Boost Your Happiness Course
A note about this course: I created this course during my previous work as a midlife coach and have kept it available as a free educational resource. I am now a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois and no longer practice as a coach. This course is for education and personal development and is not psychotherapy or a substitute for individualized mental health care.
This Boost Your Happiness Challenge is aimed at women 40+ who want to know exactly where to focus their time, energy, and resources to maximize their happiness in their next chapter.
In this challenge, you’ll:
- Explore what happiness is — and is NOT (you may be surprised!)
- Find out the 5 essential building blocks of a happy life
- Identify how YOU are doing on each of these 5 research–backed dimensions
- Understand how your results point to YOUR unique path to happiness
- Discover the critical (yet simple!) action steps that will boost your happiness–starting today
We do this through 6 weeks of video lessons and exercises you can work through at your own pace (plus a bonus “wrap-up” week 7). Be sure to download the Follow-Along Guide that comes with this course. You’ll find places to take notes as well as detailed instructions for each week’s assignments.
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Week 1 – Introduction to Happiness
LET’S GET STARTED!
This week, we’ll explore what happiness is (and is not), we’ll unpack the 5 building blocks of happiness, and you’ll take a short quiz to discover how you are doing on each of these dimensions.
Week 2 – Positive Emotions
This week, we focus on boosting our positive emotions. We look at the top 10 positive emotions, create our own Positivity Menu, and commit to making positivity a daily practice.
Week 3 – Engagement
This week, we learn how engagement is all about being “in flow” and we look at the 4 flow profiles. After identifying which profile is yours, you’ll identify the activities that put you “in the zone” and block time on your calendar to pursue one or more of these engagement-boosting activities.
Week 4 – Relationships
Week 5 – Meaning
This week, we unpack the key dimensions of purpose: Values, Strengths, Passions, and Callings, and ask ourselves questions to identify our own.
You may choose to put your purpose statement together based on these findings or delve deeper into this topic through the Discover Your Purpose class, also available FREE on YouTube.
Week 6 – Accomplishment
This week, we delve into the importance of feeling accomplished and we reflect on our life’s achievements, in each chapter of our existence to date. We acknowledge and celebrate these accomplishments!
Week 7 – Wrap-Up
Congratulations!!
Congratulations on completing the Boost Your Happiness Challenge! This week, we review everything we learned in this 6-week challenge, reflect on how we’re already making changes in our lives, and commit to next steps on this journey to boosting our happiness, every day.
I’m Hélène Stelian, LPC, NCC, MBA.
I created this course during my previous work as a midlife coach, when I focused on helping women navigate personal growth, reinvention, and meaningful next chapters.
Since then, I’ve embarked on a new chapter of my own. I returned to graduate school and am now a Licensed Professional Counselor and psychotherapist in Illinois, working with adults and couples at Skylight Counseling Center.
I’ve kept these courses freely available because I believe they continue to offer useful opportunities for reflection, learning, and growth.
