LAUREN MUNEY , CPFT, CHC, cWC
(
certified physical fitness trainer, certified health coach, certified Wellcoach)
Fitness Coach :: Wellness Coach
Corporate Consultant :: "Lifestyle anthropologist"
"Why I coach"
Specialties
Lauren's specialty is lifestyle improvement and increasing "human performance" for personal, professional, and business endeavors. These improvements can include:
- fitness, health, and energy
- stress management and techniques
- time management and techniques
- improvements in communications - family, business, community
- creative problem-solving techniques
- writing, image, and presenting
Background
After earning a degree in design, Lauren Muney excelled in the entertainment industry for almost 30 years, as a professional performer, craftsman, and producer, developing interactivity, public speaking, and creative problem-solving. She overcome weight issues, nutrition-related health problems, and injuries - by seeking the source of the issues.
In 2002 Lauren's career scope enlarged to assist others enhancing lives through assessment, awareness, and individualized problem-solving. She unrelentedly pursued education, research, interactive discussions, workshops, classes, and lectures to learn about human behavior in personal and corporate settings. To the present day (2009), this scope has included behavioral, anthropological, and physiological aspects. She uses these experiences to help individuals and businesses communicate with others and themselves.
By seeking our deepest values, we can make distinctions between what we need to improve and what we need to discard. As Lauren says, "Life is a series of course-corrections": this is very true. No one has to suffer when he/she can create longlasting improvements.
Corporate and business scope
Lauren Muney's work consulting to corporate and business personnel in "awareness" principles has assisted many to discover how to solve their own personal and corporate issues. The principles of assessment and awareness are applicable across the board in any obstacle. Not limited to health, fitness, or wellness issues, corporate personnel will find these methods will improve business both internally and in profit-return.
She has assisted corporations with seminars, program development, Powerpoint development, presentation development, facilitation, and other projects. (see below).
Notable projects
- Coached and produced Exuberant Animal's new marketing dimensions: video and communication projects
- Coached Exuberant Animal to its first retreat seminar weekend
- Participated in Harvard Medical School's first medical coaching conference
- Lifestyle Consultant to Goodrich Corporation through Whole Health Management (now called Take Care health), including producing Powerpoint lectures, writing scripts for employee-lifestyle-enhancement DVD videos, and featured on the videos.
- Created peer-employee health-mentoring program for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's Rehabilitation Hospital, Cleveland OH
- Consultation and collaboration with public health adminstrator, Dr. Richard Lewis, formerly of The Cleveland Clinic - now contractor to several health-oriented organizations
- Ongoing research into the elements of "change"
- Adjudicator with Wellcoaches: assessing and grading coach-trainees for certification
- Collaboration with neuroscientist Dr. Stuart Brown of National Institute For Play (theories on 'playing' being the cure for depression, anxiety, psychopathy) and author of "Play: How It Shapes The Brain, Opens The Imagination, and Invigorates The Soul"
- Ongoing private fitness-, lifestyle-, and production-, and business-coaching clients
- Updated coach training using the most recent (and most results-proven) of coaching theories
- Business coaching and production for Seattle-based Exuberant Animal: play-based fitness company with a unique philosophy
- Interviewed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for an article on travel health
- Interviewed by Afro newspapers for article on wellness coaching
- Interviewed by "Shape" magazine for article about lifestyle coaching
- Featured on Adelphia Cable's "MBS [Mind/Body/Spirit] Television", shown in over 40,000 households in Ohio and the Northeast
- Worked with triathletes to integrate lifestyle health into sports training
- Additional coach training by Newfield, an integral leadership coaching method
- Interviewed for WebMD for article on Madonna's fitness
- Embarked on first book: [working title]: "The Zen of Fitness"
- Embarked on new project, series of articles: "No Boring Fitness"
- Selected as a featured blogger for Wahara Wellness
- Project-management, “Fit Over 40: Role Models for Excellence”
- Bowflex released its 2004 promotional video, which included Lauren's Bowflex client Donna McClure, a 50-yr-old grandmother
- Featured as role model in the publication “Fit Over 40: Role Models for Excellence”
- Trained as a Wellcoach, the premier wellness-coach-training organization in the United States, associated with the American College of Sports Medicine
- Selected as Merritt Athletic Club's, one of the largest club chains in the Baltimore region, first lifestyle-wellness coach
- Wellness and fitness newsletters
Education and certifications
- BFA degree in design, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
- Certified as Physical Fitness Specialist, Cooper Institute, Dallas, TX
- Certified as a Health Coach, Cooper Institute, Dallas, TX
- Certified as a Wellcoach
- Coaching training includes Coachville, Psychotherapy Networkers Conference, Newfield workshop
- Member or past member: IDEA health and fitness organization, and National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), International Association of Coaches, Wellcoaches, DC chapter of the International Coaches Federation
- Additional:
Attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College!
Writing
Lauren's writing have been greatly embraced by many communities wishing health, wellness, solutions. This website's articles section provides insight into the varied processes of behavior modification, reduction of perfectionistic tendencies, and clear direction for wellness:
- Cleveland OH's "Balanced Living" magazine
- Wahara Wellness coaching blog as well as Physical Mind's own blog The Physical Mind
- Society of American Fight Directors' trade journal The Fight Master
- outreach writing on online forums - fitness and athletic communities
- "Ghost-wrote" and edited articles for Fit Over 40: Role Models for Excellence (after conducting interviews)
- Assisted individuals or groups in proposals, including Cleveland Clinic's Center for Integrative Medicine (under the direction of Dr. Tanya Edwards)
- Website published articles
- Articles for top fitness sites like Tom Venuto and Amazing Abs
She continues to advise private clients internationally in-person and via telephone and Internet, as well as consultations to businesses.
Wellness interests
Lauren's own journey began as base interest in weight/resistance-training to become fit. Over time, she discovered that health and fitness required full-body work, including understanding the mind's role in our habits, so that the person can improve as a whole, not simple as a collection of muscles or organs.
Little did she know at the time, that these concepts are called "somatics": that the physical body cannot be separated from the mind, spirit, and emotions; nor all the others be separated from one another. The word "psychosomatic", often thought as the mind fooling the body, actually means "mind-body".
To read more about Lauren's personal philosophies, training, and exercise, please see the article in the best selling "Fit Over 40: Role Models for Excellence At Any Age", as well as the articles in this website.
Since 2008, Lauren has been assisting scholars of "play as health": promoting humans natural interests in playful activities, improvisation, and laughter as health and healing.
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