CIMSPA, the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity, and the UK & International Health Coaching Association, UKIHCA, have today announced that they have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen the relationship between the two organisations. The MOU will see CIMSPA work alongside UKIHCA to support their respective members and stakeholders in promoting the recognition of the sport and physical activity and health coaching workforce.
The two organisations will collaborate on several initiatives. These include input into professional standards for sport and physical activity and health coaching professionals, understanding of the supply and demand in a local area, promoting the recognition services each organisation provides, signposting to relevant information, training, and support, and co-designing and delivering events in partnership.
“The role of a health coach is vital to ensuring people get the right support to enable them to manage their health and well-being, there are skills the health coaches hold that we can learn from, and we can recognise those that are transferable, UKIHCA is a unique organisation doing great work with health coaches and an organisation we’re delighted to partner with,” says Colin Huffen, CIMSPA’s Associate Director of Policy and Professional Services.
The relationship will also ensure that CIMSPA members who want to become health coaches will be directed to the right training and credible sources of insight.
Izabella Natrins, CEO of UKIHCA, said: “We are delighted to have agreed on this important collaboration with CIMSPA, it represents a significant milestone in our mission to see the modality of health coaching supporting every sector with an interest in improving public and population health. We know that movement is powerful medicine and we are delighted to work with our colleagues at CIMSPA and across the sports, leisure and physical activity sector, to bring together the power of movement and health coaching to benefit our population’s sustainable health and wellbeing.”
Further updates to the MOU will follow in the coming months.
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