Diploma: Positive Psychology Art Therapy Certification

Explore practical positive psychology in art therapy through actionable exercises that empower you to coach clients, harness flow, PERMA, strengths, mindfulness, and wellbeing.

Explore positive psychology, the science of life worth living, focusing on positive emotions, character, and institutions, and see how art therapy with positive art supports thriving across individuals and organizations.

Identify essential supplies for positive psychology art therapy, from paper and pen to a printer for workbook templates. Add optional tools like colored pencils, acrylic paints, and canvases.

Discover your top five character strengths through a free survey of the 24 character strengths, then learn to apply them automatically while the others require conscious effort in the program.

Engage in a life line exercise using past, present, and future lines to reflect growth, then plan actionable steps toward a steadier future.

Explore PERMA—positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement—through a hands-on art therapy collage using magazines or online images.

Learn to design a realistic perfect day using art therapy techniques, crafting a visual or digital image from a guided template and a timed, actionable plan.

Recall a beautiful moment from last week and express it through drawing. Explore how sharing the moment with family or clients can evoke joy and insight.

Identify your 24 character strengths with the VIA, DESC, or Clifton assessments, focus on top five, and apply them through awareness, exploration, and application across six virtues.

Create an art therapy strengths collage from the 24 character strengths to identify your top five and apply them to improve outcomes, revisiting every six months.

Explore the tree of life exercise to map your roots, trunk with top five character strengths, branches of hope, and leaves of significant people and life gifts.

Explore your 24 character strengths through films in positive psychology by selecting one strength, watching movies that illustrate it, and reflecting with an action-focused plan to apply it in life.

Focus on self-concordant goals and the process, not just the end result, linking goal pursuit to happiness. Apply Kaizen—a mindful, non-judgmental approach that emphasizes big picture purpose and ongoing improvement.

Discover how to identify your self concordant goal and map three significant steps toward it using a flexible template; reflect on why it truly matters, happiness, health, and success.

Apply Kaizen goals to break a big goal into three small steps and focus on process and results. Use a simple template to start today, for example cleaning your office.

Pursue the big goal of learning guitar notes with a Kaizen mindset, enjoying the process, staying non-judgmental, and taking small steps like finding courses, books, and starting short lessons.

Practice a getting unstuck exercise using a shoes template to depict stuck moments and people, places, and things that help you get unstuck, guided by positive psychology and art therapy.

Explore psychology in art therapy through the Back to the Future bus exercise, painting a scene with colors and considering who drives, who travels with you, and your next steps.

Create positive emotions through an art exercise that imagines back to the future, traveling to Sarajevo with loved ones, driving a bus, and planning to act toward next year.

Discover how gratitude boosts happiness, well-being, and resilience, and practice positive psychology and art therapy exercises that count your blessings for a better life.

Discover how the gratitude jar exercise, a daily note-writing practice for individuals or families (including children) over six months, builds resilience and happiness through shared reflections.

Write a gratitude letter to someone who helped you, detailing specific actions and their impact, preferably on paper with pen and pencil, and hand-deliver it to evoke powerful positive emotions.

Practice the three good things gratitude exercise, a five-minute daily activity aligning positive psychology with art therapy to boost mood and sleep. Journal three daily gratitudes and reflect monthly.

Explore the top ten resiliency factors, from grounded optimism and facing fear to social support, a role model, and values-driven action, guided by positive psychology and art therapy.

Create a slide-based resilience narrative that connects your past challenges to future or current stressors using bullets and images, and reflect on how your built-in resilience actions can guide you.

Develop grounded optimism by recalling past successes and taking actions that improved outcomes. Use planning, goal setting, mindfulness, reflective drawing, and reflection to apply lessons to future challenges.

Explore mindfulness as the practice of being in the present moment on purpose and without judgment, based on Dr. John Kabat-Zinn's definition.

Practice mindful sketching by observing a nearby object and sketching its shape in detail. Stay in the present moment, enjoy the process, and increase focus and mindfulness.

Practice a mindful sketch of a window to anchor attention in the present moment, using blinds and shade for a quick daily art therapy and psychology exercise.

practice nature therapy through mindful walking, breathing, and photography to identify emotions and stress relievers, then print and reflect on images to boost happiness and well-being.

Paint a mandala to cultivate calmness and focus, using templates or your own design, with no time limit and the option for multiple sessions, while exploring non-attachment.

Create a mandala in a single setting to experience flow and positive emotions within positive psychology, while staying present. Use mindfulness and walking meditation to cultivate calm and focus daily.

Discover how daily activities carry meaning and use meaning as a resiliency, happiness, and life tool to clarify purpose.

Identify triggers for negative and positive emotions using downward and upward spirals, then plan actions to minimize negatives and maximize positives for happier, healthier, more mindful living.

Identify triggers for negative emotions by listing downward spiral elements. Highlight positive triggers—places, people, and things that bring positive emotions—and plan to engage more toward the upward spiral.

Discover how daily activities gain meaning by listing enjoyable and non-enjoyable tasks, then reflect on the meaning behind each to reveal purpose in everyday life.