H.A.P.P.Y.-coach training Summer 2026

Description

Online live training session 1: Monday 24 August 2026
2.00pm-5.30pm CET – (Europe) / 8.00am-11.30am EST – (North America)

Online live training session 2: Tuesday 25 August 2026
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 19 October 2026: 9:00am – 12:00pm CET
• Monday 19 October2026: 2.00pm – 5.00pm CET
• Tuesday 20 October 2026: 9:00am – 12:00pm CET
• Tuesday 20 October 2026: 2.00pm – 5.00pm CET

Outline of this training
Online live training session 1: Monday 24 August 2026
Introduction: origin and background of the H.A.P.P.Y.^®-programme:

• 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: 25 August 2026
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 6 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
• 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

(Please add the number of participants in the remark-section of the checkout-page.)