sign up?
Sign up for an individual wellness coach session by picking a听slot on our calendar.
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Learning Outcomes for Wellness Coaches
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- Learn about health and increase your health knowledge
- Develop coaching and facilitation skills
- Foster the ability to empower others to reach their personal wellness goals
- Gain career and leadership skills
- Serve the 涩里番下载 community.
Learning Outcomes for Student Participants
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- Students will reflect on personal attitudes and beliefs towards health in to have positive perceptions of self (discuss current and personal health behaviors and/or perceptions)
- Students will develop skills and strategies to maintain a well-balanced lifestyle (create two concrete goals for improving or maintaining their wellness)
- Students will make informed choices that reduce harm and promote personal well-being (identify at least one campus resource available to assist in meeting their wellness goals)
Meet Our Wellness Coaches
Ruby Cohen '25, Peri Durbin听'26, Nico Olbrys听'27, Alioune Diba听'25, Molly Farr听'26, Norah Kanukolanu听'27, Clare DiBiase听'25, Alexandra Harris听'26, Josephine Welch听'27, Emma Fiordaliso听'25, Nora Hodgens听'26, Anaise Fitzpatrick听'25, Victoria Isernia听'26, Brianna Im听'25, Jeff Min听'26, Michael Kepner听'25, Mary Pangburn听'26, Meena Menon听'25, Gabriel Rodriguez听'26, Shaye Meyers听'25, Taylor Scantlebury听'26, Cairo Mills听'25, Thomas Taylor听'26, Maliya Reid听'25, Natalia Ruan听'25,听Omar Shaker听'25,听Emma Thompson听'25
Become a Wellness Coach
The Center for Student Wellness is looking for highly motivated students with a passion for health and health leadership. This is an opportunity for our students to pursue their passion for health, support and empower their peers to make healthy decisions, grow as individuals, gain career and leadership skills, and serve the 涩里番下载 community. Think you'd be a good fit?
Motivational Interviewing Workshop
Please email bwell@bc.edu to schedule a Motivational Interviewing training.