Coaching to people’s strength’s feels like an obvious approach for most professional coaches and coaching psychologists and yet the evidence shows that this is not as easy as it sounds. Whilst taking in account some of the barriers inherent in strengths based coaching, together, in this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how to help your clients recognise and understand their strengths, and, more importantly, how to move towards developing a fuller picture of positive psychological health. Content will include:

• What’s your problem? - The reasons and evidence as to why we are inherently drawn to weaknesses;
• The rising zeitgeist of positive psychology and strength based approaches - from ‘fad’ to full integration;
• Defining ‘strengths’ and ‘strengths based coaching’;
• Exploring strengths, assessments and strengths based interviewing - helping your clients understand and recognise their strengths;
• StrengthsREADer - working with strengths based coaching cards as a positive strengths approach;
• So what about weaknesses? - working with conflicting situations and understanding overdone strengths;
• Beyond strengths - moving towards a fuller picture of positive psychological health including resilience and positive emotions.

Lucy Ryan, BSc, MSc is the founding Director of Positive Insights (www.positiveinsights.co.uk) Lucy has an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and is at the forefront of the development of positive psychology in Europe. Together with the University of East London, Lucy is also currently?engaged in?the development & implementation of a Well-Being Curriculum for the Haberdasher’s Aske’s Hatcham College and the creation of an Emotional Resilience Curriculum for Newham PCT. She is also an Associate Lecturer at the University of East London and specialises in the application of positive psychology and strength based approaches, to organisations. Lucy is also one of the UK’s foremost personal impact coaches for senior business people, and is founding Director of Mindspring Consultancy Limited, a training and coaching consultancy (www.mindspring.uk.com).

Registration

Registration Form June 2011

Each attendee will receive a Workshop attendance certificate as evidence for CPD Logbooks or Practitioner-in-Training Logbooks.

A conference fee of £90 for SGCP, DOP, SCP, Coaching at Work Subscribers and Association for Coaching Members / £120 for BPS Members / £140 for Non-Members and £65 for part-time students, £45 for full-time students, needs to be paid, in advance, to secure a place at the event (all prices inc. VAT).