The Positive Foundation Program is a learning, coaching, and community-building experience for teaching and non-teaching employees at international schools worldwide.
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This program is designed to equip you with evidence-based personal and professional development strategies rooted in the science of positive psychology. These practical tools and generative perspectives will enhance both your personal energy and performance, while also helping you strengthen collaboration with others.
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These approaches are grounded in research and proven to support sustainable growth, performance, and meaningful relationships, ultimately creating a school environment where everyone - leaders, staff, and students - can thrive.
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This program will help you strengthen...
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Energy and Wellbeing
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Growth, Performance,
and Impact
Relationships and Collaboration
A Blended Learning Journey for Maximum Impact
The Positive Foundation Program includes three workshops, a Strengths Profile Assessment, and a global learning community of strengths-based, solution-focused international school educators.
You can join our Global Cohort anytime. Access to your program spaces will expire on July 31 at the end of the school year in which you join. You may extend your access and membership into the next school year for an additional fee.
If you are unable to attend a live workshop, you can catch up by watching a recording.
Exploring Your Strengths Profile
Workshop: Live on Zoom with recording available
Solution-Focused Communication and Collaboration
Workshop: Live on Zoom with recording available
Strengths-Based Communication and Collaboration
Workshop: Live on Zoom with recording available
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Make the most of your strengths for more energy and impact.
What Will You Learn in This Program?​
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Exploring Your Strengths Profile
Boost Your Energy and Impact with Strengths
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Are you playing to your strengths each day? Knowing how to make the most of your unique strengths helps you focus on the things you do well and enjoy. This doesn't just benefit you; it also has a positive impact on your teams and in your personal relationships.
This workshop will help you understand and use your unique strengths in ways that boost your wellbeing, performance, and impact. We’ll use the Strengths Profile assessment and evidence-based peer coaching exercises to help you increase awareness of your current strengths-use and design action plans for optimizing your strengths in your personal and professional life.
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Participants in this workshop will…
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Discover the relationship between strengths and energy
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Optimize known strengths and activate hidden talents
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Explore your Strengths Profile in peer coaching conversations
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This program includes the Free Starter Strengths Profile assessment. We will provide guidance on upgrading your assessment if you would like a more robust report. For in-house programs, additional per-person assessment fees apply.
Solution-Focused Communication and Collaboration
Energy Flows Where Attention Goes
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In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore evidence-based strategies for overcoming challenges by focusing more on building solutions rather than analyzing (and amplifying) problems.
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When we consciously choose to disengage from problem-focused thinking and put more energy into defining what we want instead of the problem, our creativity, confidence, and motivation increase.
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Solution-focused thinkers actively focus on “what works well” and find ways to acknowledge, identify, and mobilize existing strengths and resources. This creates energy and momentum which helps groups and individuals continue moving toward their desired goals.
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Participants in this workshop will…
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Explore the neuroscience of attentional choice and solution-focused language
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Differentiate between nurturing a solution focus and engaging in toxic positivity
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Apply a Solution-Focused Conversation Framework to meetings and 1:1 conversations
Strengths-Based Communication and Collaboration
Strengthen the Way You Work Together
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When you focus on strengths as a team, you experience loads of benefits both personally and collectively - and your overall impact becomes stronger.
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Making strengths a core part of your team’s everyday interactions is one of the quickest, easiest, and most powerful ways to boost everybody’s energy and wellbeing. Teams who regularly “notice and name” strengths in each other are more engaged and more creative. They also have more role clarity and share work more effectively.
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A strengths focus makes your teamwork stronger through the good times as well as the challenging ones. Learning to view the ups and downs of everyday collaboration through the lens of strengths can have transformational effects on team trust - creating an environment of psychological safety, support, and mutual respect.
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Participants in this workshop will…
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Strengthen collaboration with colleagues by focusing on strengths
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Develop vocabulary and skills for strengthspotting in everyday conversations
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Explore ways to navigate difficult conversations from a strengths perspective