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World Leaders in Positive Education Announce 2019 Launch of Canadian Office
Justin Robinson (IPE Director), Tamara Lechner (Canadian Regional Manager), Ron Lalonde (Middle East Regional Manager), David Bott (IPE Associate Director) As the mental health of individuals continues to be of growing concern globally, the Institute of Positive...
The First Step to Happier Habits
When scientists discuss wellbeing they look at the domains of PERMA as discussed by Martin Seligman and add H for physical health. Knowing what is needed to create optimal health and wellbeing is one thing but actually forming the habits of regularly doing what you...
Positive Education in a Nutshell
Historically psychologists have dealt with mental health deficiency or mental illness. One pioneer, Martin Seligman, recognized that the absence of metal illbeing was not the same as mental wellbeing; if you remove unhappiness you don’t get happiness. Thus began the...
Parenting Teens Amid a Teen Mental Health Crisis
The World Health Organisation believes that depression will become the number one cause of the global disease burden by 2030. Mental health is a growing concern globally. As parents, we are expecting our children to change the world but we aren't giving them the...
Did You Know You Can Measure Wellbeing?
The world has become data driven. If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t matter. But for those working in fields like mental health, education, human resources and psychology, there hasn’t been a clear way to measure both the strengths and weaknesses of either an...
The 40% Rule
Happiness. It's hard to define and even more difficult to measure. Until recently psychologists and researchers wouldn't even use the word. Instead, terms like subjective well-being or positive emotion were substituted. You would think that humans could agree that a...
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