From languishing to thriving.

Based on Professor Martin Seligman’s PERMAH theory of wellbeing, the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) 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 changes 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 learning positive psychology is best done in teams.

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 growing, local Antelope Valley 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 in your community.

What support will you get?

Guiding you through each step is our team of researchers, practitioners, and coaches. Your primary teachers are Louis Alloro and Dr. Talma Schultz. Supporting you on the back end are Dr. Michelle McQuaid, Danielle Jacobs, Kathy Snyder, and Beverlee Wenzel and a team of doers and shakers in the background. 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 continue your learning on 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 once a month to support your learning more personally.
• 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 course 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 motivates and empowers you to create change in your workplace or community group.
• Mentors, mastermind groups, and an online learning portal – To help you stay connected and accountable as you maximize the value of your investment of energy, time, and money.