Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, is among the most highly cited scholars in positive psychology. She is the director of the PEP lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focusing on the study of positive emotions.
Cultivate your potential towards the good. Study positive psychology to enhance your self-leadership.
Fall Session: August 30, 2021—June 6, 2022
Through an in-depth study of positive psychology, including sessions with world-class faculty and uniquely transformative live experiences, you will gain the tools, practices, and research to support an increased capacity for health, strengthened resilience, deeper mindfulness, and greater levels of overall well-being.
Watch this video with WBI founder Megan McDonough to learn who this course was created for and how it could help you.
Who This Course is For
This course is for coaches, business leaders, parents, teachers, entrepreneurs, lifelong learners, and anyone who want to make tomorrow a little bit better than today.
“CiWPP motivated me to get my ideas shaped into what I wanted to achieve. My final project was a rough version of what RISE became.”
“This course is the most powerful and important training program I have ever been exposed to. I use it every day.”
“Wholebeing Institute allowed me to completely turn around a life focused on what I wasn’t good at to focusing on my positive strengths.”
The Benefits of the Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology
This course is for coaches, business leaders, parents, teachers, entrepreneurs, lifelong learners, and anyone who want to make tomorrow a little bit better than today.
Students apply the whole-person approach personally and professionally in leadership, counseling, coaching, parenting, or teaching, in order to
- Bring about lasting change in individuals and organizations
- Create healthy personal and professional relationships
- Build positive emotions and the resilience to deal with painful ones
- Develop constructive self-regard and grounded optimism.
Why Study Positive Psychology
What would success look like for you as a result of this program? Why study positive psychology? Watch as Megan McDonough and lead faculty Dr. Maria Sirois talk about their “why.”
Course Flow
The program consists of nine modules, and runs from August 30, 2021—June 6, 2022. The experience is delivered through live interactive webinars, virtual group sessions, pre-recorded videos, and two live online immersions.
Students complete Module 1: Introduction to Wholebeing Happiness independently upon registration. The entire student body starts Module 2 together, and stays together as a cohort for the duration of the course.
Attendance at the immersions is required. The first required online immersion is Thursday, December 9–Monday, December 13, 2021, during which students are connected in small groups that study together. The second immersion is Thursday, June 2–Monday, June 6, 2022, in which students will present their final projects. The other monthly webinars are recorded; live attendance is strongly encouraged but not mandatory.
Tuition also includes an optional on-site Wholebeing Weekend in 2022. Please note that there is an additional fee for accommodations.
Click here to learn more about each module.
Continuing Education Credits
Immersion A offers:
❖ 15 ICF CCE units in Core Competencies
❖ 7 ICF CCE units in Resource Development
❖ 26.5 Continuing Education hours are available for Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, Educators, Nurses, Dentists.
Immersion B offers:
❖ 12.5 ICF CCE units in Core Competencies
❖ 12.25 ICF CCE units in Resource Development
❖ 25.25 Continuing Education hours are available for Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, Educators, Nurses, Dentists.
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Team Teaching
You have a teaching team supporting your learning experience, integrating expert advice in an organized and methodical way.
You connect with lead faculty in weekly video lectures, expanded through interviews with guest faculty. You’ll not only see leading experts in the online lessons, but also experience live lectures by renowned positive psychology researchers and practitioners.
Between the optional in-person Wholebeing Weekend, the live webinars, and the recorded lectures and interviews, you’re exposed to many voices and perspectives within a cohesive learning experience.
Lead Faculty
Maria Sirois, PsyD
Maria has been teaching at the forefront of wellness, psychology, and spirituality for more than two decades. She’s the author of Every Day Counts and A Short Course in Happiness After Loss (And Other Dark, Difficult Times), and holds a doctorate in psychology. Maria is the lead faculty for Module 7: Resilience. She also teaches at both immersions.
Megan McDonough
Megan is the award-winning author of Infinity in a Box, A Minute for Me, and Radically Receptive Meditation. With a degree in nuclear medicine, decades of leadership experience, and many years of teaching and practicing yoga, Megan combines intellectual understanding with an embodied approach to teaching and leading. She is the lead faculty for the online modules, and teaches at both immersions.
Lynda Wallace
Lynda holds an MBA from Wharton, and spent 20 years as an executive with Johnson & Johnson, where she ran a billion-dollar global consumer healthcare business that includes some of the world’s most iconic brands. A Positive Psychology Coach and the Director of WBI’s Positive Psychology Coach Certification program, Lynda is the lead faculty for Module 6: Realizing Dreams.
Contributors
Students are exposed to various voices from the field through interviews and videos integrated into the lessons. Featured experts include the following:
Phoebe Atkinson
Megha Nancy Buttenheim
Kathy Washburn
Henrique Bueno
Uneeda O. Brewer, MSW, CEG, CP
Val Williams
Barbara Fredrickson, PhD.
Kristen Lindquist, PhD.
Patty Van Cappellen, PhD.
Sara Algoe, PhD.
What Graduates Say
About the Wholebeing Experience
Tuition for the Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology includes an optional on-site Wholebeing Weekend. The Wholebeing Experience is a weekend retreat where alumni, guests, and current students come together to connect, learn new material, and have great conversations with like-minded people to support application of the tools in a deeper and broader way.
The 2022 event is currently being planned.
Tuition for this course is $3800.
Payment plans are available for a limited time. Click on the Register button to see current options.
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