Coaching for Wellbeing & Why it Matters

This workshop introduces Executive and Leadership Coaches to some scientific models of wellbeing. We will examine models, tools and techniques that can be used to facilitate clients to move from struggling to thriving.

Workshop Details

Gallup estimates that there is a worldwide $322 billion loss of turnover and productivity due to employee burnout.

This workshop introduces Executive and Leadership Coaches to some scientific models of wellbeing. We will examine models, tools and techniques that can be used to facilitate clients to move from struggling to thriving.

This workshop will also provide students with the opportunity to be reflective and reflexive. In-class activities will challenge coaches to review how they can ensure they are thriving so that they can model a new way of being to their clients.

This workshop is especially applicable for executive and leadership coaches, business coaches and positive psychology coaches. The lessons learned can also be applied by life coaches.

Who is this workshop for?

Coaches, Practitioners & Professionals

This workshop – which is part of The Enrichment Series – is for coaches, practitioners and professionals without a coaching background who are interested in personal and professional development, and exposure to Positive Psychology, Positive Psychology Coaching, Evidence-Based Coaching, and beyond.

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Workshop Learning Objectives

During the workshop, you complete the following learning objectives.

Learning Objective #1

Understand why wellbeing is important at work.

Learning Objective #2

Understand the PERMA model of wellbeing.

Learning Objective #3

Discuss how you, as a coach, can ensure you thrive personally and professionally.

Learning Objective #4

Identify coaching approaches that can facilitate clients to move towards flourishing.

Meet your instructor

Petra Walker CPsychol, MA(Oxon), MSc. Psych, MSc (MAPPCP)

Petra is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, speaker and writer, specialising in Positive Psychology Coaching.

Petra’s coaching journey began in Hong Kong in 2006, and she has since worked in South Korea, Kuwait, Poland, and Dubai. She is a researcher, writer and speaker. She has published her research on Post Traumatic Growth, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Scuba diving and presented it at several international positive psychology conferences. She also co-authored a chapter on posttraumatic growth and adventure in a forthcoming text book on Adventure.

As well as running her private practice, and being the IPPC Programme and Assessment Coordinator, Petra is also an Associate Coach with NEO Leaders at INSEAD, the Business School for the World.

The most rewarding part of her professional life is when she sees a message from a client saying “Thanks, I did it!”