Positive Psychology

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Pink's exceptional work provides insight into how buyer and seller behavior, psychology, and culture intersect in consumer motivation. A crucial read for members of the sandwich generation wishing to become more empowered consumers and advocates. (Library Journal)

 

Positive Psychology: Harnessing the power of happiness, mindfulness, and inner strength (Harvard Medical School Special, Health Report Book 4)

Positive emotions have been linked with better health, longer life, and greater well-being in numerous scientific studies. On the other hand, chronic anger, worry, and hostility increase the risk of developing heart disease, as people react to these feelings with raised blood pressure and stiffening of blood vessels....

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Understanding Strengths-Based Coaching

Most people think that strengths are those skills or talents at which we excel....

2014 Video Interview with Todd Kashdan PhD

Todd Kashdan PhD discusses his work on wellbeing and his material from his keynote presented at the 2014 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference in an interview with Joan Ryan, Founding Fellow.  Todd is a Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Center for Consciousness and Transformation at George Mason University....

Integrating Images & Metaphors in Your Coaching Practice

Integrating Images & Metaphors in Your Coaching Practice Presentation slides

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IOC Vision of Scientific Excellence Award Presentation and Positive Psychology and Coaching Past, Present, & Future

Over the last thirty years, Positive Psychology has gone from just an idea to a scientifically grounded discipline. It delineates a scope of practice with its underlying theory, it has validated tests and interventions that reliably build well-being. Artificial intelligence (AI) is about to revolutionize positive psychology coaching....

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Tomorrowmind: Coaching for the Whitewater World of Work

In her book Tomorrowmind, co-authored with Martin Seligman, Kellerman outlined the five skills essential for personal and professional success in a workplace of uncertainty, volatility, and isolation....

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Integrating Images & Metaphors In Your Coaching Practice

Research in positive psychology predicts numerous benefits of play and playfulness including enhanced positive impact on motivation, emotional stability, divergent thinking, creative expression and an overall increase in well-being....

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The Suicide Funeral (or Memorial Service): Honoring Their Memory, Comforting Their Survivors

To our knowledge nothing with The Suicide Funeral (or Memorial Service): Honoring Their Memory, Comforting Their Survivors' scope and depth has ever been published. This is an aid to anyone who will be called upon to do a funeral for the nearly 43,000 suicides in America each year....

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After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth

After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth references the long and painful journey of bereavement that many suicide-loss-survivors experience in the wake of losing their loved one....

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