What Positive Psychology Means To Me For over 20 years an inner voice called for me to study and learn; there was unfinished business in my education and development. I started to use strengths assessments for team development and recruitment in late 2006; this was my...
My Journey With a MAPP Change is something that we all experience whether we are conscious of it or not and we don’t always look back on the journey of change that we have taken. In this blog, I review and reflect the journey of change that I undertook during the two...
My journey with a MAPP? To be honest, I’m not a MAPP (MSc Applied Positive Psychology). I’m a barefoot fangirl of the MAPP’s. Being a champion of the program is more complicated than a few words can describe. My journey with MAPP began with my study...
Creating an A* Life. Most people get stuck in what I call a C+ life. In school report terms, you ‘could do better’ and, for many, life can become a bit mundane. The solution isn’t to lower your sights. In fact, I’d argue the opposite! Too many people settle for C+ in...
Sometimes, people ask me if my life has changed since I enrolled on the MSc Applied Positive Psychology course (MAPP) at Bucks New University. The answer is no, my life has changed very little. However, the way I see my life and the world around me changed completely...
Can you really be successful being yourself? What do you truly want from your working life? Now I would certainly not be so bold as to claim that I know. However, it seems to me that when you take money out of the equation and ask people ‘What do you want in your...
The Benefits of Failure: Why the correct answer is not always the best answer. Failure, it is a word associated with such negative connotations, it is often linked with fear and anxiety. This is such a waste as failure has unlimited potential to help us grow. Through...
The 5 ‘R’s of Positive Emotions. Without a doubt, positive emotions lie at the heart of positive psychology and any other psychology and therapeutic intervention for that matter. There are numerous research papers and articles that show positive emotions...
On Friday 20th March I, like millions of others, stopped what I was doing in the morning to witness the partial solar eclipse. The UK hadn’t seen this natural phenomenon since August 1999 and it was attracting a great deal of media attention. Various facts and...
Mindset and the name Carol Dweck are synonymous. Psychologist Carol Dweck has been researcher and developing ways to use mindset in many areas of psychology. As a psychologist, researcher, professor program developer and author, Carol Dweck has exclusively focused on...