The Humanistic Approach to Facilitating Growth: A Guide for Educators, Coaches, Facilitators, Leaders, and Parents References Bachkirova & Borrington, 2018, The Limits and Possibilities of a Person-Centred Approach In Coaching Through the Lens of Adult Development Theories. Philosophy of…
How are you expressing your strength of fairness at work, at home, and community? What circumstances make it easier or harder for you to compromise to a position of fairness? Are you encountering people or situations where you are given…
What are areas of learning most interesting to you? What areas of learning are least interesting to you? What do you love about learning? What ways of learning are most or least engaging? How does knowledge improve your life? How…
Consider your personal and professional relationships; how do you make and honor your commitments and agreements? How easy can you take responsibility for mistakes when you make them? {When you take responsibility, how do you feel afterward, the next day,…
{Clifton & Harter, 2003. In Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn (Eds.), Positive Organizational Scholarship} Overview Our talents – naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that we can productively apply – are our most significant opportunities for success. By refining…
{Cantwell, 2008. In Lopez (Ed.), Positive Psychology: Exploring the Best in People. Volume 1 Discovering Human Strengths.} Discovering and Capitalizing on Your Strengths: Personal Mini-Experiments Learn more about your strengths and share them with family, friends, and colleagues. Discovering Your…
{Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007. Psychological Capital: Investing and Developing Positive Organizational Behavior. In Nelson & Cooper (Eds.), Positive Organizational Behavior.} Focusing on the elements that contribute to flourishing in addition to what makes individuals fail brings a more balanced…
{Bandura, 2008. An Agentic Perspective on Positive Psychology. In Lopez (Ed). Positive Psychology: Exploring the Best in People (Vol. 1) Discovering Human Strengths} Personal Mini-Experiments: Increasing Your Self-Efficacy Work toward increasing your self-efficacy to increase your wellbeing. Setting and Achieving…
{Judge & Hurst, 2007. The Benefits and Possible Costs of Positive Core Self-Evaluations: A Review and Agenda for Future Research. In Nelson & Cooper (Eds.). Positive Organizational Behavior.} What are the sources of positive psychological states and behavior? Judge et…
The VIA Classification of Character Strengths: Six Virtues and 24 Character Strengths Wisdom and Knowledge – cognitive strengths that entail acquiring and using knowledge. {Magician energies.} The owl symbolizes wisdom and knowledge. They are calm and observant, have a good…
Opening Words The use of signature strengths at work and in life generally is assumed to facilitate wellbeing and performance. The assumption is based on research literature published in well-established peer-reviewed journals and can be considered valid in the year…
{Rettew & Lopez, 2008. Discovering Your Strengths.} {Bowers, 2008. Making the Most of Human Strengths.} {In Lopez (Ed.), 2008. Positive Psychology: Exploring the Best in People. Volume 1, Discovering Human Strengths.} What are your strengths? Can you name your trait-like…
One of the main aspects of positive capacities is the possibility of actualizing, enhancing, developing, and utilizing them. Capacities are malleable states, which are the building blocks of life improvement powers, amenable to development and intervention. In coaching for positive…
Enhancing Wellbeing: Needs, Resources, and Use of Resources This article aims to provide a valuable guide to improving your wellbeing. First, we specify six groups of needs, or clusters of needs, grouped as distinct domains. The six needs represent a…
Confidence or Self-efficacy Confidence is your conviction about your abilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive resources, and courses of action needed to successfully execute a specific task within a given context. With Bandura (1997), your self-efficacy is your beliefs about…
Goal-Directed Behavior, Performance, Outcome Actualizing goal-directed behavior becomes performance and outcome. By applying a time and space frame to behavior, we observe performance. Performance is frame-dependent. Selecting a suitable frame is crucial to evaluating performance. Behavior has a growth…
I invite you to read through these instructions, engage in the exercises, and start to ponder the questions posed; as you feel inspired, start to journal your thoughts and insights. It is not primary to share your insights with your…
Strengths assessment Please complete the strengths assessment: Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) by going to (). The survey will take 30 minutes, and you will receive a free report ranking your character strengths. The top 5 of your…
Why have guidelines? Guidelines provide boundaries in the sense that they announce verbally that we are entering transformative space. Coaching is not meant to be an everyday conversation but a growth opportunity. Yielding to the greater forces of becoming does…
WELCOME MESSAGE INITIAL INQUIRY WELCOME TO YOUR COACHING PROGRAM Accountability and Support A NOTE ON RIGHT SUPPORT INTENTION, ENGAGEMENT, COMMITMENT Clarify your intention Vitalize your engagement Authorize your commitment OPERATIONALIZING THE GUIDELINES, PRINCIPLES, FUNDAMENTALS Principles of generativity, Engage, practice, enact,…