Entries Tagged as ‘Positive Psychology’

June 5, 2008

Positive Emotion Image Map

I’ve been an active contributor to Positive Psychology News Daily (PPND) ever since it started. PPND is an online publication about positive psychology with regular articles by people who have gone through an applied positive psychology training program — the one at Penn and the one at East London University. We also occasionally [...]

October 11, 2007

Thoughts about Social Activisim

My latest article in Positive Psychology News Daily is called Social Activism: What Works? It is about a session at the Gallup Well-being Forum 2007 where Scott Sherman talked about what does and does not work with social activism. He wrote a dissertation on the analysis of 60 case studies involving social action [...]

July 1, 2007

Who is my audience?

A friend asked me, “Who is the intended audience for your blog?”
Always a good question for any form of communication.
I picture myself holding this gift of things I learned during the MAPP program, a gift that I can’t just keep to myself.  I can give it away in little exchanges with people I encounter.  I [...]

June 29, 2007

Getting started …

I retired from IBM yesterday. There are many people that I will miss, but I’m ready to move on to the next phase of my life. Career? Maybe. I’m exploring ways to take the science of positive psychology and turn it into pragmatic actions that people can do themselves in order to flourish, especially on [...]