Welcome to Positivity School
Help Your People Thrive
Your faculty and staff have never needed support like they need it right now.
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone in your international school community, and they're looking to you for leadership and support as you shape the "new normal" together.
We're here to help you help them bounce back - and even beyond where they were before.
Join an intentional global community of international schools moving forward together to increase positivity and wellbeing.
Member Schools
Join this network of international schools prioritising faculty and staff wellbeing.
We're bringing together international school leaders, teachers, and staff to learn, apply, and share evidence-based positive psychology practices that will strengthen you personally and help you build wellbeing in your school communities.
Positivity School will help you and your faculty/staff...
Navigate life's ups and downs feeling strong, confident, calm, and optimistic
Be energised by a positive and supportive global network of peers
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Contribute creatively to building wellbeing in your school community
What Research Says About Faculty and Staff Wellbeing
…and this was before COVID-19!
We don’t have research results yet on the impact of the pandemic on faculty and staff, but countless anecdotal reports from around the world indicate that leader and teacher stress levels are higher than ever.
Now is the time to focus on positivity and wellbeing
...but getting started may feel overwhelming.
To develop positive and resilient students, you need to have positive and resilient adults who teach and support them. But very few schools have been making faculty and staff wellbeing a priority, and those who want to do this this aren't quite sure how to get started.
We understand where you're coming from.
...and we can help.
That's why we've created Positivity School, a global online group coaching community grounded in the science of positive psychology. It's designed to meet the needs of international school leaders who are ready to make a sound, sustainable investment in the wellbeing of their faculty & staff.
Members can opt into as much or as little high-impact learning and coaching as they want at any given time.
Being part of a global peer community generates fresh energy, creativity, motivation, and positive action.
We meet people right where they are now and help them move forward positively at their own pace.
The Positivity School Journey
Our ultimate aim is helping you increase positivity and wellbeing in your entire school community.
Positivity School helps you develop organisational capacity and capability through strengthening, equipping, and inspiring each member of your faculty and staff.
Make a Commitment to Faculty and Staff Wellbeing Today
We want to make it easy for you to enroll your people in Positivity School so they can start benefitting from the learning, coaching, and community connections as soon as possible.
By joining this year, you'll lock in permanent and steeply discounted rates, and you'll establish your school as a front-runner in making a commitment to faculty and staff wellbeing.
Register by November 30th, 2020 to take advantage of Founding Member rates and benefits.
Pricing will increase January 2021.
Learn, Grow, and Thrive
in a Global Peer Coaching Community
We're Making it Easy for You to Strengthen and Support Your Faculty and Staff
Positivity School will help you look after the wellbeing of the adults in your school as well as you look after your students. It's an online community of learners focused on building psychological and emotional wellbeing in themselves and others.
Develop Positive Psychological Capital
This starts with increasing Positive Psychological Capital, or PsyCap - a set of four inner resources: hope, confidence, resilience, & optimism.
Studies show that people with higher PsyCap experience greater positivity and wellbeing, more satisfaction with their jobs and relationships, and deeper organisational commitment. Strong PsyCap also reduces cynicism, turnover intentions, work stress, and anxiety (Luthans, et al., 2015).
PsyCap can be measured and developed, and its benefits have been shown to spread throughout organisations in several ways, including upward spirals, ripple effects, and contagion effects.
So when you develop faculty/staff PsyCap, it spreads within and across teams, flows to students, and extends to your parent community.
Increase Positive Emotion
A second objective of Positivity School is to generate positive emotion. Research shows that positivity broadens, or opens our hearts and minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
Positivity also builds, or transforms us for the better, allowing us to discover and develop new skills, new ties, new knowledge, and new ways of being. (Fredrickson, 2013)
In Positivity School, we'll help people identify, savour, and generate more of the ten positive emotions that impact people's day-to-day lives the most...
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Joy
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Gratitude
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Serenity
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Interest
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Hope
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Pride
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Amusement
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Inspiration
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Awe
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Love
Share Positivity & Wellbeing Practices
A third aim of Positivity School is to develop wellbeing literacy and share best practices across the global international school community.
To do this, we'll use the Visible Wellbeing SEARCH Framework, a research-backed model developed by Professor Lea Waters, AM, PhD - a world leader in positive education and teacher/student wellbeing.
Solros is a licensed facilitator of the Visible Wellbeing program, and we help schools prioritise the 6 core domains of wellbeing...
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Strengths
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Emotional Management
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Attention and Awareness
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Relationships
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Coping
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Habits and Goals
In Positivity School, we'll crowdsource a resource bank of wellbeing practices which are nurturing the 6 SEARCH domains in our school communities. We hope this will inspire more wellbeing initiatives in as many schools as possible!
A Supportive Peer Coaching Community
How can we do all this in a way that will engage and energise your busy faculty and staff?
The backbone of Positivity School is The Positivity Playground, an online social learning platform that gives members a way to learn what they need, at their own pace, with like-minded people.
We'll provide every community member with training in positive dialogue and peer coaching to help us co-create a warm, solutions-focused environment where we can provide the best possible support for each other, leaning positively into the ups and downs of daily life and work.
The Positivity Playground will be moderated by certified positive psychology coaches, positive psychology graduate students, and carefully selected mentors who are international school leaders and wellbeing program facilitators.
Registration is Currently Closed
Interested in an online course for your team or group?
Just contact us to set it up.
Flexible Learning and Coaching Options,
100% Online
Schools can select the level of learning and coaching support that fits their people's needs the best...
The Positivity Playground
In The Playground, members can engage in bite-sized learning and discussion threads on core positivity and wellbeing topics, and join Q&A sessions with a certified positive psychology coach.
Members can also opt into learning experiences that support their specific needs and interests, including book clubs, TED Circles, 5-Day Challenges with pop-up coaching groups, guest expert interviews, and more.
The Positivity Classroom
Includes everything in The Playground, plus...
Self-paced online mini-courses on core positivity and wellbeing topics. The gamified learning experience includes progress tracking, leaderboards and badges, and certificates of completion. New mini-courses will be added each year.
The Positivity Lab
Includes The Playground and Classroom, plus...
The Positive Foundation MasterClass,
a 10-week facilitated learning journey including formal Strengths Profile and PsyCap assessments, online learning modules, a weekly facilitated Solutions Lab (group coaching), coach feedback on application exercises, peer coaching exercises, online discussion group, gamification, certification, and much more.
How does all that sound to you?
We hope you're as excited as we are!
Join before December 1st, 2020 to take advantage of Founding Member rates and benefits. Pricing will increase January 2021.
By joining this year, you'll lock in permanent and steeply discounted rates, and you'll establish your school as a front-runner in making a commitment to faculty and staff wellbeing.
If you'd like to learn how to join this group of schools proactively strengthening their people starting in the 2020-21 school year, choose one of the options below to take the next step.
Is Positivity School Right for Your International School?
That depends on your values and beliefs as a leader.
Ready to Invest in Positivity and Wellbeing?
Register by November 30th, 2020 to take advantage of Founding Member rates and benefits. Pricing will increase January 2021.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does our entire faculty need to join for us to become a Member School?
No - Positivity School is 100% opt-in. We'll work with you to share a Positivity School introductory video to your faculty and staff, along with an invitation to register by a particular date. Then we'll welcome your initial cohort all together.
Can more people from our school join at anytime?
Yes! It's likely that the word will spread within your faculty about all the great connecting, learning, and coaching we're doing in Positivity School - and we're happy to welcome new members anytime.
Will people have trouble catching up if they didn't join in September?
Not at all. Positivity School is designed to be self-paced and self-directed. Each member creates their own development journey.
What happens to memberships at the end of the school year?
For school-based group memberships, we work to get everybody onto the same annual billing cycle, regardless of when they join during the school year. We pro-rate the fees on a 12-month basis from the joining month through August of the following year. This ensures you're only paying for the months your faculty/staff are registered.
How much coordination is needed for Positivity School?
Each Member School appoints a Positivity School coordinator to manage the registration and billing process. Additionally, the coordinator manages any arrangements the school makes for providing/reimbursing book club books.
Is Positivity School for leaders too?
Yes - we're here to support all adults who work in international schools! In our community we have school Directors and Deputy Directors, Principals and Assistant Principals, Heads of Teaching and Learning, and more.