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Positive Psychology Coaching Skills You Can Use Now
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Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology

Experience an in-depth exploration of the science and direct application of positive psychology—the study of flourishing.

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Positive Psychology Coaching Certification

Apply the leading-edge science of thriving with evidence-based coaching to help your clients and build a successful practice.

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Evidence-based online courses and immersion experiences for whole person well-being built on evidence based science.

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Life is full of inflection points. Divorce, career upheaval, illness, empty nests, retirement, and other life-changing events are full of uncertainty and stress. But what if those difficulties could become the doorways to positive possibilities? When approached in the right way, these challenges hold the opportunity to explore, strengthen, and move towards happiness.

Take the Next Steps to Happiness
With Megan McDonough

Join Paula Felps and Megan McDonough, Founder of Wholebeing Institute, and see how to take the next step toward happiness. Learn how the challenges you’re facing today — no matter how daunting they seem — actually hold the opportunity to explore, strengthen, and reshape your life.

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Why SPIRE for Well-being?

By taking the whole into account, the greatest well-being can be realized. We call that wholebeing; and we use the term as our definition of happiness.

Ask the Expert: A Q&A with Michael Steger on Purpose and Meaning

ASK, powered by the site Psychwire, invites visitors to ask questions of world-leading experts in behavioral science. Here are some...
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Beware Busyness: 3 Steps for Doing More of What Matters and Less of What Doesn’t

I admit it. I like being busy. Setting goals and reaching them gives me a thrilling sense of accomplishment, particularly if the goal...
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How Questions Become Doorways

Ask one question, such as, “How was your day?” and you’ll likely receive one of a set of typical answers: “Fine.” “It was okay, but …”...
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Discovering New Puzzle Pieces

My husband and I were driving home from the beach when I received the call. It was my dad’s ex-wife.  “Joy, you need to come home right...
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Building Resilience with ‘The Stress Prescription’

At the end of 2022, NPR launched a series that explored the topic of anxiety, specifically as it related to the pandemic, political...
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Kathy Washburn

“Wholebeing Institute allowed me to completely turn around a life focused on what I wasn’t good at to focusing on my positive strengths.”

Kathy Washburn Founder, Carved By Cancer
Scott Shapiro, MD

“My psychiatry practice has been re-energized, as I incorporate these Positive Psychology lessons, including how to be more present, listen more deeply and empathically, and be more generous in my own life.”

Scott Shapiro, MD Adult ADHD Psychiatrist + Executive Coach
Rebecca Soni,

“The Certificate in Positive Psychology motivated me to get my ideas shaped into what I wanted to achieve. My final project was a rough version of what RISE became.”

Rebecca Soni,  Six-time Olympic medalist, founder of RISE Elite Athletes
Michael Silverstein,

“The Wholebeing Institute CIPP course has been the most powerful and important training program I have ever been exposed to. I use it every day.”

Michael Silverstein, Private Equity Investor