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✓ Practice new perspectives—and understand how changing our mindset can be a leverage point for positive impact
✓ Apply the SPIRE model of well-being to increase appreciation for and application of a multifaceted view of thriving
✓ Focus attention towards the positive for more creativity, motivation, health, and overall success
✓Integrate personal learning by constructing a narrative that aims towards the Best Possible Self
Sandy Campbell is the co-lead for this course, facilitating the live webinars each week. After spending 10 years at a major pharmaceutical company, Sandy decided to stop working in the corporate world and start improving it instead. As a Positive Psychology Coach, she is passionate about helping clients achieve their full potential by making small but highly impactful shifts. She holds an MS in Counseling from Villanova University, as well as certifications in Positive Psychology (from Wholebeing Institute), Integrative Nutrition, and Mindful Yoga.
You will have time to reflect and inquire within through writing and journaling, with the aid of prompts that dive deeper into what each aspect of wholebeing happiness means to you personally or professionally. During the webinars, you will experience how these handouts are effectively used in coaching conversations.
✓ View two pre recorded videos
✓ Attend live webinar highlighting client handouts and their use in coaching conversations
✓ Practice using the material during in-class peer-coaching interactions
✓ Engage in exercises which apply what you have learned in between webinars
Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, is among the most highly cited scholars in psychology. She’s 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 social interactions. She’s assistant professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, & the director of the Emotions & 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.
Kristen Lindquist, PhD, studies the nature of emotion.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.
Megha Nancy Buttenheim, MA, E-RYT 1000, is CEO and founding director of Let Your Yoga Dance® LLC, and author of Expanding Joy: Let Your Yoga Dance, Embodying Positive Psychology. A lifelong singer, dancer, and actor, Megha is a longtime teacher-trainer at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and director of movement and meditation for Wholebeing Institute.
Maria Sirois, PsyD, is the course director for WBI’s yearlong certificate course. She’s an inspirational speaker, seminar leader, and author who has worked at the intersections of wellness, psychology, and spirituality for nearly 20 years. She’s the author of Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith, and Resilience from Children Facing Illness and A Short Course in Happiness After Loss.
Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, is co-founder of Wholebeing Institute. Tal taught one of Harvard’s most popular–and life-changing–courses on positive psychology, and is the author of five books, including the best-sellers Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment. He holds a doctorate in organizational behavior and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology from Harvard.
✓ Introduction to Your Coach: Create your own Introduction letter, including a description of the science of positive psychology, your approach, and your program specifics, to send to your client before your personalized program begins. Use existing language designed for Wholebeing Coaches, and add your own unique twist. .
✓ Start with Yes: Why did your client say yes to working with a coach? Uncover the reasons that drive the desire for change. Help your client explore their underlying “why.”
✓ Happiness Set Point: Help your clients move beyond habitual patterns, lifting their happiness level over time through purposeful choices and actions.
✓ Shaping Our Selves: Begin to identify, understand, and make sense of the many different, sometimes conflicting voices or selves within your client’s head. Use this handout to help clients aim towards an aspirational vision.
✓ Ideal Self: Clients use this handout to reach towards their Ideal Self, envisioning and then writing about a desired future.
✓ Meaningful Goal Pursuit: Teach your clients the six benefits of committed goal pursuit and then use this handout to help them determine what they would personally like to improve upon.
✓ SPIRE: A New Perspective on Life: Share the five perspectives of well-being with your clients, helping them paint a masterpiece of life using all five.
✓ Apply SPIRE to Your Goals: Use this clever worksheet to help clients map out an important goal, utilizing the five perspectives of SPIRE as a guide and inspiration.
✓ Focus on Strengths: Educate your clients about putting strengths front and center. Engage them in exercises designed to uncover their own enlivening and energizing super powers.
✓ Reach Towards Positivity: Show your clients why positive emotions matter, and how their view of the world is shaped by the emotional lens they are looking through .
✓ Pay Attention: Use this handout to reveal the importance of paying attention, and how that focus can help build meaning and purpose in life.
✓ Connect with Appreciation: Help your clients recognize and grow the #1 predictor of well-being: strong relationships. Guide them in using the power of appreciation to notice what is working well in their connections with the people who are most important to them, and elevate these connections even further.
✓ Act Out Your Ideal Self: Use this handout to help clients understand and harness the power of the mind-body connection—how the mind affects the body, as well as how the physical body can affect attitude and perspective.
✓ Take Care of Yourself: Use this handout to help clients with self-care, by focusing on how to nurture the body, move more frequently, and prioritize sleep.
✓ Deepen Curiosity: Foster and follow curiosity with your clients, using this handout to build an open and engaged mind to stay connected to continued learning and growth.
✓ Moving the Whole Forward: This handout weaves all the information together, helping your clients sculpt their days towards the Ideal by mapping out an intentional day with conscious, deliberate choices.
✓ Apply SPIRE to Your Goals: Use this clever worksheet to help clients map out an important goal, utilizing the five perspectives of SPIRE as a guide and inspiration.
✓ 30-Day Practice: Use this handout to help clients create and plan for a 30-Day Practice that will serve them beyond the coaching engagement.
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The course runs October 3–November 4, 2022
Tuition for this course is $495. USD
