Co-contructing Public Happiness Five years ago, the University of Lisbon and the Portuguese Association of Studies and interventions in Positive Psychology (APEIPP) organized the 1st Portuguese Positive Psychology Conference. The topic chosen was “Positive Nations –...
Positive Leadership in Communities Opportunities Knock Opportunities knock at every mindful acknowledgement that creating something larger than one’s self is but an email, a call, or just a conversation away. Commitment to connection is the essential factor that...
Positive Psychology in Latin America Positive Psychology may be considered a discipline that has had the most rapid proliferation in the last 15 years. This is not only because of its innovative proposal to include emotions, characteristics and positive institutions...
The Wednesday Tea And if a group of 43 very old women became integrated and useful to their community…? Often we hear that it is “normal” that old people are alone… that they “do not care about loneliness”… We also hear some old...
Communities and families are an entwined part of a person’s well-being; each thread is meaningful unto itself while being important to the other threads it connects with. Similarly is the case with families; the threads that bind can strengthen through care and...