Starts February 2022 Limited Spaces
Positive Psychology Coaching & Enhancing Resilience
Learn how to improve the wellbeing and resilience of yourself and those around you.
- INSTRUCTOR: ALISON TAYLOR
- DATES: FEB 16 - MAR 16, 2022 (09:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST)
- ICF CREDITS: 9.5 CORE COMPETENCIES / 2.5 RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Starts February 2022 Limited Spaces
Positive Psychology Coaching & Enhancing Resilience
Learn how to improve the wellbeing and resilience of yourself and those around you.
- INSTRUCTOR: ALISON TAYLOR
- DATES: FEB 16 - MAR 16, 2022 (09:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST)
- 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.
Further details
Schedule, Format & Fees
This course is delivered online via four three hour live, interactive sessions on Zoom. In total, there are 12 live training hours across four weeks, plus an assessment.
Week One
An introduction to resilience coaching.
- What is resilience? What are the different models of resilience to recover from adversity?
- What does loss of resilience look like according to different models of coaching?
- Coaching activity on uncovering the client’s model of resilience.
- Utilizing the resilience questionnaire in a coaching context.
Week Two
Using coaching to build resilience skills.
- Building resilience skills. Trait theory, Protective Factor theory and learning through experience.
- Changing the narrative and the role of the coach.
- Coaching activity on creating a new narrative.
Week Three
Thriving – moving beyond coping skills into flourishing.
- Using positive psychology coaching to thrive.
- Utilizing various models on experiences of flow (e.g. REFLECT model, Broaden and Build, strengths, etc.).
Week Four
Learn how to future-proof your resilience.
- Developing flexibility and openness to change.
- Strategies for utilizing areas of stability and stretching beyond one’s expected boundaries.
- Building protection through taking a strengths based action.
Student Testimonials
Learn how the IPPC has helped people from all walks of life
Meet your instructor
Alison Taylor
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.
