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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.

Available credits: 22 ICF CCE units—15 ICF Core Competencies and 7 ICF Resource Development

We offer this course in two formats: online and in-person. Students pursuing WBI’s Positive Psychology Coaching Certification can choose either option to satisfy this part of their course requirements.

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

We all seek resilience—the capacity to navigate difficult or cruel moments in life with adaptive and healthy responses—and it is something we wish for our families, our teams, and our communities. In recent years, the study of resilience has exploded, moving beyond what it looks to bounce back after loss to include a focus on perseverance under chronic or long-term stress; daily, ordinary resilience; and the study of post-traumatic growth (the growth of great resilience even under extreme stress). What we have come to understand is that most of us are resilient much of the time—and we could all use help strengthening our capacity!

This 5-week course is an exploration of the key principles of resilience and post-traumatic growth for individual well-being and for application in the settings most important to you (work, family, partnership, classroom, community). We’ll view it as a quest, an adventurous, meaningful expedition toward a significant goal, and integrate wisdom teachings from story and poetry with the latest research from the field of positive psychology to bring us toward the goal most potent for each of us.

This course covers the fundamental principles, theory, and techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching through a combination of lectures, case studies, demonstrations, readings, journal prompts, and optional student-to-student coaching sessions.

The course includes 10 live webinars, with recordings available for anyone unable to join live. 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.
Appreciative Inquiry: Helping clients to focus on what works in order to inspire ideas, confidence, and motivation for change.
Asking Powerful Questions: Generating questions that help clients to achieve greater understanding and make progress toward their goals.
Exploring Stories: Listening to clients’ stories, and helping them to 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 to 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 to develop paths to solutions that work.
Action and Accountability: Helping clients to 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 to effectively identify, pursue, and achieve their goals for positive change.
Building a Positive Psychology Coaching Practice:
Introduction to building a thriving practice by applying the principles of Positive Psychology to marketing, communication, and client development.

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.

Available credits: 22 ICF CCE units—15 ICF Core Competencies and 7 ICF Resource Development

We offer this course in two formats: online and in-person. Students pursuing WBI’s Positive Psychology Coaching Certification can choose either option to satisfy this part of their course requirements.

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

We all seek resilience—the capacity to navigate difficult or cruel moments in life with adaptive and healthy responses—and it is something we wish for our families, our teams, and our communities. In recent years, the study of resilience has exploded, moving beyond what it looks to bounce back after loss to include a focus on perseverance under chronic or long-term stress; daily, ordinary resilience; and the study of post-traumatic growth (the growth of great resilience even under extreme stress). What we have come to understand is that most of us are resilient much of the time—and we could all use help strengthening our capacity!

This 5-week course is an exploration of the key principles of resilience and post-traumatic growth for individual well-being and for application in the settings most important to you (work, family, partnership, classroom, community). We’ll view it as a quest, an adventurous, meaningful expedition toward a significant goal, and integrate wisdom teachings from story and poetry with the latest research from the field of positive psychology to bring us toward the goal most potent for each of us.

This course is for Certificate in Positive Psychology (CiPP) graduates who want to be licensed to facilitate the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop.

After taking this program, you’ll be able to:
- Facilitate a positive experiential learning environment for the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop, such that you can effectively deliver the key concepts, content, and exercises independently
- Give yourself permission to teach by bringing your best self forward—engaging strengths, identifying vulnerabilities and barriers, and learning to transform even the most anxious moments into gold
- Model wholebeing as a presenter—enlivening SPIRE for yourself, while you learn to hold the classroom as a whole
- Live the Wholebeing Institute values in the role of a licensed trainer for the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop.

Prerequisite: To become a licensed WBI trainer, you must be a graduate of the Certificate in Positive Psychology.

When you come to the program, you’ll receive the Wholebeing Happiness Facilitator Guide. This ​binder is a complete “workshop in a box,” which includes:
- PowerPoint presentation with bulleted scripts associated with each slide
- Guidelines and tips for planning, organizing, and executing a successful learning experience
- Easy-to-follow participant worksheets for your students, so they can take away a tangible reference guide and action plan
- Supplemental material to help you market the workshop
- USB flashdrive with an electronic copy of all materials used in facilitating and marketing the course, which you can print as needed, as well as customize with your own contact information and logo.

Bottom line: You get the power of the Wholebeing Institute brand directly supporting your work.
Learn to Teach the Wholebeing Happiness workshop

This course covers the fundamental principles, theory, and techniques of Positive Psychology Coaching through a combination of lectures, case studies, demonstrations, readings, journal prompts, and optional student-to-student coaching sessions.

The course includes 10 live webinars, with recordings available for anyone unable to join live. 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.
Appreciative Inquiry: Helping clients to focus on what works in order to inspire ideas, confidence, and motivation for change.
Asking Powerful Questions: Generating questions that help clients to achieve greater understanding and make progress toward their goals.
Exploring Stories: Listening to clients’ stories, and helping them to 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 to 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 to develop paths to solutions that work.
Action and Accountability: Helping clients to 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 to effectively identify, pursue, and achieve their goals for positive change.
Building a Positive Psychology Coaching Practice:
Introduction to building a thriving practice by applying the principles of Positive Psychology to marketing, communication, and client development.

This course is for Certificate in Positive Psychology (CiPP) graduates who want to be licensed to facilitate the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop.

After taking this program, you’ll be able to:
- Facilitate a positive experiential learning environment for the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop, such that you can effectively deliver the key concepts, content, and exercises independently
- Give yourself permission to teach by bringing your best self forward—engaging strengths, identifying vulnerabilities and barriers, and learning to transform even the most anxious moments into gold
- Model wholebeing as a presenter—enlivening SPIRE for yourself, while you learn to hold the classroom as a whole
- Live the Wholebeing Institute values in the role of a licensed trainer for the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop.

Prerequisite: To become a licensed WBI trainer, you must be a graduate of the Certificate in Positive Psychology.

When you come to the program, you’ll receive the Wholebeing Happiness Facilitator Guide. This ​binder is a complete “workshop in a box,” which includes:
- PowerPoint presentation with bulleted scripts associated with each slide
- Guidelines and tips for planning, organizing, and executing a successful learning experience
- Easy-to-follow participant worksheets for your students, so they can take away a tangible reference guide and action plan
- Supplemental material to help you market the workshop
- USB flashdrive with an electronic copy of all materials used in facilitating and marketing the course, which you can print as needed, as well as customize with your own contact information and logo.

Bottom line: You get the power of the Wholebeing Institute brand directly supporting your work.
Learn to Teach the Wholebeing Happiness workshop

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.

Available credits: 22 ICF CCE units—15 ICF Core Competencies and 7 ICF Resource Development

We offer this course in two formats: online and in-person. Students pursuing WBI’s Positive Psychology Coaching Certification can choose either option to satisfy this part of their course requirements.

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