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Flourish: The Search for Well Being

Flourish: The Search for Well Being. Wroclaw 3 July 2010 Martin E.P. Seligman marty@apa.org In Memory: John R. Z. Abela d. June 18, 2010, age 39 years. Central Europe & PP. 100 years of LH and Tragedy Intellectual Dogma Background Darwin, Marx, Freud Prison of the Past

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Flourish: The Search for Well Being

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  1. Flourish:The Search for Well Being Wroclaw 3 July 2010 Martin E.P. Seligman marty@apa.org In Memory: John R. Z. Abela d. June 18, 2010, age 39 years

  2. Central Europe & PP • 100 years of LH and Tragedy • Intellectual Dogma Background Darwin, Marx, Freud • Prison of the Past • Pessimistic Premises Negative Emotion Negative Events Illness and Depression Childhood and History Hard Determinism Remediation

  3. Prevalence of flourishing in Europe by age groupESS data 2006/7, n=43,000

  4. Prevalence of flourishing in Europe by years of educationESS data 2006/7, n=43,000

  5. Radical Positive Premises Positive Emotion, Engagement, Meaning, Harmony, Accomplishment Drawn by the Future Will, Freedom, Health Growth

  6. Active Constructive Constructive Destructive Active Passive

  7. What is Positive Psychology? psychology should: • Be as concerned with strength as with weakness • Be as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst • Be as concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology • Develop Interventions to increase well being, not just to decrease misery

  8. Skepticism about Happiness • Feeling vs Doing (Instrumental) • Suffering Trumps • Nothing New Here (Wealth, Longevity, LS) • Fuzzy • Antagonizes Traditional Learning • Antagonizes Altruism • Remediation vs Growth • BREAK

  9. Should Positive Psychology Be Taught at School?

  10. First Onset Change • 1960—mean onset age of 30 years • 1995—mean onset age of 14.5 years • Recurrent Disorder

  11. Little Increase in Well Being

  12. Denmark USA Italy Russia

  13. Positivity Promotes Learning • Baby Explores under Positive • Broadens Attention • Promotes Creativity • Success in the Workplace

  14. PP Should Be Taught • Fights Depression • Raises Well Being • Synergy with Classroom Learning • Synergy with Worldly Success • BREAK

  15. But Is Well Being Teachable?

  16. Positive Interventions Empirically Validated Examples • Optimism: Penn Resilience Training • Positive Emotion: 3 Blessings • Engagement: Signature Strengths • Positive Relationships: ACR • Meaning & Purpose: Altruism vs Pleasure • BREAK

  17. Penn Resilience Training (PRP) • 21 replications worldwide (3000 children) • Whitehall • Controlled Experiments • Diverse Samples • Led by Teachers • Children learn to handle day to day stressors realistic optimism assertiveness decision-making

  18. Well Being Can Be Taught • Well Being is Being Taught UK (250 trained PRP teachers) USA Australia • Entire US Army (Comprehensive Soldier Fitness) • BREAK

  19. Gratitude Exericse

  20. Politics of Well Being • Military & Economic Centuries • What is Wealth For? GDP vs GWB • The Safety Net and Florence • The Camel, The Rebel, & The Child Reborn • What can every human being say “Yes” to? More Positive Emotion More Engagement More Noble Purpose More Positive Relationships More Positive Accomplishment

  21. Sources & Resources • www.positivepsychology.org (Literature) • www.psych.upenn.edu/seligman (Literature & Manuals) • www.authentichappiness.org (Questionnaires) • seligman@psych.upenn.edu • Flourish, 2011: N.Y.: Free Press (My New Book)

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