Positive psychology toolbox for trainers and coaches
Are you a trainer or a coach in search of great new impactful tools that you can use in training? New ways and more flexibility in supporting your participants and clients in their learning and achieving their goals?
If yes, this is the series of workshops for you!
Regardless if you are fresh in training or have a ton of experience, this is the place for you to enrich your toolbox – especially if you wish the tools you use to be evidence-based and with an overall positive impact on your participants’ or clients’ life.
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About the workshop series
“Positive psychology toolbox for trainers and coaches” is a series of workshops built specifically for trainers and coaches to provide them with diverse, fresh, practical, impactful and engaging tools based on the science of positive psychology and neuroscience.
Positive psychology is the science of happiness, but it also looks into mindfulness, resilience, meaning, social connections and what makes them flourish, flow and enjoyment, positive emotions, strengths, mindset and love.
Built on principles of experiential learning and evidence-based training methods, the workshops will consist of sharing the positive psychology tools and exercises, trying them out, discussing all possible applications of these exercises in training and coaching, open many questions for reflection and many action points.
Participants will leave the session ready to use several great practical tools and with many new ideas on what to explore next and where to find an abundance of new materials.
Learning Goals for the participants are:
- To learn why and how to use positive psychology tools and theories in training
- To get to know numerous positive psychology tools that can be used in training and coaching, and discuss and brainstorm possibilities on how to implement these in a session in the best way
- To try out and test many of the tools through their own experience
- To share ideas with the group and get empowered to use new tools.
In case you wish to know more about any of the modules or have specific questions, feel free to contact us here.
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Why positive psychology is a great toolbox for trainers, educators and coaches?
Discover in this article on our blog.
9 positive psychology workshops within this course
Module #1 – Wellbeing and happiness
Module #2 – Mindfulness and stress
Module #3 – Resilience to challenges
Module #4 – Flow and engagement
Module #5 – Meaning and motivation
Module #6 – Strengths
Module #7 – Mindset, thinking patterns
Module #8 – Positive emotions and relationship with self (self-compassion)
Module #9 – Positive relationships
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Who can apply?
Workshops are open for anyone, although they are aimed at trainers and coaches who would like to use the research-based methods and tools of positive psychology related to wellbeing, flourishing, resilience etc., in their workshops and coaching.
Pre-knowledge needed: The assumption is that participants already have the foundation knowledge of workshops design and delivery, or coaching – while this will not be necessary in attending the course, it will be needed in order to apply the new tools in correct and impactful manner.
Outline of the 9 modules
Intro webinars
Th free intro webinar in October will include a short 1h intro to the topic of positive psychology and what it can offer to trainers and coaches. While they will provide some valuable tools and methods, focus will be in sharing more about the program and topics covered in other modules.
Module 1: Wellbeing and happiness
The first module will focus on positive psychology tools for trainers and coaches related to clients and participants’ wellbeing and happiness.
We will explore various models, frameworks, surveys and dashboards to measure happiness, life satisfaction and wellbeing, and diverse aspects of wellbeing.
While these topics are the core of positive psychology – the science of happiness and “life worth living” – they are also one of the most common initial points in a coaching conversation.
Module 2: Mindfulness for quality of life, focus and against stress
Our second module is focused on the value of mindfulness. We will cover this topic from both theoretical and practical aspects. You will learn useful tools and mindfulness practices including meditation, breathing exercises, best apps, gadgets and programs to become more grounded, focused, while strengthening emotional awareness and dealing with acceptance of negative or savoring the positive emotions. We will touch on what are the most effective types of mindfulness meditation, when to use each, how do they compare, and how we can personalise them for our clients – including the most scientifically sound programs and directions of meditation.
Module 3: Resilience to challenges, mental toughness and coping mechanisms
In this module, we will explore resilience and mental toughness broadly (through great models) and deeply (through deep and powerful techniques of working with own thinking patterns), understanding all of the aspects related to mindfulness and how to strengthen each. Tools will include surveys and scales, practical exercises and short, impactful tools for working with own resilience and dealing with circumstances that we can or cannot control.
Module 4: Flow and engagement
Module 4 is dedicated to flow, a state of full engagement and focus, rich with feeling of purpose and closely related to high performance and wellbeing.
We will explore tools for building flow for teams and individuals; characteristics and individual styles of flow, how to balance challenge and support for optimal performance, and connection between different mental states – such as mindfulness or playfulness – and how to use each of those states to strengthen flow.
Module 5: Building more meaning and motivation
Fifth module will introduce you to powerful exercises to uncover meaning in life on different levels, from everyday activities to ‘the big picture’ of life. You will learn tools and frameworks for working with life purpose, but also for creating more meaning in everyday life.
We will also learn about compassion based motivation (as opposed to inner critic), importance of positive focus, and working with inspiration to boost both positive action and positive emotion, as well as importance of attitude and strengthening self-confidence through awareness of progress and personal strengths.
Module 6: Discover and leverage personal strengths (individual or in a team)
In module six will learn how to lead participants or client to explore and leverage their own personal strengths, including discussing 4 best science-based strengths surveys, when to use them, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. We will explore a great framework to work with strengths overuse and underuse. Combining powerful metaphors with scientific data about usage of strengths, we will share exercises for reflection on strengths, how to get feedback from others on own strengths, exercises to support individual to focus more on using own strengths, and increasing the client’s awareness of activities that rely on personal strengths or weaknesses.
Module 7: Mindset and working with own thinking patterns
Module 7 is focused on working with mindset and thinking patterns.
We will learn tools to work with own thoughts in how we assign meaning to events in our life, making own thoughts more positive and impactful (meditation, journaling and other). We will discover how to work with self-narrative, unveil the effects of language on thinking, emotion and physiology – and how to leverage it in motivation and to use thoughts to positively impact our emotions and behaviors. We will also a broad set of powerful tools to practice more gratitude and strengthen optimism, the key elements of happiness and satisfaction in life.
Module 8: Positive emotions and relationship with self (self-compassion)
In module eight we will explore the science of positive emotions – what is their importance and how to enrich life with more positive emotions. We will also focus on relationship with self – learning about self-compassion, self-talk and ways to work on befriending yourself. We will explore meditation, reflection and journaling exercises, scales to measure self-compassion, and diverse practices to create self-compassionate moments, including reframing critical self-talk and understanding the inner critic.
Module 9: Positive relationships – building and maintaining them
In module nine we will explore a range of exercises and tools for being more intentional and develop more clarity and awareness of quality and satisfaction in our relationships. We will focus on creating strong connections and strengthening existing relationships through science-based tools and exercises.
We will also use this module to put together all previous tools and frameworks. You will get the chance to reflect on your learning and choose which of the tools to focus on.
All modules include a booklist of the recommended reading and a follow-up handout with an outline of the main tools mentioned.
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Pricing
Coming soon, once the new version of the course is launched.
Any further questions? Contact us.
About the trainer
Mirna Šmidt, the founder of Trainers Toolbox and Happiness Academy, brings together 11 years of experience in training and 8 years of experience in coaching with the practical experience of successful career in a global team in a fast-paced corporate environment. She also adds deep theoretical knowledge to the mix – among other things, including MsC of Applied Positive Psychology from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Her style of training is positive, energetic, engaging, fast paced and focused on goals and impact that we can create as trainers – and sometimes a tiny bit overwhelming in abundance of information as a consequence of her deep love of learning 🙂
Mirna’s mission is to support trainers in making training more impactful – among other ways, by leveraging science-based practices.
What others say
Monika Friscic, Human Resources Manager and Trainer at Poliklinika Bagatin, Croatia
Trainers Toolbox is like a well of knowledge for trainers, coaches and everyone who’s interested in personal development. When I’m stuck or in lack of ideas, it’s my go to place for inspiration.
I had the pleasure to meet Mirna and attend some of her trainings which were authentic, inspiring and encouraging! Thank you.
Edita Jurak, Assistant Professor at University of Groeningen, The Netherlands
Trainers Toolbox provides great, user friendly and fun tools – visuals, videos, exercises – for trainers and educators alike.
Meri Tukač, Technical Training Instructor, Croatia
Amazing source of inspiration, ideas and tools as well as education possibilities (TTT program is amazing!) for trainers and educators!
Ivana Kljaković-Gašpić, founding member at Evolution at work, Croatia
Trainers Toolbox is an amazing TTT program. The main quality is a quite flexible curriculum through which is possible to navigate following our own needs and desires. Bunch of super useful tools, highly skilled trainer and really interesting crowd.
Nathalie Navarro, coach, The Netherlands
I’ ve followed a Mirna’ s workshop with a lot of enthusiasm. She has explained and give me a lot of tools which is bringing me structure into my coaching program for my cliënt.
Mirna is talented in her knowledge, we feel her passion. She is congruent in her behavior. I encourage and invite all to follow one of her workshops. There will be a moment she will pass near your home! Go there! No regrets! Only Happiness. Thank you so much, Mirna, for your sharing.
Marija Malkoč Kušt, Agile Trainer and Scrum Master, Croatia
It was a pleasure to walk the talk with Mirna during the TTT training. Although I started with not being sure if I have what it takes to become a trainer, I was able to develop my existing skills, discover my hidden talents and learn how to improve where I needed it most. We learned a lot of useful models, tools, activities, and skills which I will for sure be able to use in the future. I loved the experiential approach and how everything builds up and rounds up from module to module. It was quite eye-opening in many ways (be prepared to get a more thorough perspective when it comes to training design and delivery), but also tons of fun at the same time. I highly recommend it!
Anna Danes, Founder at Ricaris.com, Spain
Train The Trainer exceeded all my expectations. The content was well curated, the deliveries where very efficient, and looking back I am surprised of how much I learned and how clear everything was. The amount of homework between sessions was achievable for people with full time jobs and a busy life. I highly recommend it!
Nikolina Mihić, Psychologist and Human Resources specialist, Croatia
Mirna’s experience and knowledge about training combined with her engaging style and a lot of practical methods made this “Train The Trainer” really valuable experience. We learned a lot, had plenty of opportunities to try out different methods, adapt them to our personal styles and get constructive feedback, all while having a loads of fun in the process. I would recommend this training to everyone who wants to learn more and improve their skills in training design and delivery.
Marcel Majsan, eCommerce consultant, Croatia
I started doing trainings “by accident”, as people hired me for my experience and not because of my presentation skills. You can say I learned everything “on the go”, but to be honest, I did not know what I was missing until I enrolled TTT with Mirna. The trainings were very dynamic and sometimes demanding, but I was blown away by Mirna’s skills as a trainer. I honestly believe she made me a better trainer, and would recommend her trainings to anyone who is doing any kind of presentations, trainings or educations.
Viki Csonka, Erasmus+ Programme Coordinator, Hungary
Our three trainers, Mirna, Timi and Kata promised us an exciting four-day journey that we received indeed – and much more than that. Every element of the very rich content was presented in an enjoyable and easily digestible form with sufficient opportunities to put the theory into practice. As a result we got a great, colourful trainer’s toolbox with many real life examples, experience, innovative methods and fun! I definitely encourage others to take up the challenge!
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