From languishing to thriving.

Based on Professor Martin Seligman’s PERMAH theory of wellbeing, the Certificate is designed to be a blended learning program for people who want an immersive, evidence-based systems-oriented approach to improving wellbeing and creating positive change across their company, campus, or community.

While individuals are invited to participate on their own, we encourage workplace or community teams to take this program together as a train-the-trainer strategy giving you all the resources, tools, and support you need to create a collective positive impact.

You’ll walk away with all the tools, resources, and support you need to:

• Articulate a clear business case for wellbeing by sharing the social and economic impact wellbeing behaviors have on your organization, campus, or community.
• Make the science of wellbeing accessible and actionable by helping people build evidence-based wellbeing behaviors using Professor Martin Seligman’s PERMAH wellbeing framework.
• Design psychologically safe spaces for teams, groups, and families to playfully experiment with more effective and joyful ways to support each other’s wellbeing, even in the midst of struggle.
• Co-create thriving workplaces, schools, and communities by taking a strengths-based approach to creating positive changes that fuel belonging, build trust, bolster resilience, and improve health and wellbeing outcomes.
• Evaluate the collective impact of your efforts at an individual, team, family, and organizational or community level.
• Be a valued member of a local and global wellbeing coalition to share resources, provide inspiration, answer your questions, offer encouragement, and collaborate together.
• Be professionally recognized as a certified positive psychology and wellbeing practitioner.

What support will you get?

Guiding you through each step is our team of researchers, practitioners, and coaches, including Louis Alloro, Dr. Talma Schultz, Dr. Michelle McQuaid, Danielle Jacobs, Kathy Snyder, and Beverlee Wenzel. Between us, we’ve helped 250,000 people to spark measurable changes in more than 4,800 workplaces, schools, and communities in over 75 countries.

To help you easily and joyfully navigate your learning experience you will receive:

• Face-to-face classes each month (6 x 1.5 days) – This is your chance to dive deeper into the science and practice, build your skills as you experiment together, and design ways to immediately apply what you are learning to help others.
• Live virtual training classes (15 x 90-minute sessions) – To deepen your learning after you leave the classroom, you’ll have virtual distance training workshops to explore how the science can be practically applied personally, in workplaces, and across communities.
• Virtual coaching calls (8 x 90-minute sessions) – To sustain your momentum and tailor your approaches, you’ll have optional live virtual coaching calls to keep unpacking what you’ve learned and practical ways to apply your new knowledge.
• A library of podcasts and videos that is yours to keep – Breaking down the science of positive psychology into videos of each lesson that you can revisit, anywhere, at any time, as you need them.
• A PERMAH manual and wellbeing toolbox you can use in your own work – Packed with all of the science we will be sharing, examples of potential applications, practical wellbeing challenges, calls-to-action, and your own reflections.
• A final impact project – of your choosing that motivates and empowers you to create change in your sphere of influence.
• Mentors, mastermind groups, and a learning portal – Stay supported and accountable as you maximize the value of your investment of energy, time, and money.