Kim Childs, a life coach and facilitator of workshops on The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, will host a free Have a Happier New Year teleclass from 7 to 8 p.m., Monday, December 30. Childs will share researchbased practices from positive psychology and tools from The Artist’s Way for cultivating happier, more personally meaningful lives in 2014 and beyond.

Childs says that participants will identify key areas of life that they wish to improve, self-sabotaging behaviors they seek to overcome and practical ways to stay on track with both goals. “New Year’s resolutions often fail because they’re unrealistic, overambitious or lacking in follow-through,” she says. “People may think that willpower will sustain them, but lasting change happens when we take small steps in the direction of what we desire and create new habits and rituals that serve and support these desires.”

To learn more and register, call 617-640-3813 or visit KimChilds.com/calendar.html.