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This 9-month online and on-site course offers an in-depth, integrated exploration of the science and direct application of positive psychology—the study of individual and societal flourishing—in all aspects and stages of life.
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 self-regard and grounded optimism.
Graduates leave with the tools, practices, and research to support an increased capacity for health, strengthened resilience, deeper mindfulness, and greater levels of overall well-being.

For coaches, leaders, teachers, health professionals, social workers, psychologists, and anyone who wants to make tomorrow a little bit better than today.
➤ There are two sessions in 2019.
Session A runs February 4 to September 20, 2019.
Session B runs September 9, 2019 to April 24, 2020.
➤ The curriculum consists of nine modules, including seven online modules and two onsite immersions.
➤ Immersions are each five days in length, starting on Sunday evening and concluding Friday at noon.
➤ Immersions are held in Massachusetts at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Session A immersions are March 10–15 and September 15–20, 2019. Session B immersions are October 13–18, 2019, and April 19–24, 2020.
➤ The online lessons combine prerecorded video lectures, live question-and-answer sessions via video webinars with rotating faculty, special guest webinars focusing on the practice of positive psychology, reading assignments, forum discussions, homework, and small-group work.
➤ Module 1: Introduction to Wholebeing Happiness is immediately available upon registration, providing a self-directed foundation before the entire student body begins together with Module 2.

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.

The online option is a powerful and convenient way to deepen your skills and confidence through:
➤ Live, online classes featuring extensive demonstrations (recorded on video for those unable to join us live)
➤ Structured practice sessions in dedicated peer-coaching triads, scheduled at times that work best for you and your practice partners.
Live sessions are held on Fridays from 9:00-10:30 am ET, with video recordings posted the same day. If you’re unable to join us live, you can watch the videos and still be fully prepared for your peer coaching sessions.
The online option is available only to students who are enrolled in or 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.

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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.
Live classes will be held each week from 12:00 to 1:30 pm ET. After the final day of class, students will have another five weeks of access to the virtual classroom, including the recordings of webinars.
❖ This course offers 39 ICF CCE units in Core Competencies and 5 ICF CCE units in Resource Development.
➤ To complete the registration for ICF CCE units, you must already be enrolled in the Positive Psychology Coaching course. ICF CCE Credits for this course will be available at an additional fee of $40.

Course Content and Timing
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.