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Positive Minds in Negative Times- Raising Resilient Learners
It is during uncertain times like our current COVID-19 crisis where we see Positive Psychology in practice. Since the world feels a little scary and very unpredictable right now, I thought we would take a deep dive into resilience. What is it? Are you born with it or...
Happiness Made Simple(r)
Not only is happiness a word that the scientists who study it avoid using, but it's also something neither they nor most of the rest of the population can agree on a definition for. What is happiness? How do you know if you have it? If you don't have it, what can you...
Why Kindness Matters
According to positive psychology pioneers Martin Seligman and David Petersen in their book Character Strengths and Virtues, kindness refers to “doing favors and good deeds for others; helping them; taking care of them.” Kindness can be broken into two main...
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...