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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Dan Collinson, our PPP “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 blessed for in the past year, 2015. So each member was invited to do this exercise and we are very happy to share it with you.
We were talking about the scope of our final projects when we realised that all of us wanted to “change the world”.
My experience In 2003, I’ve “declared war” to a sedentary lifestyle and started to exercise regularly. The main objective was to lose weight, but also to improve: well-being, vitality and relieve stress. A few months later, I found that I had lost volume...
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 –...
How do stars bring meaning to our lives? When I was a little girl, I looked up to the stars at night and wondered “why are we here?”. After 30 years, personal and professional challenges, combined with opportunities and new influences have reignited these worries and...