Wellness Facilitator WIS® Certification

Learn to facilitate WIS® Method for Organizations, Groups, and Teams.

Wellness Facilitator WIS® Certification

Learn to Facilitate WIS® Method for Organizations, Groups, and Teams.

What is the Wellness Facilitator WIS® Certification?

Wellness Facilitator WIS®


WIS@Work prepares you to support the health and wellness of employees in the modern workplace, with tools resources, assessments, and competency alignment of personal and professional goals.

The Wellness Facilitator WIS® is training the prepares you to support the health and wellness of employees at work. Participants will learn to offer both WIS@Work and the WIS® Assessor Certification Trainings.


WIS® is a science-backed program designed to build your knowledge of the approaches to well-being intelligence and Wellness Improvement System® (WIS). WIS® is a whole-person system designed to identify individual, team, group, or workplace well-being risks and provide supportive recommendations for improving their path to well-being.

WIS@Work is a corporate well-being competency alignment program that helps organizations align their well-being competencies to their existing wellness activities or programs to maximize participation and results. 

Why should you be Certified?

Becoming a Wellness Facilitator WIS® Certified positions you to lead with the world’s most comprehensive wellness assessment and corporate implementation. You'll guide clients and organizations in understanding their well-being, identifying risk factors, and carving out a successful path to wellness.


In today’s fast-paced world, the journey to well-being is obscured by the busyness of life, making it easy to overlook how our multifaceted lives interconnect and impact our wellness.


This often leads to reduced capacity to thrive, increased risk factors, and even burnout, affecting our abilities in self-mastery, resilience, and collaboration. The Wellness Facilitator WIS® stands alone in its ability to explore over nine dimensions of wellness and twelve competencies, providing a unique well-being intelligence system that highlights personal and organizational risks and paths to improvement

Program Description

The Wellness Facilitator WIS® combines WIS@Work and the WIS® Assessor Certification Trainings. WIS® is a science-backed program designed to build your knowledge of the approaches to well-being intelligence and Wellness Improvement System® (WIS). WIS® is a whole-person system designed to identify individual, team, group, or workplace well-being risks and provide supportive recommendations for improving their path to well-being.

WIS@Work is a corporate well-being competency alignment program that helps organizations align their well-being competencies to their existing wellness activities or programs to maximize participation and results. WIS® brings to light the potential risks to human wellness. It not only enhances awareness of these risks but also delineates a clear and actionable path for rectifying them, paving the way for true success.

Register for one of the free information session on the following dates:

  • February 23, 2024 - 2 pm to 3 pm CST
  • March 22, 2024 - 8 am to 9 am CST
  • April 5, 2024 - 2 pm to 3 pm CST

Embrace this opportunity to make a profound difference in people's lives. Register today to become a part of our transformative coaching program.

Reduce Employee Well-being Risks

Help Reduce Employee Well-being Risks

Gallup research shows that employees with low well-being are a risk to their organizations. Wellness Improvement Facilitators WISF Learn to assess employee risks and reduce and create a wellness improvement plan for success.

Become skilled at facilitating the nine-dimensional wellness system assessment. 

Learn to facilitate whole system wellness conversation sessions with organizations.

Learn to provide comprehensive wellness system analysis and well-being competency alignment consultation with corporations.

Dimensions and Competencies of Wellbeing - WIS

WIS® Concept

WIS® is more than a program. It is a concept that has been developed into a movement to maximize well-being at a time when unhappiness, loneliness, disengagement, helplessness, and mental health illnesses are on the rise.


Once you become a WIS® Certified Professional, you can take this knowledge to your clients and all those you engage with to provide:

  • Deep insight to guide them on their path to well-being.
  • WIS® Assessment, an online, holistic assessment of 180 questions that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to examine their path to well-being.
  • An 18-page individualized feedback report mapping their performance in the nine dimensions, twelve competencies of well-being, and the 27 psychosocial categories.
  • A structured client report debrief process for organizations and individuals.
  • A 150-page Wellness Coaching toolkit book offering action steps, exercises, tools and practices to support holistic wellness improvement on the path to well-being.
  • A 30-page WIS® Interpretation Manual.
  • WIS® is the only holistic wellness tool that includes the Interpersonal dimension, providing key insight into how one’s interpersonal interactions impact our wellness.

The Program Training Process

When you register for the WIS® Assessor Certification Program, you will take the following steps:

Step 1

Complete the WIS® Assessment and receive your comprehensive 18-page report of your personal wellness assessment results.

Step 2

Choose a date for a confidential 60-minute feedback report and wellness conversation session with an instructor of the WIS® Assessment.

Step 3

Complete your personal WIS® Wellness improvement plan

Step 4

Get enrolled in the secure learning portal to prepare for your virtual live training workshops with a cohort of peers. The WIS® Assessor training is seven weeks of blended learning.


The first five weeks are virtual live instructor-led training, and the last two weeks are independent, and group work to apply your learning. The training will explore the theory and background research that supports WIS® with practical feedback and hands-on knowledge about administering WIS® with clients. Each week, you will complete one module, giving you ample time to understand and apply the information.

Step 5

Becoming Certified once you have successfully completed all the training modules and the skills, knowledge, and application of WIS® Assessment and gain access to full membership in the WIS® Certified club of professionals who support each other’s learning and practice.

FAQs

What is the Wellness Facilitator WIS® Certification

Wellness Facilitator WIS® trains professionals to facilitate the world’s most comprehensive, whole-person research-based nine-dimensional assessment system on the market. It examines a person's or group's well-being risk factors and trains professionals to facilitate the implementation of the assessment into organizations, groups, teams, or individuals. The training prepares you to facilitate wellness conversations with clients, consult and debrief WIS® assessments, recommend well-being competency alignments, and facilitate implementation of the WIS@Work model in organizations to strengthen their capacity and resilience on their path to well-being.

How long is this program?

This 12-week blended program includes 8 weeks of live instructor classes and 4 weeks of independent study and group activities in our virtual classroom.

How long has this program been offered?

This program has been offered for over 10 years. WIS was also part of a pilot program with the Ohio School Mental health program to train wellness facilitators to provide staff wellness to schools across the State in collaboration with Miami University.

Is there a cancellation policy?

Refunds are not provided once the program has begun. However, we offer options for completing certification in future cohorts.

What is the cancellation policy?

If you are unable to finish the program once it has begun, you do not receive a refund. However, we will work with you to find future certification or training options that meet your needs. Please note that you can send a substitute up to 15 days prior to the program start date.

You are eligible for a full refund up to 30 days before the program start date. Cancellation within two weeks of the program start date is 50% of tuition.

What is required of me to get certified?

Full participation in all aspects of the program is required for certification. You'll also need to assess your Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for administering the WIS® Assessment and Human Development Well-being Competency alignment debriefing.

Do we get recertification Credits for this program?

Yes. participants receive professional development credits accredited through our partnership with SHRM, CPHR Manitoba and ICF ACTP. 

Who do I contact with other questions?

Contact Joyce Odidison with Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc. at Phone: 204 668-5283 or admin@interpersonalwellness.com. You can also visit https://interpersonalwellness.com to learn more about this certification program.