Current Course Offerings:
The Science of Changing Your Brain for the Better
Beat the brain’s negativity bias and fill yourself with calm strength, confidence, and joy. The Positive Neuroplasticity Training will teach you how to:
• Meet your needs to feel safer, more satisfied, and more connected – and less stressed, hurt, and resentful
• Hardwire peace of mind, contentment, and self- compassion into your brain
• Identify your own challenges and pain points and grow specific inner strengths to overcome and heal them.
Anchored Hope
This is a research based, yet human approach to wellness. An online self-paced course of self discovery with experiential exercised to help you learn healthy ways to navigate toxic stress. Taught from the dual lens of a grief and trauma therapist and a positive psychology life coach.
Co-created with Amelia Bradaric of Adventuring Loss
Courage to Change
If you find yourself aching to connect and act on what matters most to you but not sure where to start, this 12-week minicourse is for you. Courage to Change is designed to help you architect a clear vision, create a supportive plan and dedicate time to how you will bring “it” to life.
Learning to listen to ourselves with compassion and passion will help us align ourselves with the work we want to bring into the world. At the same time surrounded by co-pilots that will help you make it fly. Next session begins in April.
Learn to Live Positively
In this course you will engage in a series of exercises designed to help you build the skills of emotional competence and positivity into your life. As a backdrop for these exercises you will be introduced to the latest research about emotions and neuroplasticity, the ability to change our brain.
As importantly, you will discover our need to experience a healthy range of emotions (both positive and negative) and our human inheritance that can and will swing this range out of balance. Finally, each of the “big 10” positive emotions will be discussed in detail. This deep dive will provide many different ways to intentionally invite positivity into your daily life. This offering is a supported method to live happier, build emotional resilience and lower stress levels.
Mini Courses to help us understand our Emotions
Thirteen different snackable-sized courses to choose from, each designed to help you counter the stress and overwhelm of everyday life. Invest an hour of your time to increase your knowledge about emotions in general, or discover how negative (not bad) emotions keep us safe and positive emotions help us build resilience. Maybe you yearn to learn more about how you can invite the specific positive emotions of gratitude, hope, joy, serenity, pride, amusement, awe, interest, inspiration and love to bring more life into your life. The road less traveled is yours to begin walking down.
post traumatic wholeness after cancer
This four-week introduction series offers participants practical strategies to heal emotionally, mentally, and physically after experiencing cancer. The invitation is not to get back to normal! The invitation is to connect with this new body we walk in so we can move forward empowered and able to live fully in this second chance we have been given.
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The Power of Positivity
In a world full of triggers that inflame our emotions, it can be difficult to navigate each day without feeling the impact. The physiological and emotional states we feel when we’re on edge, experiencing dreadful thoughts, or feel the need to be hypervigilant can be difficult to cope with, and they can adversely affect our health. What is to be done?
Managing Negative Emotions
In this audio course from Scribd Coach, positive psychology coach Kathy Washburn explains techniques you can use to help manage negative thoughts. Drawing from neuroscience and positive psychology, Managing Negative Emotions explores how emotions can contribute to your happiness, success, and relationships, and raise your positivity ratio so you can ultimately come to your own emotional rescue.
"This course has really enabled me to take control of my thoughts, actions, feelings, and experiences that have led to a noticeable improvement in my anxiety, stress and overall happiness. The tools and techniques offered have helped me develop an awareness of disparaging thought patterns and perceptions and taught me how to shift my mindset, replacing them with positive thinking. Each section is straightforward and simple to digest, making it easy to go back for a mini refresher at times when I feel like I am being sucked into the vortex of “old” patterns and puts me back on the right track. I look forward to continuing to practice what this course has taught me so that I can continue to experience the joy and happiness I haven’t felt in a long time."
– Melissa Fowler
Boston, MA
“Navigating life requires we do a 360 of the world around us, but then to do the same of the world within us. There’s science to this, understanding the world and ourselves. Learning to Live Positively by Kathy Washburn is the course that puts it all together for me. Science, experts, research... and community… all combine to help me navigate my life at my own pace and work together to help me celebrate the things that matter: Hope, Joy, Love, Humor-despite life’s setbacks."
– Greg Simmons
Charlotte, NC
Snackable POP! Understanding Emotions
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