Health Coaching Buddies Book Series: Create a meaningful & emotionally appealing presentation of the logo theme (see col

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The title of the book: Health Buddy Coaching. I need 1 main book cover design, but 3 subtitles applied (so total of 3 book cover designs with the only difference being the subtitles):
1. Love to Learn and Live ~ Together     (for the general public)
2. Love to Learn and Collaborate ~ Together (for health care workers)
3. Love to Learn and Lead ~ Together (for leaders, change management teams & trainers)

The example provides the logo and some ideas for the layout. the first 2 files have the old name.

The logo has a meaning -- here is the Color Code

Red sphere - Social values, left-wing political world views & complexity sciences,
Blue sphere - Individual values, right-wing political world views & positivism,
Purple sphere - Transcendence, common ground & virtues

Purple Ring - Transformational leadership
Indigo Ring - Sage stewardship for global justice and health equity
Green Ring - Sustainable development for economic equality and environmental restoration
Is there a creative way to provide the color code?

HEALTH & WELLNESS /SELF-HELP/PEER COACHING (lay version)
Health Buddy Coaching:

Live to Learn & Love ~ Together

Are You and Your Loved Ones at a Loss
About Changing Your Unhealthy Habits?

Healthy habits are your best medicines. So simple right—eat right, exercise regularly, keep a normal weight, get plenty of sleep, practice safe sex, and never smoke, abuse drugs or drink alcohol to excess. But it is so difficult to take your medicines on a regular basis when you live in a toxic culture that creates epidemics of unhealthy habits and chronic diseases. Deep down, you want to find a better way to overcome your resistance and motivate change. Do you ask yourself?

How can I:
• “Change when I just don’t feel like it?”

• “Make health my top priority when I don’t have the time and energy to change?
• “Help my loved ones change when I don’t know how?”


Dr. Rick Botelho, former Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester, executive coach and peer health coach trainer, and author of two previous books on behavior change, helps you and you loved ones find and nurture deep, positive, personal motivations to make permanent change. To achieve this goal, you and your buddy will make journal notes about deep change, take turns in discussing your meaningful learning experiences, and coach each other to:

• Overcome your emotional resistance to change
• Develop the motivation and discipline to succeed
• Replace negative feelings and impulses with productive ones
• Create the commitment and ignite the passion to live a healthy life
• Overcome roadblocks to change and stop getting sidetracked
• Become accountable to each other and stay on track
• Achieve your goals, one step at a time
• Gain insights into making deep, long-lasting change

You create your own health improvement stories. This guidebook unleashes the collaborative learning power lying dormant within your social networks. Sharing your stories can help reverse the epidemics of unhealthy habits, one person at a time. Overtime, you can dramatically improve the health of your family and community. Be a catalyst for positive change.

Back cover copy writing
HEALTH EDUCATION & WELLNESS /SELF-HELP/PEER COACHING (professional version)
Health Buddy Coaching: Live to Learn & Collaborate ~ Together

A Guidebook for Practitioners,
Coaches, Staff & Students

Had It Up to HERE With Patients
Who Can’t Change Their Unhealthy Habits?

Do you feel like giving up on helping patients get past their self-destructive behaviors? Have you resigned yourself to not making any major impact? As a student and practitioner, you're not taught very well in how to help your patients make deep personal change—reducing resistance and increasing motivation to change. And did you learn how to do this for yourself?

Your well-being is about engaging in fostering self-awareness, collaborative learning and developing healthy ones. So why is it so hard to change? No one sustains change out of guilt and shame or a sense of coercion. But if you find and nurture deep, positive, personal motivations, you can change permanently.

Dr. Rick Botelho, Professor of Family Medicine turned social innovator, executive leadership and peer health coach trainer, and author of two previous books on behavior change, guides you through a journal process that prepares you, your loved ones and your colleagues to conduct Health Buddy Coaching sessions. Working with peers, you’ll learn to how to…
• Overcome your emotional resistance to change
• Develop the motivation and discipline to succeed
• Replace negative feelings and impulses with productive ones
• Create the commitment and ignite the passion to live a healthy life
• Overcome roadblocks to change and stop getting sidetracked
• Become accountability to each other and stay on track
• Achieve your goals, one step at a time
• Gain insights into making deep, long-lasting change

Learning together, you become the researcher of your own behavior change and the author of your health improvement stories. Developing your own personal evidence about making deep change overcomes the limitations of evidence-based guidelines.

After gaining first-hand experience of this peer learning process, you can set up health buddy coaching programs for your patients and clients. These peer programs greatly increase the reach and impact of professional coaching programs.

“Our greatest untapped resource for reversing the epidemics of unhealthy habits is our own patients. Health buddy coaching unleashes positive influences lying dormant within our social networks.”
—Dr. Rick Botelho

HEALTH EDUCATION & WELLNESS /SELF-HELP/PEER COACHING (leadership version)
Health Buddy Coaching:
Live to Learn & Lead ~ Together

Guidebook for Leaders, Managers and Trainers

How Can Leaders Improve Health for All?

Effective leaders plan big but start small on:

• Reversing the epidemics of unhealthy habits 

• Reducing the mounting burdens of chronic disease



Transformational leaders begin with themselves by improving their own health habits and then move quickly outwards into ever-widening circles. Using top-down approaches, they implement Health Buddy Coaching (HBC) programs for their leadership & change management teams and then inspire others to assume leadership roles.

Together, they improve their own health habits by coaching each other to:


• Overcome their own emotional resistance to change
• Develop the motivation and discipline to succeed
• Replace negative feelings and impulses with productive ones

• Create the commitment and ignite the passion to live a healthy life
• Overcome roadblocks to change and stop getting sidetracked
• Become accountability to each other and stay on track
• Achieve your goals, one step at a time 



To overcome the constraints of evidence-based guidelines, they develop their own personal evidence and share stories about making deep long-standing change. These learning experiences help them appreciate what it means to unleash the social power of sharing health improvement stories. Such story-telling breaks through the evidence-based ceiling of organizational performance.


"Whole system" leaders galvanize social networks of transformational leadership development to align organizations and mobilize committed communities to: 


• Use the digital learning revolution to make HBC programs anytime, any place
• Implement HBC “train the trainers” programs at all levels
• Build bottom-up, grassroots HBC movements 


Systemic leaders transform one organization, one community and one culture over time