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This course covers the essential evidence-based skills and concepts of positive psychology coaching as well as the CHANGE model for structuring successful coaching engagements. The course includes lectures, case studies, demonstrations, and optional weekly peer-coaching sessions. This program connects a wealth of positive psychology research to the practical skills students can use to help clients, colleagues, and others successfully make positive changes in their lives, work, health, and relationships.

The course includes 10 live webinars, with recordings available for anyone unable to join live. (About half our students generally join the live classes, and the rest watch the recordings.) Class sessions cover the following topics:

❖ Positive Psychology Coaching: The essential principles and techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching, including the CHANGE model
❖ Coaching Session Fundamentals: Structuring sessions, judging when coaching is appropriate, and getting engagements off to a strong start
❖ Essential Techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching: Understanding, experiencing, and practicing the techniques at the heart of effective coaching. These include:
➤ Appreciative Inquiry: Helping clients focus on what works in order to inspire ideas, confidence, and motivation for change
➤ Asking Powerful Questions: Generating questions that help clients achieve greater understanding and make progress toward their goals
➤ Exploring Stories: Listening to clients’ stories, and helping them explore those stories to generate insights, narrative coherence, and goal clarity
➤ Empathic Listening: Practicing the essential art of truly listening to clients, and addressing challenges to both our empathy and our attention
➤ Coaching for Self-Compassion: Helping clients achieve greater well-being and goal progress by treating themselves with self-compassion
➤ Solutions Focus: Shifting clients’ focus from problems to solutions, and helping them develop paths to solutions that work
➤ Action and Accountability: Helping clients create goal maps and action plans, and serving as an effective accountability partner.
❖ Coaching for CHANGE: Putting it all together to structure coaching engagements that help clients effectively identify, pursue, and achieve their goals for positive change.

This course covers the essential evidence-based skills and concepts of positive psychology coaching as well as the CHANGE model for structuring successful coaching engagements. The course includes lectures, case studies, demonstrations, and optional weekly peer-coaching sessions. This program connects a wealth of positive psychology research to the practical skills students can use to help clients, colleagues, and others successfully make positive changes in their lives, work, health, and relationships.

The course includes 10 live webinars, with recordings available for anyone unable to join live. (About half our students generally join the live classes, and the rest watch the recordings.) Class sessions cover the following topics:

❖ Positive Psychology Coaching: The essential principles and techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching, including the CHANGE model
❖ Coaching Session Fundamentals: Structuring sessions, judging when coaching is appropriate, and getting engagements off to a strong start
❖ Essential Techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching: Understanding, experiencing, and practicing the techniques at the heart of effective coaching. These include:
➤ Appreciative Inquiry: Helping clients focus on what works in order to inspire ideas, confidence, and motivation for change
➤ Asking Powerful Questions: Generating questions that help clients achieve greater understanding and make progress toward their goals
➤ Exploring Stories: Listening to clients’ stories, and helping them explore those stories to generate insights, narrative coherence, and goal clarity
➤ Empathic Listening: Practicing the essential art of truly listening to clients, and addressing challenges to both our empathy and our attention
➤ Coaching for Self-Compassion: Helping clients achieve greater well-being and goal progress by treating themselves with self-compassion
➤ Solutions Focus: Shifting clients’ focus from problems to solutions, and helping them develop paths to solutions that work
➤ Action and Accountability: Helping clients create goal maps and action plans, and serving as an effective accountability partner.
❖ Coaching for CHANGE: Putting it all together to structure coaching engagements that help clients effectively identify, pursue, and achieve their goals for positive change.

The Skill-Building Intensive offers students the opportunity to develop fluency and confidence in the steps, skills, and techniques used to help others successfully pursue goals for positive change in their life, work, health, and relationships. This course includes extensive demonstrations and practice sessions, in which students rotate the roles of coach, client, and observer. Together, we will work through each step of the CHANGE model for helping others (and ourselves) to create lasting, meaningful change.

We offer this course in two formats: online and on-site. Students pursuing WBI’s Positive Psychology Coaching Certification can choose either option to satisfy this part of their course requirements.
Online Option
➤ Spring Session: June 23, 30, July 7, 14, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm ET
➤ Fall Session: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm ET
The online option is held on four consecutive Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Eastern Time. Each day of the program, we alternate between coming together for demonstrations, separating into triads to practice the demonstrated skills, taking breaks for reflection and self-care, and repeating the sequence with different skills. We’ve designed the program to be highly energetic and varied, so you’ll have plenty of opportunity to practice these great skills while interacting with different people in different ways throughout each class session.
Attendance requirement: Because all peer practice is integrated into the Saturday sessions, live online attendance is required for all four sessions.
The online option is available only to students who have completed Positive Psychology Coaching Fundamentals.
➤ Tuition: $695
➤ Online Option: Approved for 15 ICF CCE units in Core Competencies and 7 ICF CCE units in Resource Development.

This course covers the essential evidence-based skills and concepts of positive psychology coaching as well as the CHANGE model for structuring successful coaching engagements. The course includes lectures, case studies, demonstrations, and optional weekly peer-coaching sessions. This program connects a wealth of positive psychology research to the practical skills students can use to help clients, colleagues, and others successfully make positive changes in their lives, work, health, and relationships.

The course includes 10 live webinars, with recordings available for anyone unable to join live. (About half our students generally join the live classes, and the rest watch the recordings.) Class sessions cover the following topics:

❖ Positive Psychology Coaching: The essential principles and techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching, including the CHANGE model
❖ Coaching Session Fundamentals: Structuring sessions, judging when coaching is appropriate, and getting engagements off to a strong start
❖ Essential Techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching: Understanding, experiencing, and practicing the techniques at the heart of effective coaching. These include:
➤ Appreciative Inquiry: Helping clients focus on what works in order to inspire ideas, confidence, and motivation for change
➤ Asking Powerful Questions: Generating questions that help clients achieve greater understanding and make progress toward their goals
➤ Exploring Stories: Listening to clients’ stories, and helping them explore those stories to generate insights, narrative coherence, and goal clarity
➤ Empathic Listening: Practicing the essential art of truly listening to clients, and addressing challenges to both our empathy and our attention
➤ Coaching for Self-Compassion: Helping clients achieve greater well-being and goal progress by treating themselves with self-compassion
➤ Solutions Focus: Shifting clients’ focus from problems to solutions, and helping them develop paths to solutions that work
➤ Action and Accountability: Helping clients create goal maps and action plans, and serving as an effective accountability partner.
❖ Coaching for CHANGE: Putting it all together to structure coaching engagements that help clients effectively identify, pursue, and achieve their goals for positive change.