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Who Should Attend?
This course is relevant for anyone interested
in applying positive psychology to their own lives and to the
lives of their clients. It is an award-winning, systematic,
evidence-based, research-validated approach that is both simple
and powerful. It is for coaches, therapists, consultants, teachers
and all others who work to improve the quality of peoples' lives.
What You Will Learn In Mike's Class:
You will learn an approach to positive psychology that Ed Diener,
the world authority on happiness, says is "state-of-the-art,
evidence-based, empirically validated, and an outstanding guide
for all professionals interested in learning about the practice
of positive psychology".
You will learn an approach to greater happiness, meaning, and
joy that is validated in two NIH-grant funded randomized controlled
coaching trials conducted by James R. Rodrigue and his colleagues
at Beth Israel and Harvard Medical Centers in Boston.
You will learn how to refine your coaching and organizational
change skills. For example, listen to Paul Lloyd:
"Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching is on the cutting
edge for both the audience of current practitioners and academia.
It is a compendium of quality and thoroughness. Dr. Frisch is
a leader in developing training techniques, including a wide
variety of experiential exercises, questionnaires, and models."
--Dr. Paul Lloyd, Executive Coach and Past-President of the
American Psychological Association's Society of Consulting Psychology.
You will learn an approach to positive psychology practice
that is "one-stop shopping" with everything you need
in one book and with one approach.
You will learn an approach to positive psychology practice
that teaches you how to practice in a simple step-by-step fashion.
You'll learn everything from planning interventions to documenting
your success scientifically using the evidence-based Quality
of Life Inventory or QOLI®.
You will learn an approach to positive psychology practice
rooted in virtue ethics that teaches an Eight-Step Model for
Ethical Decision-Making.
You will learn the "Sweet 16" Recipe for Joy and
Success, along with validated interventions for each of the
following domains:
1. Basic Needs or Wealths: Health, Money, Goals-and-Values,
Self-Esteem
2. Relationships: Love, Friends, Relatives, and Children
3. Activities: Occupations-Avocations: Play, Work and Retirement
Pursuits, Helping, Learning, Creativity, and Spiritual Life.
4. Surroundings: Home, Neighborhood, Community
You will learn the versatile, "Five Paths to Happiness
model", providing interventions for any problem or area
of life.
You will learn a major approach to positive psychology that
has been taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Martin
Seligman's Masters
in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Program.
And you will learn an approach to coaching that addresses all
three types of happiness recently identified by Daniel Kahneman
and Ed Diener in their analysis of Gallup
World Poll data.
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Graduates
of this class will also be able to earn Certification in Quality
of Life Therapy and Coaching (QOLTC) and in the use and administration
of the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI). 
Graduates
of this class will be able to earn eight hours of CEUs for psychologists
(APA), social workers (NASW), licensed counselors (NBCC), and
Marriage and Family Therapists in California (BBS). Please note
these CEUs are relevant only for licensed mental health professionals
in the United States. If you are not a licensed mental health
professional in the US, you do not need these CEUS and you should
not pay the CEU fee. 
Mike
Frisch, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology in the Department
of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University. He is the
author of the award winning 