Coaching and Positive Psychology
PostgraduateTUA-CPP6142026
Course information for 2026 intake
Empower people to thrive. You’ll explore the science of happiness and gather skills to help clients achieve it. From life coaching to career coaching, your knowledge of positive psychology will be a powerful counselling, mentoring and training tool.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 24 May 2026
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 1 June 2026,
- 14 Sept 2026
- Price from
- $2,700
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Coaching and Positive Psychology
About this subject
By the end of this 12-week subject, you'll be able to:
- Analyse the key theories, models and research findings which underpin positive psychology and coaching.
- Evaluate and differentiate coaching from counselling, therapy, mentoring, consulting and training as a helping modality.
- Investigate and discuss the constraints and benefits of coaching as it applies to a range of settings.
- Demonstrate the skills and processes required for effective coaching as it pertains to wellbeing.
- The Science of Happiness
- Foundations of Coaching
- Coaching Philosophy and Positive Psychology
- Coaching: Applied Positive Psychology in Society
- Life Coaching and Developing Questioning Skills
- Executive and Career Coaching – The GROW Model
- Performance and Goals Coaching
- Business Coaching - Objectivity
- Coaching Change and Emotions – Understanding Applied Positive Psychology
- Meditation and Mindfulness– Tools for Coaches
- Transformational Coaching and Building on your Questioning Skills, Listening Skills and Coaching Toolkit
- Establishing Your Coaching Business
In this subject, the usefulness, relevance and relationship of coaching and positive psychology to counselling will be explored. Positive psychology emphasises the importance of finding meaning, purpose and a sense of accomplishment and moves away from focusing in what is clinically wrong. Students will review positive psychology’s contribution as an approach to the ‘helping relationship’, including exploration of conflicting viewpoints and their respective empirical support. As part of their exploration of the key positive psychology theorists, students will begin to develop an understanding of how they can synthesise coaching work into their potential coaching practice. They will learn a range of particular coaching skills, including solution‐ focused and strengths‐based approaches, explore goal setting for personal and professional use. This subject will balance theory and practice in its delivery and students will be encouraged to engage in interactive learning through discussion and experiential practice.
- Online Test- MCQ, T/F, short answer (25%)
- Analysis and evaluation of models (poster) and selection of a specific setting and discuss constraints and benefits of coaching (35%)
- Demonstration Audio submission of a coaching session with self-reflection (40%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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