A Train-the-Trainer Course

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Overview

This course is for Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology (CiPP and CiWPP) graduates who want to be licensed to facilitate the Inspire Your Ideal Workshop.

After taking this program, you’ll be able to

➤ Facilitate a positive experiential learning environment for the Inspire Your Ideal 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 Inspire Your Ideal Workshop.

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

How it Works

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.

Serving Your Audience

We have coaches, consultants, therapists, and many, many other roles represented in our CiPP community—and graduates in every profession are welcome to become licensed trainers for the Wholebeing Happiness Workshop. In other words, you don’t have to run a training organization to become a licensee. As you think about how you serve your audience, the “workshop in a box” can help you develop a new line of service or deepen your existing offerings.

So you can understand the connection between teaching the workshop and your professional role, here are the four key concepts covered in the eight- to 10-hour workshop that you’ll be trained to facilitate:

1. Learn and practice the SPIRE approach to expand the capacity for and perspective of wholebeing

2. Experience the power of storytelling and re-storying to understand and practice living from a strengths-based perspective

3. Develop and cultivate key aspects of the ideal self, exploring how that vision can enrich daily actions and simplify choices

4. Practice focusing attention to experience the power of appreciation, using it to strengthen relationships with self and others.

The format of the Inspire Your Ideal Workshop curriculum is flexible, in order to best serve your audience. You can run a condensed session in one day (eight hours) or spread out the workshop over a number of days. The content is modular, and the Facilitator Guide gives you suggested edits depending on the time allotted—whether you choose to run the program in one day, over a weekend, or during an evening and a day.

The Flow

Before the immersion, you’ll get access to the PPT slides in the closed classroom so we can review key concepts together during a live webinar. This allows you time to reflect on the personal stories you want to tell as a facilitator, and the vision you have for yourself as a presenter.

At the immersion, you’ll experience the material as a student and then shift roles to practice as facilitator.

After the immersion, we’ll continue online, fine-tuning the material.

Your Voice

The Facilitator Guide and the associated slides include placeholders for your stories. As the presenter, your voice is critical. Rather than a script to read from, you’ll receive both space and structure.

Structure includes the framework, such as the slides with key points and group exercises.

Space is about telling your own relevant stories—how the content relates to your own life—through examples, real-life experiences, and applications in action. We will work together to shape these personal stories during our time in the immersion. You’ll gain comfort, skill, and flexibility in choosing, shaping, and offering your story, through practice both at the immersion and as a presenter back home.

Location

Investment

$995 USD (tuition is $495 and licensing is $500). This includes the Inspire Your Ideal workshop, the Wholebeing Happiness Facilitator Guide, and access to a “trainers only” area on the Wholebeing Institute website. This is the place where we archive updates to the Facilitator Guide so you can keep your work up to date. It’s also the place where WBI trainers share best practices and stay connected through community webinars. The license also includes a listing on the WBI site as an approved trainer for the Inspire Your Ideal Workshop.

With the license, you can run the program as often as you like. You set your own fees with your students, and you keep all the revenue. There is no per-student charge that goes back to WBI.

After year one, the license is renewed annually for a $199 lump sum, or spread over the year for $20 per month.