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Course Title

Positive Peer Coaching In The Professional Environment: Empowering Collaboration and Growth

Course Number

ISCA 506

Course Overview

The quality of our professional relationships impacts our wellbeing and effectiveness every day. What if you and all of your colleagues interacted with each other in ways that build wellbeing, energy, engagement, and teamwork through your daily conversations? 

In this course, we'll introduce a strengths-based, solutions-focused peer coaching methodology that does exactly that. This approach equips teaching and non-teaching staff members with evidence-based positive psychology coaching skills you can use to support each other in formal/informal conversations and meetings.

Positive Peer Coaching is a collaborative and empowering approach that fosters growth and development within a professional environment. It involves colleagues supporting and encouraging each other through structured conversations, utilizing evidence-based coaching techniques rooted in positive psychology. 

By leveraging the strengths and expertise of peers, positive peer coaching enhances individual and collective wellbeing, engagement, and teamwork, leading to increased effectiveness and overall success.

This course will not directly teach to the ISCA Student Standards.

B.3. Responsibilities to Self

·   e. Engage in professional development and personal growth throughout their careers.

·   f. Monitor their emotional and physical health and practice wellness to ensure optimal professional effectiveness.


Intended Audience

International and Independent School Counselors, Leaders, and Teachers

Essential Questions

How might we apply Positive Peer Coaching practices to build wellbeing, energy, and teamwork with colleagues in our school communities?

Knowledge

Skills

Participants will have knowledge about:

Participants will be able to:

  • How evidence-based Positive Peer Coaching approaches build wellbeing, engagement, and teamwork.

  • How Positive Peer Coaching differs from and complements other helping modalities such as counseling and mentoring.

  • Facilitate a Positive Peer Coaching Conversation using a solution-focused approach.

  • Practice holding a coaching stance throughout a brief coaching conversation.

  • Identify ways to support colleagues with Positive Peer Coaching practices in everyday life and work.


About the Facilitator

Kristin Lowe is an Organizational Development Consultant and ICF-Accredited Coach Trainer/Mentor. She helps international and independent schools strengthen staff wellbeing, energy, and teamwork through Positive Peer Coach training and strengths-based, solution-focused professional development programs. 

Kristin is the founder of Solros Development Group and the Positivity Playground, a global peer coaching network supporting adult wellbeing in international schools around the world.

Dates and times of offerings

September 19, 2023 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM GMT

Contact hours

3-hour course

Time commitment between sessions

N/A

Required Resource(s)

N/A

References

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