Posts tagged with 'happiness'
Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing training: 1st session home practice
20th January 2018
These 'homework' instructions are phrased to fit with the "Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing: 8 week training" that we're running. If you're going through this material independently of the structured group format, of course you can pace it to suit yourself and you may take longer or shorter than a week …
Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing training: 1st session content
15th January 2018
I've already introduced this course in an earlier blog post "Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing: an 8 week training". This post gives background for the first session of the training. It will be particularly relevant for participants, but others not coming to the course itself may well find these ideas interesting …
Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing training: the core message & five key principles
14th January 2018
The "Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing: 8 week training" is rich with information & ideas. It is informed by a state-of-the-art, positive psychology overview of how we can flourish more fully as human beings. Because there is so much good material here, at times we may become a bit disorientated. It …
Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing training: course questionnaires
10th January 2018
General details of this course have already been given in the blog post "Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing: an 8 week training". Before, during & after the course, there's encouragement to fill in questionnaires. This is suggested for at least three reasons. One is that when we measure something, we tend …
Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing: an 8 week training
1st November 2017
A good friend & I have just been sorting out the practical details of running an 8 week course together on "Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing", starting in January. Some aspects still need to be tweaked, but the basic publicity information runs like this: "If you want others to be happy, …
Peer residential group, first full day: pain, challenge, sunshine, love & dancing (2nd post)
7th September 2014
After a rather inauspicious start on Friday (see yesterday's post), the next day - Saturday, the first full day of the group - was, for me, deeply wonderful. One of the really special days of my life. An ocean of a day, so much happened. A bit like a lifetime …
European positive psychology conference: love, national happiness comparison tables, & life satisfaction assessment (2nd post)
3rd July 2014
I wrote yesterday about the two pre-European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP) workshops I went to on "Positive supervision" and on "Positive relationships". Then in mid-afternoon on Tuesday, the conference proper began. It was heralded by Taiko drummers and a cluster of brief welcoming speeches. Apparently there are 920 people …
A day spent "idle & blessed": revisiting an experiment - savouring & "positive state mindfulness"
20th April 2013
Last September I went back to Cambridge for a reunion ... the first time I'd ever been back to school or university for such a thing. It was an experiment in "emotional archaeology" and I wrote a series of blog posts about it. At one stage I experimented with a …
A day spent "idle and blessed": report of an experiment
30th November 2012
In the words of Mary Oliver's beautiful poem "The summer day": Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean - the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of …
Greater good science center & the wisdom of babies
8th August 2011
Recently I was looking at the idealistic & interesting website "Greater good: the science of a meaningful life". Their mission statement reads "The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society. Based at the University …