Preventative Actions: Being Prepared for the Downs and the Disasters It has been a while since I last posted about my Intentions and Preventions Model, developed to help me navigate the highs and lows of my future career and activities. The last few months have been...
You can listen to the audio version if you prefer Knowing Your Values, Who You Are, And What You Want In my last blog I introduced the model Intentions and Preventions. I discussed how I had developed it to assist me in navigating my way into a new career in...
In my last blog (December 2024) I shared with you my intentions for 2025; to journey from Ph.D. into working within research. It is both daunting and exciting to start a new stage in my career, and these blogs will chart my journey, which I hope will also be of help...
My journey into a career transition using positive psychology tools Listen to the audio version if you prefer. I am about to embark on a new chapter in my life. I’m reaching the end of my Ph.D. program and looking forward to a research career. But...
Third wave positive psychology and positive communities For this blog post I want to deviate away from focusing on the individual to reflect on what it might mean to apply a positive psychology intervention at the community-level. As a researcher and practitioner...
The powerful self-question in midlife As a coach I used to think that powerful questions were ‘clever’ questions you learn by rote, but a powerful question emerges from the relationship, from being there with the coachee, curious and genuinely interested in their...
Following on from my last post on mid-life (https://www.thepositivepsychologypeople.com/focus-on-mid-life-in-21st-century/), this one is also about mid-life, but here I am focusing on the experience of how to feel alive, even when things are changing for us. It can be...
Mid-life now in the 21st Century is a much different experience to that which our parents and grandparents experienced. Mid-life is broadly considered to be between the ages of 40 and 65 years of age. Many of the adult development theories we still rely on to define...
For this post I wanted to reflect on a recent article by Carol Ryff ‘Positive Psychology: Looking Back and Looking Forward’ (2022) which is a timely and needed article about the state of research and the need to expand its focus into the inequalities, greed, and...
“The more space we give to stillness and silence, the more we have to give both to ourselves and to others” – Thich Nhat Hahn “A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare” – W.H. Davies The late Thich Nhat Hahn was a wise person indeed. He...