by Helen Golstein | | compassion
Self-compassion is key to my work for a number of reasons, one of them being the acknowledgment that positive psychology seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the whole breadth of the human experience. Emotions not electricity I also rarely use positive or...
by Fizza Shah | | Strengths
The science of strengths The extensively researched VIA Character Strengths survey presents twenty-four strengths tested by Dr Martin Seligman and Dr Chris Peterson, advocating it as unique strength spotting tool. I feel the use of this questionnaire is best suited...
by Daniela Erskine | | Classroom Reflections
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t” -Rikki Rogers Before Taking Positive Psychology I was not sure what to think about Positive Psychology. I truly thought it was going to be a class where we...
by Patricia Sarmento EMAPP | | Education, EMAPP Portugal
“Seeding Values” & Positive Education “Semear Valores”/ Seeding Values (“SV”) is the premise and the name of the program that is being implemented in a school in Cascais, Portugal, with 50 children. The program is born from the will of a mother – with an...
by Karen Tejano | | Classroom Reflections
The mind is everything. What you think you become ~Buddha Focusing on Strengths Instead of Negativity Before taking Positive Psychology, my thoughts about the course were exactly what the name of the course stated—Positive Psychology. I expected it to be a bubbly...
