Healthy Farmer Gold Package
Health is an easy thing to measure, but a hard thing to change.
The Healthy Farmer Gold Package has the additional support of a real health coach supporting you make the behavioral changes to your lifestyle. This will provide all the components outlined in the Healthy Farmer Silver Package and the following:
This multifaceted program aims to motivate, support and educate individuals, and is structured to suit each individual's personal needs and motivations regarding their health.
The Healthy Farmer Gold Package is based on the Stages of Change Model, which utilises scientific psychological principles to promote health behaviour change (Prochaska & DiClemente 1986). The model recognises that change does not happen in one step. Rather people tend to progress through stages on their way to successful behaviour change. Each person progresses at their own pace and this depends greatly on the support and motivation offered.
In each of the stages, a person has to grapple with a different set of issues and tasks that relate to changing behavior. For each stage of change our approach varies, which is fundamental to the success of the program. Our Healthy Farmer Gold Program is conducted one-on-one which enables us to customise our approach based on each individual's personal needs.
Expecting behaviour change simply by telling someone that they must is naïve, and perhaps counterproductive, because they may not be ready to change. Stable, long term change must come from inside an individual. The Healthy Farmer Gold Program aims to stimulate an individual's motivation to change though a carefully crafted style of counseling.
Along the way, relapses are common, where individuals revert to an earlier stage of change. This can discourage and seriously undermine self confidence. The Healthy Farmer Gold Program supports individuals through these difficult times with personal mentoring by a health professional who understands the challenges. This minimises relapses and significantly increases the likelihood of achieving the desired behaviour change.
