by Patrícia Sarmento | June, 2017 | Education, EMAPP Portugal
More than a year ago, in this post, I’ve announced that I was going to study resilience in teachers in at-risk contexts in my master’s thesis[1]. I will now share with you the results of this research. Teachers in at-risk contexts The study was conducted with a group...
by Semear Valores | March, 2017 | 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 Dan Collinson | December, 2016 | EMAPP Portugal
If it is true that positive emotions and positive thinking are beneficial to happiness, making them universal and indispensable requirements for flourishing is reducing the importance of human emotions repertoire. Too much focus on positive thinking and optimism, for...
by Dan Collinson | April, 2016 | EMAPP Portugal, Relationships
Resilience was the most researched word in 2015 in the online dictionary Priberam[1] both by the Portuguese and Brazilian users. This clearly shows the curiosity that the concept is causing in people from Lusophone-speaking countries. Resilience can be understood as...
by Dan Collinson | March, 2016 | EMAPP Portugal, Strengths
From the stories you tell to your strengths narrative “The more we share our own stories, the closer we all become.”[1] Who did you get those strengths from? What stories have you been told about yourself that relate to your strengths? Have your strengths always been...
by EMAPP | January, 2016 | EMAPP Portugal, Positive Psychology
Dan Collinson, our Positive Psychology People “liason” has challenged the Portuguese team to write the January post on the theme: “wishes for 2016”. We’ve loved the idea and based on the “gratitude exercise”, we’ve decided to add to our wishes, the things that we feel...