About Ron
Ron Forte is a Positive Psychology Life Coach who lives and works in Montreal (Quebec). He teaches people about emotions management and zen living. One subset of his many clients is an interesting group: people on parole, learning proven methods to change their outcomes.
Ron has over 20 years experience helping people achieve positive change in their lives. Having worked with teens in difficulty, victims of crime and inmates, he has specialized in treating addiction, emotions management and how to attain a balanced lifestyle. He is currently writing a book about how positive psychology can make a life-changing differ-ence in the lives of formerly violent offenders.
While studying psychology and criminology, Ron worked as a prison guard for a few years. He later worked at the Montreal Crime Assistance Centre and then returned working with inmates only this time, giving them specialized programs aimed at helping them attain the good live. His in-terest in bettering the quality of people’s lives later motivated him to study positive psychology through the MentorCoach program. In his pursuit of learning the field of human flourishing, Ron has had the privilege of study-ing from such prominent positive psychologists as Tal Ben-Shahar, Robert Biswas-Diener, and Todd Kashdan.
A member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Inter-national Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), Ron continues to further his knowledge of cutting edge research and applications of motivation, change, and positive emotions.
Through the use of empathy, humor and specific scientifically based inter-ventions, Ron assists his clients through their journey of positive change and well being.
Services
Services
Positive Psychology Coaching
is an engaging, creative process used to solve a problem, reach a goal or create positive life changes that enhance the sense of well-being and purpose.
Coaching is unlike therapy
because it does not focus on examining/diagnosing the past. Instead coaching focuses on effecting change in a client’s current and future be-havior.
A coach uses a variety of interventions
in order to help clients identify personal goals, as well as develop and im-plement action plans in order to achieve those goals.
Speaking engagements:
Ron is also available for conferences about human flourishing, emotions management and starving for a balanced lifestyle.
These services are available in both English and French. For information about pricing and/or scheduling a free 30 minute coaching call, please contact me.
Resources
By changing our interpretation of events, we can change our physical and psychological response to stress and anxiety.
We all have a tendency to blame external events for the stress and anxiety we feel in our lives. The truth however, is that it is actually our interpretation of the events cause the physiological discomfort associated with stress/anxiety. Once we learn how to modify our internal dialogue and subjective interpretation of any given event, we can change how we react to them. This, in part explains why two different people will react differently to the same situation. Take a fire drill for example. Whereas some will treat it as a drill and evacuate in an orderly fashion, some may become anxious thinking it is a real fire, and some might even ignore it thinking it is only a drill that is wasting their time.
The following products/resources have been scientifically proven to assist in slowing down the stress response and challenging stress/anxiety inducing thoughts:
Resources:
Blog
Ron Forte on PsychCentral
Ron Forte on Medium