Practical Tools and Perspectives for Helping Others Learn and Grow
Develop strengths-based, solution-focused ways of thinking, communicating, and coaching that help others recognize their resources, expand possibilities, and move forward with greater agency.
Why Develop a Coaching Approach?
Developing a coaching mindset and skillset can strengthen the way you listen, ask questions, and help others think, learn, grow, and move forward.
You don’t need to be - or want to become - a professional coach to put coaching skills to work. They can become part of how you communicate, collaborate, teach, lead, mentor, facilitate, and support others every day.
Positive Psychology Coaching Foundations is designed for anyone who supports the learning and development of others, including teachers, school leaders, counselors, instructional coaches, mentors, facilitators, HR professionals, student support staff, business and operational staff, and others whose work involves supporting people.
A Two-Stage Learning Experience
Positive Psychology Coaching Foundations takes you through two progressive stages - first experiencing strengths-based, solution-focused principles for yourself, then learning to bring them into person-centered coaching conversations that help others recognize their resources, expand possibilities, and find their own way forward.
What's Included
An Introductory Strengths Profile Assessment
3x 2-hour workshops:
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Exploring Your Strengths Profile
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Solution-Focused Communication and Collaboration
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Strengths-Based Communication and Collaboration
Stage 1
The Positive Foundation Program
Who we are in a coaching conversation matters as much as the coaching skills we bring to it. Before learning how to coach others, you’ll explore and experience firsthand the strengths-based, solution-focused building blocks that form the foundation for our approach.
Learn to recognize and use your own unique strengths effectively and become more attuned to the strengths you notice in others. Explore the pillars of a solution-focused mindset and experience what happens when you intentionally apply them in your own life and work.
Through your Strengths Profile assessment, interactive activities, reflection, and peer coaching conversations, you’ll develop greater self-awareness and a deeper understanding of key positive psychology principles before learning how to apply them in coaching conversations.
You'll explore how to...
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Explore the relationship between strengths and energy
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Optimize known strengths and activate hidden talents
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Explore how attention and language shape next steps
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Differentiate solution-focused thinking from toxic positivity
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Notice and appreciate strengths in yourself and others
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Navigate difficult situations from a strengths perspective
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What's Included
3x 3-hour workshops with coaching and skill-building practice throughout...
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Coaching Operating System
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Strengths-Based, Solution-Focused Coaching Toolkit
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Micro-Skills for Responsive, Person-Centered Coaching
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Laser Coaching Conversation Frameworks
Stage 2
Core Coaching Skills for Positive Conversations
After building your own positive foundation, you’ll learn how to bring those same principles into non-directive, person-centered coaching conversations that help others recognize and activate their own internal and external resources.
Explore the eight ICF Core Coaching Competencies and how strengths-based, solution-focused dialogue can support greater reflection, agency, learning, and growth.
Through hands-on practice with simple, flexible coaching frameworks, you’ll develop the mindset, skills, and confidence to facilitate concise coaching conversations and apply what you learn in everyday interactions with the people you support.
You'll explore how to...
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Adopt a person-centered coaching mindset that supports agency
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Build trust and psychological safety through coaching ways-of-being
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Move beyond advice-giving to facilitate meaningful learning
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Listen - and hear - with presence, curiosity, and empathy
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Ask powerful questions that deepen reflection and self-awareness
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Help colleagues and students activate their existing resources
APPLYING COACHING SKILLS
What Can You Do With Your Coaching Skills?
The value of a coaching mindset and skillset extends far beyond formal coaching sessions.
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COACH DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY
Continue Your Coaching Development
For some people, Positive Psychology Coaching Foundations will provide exactly the right amount of coaching capability you want to bring into your existing role. For others, it can be the beginning of a deeper development journey leading to Solros certification and an ICF coaching credential.
Stage 1
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Learn to apply non-directive, person-centered, strengths-based, solution-focused coaching approaches in everyday conversations that support learning and growth.
For anyone who supports the learning and development of others
Stage 2
Strengthen your coaching mindset and skillset through individualized Mentor Coaching, learn to design and facilitate group coaching programs, and become a Solros Certified Positive Peer Coach.
For graduates of Positive Psychology Coaching Foundations
Stage 3
Develop your coaching practice to a professional level, learn to facilitate multi-session coaching packages, and complete our ICF Level 1 Program, preparing you to become an ICF ACC (Associate Certified Coach).
For graduates of the Positive Peer Coach Training Program