Why Coaching with Dr. David Forbes is Different
Effective coaching is about the capacity to support and facilitate worthwhile sustainable change.
Sustainable change is fed by a combination of:
• Accurate information regarding what’s needed for the change
• Support for moving through internal and external obstacles to that change
Five Key Pillars:
Relationship to Food – one that creates energy, feeds clarity of mind, and optimizes health
Movement – that improves the balance of the system, increases conscious internal connection, and optimizes conditioning of the body
Sleep/Rest – that rejuvenates the system, creates available energy, and optimizes the repair modes of the body
Stress Reduction – that discharges tension, frees up bound energy, and increases availability for the important parts of our lives
Inner Life - that allows increasing connection to inner calm, provides access to energy and a sense of fulfillment, helps regain enthusiasm and meaning in life, and improve relationships
Dr. Forbes has the skills and training to provide both the expert information needed and the expert capacity required to facilitate transformative change.
• Dr. Forbes is a medical doctor, trained in Internal Medicine, a comprehensive field of knowledge regarding the body, and is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic/Integrative Medicine (ABIHM – www.holisticboard.org ), the only comprehensive board-certification for the field of holistic approaches to healing. The training for the Holistic Boards requires extensive knowledge in the fields of nutritional health, exercise and the optimization of wellness.
• His credentials in the field are impeccable and extensive, having served as the most recent President of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA – www.holisticmedicine.org) , the oldest MD-based organization devoted to holistic health and medicine, and is a frequent keynote speaker at national conferences.
• He serves as the Academic Co-Director of the Integrative Health and Healing Educational Program at The Graduate Institute in Connecticut (www.learn.edu) , an expert think-tank and educational training ground for multiple disciplines within the philosophical field of holistic thinking. He teaches on the Five Pillars, the Integration of Psychology and Spirituality, Quantum Physics and Non-Local Reality, Epigenetics, and Emotional and Inner Healing.
• He frequently leads transformative retreats that focus on Body-Centered Emotional Healing and Meditation.
• He is the Founder and Director of Nashville Integrated Medicine, a private practice in Nashville combining the best of conventional western medicine and alternative/complementary modalities and focusing on transformative change through the Five Pillars model.
• He has over two decades of training and practice in emotional process counseling, working directly with stress reduction in the body and the transformation of internal obstacles to optimal health and relationship functioning.
• He likewise has over two decades of meditation practice and training, and teaches and lectures frequently on the integration of spirituality, health and medicine.
• He has extensive experience with the impact of our health and wellness in the corporate and business worlds. He serves as Chief Medical Officer of Corporate Health Partners (CHP), a corporate wellness company devoted to delivery of truly sustainable transformative wellness programs to the business sector and is the co-creator of their ExecTrac Executive Coaching Program. Further, he was honored in 2008 as a Health Care Hero by the noted business publication, the Nashville Business Journal.
