MentorCoach™ One-Day Workshops

"Coaching and the New Science of Gratitude"
with Ben Dean, Ph.D., MCC

This groundbreaking workshop can help you build a deeply meaningful coaching practice that matters. A practice that matters because it can help your clients—and yourself—learn to lead lives that are happier, more engaged, and more meaningful.

Build a 21st century coaching practice based on cutting edge research

Based on the pioneering work of Martin E. P. Seligman, Chris Peterson and other leading researchers in Positive Psychology, attendees will learn:

• Why happiness matters
• Its correlation with better health, a much longer life, closer friendships, being smarter, more creative, productive, etc.
• Why happiness is so elusive
• Why we mispredict what will bring us happiness
• Documented exercises to increase happiness
• Practical strategies that nurture it
• Exciting new research on ways to increase deep life satisfaction

Why Gratitude?

• New research documents that gratitude is a transformative practice
• Gratitude increases one's interpersonal, physical and emotional well-being and happiness
• Coaching for gratitude increases clients' happiness setpoints by up to 25%
• Relatively simple gratitude exercises can create big changes in perspective
  

Transition into a coaching practice that is rewarding and fun

Based on Ben's 24 years of coaching, attendees will also learn:

• Why Ben passionately believes the science of happiness must be integrated into every coach's practice
• An overview of individual and group coaching skills
• A new approach to marketing that is effective, unique to MentorCoach and that participants love
• How to coach within organizations or by phone from anywhere
• How coaching can free you from managed care
• Ethics and risk management
• How to dramatically reduce the financial risk of building a coaching practice
• Ways to build a coaching practice that increases happiness, meaning and life satisfaction for your clients and for yourself

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WORKSHOP LEADER:

Ben Dean, Ph.D. is a psychologist, coach, and a leading expert at the intersection of coaching and the new science of Positive Psychology. Ben speaks on coaching and the new science of happiness throughout the nation and publishes Authentic Happiness Coaching, an eNewsletter focusing on practical applications of Positive Psychology with a current readership of 144,000 professionals worldwide. Ben began coaching in 1981 and is a Master Certified Coach, the highest designation of the International Coach Federation. From 1987 to 2000, he combined his clinical and coaching work in a managed-care-free practice in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1997, he founded MentorCoach, an ICF Accredited Coach Training School that trains helping professionals to build rewarding coaching practices. He publishes the Therapist as Coach eNewsletter and lives in suburban Maryland with his wife, Janice, and their two children

Ben has shared his passion for coaching with leading clinicians and behavioral scientists including:

• A VIP-only presentation for leaders in national mental health organizations headquartered in Washington, DC, sponsored by DCPA.

• A national presentation to the members of the American Psychological Association's Business of Practice Network (BOPN).

• A sold-out, all-day presentation for the Maryland Psychological Association (MPA).

• The MidWinter Convention of the American Psychological Association in West Palm Beach.

• Annual Conventions of: American Psychological Association (APA), Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA), District of Columbia Psychological Association (DCPA), West Virginia Psychological Association (WVPA), Illinois Psychological Association (IPA), New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA).

• The Texas Psychological Association's July 2000 Summer Getaway in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

• The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists' Summer Clinical Intensive in Lake Tahoe, NV.

• The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists' Spring Clinical Intensive in Panama City, FL.

• The Family Therapy Networker Symposium in Washington, DC.

In addition, Ben has led "virtual" coaching workshops (by audio teleconference) throughout mainland United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Canada for:

Psychologists Social workers Psychiatrists Nurse practitioners Licensed counselors Pastoral counselors Marriage and family therapists

Senior executive coaches Consultants Personal and professional coaches Academic administrators University faculty in the behavioral sciences, and behavioral scientists in a variety of disciplines

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