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Peer Coaching Hours
Delivered Globally
Become a Leader in Peer-Led Development
The aim of this program is to help international and independent schools build staff wellbeing, engagement, and teamwork by embedding positive psychology coaching practices and perspectives in their school communities. We do this by training, inspiring, and equipping an on-site coaching team and supporting them through an active global network of Certified Positive Peer Coaches.
Positive psychology coaching has been shown to strengthen...
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Individual and Team Wellbeing
Performance and Collaboration
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Life and Work Satisfaction
A Quick Introduction to Positive Peer Coaching
From Solros founder and creator of the Positive Peer Coaching Program, Kristin Lowe
Equip Your Team of Positive Peer Coaches
Certified Positive Peer Coaches form an in-house development team at their schools by modeling and facilitating research-backed wellbeing, development, and collaboration practices in everyday life and work.
In partnership with our Certified Positive Peer Coaches at schools around the world, we're creating a “distributed ripple effect” of individual and organizational wellbeing by equipping and supporting key staff members in each department and division to coach their peers both formally and informally.
As part of the certification process, Positive Peer Coaches are asked to design their own peer coaching vision. This is a simple plan for how they would like to offer 1:1 and group coaching support to their colleagues. Our approach supports autonomy, voice, and choice for Positive Peer Coaches in how they apply their learning in their own unique contexts.
Our Positive Peer Coaching Teams at international schools around the world are doing this in many different ways using the training, resources, and ongoing support we provide...
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In-house professional development workshops
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Brief (30-minute) individual coaching sessions
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On-site group coaching sessions
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Solution-focused meeting protocols
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Weekly celebrations of strengths and growth
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Teachers-Teaching-Teachers programs
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"Walk and Talk" coaching conversations
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Staff meeting warm-up activities
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Online group coaching (goal setting and check-ins)
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...and much more!
What Colleagues Say about Working
with a Positive Peer Coach
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Start Building Your Team of Certified Positive Peer Coaches
The Positive Peer Coach Training and Certification Program is offered each school year starting in August or September, depending on whether you choose the 4-month weekend intensive course or the 8-month weekday option.
We welcome individual registrations and offer group rates through our school membership model, for schools wanting to build and sustain a strengths-based, solution-focused school culture
World-Class Professional Coach Training
The Positive Peer Coach Training Program is accredited by the International Coaching Federation, which sets the global standard for professional coach training.
We proudly award our program graduates with 35 hours of ICF Approved
Coach Specific Training Hours (ASCTH). This represents partial completion of our full Solros ICF LEVEL 1 Coach Training Program, which Certified Positive Peer Coaches can complete by joining our ICF Certification Practicum course.
An ICF certification is a globally recognized credential that represents the gold standard in professional coaching across all industries.
Becoming an ICF certified coach indicates that you have met specific standards and requirements designed to develop and refine your coaching skills. It is an indication that you are dedicated to upholding strong principles of ethical behavior in coaching.
Positive Peer Coach Training
Program Modules
Participants in this program are equipped with evidence-based coaching skills to apply with their colleagues and fellow members in the global Positive Peer Coaching Network.
Educators can easily apply these practices to amplify their impact with students and parents, and Positive Peer Coaching perspectives enhance our personal relationships as well.
Introduction to
Positive Peer Coaching
PsyCap-Based
Coaching Practices
Core Coaching
Competencies
Solution-Focused
Coaching Practices
Strengths-Based
Coaching Practices
Coaching as a
Way of Being
What Do Participants Learn in This Program?
By the end of this program, our graduates know how to confidently and naturally facilitate strengths-based, solutions-focused, and emotionally intelligent conversations that bring energy, support, and a positive focus to the people around them - at work and at home.
Participants leave with the resources and confidence they need to facilitate group coaching sessions/mini-workshops and individual laser coaching sessions. They're also able to bring a positive psychology coaching perspective to informal conversations in their everyday life and work.
Key Learning Outcomes
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Recognize what coaching is and isn't, and apply the science behind how coaching supports wellbeing, performance, and collaboration.
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Continually integrate the International Coaching Federation Core Competencies into formal and informal coaching conversations.
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Practice coaching from your own strengths while coaching people around their strengths to manage energy and function at their best.
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Utilize the constructs of Positive Psychological Capital to help people activate and develop powerful internal resources.
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Collaborate with clients to establish a compelling future vision, build upon past successes, and mobilize resources to create desired outcomes.
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Translate the art of coaching into everyday life, infusing person-centered, strengths-based, solution-focused perspectives into all your conversations.
What Participants Say about Their Growth
as a Positive Peer Coach
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Building Whole-School Coaching Capacity
"How is Positive Peer Coaching different from ____?"
This is a question we hear all the time, and we hope this diagram helps shed a bit of light on the answer!
The coaching skills we develop in our Positive Peer Coach Training Program are applicable to all sorts of roles we play in schools.
Additionally, our Certified Positive Peer Coaches know how to step fully into a coaching stance that focuses 100% on enabling their conversation partner's growth through tapping into their existing internal and external resources.
When they're holding an ICF-aligned coaching stance, Certified Positive Peer Coaches...
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Don’t give advice or feedback.
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Don’t set the agenda or assign tasks.
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Don’t address clinical issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, or self-harm.
This is the stance we learn and practice in this program so that our participants will develop versatility both as a "pure" (ICF-aligned) coach and a colleague/educator who applies coaching skills when wearing different hats in their work.
Program Dates and Time Commitment
This is a blended learning program which includes...
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Self-paced online learning modules and asynchronous online discussions with your cohort and Mentor Coach
(approximately 2.5 hours per module; 15 hours total)
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Eight 3-hour Zoom group practice sessions.
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Two 30-minute recorded coaching sessions with a colleague, followed by a guided reflection and feedback process
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Two 1-hour Mentoring Calls where you receive individual coaching and feedback on your recorded sessions from your Mentor Coach
What are the Dates and Meeting Times?
We offer differentiated learning pathways to support the preferences of our program participants.
The program is the same for all pathways except for the pacing and meeting days. Participants select the option that works best for them.
We also offer the option of a private cohort at the ideal times for your faculty and staff. Please ask for details if this works best for you.
Start Building Your Team of Certified Positive Peer Coaches
The Positive Peer Coach Training and Certification Program is offered each school year starting in August or September, depending on whether you choose the 4-month weekend intensive course or the 8-month weekday option.
We welcome individual registrations and offer group rates through our school membership model, for schools wanting to build and sustain a strengths-based, solution-focused school culture
Certified Coach Hub and Continuous Professional Development Program
The initial certification is valid for one year. To maintain certification, continue growing as a coach, and support their school communities with embedding coaching practices schoolwide, Positive Peer Coaches participating in our Annual CPD/Recertification Program* do the following each school year...
Host/Co-Host at least one group coaching session for colleagues at their school
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Attend at least two partner practice sessions w/other Certified Coaches
Offer at least 2 hours of individual coaching to colleagues
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Participate in one Mentoring Call with a Mentor Coach
*The CPD/Recertification Program is a 1-year membership which includes...
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All of our group coaching/mini-workshop facilitation guides, with handouts for participants
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Promotional materials for inviting colleagues to join 1:1 and group coaching sessions
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Mini-Courses to help you continue developing your coaching skills in targeted areas
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A 1:1 Mentoring Call to receive personalized instruction and feedback on a recorded session
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Opportunities for ongoing coaching practice and continuous reflective practice
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Access to updated Positive Peer Coach Training Program materials and demonstrations
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Premium Member Access to learning resources and unlimited 1:1 coaching support
For Individual Members: €500/year
Group Rates Available for Member Schools