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the coaching moai is a dedicated platform designed to provide support for health coaches and health professionals who are deeply committed to guiding their clients towards positive behavior change. We are dedicated to making the process of building coaching skills enjoyable, engaging, and seamless. Together, we believe in the collective power to transform the world for the better!

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For our coaching moai group, a moai represents the supportive community we have intentionally formed to nurture one another's personal and professional growth journeys. 
Just as traditional Okinawan moai provide a safety net throughout all of life's transitions, our coaching moai serves as a trusted circle where we can be vulnerable, gain new insights, and find the strength to overcome challenges together.

Within our moai, we come together with a shared dedication to self-improvement, lifelong learning, accountability, and mutual encouragement. We proactively invest in and "weave" our supportive ties by contributing our caring feedback, wisdom sharing, and genuine celebration of one another's achievements.

the coaching moai provides a sacred space built on a foundation of trust where we can engage in lifelong learning, self-reflection and developing our highest potentials as coaches and human beings. We are a tribe united by the desire to craft lives and careers aligned with our deepest values.

Our moai represents an Okinawan-inspired concept of a committed group that will stick by each other through thick and thin, ensuring no one gets left behind on their coaching journey.
Co-Founder + moai mentor

Kathleen Belonga, M.A., is a board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC), certified-yoga therapist (C-IAYT), and yoga teacher (E-RYT 500), with multiple yoga, mindfulness, and nutrition certifications. She has a passion for learning and wellness, and teaches in board-approved health coach certification programs. Kathleen offers courses and private coach mentoring on the coaching moai platform. She works with yoga therapy clients in her private practice, mindful living & yoga.

Click here to learn more about yoga therapy with Kathleen.

Co-Founder + moai mentor

Laura Demeri, M.S., DipACLM, is an award-winning health educator and board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC). She brings passion and real-life examples of coaching sessions to the classroom. Laura teaches at several NBHWC-approved coaching programs and offers various mentoring options through the coaching moai platform.

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What our mentees have to say about us

“Kathleen was a true collaborator in my journey towards accomplishing goals…She helped me find clarity on my goals and identify challenges I was encountering. Her guidance and coaching were critical to the breakthrough I experienced and I will forever be grateful for the process and lessons she brought to my journey.”
Betsy N.
"Laura is warm, encouraging and supportive but will also challenge you to develop and hone your coaching skills. She knows how to ask the right questions to promote deep, meaningful conversations. She truly embodies the spirit of coaching with her ability to believe in your success so much you believe it for yourself. If you are looking to improve your coaching skills I highly recommend working with her!"
natalie V.
"As I start my health coaching practice post-graduation, I wanted to thank you again for your support in the program. I learned so much from you and look to you as a model for how I want to practice (I can still hear you telling us to “stay with the questions”). I really appreciated your being so direct and open-hearted about what motivates you to do this work."
Jana F.

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