Positive Psychology Coaching & Enhancing Resilience
Learn how to improve the wellbeing and resilience of yourself and those around you.
- INSTRUCTOR: ALISON BISHOP MSc, PhD CANDIDATE
- ICF CREDITS: 9.5 CORE COMPETENCIES / 2.5 RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Positive Psychology Coaching & Enhancing Resilience
Learn how to improve the wellbeing and resilience of yourself and those around you.
- INSTRUCTOR: ALISON BISHOP MSc, PhD CANDIDATE
- ICF CREDITS: 9.5 CORE COMPETENCIES / 2.5 RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Course overview
Master Resilience
This course introduces students to a range of positive psychology coaching theories, tools and techniques to help themselves and others enhance resilience.
Students will develop and reflect on various skills including client assessment, resilient coaching conversations and interventions.
This course will also provide students with the opportunity to be reflective and reflexive. In-class activities will challenge and inspire students to review their own resilience, so that they can work collaboratively with others.
This course is especially applicable for positive psychology coaches, life coaches, business coaches – as well as coaches and therapists who subscribe to evidence-based coaching approaches.
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Course Learning Objectives
During the Positive Psychology Coaching for Enhancing Resilience course, you will learn how to:
Learning Objective #1
Identify and evaluate different coaching approaches to resilience.
Learning Objective #2
Identify the level of resilience presented by others around you, such as employees or clients.
Learning Objective #3
Use positive psychology interventions to increase a person’s level of resilience.
Learning Objective #4
Practice and reflect on your own skills at coaching resilience.

Course Details
Part One
What Is Resilience?
- What is resilience?
- An examination of five different models of resilience
Part Two
Assessing Resilience
- Ways of measuring resilience
- What does loss of resilience look like?
- The role of the coach in assessing resilience
Part Three
Building Resilience
- Building resilient narratives
- The role of the coach in helping clients build their narrative
- Building resilient mindsets
Part Four
Maintaining Resilience
- Using flexibility, stability, personal values and identity to maintain resilience
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Meet your instructor
Alison Bishop
Alison is an educator and researcher on resilience and is also a research supervisor in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology (MAPPCP) program at the University of East London.

On top of being a certified counsellor, she is also a coach and graduate of the MAPPCP program a PhD candidate in the third year of her study into resilience in enduringly chronically challenging situations.
Alison has presented her research findings on resilience, hope, and optimism at several industry conferences. She is most inspired by the courage that people have to share their challenges and change their lives. Alison truly lives out the philosophies of positive psychology, and both the people around her and those she helps clearly see the impact and difference it has made to her own life.