Dip your feet into Wholebeing Institute’s SPIRE model, the backbone of the Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology in this free two-part video training and e-book.

➤ Download a PDF of the Session A course calendar.

➤ Download a PDF of the Session B course calendar.

Karen Whelan-Berry, Chief Learning Officer for Wholebeing Institute is a positive psychology scholar/practitioner with extensive corporate and higher education experience. She focuses on research and practice at the intersection of ideal self, teams, and performance excellence; and instructional design and delivery that cultivates immediate and long-term skills and habits. Karen is a frequent presenter at positive psychology and management conferences, has over 20 publications, and her research has won awards. Karen holds a PhD in Organizational Studies. Karen teaches at both Immersions and on Webinars.

Megan McDonough, CEO and co-founder of Wholebeing Institute, 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.

Dr. Maria Sirois, PsyD, 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.

Lynda Wallace holds an MBA from Wharton, and spent 20 years as an executive with Johnson & Johnson, where she ran a billion-dollar global consumer health care 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.

Phoebe Atkinson, LCSW-R, delivers executive leadership programs and co-facilitates an ongoing program at Rutgers University Institute for Women’s Leadership. She is a licensed clinical social worker and a board-certified trainer, educator, and practitioner in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy. Phoebe teaches at both immersions, and oversees student groups online.

Joan Borysenko, PhD, guest faculty for the March Session A immersion, is a world-renowned expert in mind-body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international healthcare revolution that recognizes the role of meaning and the spiritual dimensions of life as integral parts of health and healing.

Stephen Cope, guest faculty for the September Session A immersion, is a psychotherapist, national best-selling author, and Kripalu Yoga teacher. He was named by Yoga Journal as one of the top 25 innovators in yoga in America in the last quarter century.

Students are exposed to various voices from the field through interviews and videos integrated into the lessons. Featured experts include the following:

Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, is among the most highly cited scholars in positive psychology. She is the Director at the PEP lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focusing on the study of positive emotions.

Sara Algoe, PhD, researches what helps things go right in social interactions. She an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Emotions and Social Interactions in Relationships Lab.

Patty Van Cappellen, PhD, is an experimental social psychologist interested in the psychology of religion, spirituality, health, and morality. Patty is the associate director of the Interdisciplinary and Behavioral Research Center at Duke University.

Megha Nancy Buttenheim, MA, E-RYT 1000, is CEO and founding director of Let Your Yoga Dance®, and author of Expanding Joy: Let Your Yoga Dance, Embodying Positive Psychology. An expert in experiential education, Megha is a longtime teacher trainer at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, where she has trained thousands of people in yoga, health, movement, and meditation.

Kristen Lindquist, PhD, studies the nature of emotion—what emotions are, how they are created, and how we experience and perceive them in daily life. She’s an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and director of the Carolina Affective Science Lab.

and many more!

All tuition payments must be completed before the start of the course. Housing reservations with Kripalu are made at the time of registration.

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