A new behavior-change certificate, assembled from two programs' best material
Not a new course from scratch. A new path through what the school already knows.
The school wanted a certificate for ayurvedic health behavior change: practitioners who can help people actually change habits, not just understand them. Much of the knowledge already existed in two older programs, in two different shapes.
We're building the program to a new outline, pulling and reshaping the strongest material from the earlier ayurvedic health instructor program and the coach certification, and writing the student manual alongside the build so the two stay in step.
Outline set, manual in progress, program build underway.
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The school knew what it wanted: a certificate for practitioners who can help people change habits, not just understand them. Ayurveda has a lot to say about daily routine, food, sleep, and the slow work of behavior, and the school had taught most of it before, across an earlier ayurvedic health instructor program and its coach certification. The knowledge existed. It just existed in two shapes, for two audiences, in two eras of the school's house style.
We began with the outline rather than the material. What does a behavior-change practitioner need to be able to do at the end, in what order does that make sense to learn, and where does the coaching skill set meet the ayurvedic one? Only then did we go back into the two older programs and pull the strongest lessons, reshaping them to the new outline and the current lesson standard rather than lifting them as they were.
The student manual is being written alongside the build rather than after it, so the two can't drift apart: when a lesson changes, the manual chapter changes with it. It's slower at the start and much faster at the end, when a program is usually revised under deadline.
The outline is set, the manual is in progress, and the program build is underway.