Academic & Practicum Live Course Schedule 2026

Our monthly degree student meetings focus on answering questions, teaching core academic research competencies, and helping students to build sustainable academic study skills.

Add these upcoming monthly degree student meetings (Tuesdays for 45-60 minutes) to your calendar:

🧑🏼‍🎓 JULY 21 @ 1 pm EST | 18 UK | 19 D/N | 21 UAE
🧑🏼‍🎓 SEPT 22 @ 1 pm EST | 18 UK | 19 D/N | 21 UAE

🧑🏼‍🎓 OCT 27 @ 1 pm EST | 17 UK | 18 D/N | 21 UAE

🧑🏼‍🎓 DEC 8 @ 1 pm EST | 18 UK | 19 D/N | 21 UAE

Watch out for meeting reminders and the Zoom link via email.

Requirement

If you book an academic course, you agree to prepare by completing the course self-study lessons, attending all live classes, and submitting assignments on time.

Academic courses have to be taken in the order displayed:

• 406 | D-MA-ACADWRITE - Academic Writing I (Self-Study)

• 407 | D-MA-STATISTICS - 10-Week Statistics & Qualitative (Self-Study)*

• 408 | D-MA-LITREVIEW - 6-Week Literature Review (Live)

• 409 | D-MA-RESEARME - 6-Week Research Methodologies (Live)

• 410 | D-MA-PROPO6 - 6-Week Proposal Course (Live)

* 407 can be taken anytime (must be passed before starting 410)

We suggest taking the 4 Academic Live Courses (406, 408, 409, 410) one after another, allowing you to complete your Research Proposal in approx. 6 months.

LMWC Requirement

For LPU students enrolled in the LMWC Certification Training and M.A./Ph.D. DEGREE programs.

Curriculum & Learning Outcomes

Visit the LMWC website at www.lifestyleprescriptions.org/certification

Enroll in LMWC

Interested in getting certified? Register here | Questions? Contact us.

LMWC Faculty

• Radu Bailu, MHA, MD, DipIBLM, CPHQ, CHC - Lifestyle Medicine Physician, DipIBLM, LPU Faculty, Former Romania Lifestyle Medicine Association President

• Aisling Killoran, Ph.D. - Clinical Hypnotherapist & Psychotherapist, Root-Cause Health Coach, Infertility Specialist, Stress Management Faculty

• Mohammad I. Yamani, M.D. - Lifestyle Medicine Primary Care Physician, Ornish Provider, LPU Chief Medical Officer

• Johannes R. Fisslinger, M.A. - Founder Lifestyle Prescriptions® University, Clinical Lifestyle Medicine AI™, Author

Learn about the Lifestyle Prescriptions® University Root-Cause Health Coach Certification Training (NBHWC-approved) here.

Next Live Intensive

PRAC1-RCA-0926

• Wednesdays @ 1 pm EST | 18 UK (for 90 minutes)

  Weekly from SEPT 23 to DEC 9, 2026

• Sundays @ 1 pm EST / 18 UK (for 90 minutes)

  Weekly from SEPT 27 to DEC 6, 2025

Practicum LPU Faculty

• Johannes R. Fisslinger, M.A. (LPU Founder)

• Aisling Killoran, Ph.D. (Root-Cause Health Coaching Infertility Specialist)

• Sharon Ellert, Ph.D. (Root-Cause Health Coaching Specialist, NBC-HWC)

• Jane Oelke ND, Ph.D. (Naturopathic Doctor, NBC-HWC)

CURRICULUM

You'll learn and practice the foundational skills required to become LPHC and NBHWC* certified, including:

NBHWC Coaching Skills (16 Lessons)

NBHWC 1 – Coaching Presence & Therapeutic Silence

Develop a strong coaching presence by being fully present, mindful, curious, and comfortable using intentional silence to encourage client reflection and awareness.

Technique 1: Mindful Coaching Presence

Technique 2: Purposeful Silence

NBHWC 2 – Active & Reflective Listening

Strengthen listening skills by accurately hearing, reflecting, and understanding the client's thoughts, emotions, and meaning without judgment or interruption.

Technique 1: Active Listening

Technique 2: Reflective Listening (Simple & Complex Reflections)

NBHWC 3 – Powerful Coaching Questions

Facilitate insight and self-discovery by asking open-ended, thought-provoking questions that expand awareness and encourage exploration.

Technique 1: Open-Ended Questions

Technique 2: Evocative Questioning

NBHWC 4 – Building Trust & Coaching Partnership

Establish a collaborative coaching relationship by communicating empathy, affirmation, validation, and psychological safety.

Technique 2: Empathic Reflection

NBHWC 5 – Structuring Effective Coaching Sessions

Guide coaching conversations with a clear beginning, collaborative focus, and meaningful conclusion while maintaining client partnership.

Technique 1: Agenda Mapping

Technique 2: Session Summary & Closing

NBHWC 6 – Integrating Core Coaching Communication

Integrate listening, reflections, summaries, and follow-up questions to create natural, client-centered coaching conversations.

Technique 1: Summarizing

Technique 2: Focused Reflection & Follow-Up Questioning

NBHWC 7 – Readiness for Change

Assess a client's readiness for change and help them explore motivation, ambivalence, and commitment.

Technique 1: Readiness Assessment

Technique 2: Decisional Balance

NBHWC 8 – Motivational Interviewing

Apply Motivational Interviewing strategies to evoke change talk, reduce resistance, and strengthen intrinsic motivation.

Technique 1: Eliciting Change Talk

Technique 2: Rolling with Resistance

NBHWC 9 – Values, Motivation & Self-Efficacy

Help clients connect personal values, strengths, and confidence to create lasting motivation for behavior change.

Technique 1: Values Exploration

Technique 2: Developing Discrepancy

Technique 3: Strengths Spotting

Technique 4: Evoking Self-Efficacy

NBHWC 10 – Visioning, Goal Setting & Action Planning

Guide clients in creating a compelling wellness vision, establishing meaningful goals, and developing realistic action plans.

Technique 1: Wellness/Wellbeing Visioning

Technique 2: Future Self Visualization

Technique 3: SMART Goal Setting

Technique 4: Action Planning

NBHWC 11 – Coaching Through Challenges

Help clients navigate barriers, setbacks, and uncertainty by building confidence, problem-solving skills, and resilience.

Technique 1: Scaling Questions (Confidence & Importance Scales)

Technique 2: Barrier Exploration & Client-Generated Solutions

NBHWC 12 – Accountability & Progress Review

Support sustainable behavior change by reviewing progress, celebrating success, strengthening accountability, and revising action plans.

Technique 1: Accountability & Progress Review

Technique 2: Goal Review, Learning Reflection & Plan Revision

NBHWC 13 – Ethical & Professional Coaching Practice

Apply ethical decision-making, maintain professional boundaries, recognize scope of practice, and make appropriate referrals.

Technique 1: Ethical Decision-Making Framework

Technique 2: Scope-of-Practice & Referral Decision Tree

NBHWC 14 – Health & Wellness Integration

Integrate whole-person health concepts and share evidence-informed health information using a client-centered coaching approach.

Technique 1: Whole-Person Health Exploration

Technique 2: Ask–Offer–Ask

NBHWC 15 – Coaching Practicum & Performance Improvement

Strengthen coaching competency through structured self-evaluation, peer feedback, and reflective practice.

Technique 1: Recorded-Session Self-Assessment

Technique 2: Strengths-Based Performance Feedback

NBHWC 16 – Advanced Coaching Integration & Client Case Practicum

Demonstrate competency by integrating coaching skills and techniques while coaching diverse client cases using deliberate practice.

Technique 1: Case-Based Coaching Role-Play

Technique 2: Deliberate Practice with Observer Feedback

Root-Cause Analysis with Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy (7 Lessons)

RCA 17 – Micro-Habit Lifestyle Prescriptions®

Apply the seven Lifestyle Medicine Superpowers to create realistic micro-habits and personalized Lifestyle Prescriptions® that support sustainable behavior change.

Technique 1: Seven Lifestyle Medicine Superpowers

Technique 2: Micro-Habit Lifestyle Prescriptions®

RCA 18 – The Art and Science of Self-Healing

Explore the BioPsychoSocial, Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy, Autonomous Nervous System, and the Auto-Regulation process of all symptoms

Technique 1: The 6 Root-Causes of all disease

Technique 2: The 9 Points and Phases of Auto-Regulation

Technique 3: Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy Charts

RCA 19 – Root-Cause Coaching Process 1–5

Teach how to use the RCA 1–5 process, measure using the SUD/SUT and a personalized Lifestyle Prescription®.

Technique 1: RCA 1–5 Coaching Process Script

Technique 2: RCA Lifestyle Prescription® Using SUD/SUT

RCA 20 – Psychosocial Habit-Change Skills

Skill: Apply coaching techniques to reduce stressful emotions, reframe limiting beliefs, and use tht SUD/SUT habit transformation technique.

Technique 1: SUD/SUT Habit Transformation

Technique 2: Belief-Change Techniques

Technique 3: Energy Tapping

RCA 21 – Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy Foundations

Beyond Mind-Body Connection by understanding Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy from an evolutionary biology perspective.

Technique 1: Seven essential OMBA principles with examples

Technique 2: Review the 5 Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy charts

RCA 22 – Applied Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy

Deepen Organ-Mind-Brain Anatomy and Root-Cause Analysis with extensive chronic disease examples

Technique 1: Brain Relays, Evolutionary Survival Mechanisms, Microbiome, Combinations/Constellations

Technique 2: Root-Cause Analysis with OMBA Client-Case Analysis and Examples

RCA 23 – Student Client Cases - OMBA and RCA Review

Analyze and discuss student client cases using OMBA charts, embryology, germ layers, brain relays, organ-tissue relationships, and microbiome concepts.

Technique 1: Structured Root-Cause Case Review

Technique 2: OMBA Case Presentation and Clinical Reasoning