Helping Clients Flourish

Health coaching supports clients to create healthier habits and achieve meaningful goals. Positive psychology adds another evidence-based dimension by exploring the factors that enable people to truly flourish.

This interactive webinar explores how positive psychology can deepen coaching conversations by helping clients move beyond goals and behaviour change alone to explore what makes life fulfilling and meaningful. Delegates will discover practical strategies to help clients identify and use their strengths, cultivate positive emotions, connect with their values and purpose, and recognise the importance of relationships and connection in overall wellbeing.

Through practical exercises, coaching examples and immediately applicable tools, this session will demonstrate how positive psychology can help health coaches support clients to create healthier, more meaningful and fulfilling lives.

By the end of this session, delegates will:

• Understand how positive psychology complements health coaching by providing an evidence-based framework for exploring flourishing and wellbeing.
• Explore four key areas that contribute to flourishing: strengths, positive emotions, meaning and purpose, and relationships and connection.
• Recognise how these psychological factors influence motivation, wellbeing and sustainable lifestyle change.
• Learn practical positive psychology tools and coaching questions that can be integrated into client conversations.
• Develop approaches to help clients explore not only what they want to achieve, but what makes life meaningful and fulfilling for them.

Health coaches can use this CPD to:

• Broaden coaching conversations by exploring the wider factors that contribute to wellbeing and flourishing.
• Integrate practical positive psychology strategies into one-to-one and group coaching sessions.
• Help clients identify personal strengths, sources of joy, values, purpose and supportive relationships.
• Create deeper, more meaningful coaching conversations that connect health goals with what matters most to clients.
• Support clients to build lives that are not only healthier, but more fulfilling and aligned with their individual values.

About Suzanne Laurie

Suzanne is Head of Continuing Professional Development at the Health Coaches Academy. She has a BSc (Hons) in Nutritional Therapy and an MSc in Positive Psychology.

Suzanne was certified as a wellness coach under the mentorship of Dr Michael Arloski, and subsequently introduced the first Health and Wellness Coach training to Ireland, whilst director of a large training institute for nutrition and coaching professionals.

She has since completed specialist training in emotional eating and binge eating disorder, and works primarily with midlife women, online and as part of a multidisciplinary team in Denia, Spain.