
Taught by Dr. Maria Sirois, core faculty for the Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology program, the Teaching for Transformation course offers six lessons, combining live webinars and demonstrations, readings, video analysis, and peer-to-peer practice. Live, 90-minute webinars are held weekly.
You’ll learn:
✓ The wholebeing approach, which enables you to teach from a place of wholeness and authenticity
✓ Foundational presentation skills to support the expert and the novice alike in organizing the content flow for successful audience engagement
✓ How to aspire to your best by leveraging your strengths, passion, and wisdom in order to offer your audience a lasting positive impact.
“Anyone starting out to deliver workshops or presentations, or a seasoned presenter can learn from Maria! Great course.”
“This course is amazing for anyone considering public speaking, or who just wants to be more at ease with communicating in general.”
Content is offered in three key arenas:
1. The Wholebeing Approach
Participants are introduced to the principles of whole-person well-being, and given a vocabulary for understanding how individuals and teams move toward their highest selves and sustained health. This establishes a unique foundation of skill for the trainer. As we understand how adults move toward positive, sustained health and well-being, we are able to offer material that strengthens their growth and enhances our own growth toward our best selves.
Concepts examined include appreciative inquiry, permission to be human, benefit finding, and the principles of Wholebeing Institute’s SPIRE (spiritual, physical, intellectual, relational, emotional) approach; each concept is addressed from the perspective of how and what to present.
2. Foundational Presentation Skills
Presenters from every field—from business to art, coaching to education, athletics to politics—receive in-depth instruction on the fundamentals of presentation skill development. These fundamentals, based on the best research from the fields of positive psychology, education, and training, provide a clear, impeccable support structure for both the novice and the practiced instructor.
Concepts explored include beginnings and endings, transitions, keeping energy high, the inspiring use of story and data, handling difficult audience members, managing anxiety, and professionalism.
3. Aspire to Your Best
Participants come to understand their deepest strengths: what makes them unique as a presenter, where their passion elevates both the audience member and the material, how they best connect with their audience, and how the very act of presenting moves each of us towards our most important work in the world.
Concepts addressed include the “who” of teaching, establishing your integrity and authority, presenting from a place of authenticity, elevating strengths, learning from the masters, and establishing your unique voice.
Novice, aspiring, and experienced presenters, including seminar leaders, educators, trainers, and lecturers.
❖ For CIWPP graduates: To provide a professional development pathway for teaching positive psychology and whole-person well-being material.
Ryan Niemiec
Education Director, VIA Institute on Character
“If you ever get a chance to hear Maria present, you will not forget it. She is brilliant, insightful, and creative in her style. You will feel touched, impacted, inspired.”
The course consists of six lessons taught over 6 weeks, combining live webinars and demonstrations, readings, video analysis, and peer-to-peer practice. The live, 90-minute webinars are held weekly.
We estimate that most students will put in a total of two to three hours of preparation per week, plus the class session itself.
I have been teaching for years, and yet this course offered many new viewpoints and skills. It has greatly impacted the way that I teach, by making me a much more dynamic presenter.
—Amanda Ingall
If you intend to share your work in any way, this is the course for you. It teaches how to manage and harness the energy of anxiety, and how to create powerful, compelling presentations that will change the lives of your students/audiences. I highly recommend it! —Cate Conti
I had never taken an online class before, and this surpassed my expectations in every way. I had no idea that an online class could be so rich and deep in learning. The live lectures were captivating and experiential. I look forward to taking more courses with WBI.
—Lynn Alpeter, facilitator and marketing coach
Teaching for Transformation will not only train you how to teach in a way that inspires and empowers your audience, it will take your personal growth to a whole new level. —Diane Pienta
This course truly lives up to its name. The course content goes way beyond any typical information you can access on your own, and forced me to do a lot of introspection and soul searching. Maria is a master teacher who brings out the best in you.
—Sheryl Sarnak, career coach
Tuition for this 6 week course is $695 USD