Many people are ill-equipped to deal with modern-day stressors, causing them to react as though they are being attacked. In Coaching for Resilience, Adrienne Green and John Humphrey use the principles of positive psychology to show coaches, trainers and managers how to motivate and inspire people to build greater resilience to pressure....

Three Pillars of Health Coaching: Patient Activation, Motivational Interviewing and Positive Psychology provides the fundamentals of three essential tools that health coaches can use to measure and monitor activation levels, elicit behavior change, move clients along the path to self-management and have a positive impact on health outcomes and u...

Most coach training programs emphasize interpersonal skills, models and procedures, and personal development work such as ethical decision making. There has been, to date, a relative absence of systematic attention to emotional states-- on the part of both the coach and the coachee-- as it occurs during session. In this presentation Dr....

This MasterClass will empower you to be a charismatic leader in the lives of your clients. Dr. Robert Brooks has been working in this field and researching methods to increase resilience for over 40 years. This  MasterClass puts his extensive work together in one easily accessible location....

When coaching, leading, or collaborating with other human beings, few elements are as important or have as much impact as working with an individual’s character strengths....

This MasterClass aligns with the Institute of Coaching's theme: the conference that never ends. Here, we feature Barbara Frederickson’s research on positivity, or positive emotions, as well as her research on the psychology and biology of “love,” what Barbara describes as the supreme emotion, explored in her latest book Love 2.0....

This study examined linear and nonlinear relations between age and the presence and search for meaning in life and examined if these relations were moderated by the presence of meaning in work....

This paper describes a broad study of the peer-reviewed literature linked to the positive psychology movement (Donaldsen et al, 2015). A systematic review selected 750 articles published in English between 1999-2013 (no review yet for 2014-2019) that were empirical tests of positive psychology theories, principles, and interventions....

Self-compassion – having a healthy, mindful and kind self-attitude – may be a better way to cope with negative experiences than distraction. This was tested in 152 undergraduates who underwent a negative mood induction and then completed either a self-compassionate writing task or a distraction task....

Meta-analyses indicate the efficacy of positive psychology interventions in promoting well-being. But, despite accumulating empirical and anecdotal evidence of these interventions’ implementation in real-world settings, no review of effectiveness research exists....