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Wholebeing Institute’s courses provide you with the opportunity to learn and apply the science of whole-person well-being. Our course formats include
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COURES
Our Course Offerings
A combination of online and on-site immersive learning, this in-depth certification focuses on the personal and profession application of positive psychology tools to increase happiness and flourishing.
A flexible, modular certification, this path leads to being a Positive Psychology Coach—highly sought after for their ability to help clients successfully pursue goals for positive change in their lives, work, relationships, and well-being.
Learn From Home
Online Modules, Live
These online courses are instructor-led, meaning you join at a specific time for a live webinar with the instructor over a period of six to 10 weeks. You can choose to have direct interaction with subject matter experts, or watch recordings of the live events later, at your convenience.
Authenticity
Building Capacity for a Thriving Life
This three-week, online course examines research that supports the relationships between authenticity, resilience and thriving. Taught live by Dr. Maria Sirois.
Teaching for
Transformation
This online course introduces the essential principles of becoming a highly skilled presenter, one who can provide both information and inspiration to audiences in order to facilitate transformation. Taught live by Dr. Maria Sirois.
Resilient Quest
(When Life Strikes Hard)
Learn how to navigate difficult moments in life with adaptive and healthy responses, strengthening our capacity to be resilient—bouncing back from stress towards post-traumatic growth. Taught live by Dr. Maria Sirois.
Living Leadership
Leading for Stress Resilience
Learn to lead in an authentic way that makes life more fulfilling, meaningful, and fun, and that helps create a group of self-aware, engaged people who together cultivate an amazing culture. Taught by Megan McDonough.
Positive Psychology Coaching
Fundamentals
This course covers the essential evidence-based skills and concepts of Positive Psychology Coaching and the CHANGE model for helping clients successfully make positive changes in their lives, work, health, and relationships.
Taught live by Lynda Wallace.
Positive Psychology Coaching
Skill Building Intensive
This online course (also available on-site) supports fluency and confidence in the steps, skills, and techniques used to help others successfully pursue goals for positive change. It includes extensive demonstrations and practice sessions in which students rotate the roles of coach, client, and observer.
Taught by Phoebe Atkinson and Jennifer Hanawald.
Positive Psychology Coaching
Mentorship
In this online three-month distance-learning program, you’ll hone your Positive Psychology Coaching skills with real clients, while participating in a small mentoring circle of fellow student-coaches. Students need to complete the required certification courses before enrolling in the Mentorship course.
Taught by Phoebe Atkinson and Jennifer Hanawald.
Meaning in Life
Learn how to use the right lens to help you see the sources of meaning, using your authenticity, self-understanding, strengths, and values. Taught live by Dr. Michael Steger.
Learn From Home
Online Modules, Self-directed
These online courses are self-directed, meaning the video lessons are pre-recorded, allowing you to set the pace. You get weekly emails, helping you digest the material at a suggested rate, with action steps and reflections as part of the learning process. These courses are usually four to six weeks long.
Introduction to
Wholebeing Happiness
This course gives you the science and skills to aim towards your highest and best, drawing from the diverse sciences of positive psychology, neurobiology, and the social and behavioral sciences, and using the SPIRE model of well-being. Taught by Megan McDonough.
What Makes Us
Happy(er)
This course dives deeply into the question of “What makes you happy?” Learn the deeper definition of happiness, and explore growth vs. fixed mindset, finding flow, and appreciating the good. Taught by Megan McDonough.
Building a Thriving
Coaching Practice
This practical, action-oriented course is designed to help you earn a great living doing the work you love, whether you’re an experienced, new, or aspiring coach. Our comprehensive, step-by-step program walks you through every aspect of building your successful coaching practice. Taught by Lynda Wallace.
Living with EASE:
A 30-Day Practice
This 30-Day Practice is designed to create your inner experience, orienting actions and thoughts toward your ideal. Content is informed by the mind-body sciences of yoga, mindfulness, and positive psychology. Taught by Megan McDonough.
This course is currently being offered for free.
Visioning 2020
A Year of Conscious Creation
Big dreams need daily actions. You can align your time to your values to create a schedule that supports you each and every day. This course teaches you how to sculpt the hours in your day. Taught by Gayle Huntress.
This course is currently being offered for free.
Learn From Home
Free Training
These events and programs are designed to introduce you to topics in the field of well-being, and to give you immediate tools to apply in your life and work.
Positive Psychology Coaching
This evidence-based program is designed to help you become an effective, confident, successful coach using the CHANGE framework for goal attainment. Taught by Lynda Wallace.
Creating Wholebeing Happiness
This program includes video lessons, a workbook, and an e-book, introducing you to the SPIRE model of well-being and a four-step process of engaging mindfully with each day. Taught by Megan McDonough.
International
In partnership with Henrique Bueno our Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology is offered in Portuguese, with immersions held in Brazil.
