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with Jennifer Hanawald Lynda Wallace launched WBI’s Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC)...
by Mina Simhai “So, what’s your story?” The question isn’t as casual as it seems. The answer has real implications for everything from teen pregnancy and drug use to parenting, college grades, and...
by Ruth Pearce Back at the March CiPP immersion at Kripalu, it seemed so natural to offer my home for a CiPP Tour gathering in the late summer or early fall. We had just spent the week bonding,...
by Mina Simhai Few books cause me to say “This changed my life,” but Better than Before, by Gretchen Rubin, has done just that. And it continues to do so—every day. At first, I found the book a bit...
by Nicole Stottlemyer The journey of becoming my best self is not always easy-peasy-pumpkin-squeezie. It has its ups and downs—“the vicissitudes of life,” as Tal Ben-Shahar would say. In CiPP, we...
In this interview with CiPP graduate and Positive Psychology Coach Jane Anderson, WBI faculty member Margarita Tarragona explains how personal narrative can be used as a powerful tool in therapy,...
by Mina Simhai You know her when you see her. The woman who walks with authority. She talks, people listen. She listens, people talk. She cares more about being respected than being liked, and isn’t...
by Lynda Wallace Recently, I wrote about the value of listening carefully to our coaching clients and simply asking them to be more specific and concrete as they talk about their strengths,...
by Lynda Wallace I love being a Positive Psychology Coach. Having spent my first career as a business executive, some days I can hardly believe that now I get to earn my living by helping people...
by Margarita Tarragona, PhD “Words create worlds.” I love this quote, though I don´t know who said it originally. It has been attributed to philosophers including Heschel and Wittgenstein, and today...