16 courses with the subject IHH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
IHH 1100Introduction to Holistic Healing3
Catalog Description This course gives students a foundation and interactive overview of the field of integrative health and healing through a variety of modalities. Students will explore the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit of the human system. In addition, there is an exploration of healing through social, cultural, environmental, and global perspectives. Students will discuss and evaluate emerging and expanding trends in, and the credibility of, holistic health and the complexities around current healthcare models.
Catalog Description This course is an introduction to concepts and theories of energy, energy structures, meridians and chakras, the human bio-field, and the life force. It utilizes the concept of the energy field and structure to explain the energetic connection among individuals and the environment and examine the effect of energetic interactions and energy transfer on healing. Specific energy healing therapies and systems such as Healing Touch, Reiki, Qigong, and Feng Shui will be discussed.
Catalog Description This course provides an introduction of movement and body manipulation therapies including the theories of chiropractic, osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, and the practices of massage, reflexology, Qigong, Tai Chi, and yoga. Students will learn the uses and benefits of each therapy and have the opportunity to create a personal preventative body movement plan for self-care.
Catalog Description This course will introduce the concepts of aromatherapy and the use of essential oils to promote health and wellbeing. Students will explore the art and science of aromatherapy and the effects on the body, the chemistry of essential oils, therapeutic actions, and important safety guidelines.
Catalog Description This course provides an understanding of various holistic healing systems such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Native American, Aboriginal, and others. Students will identify and describe the key beliefs, underlying principles, and theoretical basis for each. Students will also examine social, cultural, environmental, and global perspectives of healing within these systems.
Catalog Description This course provides an understanding of how mind/body medicine focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, expressive, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health. Students will define the principles and philosophies of the field of psychoneuroimmunology and mind/body therapies including guided imagery, music, art, aromatherapy, meditation techniques, mindfulness, biofeedback, breathing, and journaling.
IHH 2102Food as Medicine/Biologically Based Therapies3
Catalog Description This course provides an introduction to the importance of nutrition basics for a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Students will learn the role food can play in both prevention and treatment of most chronic illnesses. Discussions will involve how environmental, social, economic, emotional, and cultural issues affect nutrition. Students will also learn about dietary supplements and herbs including the history, regulation, scientific research, and indications and contraindications for use.
Catalog Description This course introduces students to the relationships between belief, spirituality, and healing. Students will identify personal core beliefs and values and demonstrate an understanding of the cultural aspects of healing, spirituality, and ritual. The course includes an exploration of the spiritual components of the illness or disease experience and the life-changing nature of a chronic or terminal illness. Research on how prayer, religious activity, and spiritual beliefs affect the healing process is evaluated. Spirituality in patient-centered healthcare models is discussed.
Catalog Description This course provides an introduction to health and wellness coaching, including theoretical foundation, efficacy, process, strategies, skills, and tools. Students will explore fundamental concepts such as the four coaching mechanisms of action, client-centered relationships, coaching presence, vision creation, and goal-setting principles. Students will also be introduced to appreciative inquiry, the stages involved in behavior change, and motivational interviewing. Students will discover how to create appropriate coach/client boundaries and ethical responsibilities within the coaching role. The lab component includes application of the learned skills.
IHH 2105Basics in Business and Ethics for the Holistic Practitioner3
Catalog Description This course provides practical information related to the fundamentals of business and ethics in holistic practice management. Common business practices and structures, contracts and legal agreements, financial considerations, record keeping, networking, marketing, and methods to promote and maintain a successful practice are presented. Students will learn about decision making skills, interpersonal and professional communication, ethical and professional roles and responsibilities, and how to handle ethical dilemmas in the practice of holistic healing.
Catalog Description This energy healing course provides an understanding of the human energy system and its relationship to physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and wellness. Through experiencing the practice of healing touch, students develop an understanding of how a variety of techniques interface with and assist in re-patterning the human bio-field. The skill of completing an intake interview that identifies patterns of behavior for which healing touch techniques may be useful in assisting a person to re-pattern their energy field is acquired. The importance of self-care as a practitioner and practicing ethically are integrated into the course. At completion students will receive course completion certificates from the certifying agency.
Catalog Description Creating the Optimal Healing Environment incorporates the ancient Chinese Art of placement or Feng Shui to create a harmonious healing environment. These principles will be learned to create healing environments for hospice and palliative care as well as working with the geriatric population. Techniques can also be applied to create your own healing space to enhance the quality of your own life.
IHH 2204Advanced Coaching Skills for a Diverse World3
Catalog Description This is an intensive applications-based course that builds on IHH 2104 . The content includes deeper exploration, training, and applied practice of coaching structure, process, and behavior-change theories and integrative approaches. Students will learn how to apply the coaching process, skills, and strategies within the clinical component of the course. Students will extensively study health and wellness coaching scope of practice, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion, which are grounded in honoring and valuing differences such as ethnicity, gender, color, age, race, religion, disability, national origin, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation. Students will increase their social and cultural competence by exploring the infinite range of individual, unique characteristics and experiences and other variables that influence personal perspectives. The course includes a clinical component, providing students a training venue to develop and measure one-on-one coaching competencies.
Catalog Description This course is designed to educate the future coach to be able to identify risk factors for chronic disease, commonly used biometric measures, and current lifestyle recommendations for optimizing health. General knowledge about healthy living is required for the coach/practitioner to facilitate the various areas that arise in a coaching conversation in relation to the client’s personal level of health. This includes any active alterations to health and wellness. The content covered is holistic and multidimensional and includes physical, intellectual, emotional, environmental, social, and spiritual well-being.
IHH 2295Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching (IHWC) Internship3
Catalog Description This internship will be 120 hours of supervised health coaching practice in the field. The practicum offers students an opportunity to practice and integrate skills and knowledge gained in the program. The internship is an industry-based learning experience, consistent with the student’s personal and professional goals in a real-world setting.
Catalog Description The internship is an individually designed, industry-based learning experience, approved by the faculty and the on-site project supervisor, consistent with the student’s personal goals in a real-world setting. During the internship, students will integrate skills and knowledge gained in the program.
