A Quick Guide to Coaching Positively
Positive Psychology and Coaching Introduction to Positive Psychology and Coaching Positive psychology focuses on what makes people happy, fulfilled, and successful. It looks at what…
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Positive Leadership Strategies
{Cameron, 2008. Positive Leadership. Strategies for Extraordinary Performance} Positive Climate A positive climate is when positive emotions outweigh negative ones at work, characterized by optimistic…
Learning the Science of Wellbeing
What is Positive Psychology? Introducing positive psychology Have you ever noticed how easy it is to focus on the negative aspects of your life? Whether…
Activities: Putting It All Together
7.1 Innovation Consider each area of positive psychology we have covered. Think about one content area a week for the next several weeks. Ask yourself…
Putting It All Together
{Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} As you read this article, you engaged in the activities…
Activities: Resilience, Posttraumatic Growth, and Positive Aging
Personal Development Interventions Expressive writing As demonstrated by Pennebaker’s powerful work on expressive writing (1997, 2004), you can engage in expressive writing to organize thoughts…
Resilience, Posttraumatic Growth, and Positive Aging
Think of a time when you: overcame a difficult period; bounced back from a tough situation; got through a difficult time with relative ease; challenged…
Activities: Hope and Optimism
Personal Development Interventions 1 Cultivating optimism One of the ways we can build and cultivate optimism is by engaging in the Best Possible Selves exercise…
A Case for Hope and Optimism
{Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} Humans can think abstractly and plan, organize, and make decisions…
Activities: A Strengths Focus
{Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} 4.1 Reflection Before we delve too deeply into this topic,…
A Strengths Focus
{Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} Many of us shared a childhood experience when we took…
Activities: Empirically tested Interventions
{Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} 3.1 Reflection: Positivity in Your Own Life Consider a time…
Empirically Tested Interventions
{Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} What is a Positive Intervention? James Pawelski teaches a course…
Activities: Understanding Emotions
Personal Development Interventions The exercises below focus on identifying and enhancing your positive-to-negative emotion ratio. Both have been found to enhance wellbeing and success across…
Understanding Emotions
{Hefferon & Boniwell, 2011. Positive Psychology: Theory, Research, and Applications} {Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.}…
Activities: What is positive psychology?
1.1 Reflection Take a moment to reflect upon and answer these important questions: What types of problems am I often on the lookout for? At…
What is positive psychology?
What is positive psychology? {Biswas-Diener, 2008. Invitation to Positive Psychology: Research and Tools for the Professional. A 6-week Course.} Chris Peterson asks, “Is positive psychology…
Navigations for the Primer to Positive Psychology
What is positive psychology? Activities: What is positive psychology? Understanding Emotions Activities: Understanding Emotions Empirically Tested Interventions Activities: Empirically Tested Interventions A Strengths Focus Activities:…