Positive Psychology
It's more than just a course.
This is a learning journey.
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Course Code: OV-PPSY1
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half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30-minute coaching session (optional extra for teams)
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This is available for individuals, groups and teams
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Part of our Core Library
This course will help you to understand your 'default' mind-set and how this can influence your behaviours and feelings at work. You will learn some immediately applicable techniques for helping yourself and changing your mind-set when faced with challenging situations.
The session also explores the theory behind positive psychology along with defining what it is and how it might differ from other areas of psychology that may be more familiar to you. You will practise reflection to help you make your unconscious behaviours more conscious as well as exercises to take back into the workplace to and put into practice.
This course is suitable for everyone. No knowledge of psychology is required.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Explain what positive psychology is and how it differs from other fields of psychology
- Explain how psychological mind-sets influence behaviours
- Use tools to help manage your mind-set, your behaviours and feelings to stay optimistic when faced with challenging situations
- Develop your strengths at work through coaching exercises
- Plan to develop your lower strengths to widen your choices of mind-set
- Describe the five pillars of the PERMA model
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Bitesize Sessions
Available for delivery to groups and teams, our bite-size learning sessions are short bursts of knowledge covering the what, why, and how of a topic, and delivered at pace. Expert-led sessions can be delivered virtually, face-to-face, or you can choose a combination, and they can be run either standalone or up to three sessions in a day.
Positive Psychology
Course Code: VILT-PPSY
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90-minute live session delivered virtually or in-person (Perfect for use as part of a blended learning programme)
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This is available for groups and teams
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Part of our Core Library
This 90-minute session will help you to understand your default mindset and how this can influence your behaviours and feelings at work. The session explores the theory behind positive psychology along with defining what it is and how it might differ from other areas of psychology that you may be more familiar with. You will practice reflection to help you make your unconscious behaviours more conscious, with a focus on building positive relationships and increasing engagement at work.
This short session is suitable for everyone. No knowledge of psychology is required.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Explain what positive psychology is and how it differs from other fields of psychology Describe the five pillars of the PERMA model
- Explain how psychological mindsets influence behaviours
- Use tools to help manage your mindset, your behaviours and feelings to stay optimistic when faced with challenging situations
This virtual session can be combined with:
Positive Psychology at Work - Virtual Learning Skill Drill
Build a customised programme
Use our building blocks approach to create a customised programme to suit your specific needs and context, at the pace you need.
Talk to us about what you want to achieve.

Step 1
Choose the core blocks you want (from our content library)

Step 2
Consider what blocks you want to customise (to make it your own)

Step 3
Review any additional technology and support services we can help you with (to bring the truly bring the learning experience to life)

Step 4
We’ll create the optimum journey for your learners
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Let's talkThe building blocks menu of options
To help achieve the pace and agility you need, we encourage you to make use of what we already have (our core library) and make it your own. There’s no need to ‘recreate the wheel’ - build from what we have ‘ready to go’ and then customise what you need to.
Choose from across our range of 100+ core topic areas.
Online self-study:
- Fluidbooks
- Infographics (standard and HTML)
- Thrive in Five
- Videos/animations
- Quizzes & assessments
- Podcasts
- Digital flip cards
- HTML microsites
- Digital adventures
- Applying what you have learned - action learning prompts/exercises
- All assets under a topic/collection
Live expert-led:
- Pre-built team experience (learning journey)
- Live workshops - virtual or in-person training (1 x half-day live session in a day; 2 x half-day live session in a day)
- Bitesize (1 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 2 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 3 x 90-min bite-size session in a day)
- Run-it-yourself
- Coaching – per hour (Follow-up; Learning programme; Transitioning together; Team effectiveness; Career coaching; Leadership & executive; Skills performance coaching)
- Group facilitation sessions (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day
- Leadership lab session (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day)
- Virtual delivery platform licence
Personalisation for live events:
- Add your logo
- Tailored
- Branded
- Fully customised
Bespoke content creation:
- Fluidbooks
- Infographics (standard and HTML)
- Thrive in Five
- Videos/animations
- Quizzes & assessments
- Podcasts with bespoke or your content
- Digital flip cards
- HTML microsites
- Digital adventures
- Digital badges/certificates
- Live expert-led bite-size or workshop session
Bespoke printed communication/learning assets:
- Handouts
- Z-cards
- Zappar AR for Z-card
- Action learning prompts/exercises
- Bespoke Hub annual subscription fee (per user)
- Hub implementation
- Subscription (open) hub
- Booker portal
- Delivery – Virtual or in-person facilitator; virtual producer
- Faculty management
- Delegate management
- Instructional design
- Specialist instructional design
- Learning journey curation
- Logistics support
- Project management
- Customer success management
- Branding & creative communication
- Graphic design
- Translations services
- Proofing/QA
- Data insights & engagement
- Consultancy
- Supplier management
- Managed Learning Services

Our approach
Successful learning programmes don’t just happen by accident: Our 4E learning journey model ensures maximum transformational power (and it’s informed by decades of adult learning best practices and proven real-life hybrid learning effectiveness).
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