H.A.P.P.Y.-coach training Winter 2025
Become a certified H.A.P.P.Y.-coach
H.A.P.P.Y.®-coach training Winter 2025
(In English)
Online live training session 1: Tuesday 18 February 2025
2.00pm-5.30pm CET - (Europe) / 8.00am-11.30am EST - (North America)
Online live training session 2: Wednesday 19 February 2025
2.00pm-5.30pm CET - (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.
- Monday 14 April 2025: 9:00am - 12:00pm CEST
- Monday 14 April 2025: 2.00pm – 5.00pm CEST
- Tuesday 15 April 2025: 9:00am - 12:00pm CEST
- Tuesday 15 April 2025: 2.00pm – 5.00pm CEST
Outline of this training
Online live training session 1: 18 February 2025
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: 19 February 2025
The H 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 2 months 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
- Recordings of all the feedback sessions, so you can see many H.A.P.P.Y.®-plans
- 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