H.A.P.P.Y. coach training Summer 2024
Become a certified H.A.P.P.Y.-coach
H.A.P.P.Y.-coach training Summer 2024
(In English)
Online live training session 1: Thursday 29 August 2024
2.00pm-5.30pm CEST - (Europe) / 8.00am-11.30am EST - (North America)
Online live training session 2: Friday 30 August 2024
2.00pm-5.30pm CEST - (Europe) / 8.00am-11.30am EST - (North America)
Online live feedback session in small group
You will be able to attend all sessions, but you will present your H.A.P.P.Y.-plan on one of the following 4 moments. Please indicate your preferences via email. We will take into account your preferences as much as possible and schedule you on one of those 4 moments.
- Tuesday 1 October 2024: 9:00am - 12:00pm CEST
- Thursday 3 October 2024: 3.30pm – 6.30pm CEST
- Friday 4 October 2024: 9:00am - 12:00pm CEST
- Thursday 10 October 2024: 3.30pm – 6.30pm CEST
Outline of this training
Online live training session 1: 29 August 2024
Introduction: origin and background of the H.A.P.P.Y.-programme (3 hrs):
- Autism and happiness: from neurodiversity to neuroharmony
- Making a shift from traditional outcomes (e.g. independence, functional skills) to well-being as the primary desired outcome
- Quality of life and well-being in autism: what does research teach us?
- The predictive mind and autism: how the autistic brain works
- Consequences of autistic perception and cognition for mental health and well-being
- Consequences of autistic perception and cognition for setting up a H.A.P.P.Y.-project
Online live training session 2: 30 August 2024
The H.A.P.P.Y. programme and how to work with it.
- Introduction to 10 evidence based well-being strategies
- Qualities of a good H.A.P.P.Y.-coach
- Process of the H.A.P.P.Y.-programme: how to implement the 10 well-being strategies into an autism friendly psycho-education programme
After these 2 sessions, you get around 4 weeks to make a personal H.A.P.P.Y.-plan for an individual on the autism spectrum.
Your present your H.A.P.P.Y.-plan in an online live feedback session in small group: date of your choice. All feedback sessions are being recorded, so you can see the plans of the other participants as well.
- You present your work with the H.A.P.P.Y.-programme
- You receive feedback from Peter Vermeulen and a small group of other people following the training
- You learn by seeing and hearing from other people’s work with the H.A.P.P.Y.-programme
What do you get for your money?
- 7 hours of online training with Q&A
- 3 hours of interactive feedback and sharing experiences
- Handouts of the training sessions
- The H.A.P.P.Y. questionnaire, adult version
- The H.A.P.P.Y. questionnaire parent version
- H.A.P.P.Y. project booklet, adult version
- H.A.P.P.Y. project booklet, parent version
- The H.A.P.P.Y. personalized workbook template: version for children / youngsters
- The H.A.P.P.Y. personalized workbook template: version for adults
- Access to measures for evaluation (Personal Wellbeing Index)
- Autism Good Feeling Questionnaire (available in 15 languages)
- The Autism Flow Activities Exploration tool (exclusive)
- Exclusive BONUS: article: ‘The practice of promoting happiness’
- Personalized Certificate of completing the H.A.P.P.Y.-coach training
- Access to the closed H.A.P.P.Y.-coaches Facebook group, where H.A.P.P.Y. coaches share experiences, good practices, interesting materials and where they inspire each other