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California Mental Health and Wellbeing for Students
One of my colleagues, David Bott, and I recently spent a week together training a whole school faculty in Positive Education. The headmaster notably remarked: “We may be primed, we may be inclined but we still need voices of experience to show us how to use this...
Top Five Aha Moments from the World Positive Psychology Conference (WPPC2019)
I recently spent 4 days with Positive Psychology practitioners from around the world sharing new research and applications from our field. Almost 1600 from around the globe flocked to Melbourne to converse and connect. Each day was informative in new ways and there...
So-called Soft Skills are the New Priority in Education
As you may know, the OECD does a lot of work studying education – especially in the area of predicting challenges to of the future of education. As Bob Snowden, founder of the Futures Project said in a recent conversation “OECD’s recent research indicates that the top...
“Education is What’s Left When They Forget Everything You Taught Them”
I wish these were my words. They came from Mark Turner, the new head of my sons' school. They are the words that convinced me he is awesome. He was talking to parents at our school and explaining that after students have forgotten the history of Canadian pioneers and...
Esther Perel’s Couples Therapy Just Solved Organizational Relationships
I love Esther Perel. Her podcast Where Should We Begin gives an inside look as real couples navigate their relationship issues that seem largely centered around sex. When I heard she was speaking at SXSW about workplace relationships my curiosity as a positive...
Why Is It So Hard to Be Nice To Yourself? The Science of Self-Compassion in the Classroom and in Life
Teachers often come to self-compassion work looking to help their students to be a little easier on themselves. It might be a seed planted after a crisis like a suicide or when they hear (once again) the nauseating stats around teen depression, anxiety, and...
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