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Expand your impact from one-to-one to one-to-many with group coaching skills.

Interested in expanding your coaching skill set? Feel like you might enjoy, or excel at coaching in a group dynamic? Then come and join us for one of our most popular CPDs, the accredited certificate in Group Coaching, and learn the skills and knowledge required to work both dynamically and effectively with groups!

According to the influential Ridler Report, the demand for group coaching is growing exponentially, and for good reason: it works.

Why?

Well, group coaching is time and cost-effective for sponsors and participants, transformative for the group, and rewarding for the coach, so it is no surprise to see its popularity and demand continue to grow.

This course will equip you to take your coaching into a group dynamic with confidence using a set of new skills and practices that bring group work to life.

Whether you wish to offer action learning sets for senior management, a mastermind experience for entrepreneurs, or a large facilitated session for a whole organisation, group coaching can be used in countless contexts.

Our Certificate in Group Coaching will give you the skills and knowledge to work dynamically with groups and sets you on a path of creative group work that will only deepen and become richer over time.

To help you get the most from the specialist topics covered course, we dive straight into the specific content without revisiting the core tenets of coaching. This ensures that the full two days are focused on the specialist skills, knowledge and concepts which add to your existing coaching skills. You will also receive a downloadable ebook to accompany the course.

Over the course of two days you’ll enjoy a blend of learning approaches to give you the best foundation for mastering the skills you learn.

You will explore:

• The Psychology of Groups
• Becoming attuned to, and working with, group dynamics and their meaning
• A number of key frameworks to understand and analyse groups
• Creating and facilitating Action Learning for focused inquiry
• Creating and facilitating Balint groups for generative conversation
• Running World Cafe sessions for large group creative discussion
• Running Open Space sessions for large group, self-directed exploration
• How to turn group coaching into an effective part of your business

As with all Animas training, the course is both instructional and experiential and includes:

• Trainer led teaching
• Collaborative group work exercises
• Practice sessions in small and large groups
• Discussion time to explore ideas and questions

After completion of the course you will receive a downloadable PDF certificate demonstrating that you have completed 12 hours of Continuous Coach Education as Accredited by the International Coach Federation.

This CPD training will be capped at 40 attendees.

Positive Psychology emerged as a field of scientific study in the 1990s, concerned on human potential and the makeup of happiness and wellbeing; our thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It investigated how we could focus on our strengths instead of our weaknesses, on building a good life instead of fixing a bad one, on taking an average performance on to a great one and shifting those who are struggling into a functional level.

Roy F. Baumeister’s (2013) research showed that happiness and a sense of meaning in life do not necessarily go hand-in-hand, indicating that focusing on positive emotions alone will not bring the fulfilling and satisfying life you crave.

Join us for this one-off two-day course in Positive Psychology, which is aimed at trained or in-training coaches who are looking at taking the next step in their coaching practice.

This course will help you understand more about what motivates people, and about the pillars of a good life. You will develop a language to celebrate your clients’ strengths and become more clear about that thing that everybody seems to chase their whole life: Happiness. You will also receive a downloadable ebook to accompany the course.

Coaches will gain a better understanding about the psychology of flourishing and human potential, and how the industry is now integrating positive psychology into the practice and focusing on character strengths, optimism, life satisfaction, well-being, gratitude, compassion, self-esteem and self-confidence and hope. How this subject offers us ways to apply its findings with individuals and groups.

You will also discover how coaches might work with clients who might have experienced negative thoughts, liming beliefs, depression and a lack of meaning in their lives.

The course has been recognised by the International Coach Federation as providing 12 hours of Continuing Coach Education and so can be used for coaches renewing their ICF credentials.

Through a rich mix of trainer-led sessions, peer practice and experiential exercises, you will explore:

• Introduction to the science of positive psychology and its short history
• Exploring the pillars of happiness and wellbeing
• The value of positive psychology in coaching
• Character strengths – what is right with you?
• Mindsets – A positive psychology perspective on change, stuckness, limiting beliefs and potential
• Resilience, mental toughness and post-traumatic growth
• Optimism – reframes, positive outlook vs explanatory style
• Flow, engagement and motivation
• Evidence-based applied positive psychology: Psychological interventions
• Positive psychology assessment and psychometrics
• The future of positive psychology – A positive tale about the dark side of life

After completion of the course you will receive a downloadable PDF certificate demonstrating that you have completed 12 hours of Continuous Coach Education as Accredited by the International Coach Federation.

If you want to find out more about what positive psychology can bring to your coaching approach check out this interview with the facilitator of this CPD, Yannick Jacob.

This CPD training will be capped at 40 attendees.