Support Group: Bouncing Back
First and Third Mondays of the month 6:30 to 7:30 pm
On Going Workshops: These support groups are designed to give clients the opportunity to discuss any topic of concern. The groups are solution oriented with a focus on positive psychology applications. All clients must have an initial interview with D’Arcy before joining the group.
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Coaching Hotline: Lunch with D’Arcy
Last Thurday of the month 12 Noon to 12:55 pm (Pacific time)
On Going Hotlines. Weekly time for everyone to call and ask questions about anything. There probably will be others on the phone line who also called in and we will give everyone the opportunity to ask their questions of D’Arcy about life coaching, relationship issues, family life, business situations, communication skills, mental health issues, wellness, happiness and well being. Call 1 (218) 339-4600 and enter the access code when prompted 448188#.
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Life Design Planning for Happiness and Well-being
Second and Fourth Monday, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
On Going Seminars. Weekly groups and weekend retreats are offered to teach students to process their life events and life patterns of thinking/feeling/behaving to understand their life purpose and make choices to experience more gratitude, savoring and happiness. The groups teach students how to establish new behaviors to develop happiness and well-being through pleasure, engagement, meaning, accomplishment, and interpersonal relationships. Positive Psychology interventions and Life Design Plans are used. Students report these groups are fun, inspirational and life changing.
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Relationship Happiness Seminar
Every Wednesday, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
On Going Seminars. Weekly groups and weekend retreats are offered to teach students understanding and changing of their unsuccessful patterns of behavior and thinking. The groups teach students how to establish new behaviors to create relationship happiness and well-being. Positive Psychology interventions and Relationship Design Plans are used. Students report these groups are rewarding and life changing.
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A Healing Workshop
Las Vegas, NV
Last Tuesday of the month, 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Workshop. These workshops give clients the opportunity to experience healing from grief, trauma, anxiety or depression. Any subject area or cause can be addressed, along with the client’s negative thoughts and feelings or unsuccessful behavior patterns. Clients will be able to gain understanding of their story, patterns and interventions that they may use to effect behavior change. You will discover methods of effectively letting go of the past, embracing the moment, and savoring the future.
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Finding the Wizard Within
San Diego, CA, Las Vegas, NV and other locations
February 2011 Las Vegas, NV; April 16, 2011 Las Vegas, NV; April 22 – 25, 2011 San Diego, CA; October 15, 2011 Las Vegas, NV
Offered several times each year
Workshop. This workshop, a fun and creative experience in developing your intuition, can be designed as a three hour seminar or extended to a 6 day workshop. You may request this workshop be held in your area for the length I will design for your group. You will be introduced to many strategies for developing your intuition and you will have the opportunity to do many. You will find some as your favorites to develop and use on your own. This workshop always has rave reviews! I look forward to seeing you there!
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Using Positive Psychology to Make Your Dreams Come True When You Use a Vision Board
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4 - 5 p.m. PDT and Thursday, May 5, 2011 10 - 11 a.m.PDT
Description:
Today’s coaches want to know the latest research in positive psychology to help leaders create more success. Conventional wisdom says that if we work hard we will be more successful and that will make us happy. However, it is just the opposite. Happiness fuels or drives success. This presentation will explore principles and applications of strategic planning through the use of Vision Boards to assist leaders in becoming more positive and developing a competitive edge in their work.
Vision Boards are collages also known as Dream Boards, Treasure Maps and Goal Sheets. They are tools that display pictures and affirmations of the goals and things you want or desire in life. They help you focus your energy on your specific goals and attract that same energy back to you. They require you to use your senses thinking about your goals, seeing the pictures which engage your subconscious mind to “go after” them, and remind you of actions to take to accomplish the goals.
Whether you want a new career, a healthy investment account, a vacation in Italy, a new Mercedes SL 550, a trim and fit body weighing 130 pounds, a better relationship, or peace of mind, your vision board can help initiate the results.
Using a Vision Board requires you to take action!
Coaches Will Take Away:
• How to use Positive Psychology to design goals for a Vision Board and 5 year plan
• The chief engine of happiness - positivity - and the 10 most important positive emotions fueling it
• 11 ways to improve your mood, raise performance and increase your happiness baseline
• 3 (4 and 5) routes to happiness for leading the fullest of lives
• 3 Pillars of Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching
• 10 Pillars of a Balanced Life
• How to Make and Use a Vision Board to achieve goal planning and success
• The most effective leadership tool
Coaching Core Competencies:
1. Creating Awareness
2. Designing Actions
3. Planning and Goal Setting
OUTLINE:
Happiness definition: Aristotle eudaimonia translates directly to “human flourishing” not “happiness”. Not yellow smiley faces and rainbows and unicorns. The joy of fulfilling our potential. (Vanderpool 2010)
Positivity (positive thinking and emotions) is the chief engine of happiness.
The 10 most common positive emotions (Barbara Fredrickson) that fuel happiness are:
1. joy
2. gratitude
3. serenity
4. interest
5. hope
6. pride
7. amusement
8. inspiration
9. awe
10. love
11 ways to improve your mood, raise performance and increase your happiness baseline
1. Meditate
2. Find something to look forward to
3. Set goals and follow through
4. Infuse positivity into your surroundings
5. Do conscious acts of kindness
6. Do 3 good things near the end of the day
7. Express gratitude
8. Do active leisure activities (if passive for 30 min. entropy sets in)
9. Exercise a signature strength
10. Exercise
11. Spend money (but not on stuff)
Making and Using a Vision Board
1. Dream and Decide Your Goals
• Three routes to happiness (Seligman 2005)
• PERMA (Seligman 2011)
• Three pillars of Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching (Frisch 2006)
• Pillars of a Balance Life (Dean 1999 - 2010)
• Your own domains for life satisfaction
• Select time period and domain(s)
2. Collect Pictures and Words
• Match your values
• Write and include your outcome goals
• Exact pictures
• Your photo
• Inspiring words and affirmations
3. Display Your Vision Board and Use It Daily
• Put in prominent place
• Look at 5 minutes 2 or more times a day
• Use all your senses to experience yourself in the future
• Activate your subconscious mind to manifest your goals and dreams
4. Share Your Dreams and Goals with Others
• Tell everyone who will be supportive
• Teach this to others, especially your family
5. Use a Coach and/or Create a Mastermind Group to Help you Accomplish Your Goals
6. Know and Manage Your Self-defeating Beliefs and Behaviors
• Coordinate with your Core Values
• Use Visual Cues to Remind You of Your Core Values
• Identify SDB&Bs
• Talk to Your SDB$Bs
• Play with Your SDB&Bs
• Write Dialogue
• Two Chair It
• Heaven or Hell Choice
• Recite or Write Affirmations
• Set Up a Grunt Catcher
• Ask for Help
• Schedule a Group to Address the Issue
• Have a Party with Papers on the Wall for Guest Suggestions
• Teach the Issue to Others
• Hire a Companion to help you
• Get Coaching on It
• Do EMDR
• Get Psychotherapy on It
• Never Drop the Issue
• Daily Do’s
• Use Prochaska’s Stages of Change for Where You Are
• Others
7. Take Daily Actions to Bring Your Vision Board to Life
• Use it with your 5 year plan
• You MUST take action on your dreams and goals
7. Celebrate Your Successes
The Most Effective Leadership Tool: happiness is contagious
Leaders should lead by example - be happy and spread it down the organization through the ripple effect. Emotional contagion will take over.
Copyright 1985 - 2011 D’Arcy Vanderpool
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Happiness Coach Training I
Las Vegas, NV
May 6-8, 2011 and December 9-11, 2011
Annually in the spring and fall
Professional Training Program. The Professional Training Program for coaches, psychotherapists, and others with training in mental health or organizational development is designed to certify professionals as a Happiness Coach™. This six-day training will certify you to use my training program with your clients. Happiness Coach™ University trains professionals to become experts in empowering clients to create happiness and excellence in their personal and professional lives. You will develop the use of your own virtues and strengths in facilitating clients’ successful approaches to a flourishing life of happiness. You will learn to apply many positive psychology principles and applications in this research-rich training. I will teach my Diamond Method™ of love, healing, happiness and living a meaningful and fulfilling life. This certification program will prepare you for the opportunity to anchor your skills as a Happiness Coach™ and become part of the Happiness Coach™ Network.
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Happiness Coach Training II
Las Vegas, NV
October 14-16, 2011 and December 9-11, 2011
Two weekends every year
Professional Training Program. The Professional Training Program for coaches, psychotherapists, and others with training in mental health or organizational development is designed to certify professionals as a Happiness Coach™. This six-day training will certify you to use my training program with your clients. Happiness Coach™ University trains professionals to become experts in empowering clients to create happiness and excellence in their personal and professional lives. The Happiness Coach Training II program specializes in relationship coaching strategies. You will develop the use of your own talents and strengths in facilitating clients’ successful approaches to a flourishing life of relaionship happiness. You will learn to apply many positive psychology principles and applications in this research-rich training. I will teach my Diamond Method™ of love, healing, happiness and living a meaningful and fulfilling life. This training will give you many exercises and skills to use with individuals and couples. This certification program will prepare you for the opportunity to anchor your skills as a Happiness Coach™ and become part of the Happiness Coach™ Network.
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Marriage and Family Therapist Supervision
Las Vegas, NV
On-going
Open ended enrollment
Professional Training Program. The supervision program is designed for Marriage and Family Therapist Interns who have passed their exam and who are ready to earn supervised hours toward their licensure as MFTs in Nevada. You will do the internship at the Center for Relationship Happiness with a specialty in positive psychology and the business of private practice.
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Coaching Fundamentals
Many enrollment dates and times, virtual classes
Professional Certified Coach Training Program. This fundamental coach training program is certified with the International Coach Federation (ICF), extends over a 31 week program, and prepares you toward ICF certification. It is especially designed for clinicians in the mental health field and other professionals to add coaching to their practice or to establish or enhance their coaching business. The fundamental coaching and master classes have a positive psychology orientation with many interviews and classes taught by internationally known researchers and professors.
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Positive Psychology Fellowship
Las Vegas, NV
On-going
Open ended enrollment
Professional Training Program. This individualized fellowship program is designed for licensed professionals to increase their understanding and application of positive psychology as used in clinical practice and coaching.
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Relationship Coaching I
Spring, 2012
Dates not determined, virtual classes
Professional Certified Coach Training Program. This advanced coaching class is designed for people who have already completed a fundamental coaching class given by an ICF certified coaching school. This is a 24 week class leading toward a specialization in relationship coaching and includes virtual classes with research based curriculum, positive psychology applications, strategies, core competencies, ethics, demonstrations, and practicum.
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Retreats and Offsites. These weekend retreats are designed to give students practical and inspiring experiences to create more happiness and well-being. We focus on skills that develop more positivity leading to a meaningful and flourishing life. The weekend creates intimate sharing with others and support of a team to design plans for goal attainment in 1-4 areas of their lives. These are offered several times a year and participants often are supportively launched into new and satisfying chapters of their lives.
Retreats and Offsites. These weekend retreats are designed to give individual and couple clients practical and inspiring experiences to create more happiness and well-being. We focus on skill development teaching clients to lead meaningful, loving and flourishing lives. The weekend creates intimate sharing with others and support of a team to design plans for goal attainment in several areas of their lives. These are offered several times a year and participants often are supportively launched into new and satisfying chapters of their lives.