by Lynn Soots | Sep 22, 2016 | 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 LesleyLyle | Aug 17, 2016 | 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 Lynn Soots | Jul 30, 2016 | 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 Dan Collinson | Jul 5, 2016 | 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...
by Lynn Soots | May 28, 2016 | Positive Psychology, Uncategorized
Some of you may have come to realise that one of the latest crazes in the western world is the “pay it forward” concept of conducting random acts of kindness (or RAKS). A RAK, essentially, is when somebody does something kind for someone else (typically a stranger)....
by Dan Collinson | May 6, 2016 | Positive Psychology, Work
The concept of Prospection in Positive Psychology in its simplest form is to utilise the mind to define what the future looks like, this is significantly different from the more common retrospective approaches. It is also similar to the concept of objective or goal...
