by Maggie Bevington | | Positive Psychology, Relationships, self-growth
Think for a moment about one of your best friends (perhaps someone that you have been friends with for ages, or got to know more recently and just ‘gelled’ with)…visualise their face …imagine the sound of their voice…maybe looking forward to a planned meet up, or...
by Andy Proctor | | Community, Positive Psychology, Strengths
Seligman’s Moonshot Goal In Martin Seligman’s seminal book, Flourish, he concludes with what I like to see as his sigh of the soul. He talks of when he was at the first World Congress of the IPPA in 2009 and James Pawelski posed this question: “What vision can we...
by Jo-Dee Walmsley | | Health, Positive Psychology, self-growth
This is my Story: Jo-Dee Walmsley I would love to share my story of how I stay positive through using laughter as an exercise without jokes or humor by using Laughter Yoga. Laughter helped me with my relationships, helped me deal with the ups and downs in life and...
by Katie Small | | Positive Psychology
I’m a big believer in gratitude and firmly believe that practicing gratitude is good for your wellbeing and happiness. In 2011 when I first took the VIA Character Strengths Test gratitude featured at number 9 on my strengths list. I took the test just prior to...
by Jamie Brown | | Health, Positive Psychology
A couple of years ago I learned about a Positive Psychologist named Barbara Frederickson and her concept of Broaden and Build Theory. This was a light-bulb-epiphany-penny-dropping moment for me. It was also an extremely confronting moment, but seriously life changing...
by Bryony Shaw, MAPP | | Positive Psychology, self-development
Positive Psychology is often criticised for focusing on happiness and ignoring the myriad of negative experiences and accompanying emotions that we all have. However this is an over simplification. While Positive Psychology does focus on moving people towards a...
