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A list of resources related to Positive Education beginning with the week long session at CIS with Lea Waters and Positive Psychology and moving forward
"Hawn's gentle, heartfelt approach to mothering and her mission to help children develop happier, healthier lives will be both useful and inspiring for parents." (Publishers Weekly)"Goldie Hawn embodies delight and joy, and 10 Mindful Minutes radiates these.
Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us.
Strength Cape
Photo at the center of a flower, stem represents growth
Body maps
Strengths shields
Family Trees of strengths
Class trees of strengths
Analysing movies, books for character strengths
http://www.michaeljfox.org Michael J Fox travels across the globe to explore the enduring strength of hope. He talks to both famous and everyday people. The whole world, shaken by economic woes, is taking a closer look at optimism. Imagine a country which measures its success with a figure for "Gross National Happiness" instead of Gross National Product.
Palmer (The Courage to Teach) seeks to help us "rejoin soul and role," so that individuals and communities can be healed from the ravages of consumerism, injustice and violence. No small task, yet in classic Palmer style, this mission is fleshed out with stories, poems, personal confessions and a plan-concrete steps for creating "circles of trust" where honest, open sharing allows each person's "inner teacher" to show up.
Visit Amazon.com's Sheena Iyengar Page and shop for all Sheena Iyengar books and other Sheena Iyengar related products (DVD, CDs, Apparel). Check out pictures, bibliography, biography and community discussions about Sheena Iyengar
Amazon.com: the emotional life of your brain: Books
Amygdala hijack is a term coined by Daniel Goleman in his 1996 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Drawing on the work of Joseph E. LeDoux, Goleman uses the term to describe emotional responses from people which are immediate and overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat.
Resources - Grit as a predictor of multiple success outcomes
Angie talks about GRIT.
"This books provides excellent reviews of the selected topics by luminaries in the field and should have broad appeal to scholars and practitioners who are interested in this area of inquiry. This collection of symposium presentations will be useful in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in a variety of disciplines."
Appreciative Inquiry gets everyone to focus on what's possible through interactive discovery and design sessions. The output has been amazing. -- Jim Staley, President, Roadway ExpressI would like to commend [the authors] for Appreciative Inquiry, and for introducing it to the United Nations. -- Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
About the Authors Diana Whitney Ph.D. is the President of Corporation for Positive Change, an international consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry - the revolutionary process she helped develop and spread - to resolve the most pressing challenges of our time.
"Chris Peterson, one of the founding fathers of Positive Psychology, has written a wonderfully engaging and deeply stimulating introduction to this swiftly growing field. Intellectual history is interwoven with data, research findings with backstage gossip, to produce a delightful classic." -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Director, Quality of Life Research Center and C.S.
Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, delivered the commencement address at Smith College Sunday, where she dared the graduates of the all-female college to change how they define success. Success has largely been determined by money and power, Huffington argued, but we need a third metric.
Authentic Happiness is the homepage of Dr. Martin Seligman, Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of positive psychology, a branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.
In his latest user-friendly road map for human emotion, the author of the bestselling Learned Optimism proposes ratcheting the field of psychology to a new level. "Relieving the states that make life miserable... has made building the states that make life worth living less of a priority.
"If you are even the least bit intrigued by positive psychology and strengths-based thinking, this book is a must-have. Linley deepens the rationale for the strengths approach and provides a tremendous number of references to tools, methods and experts on this topic.
Barbara Fredrickson shares her research on the ideal ratio of positive to negative emotions, and offers suggestions for how to flourish in life.
Annie McKee is co-founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Richard Boyatzis is Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Case Western Reserve University. Frances Johnston is co-founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute.
Starred Review. In the spirit of Blink and Predictably Irrational (but with a large helping of erudition), journalist Schulz casts a fresh and irreverent eye upon the profound meanings behind our most ordinary behaviors-in this instance, how we make mistakes, how we behave when we find we have been wrong, and how our errors change us.
Alfie Kohn is the author of many other books about education and human behavior, including Punished by Rewards, The Schools Our Children Deserve, and Unconditional Parenting.
McCullough, whose last three books were academic, targets a general audience in this exploration of the human capacity for both revenge and forgiveness. Schooling readers in the basics of natural selection, McCullough argues that despite popular belief that revenge is a disease, both revenge and forgiveness have been adaptive for our species.
Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling.
"A fact-filled, fun, and enlightened peek into our minds and hearts." (Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence )"A fresh and absolutely fascinating book." (Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma )"A bright, entertaining book . . . [that] covers broad, interesting territory." (Janet Maslin - The New York Times )
