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Positive Psychology and Well-Being
A New MentorCoach® Master Class with
Christopher Peterson, Ph.D.
When: 8 Mondays
Starts: Monday January 30, 2012
Time: 1:00 - 1:59 pm Eastern
(New York time)
All Time Zones
Context for the Course:
Consider the well-known 1946 statement by the World Health Organization: 'Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.'
Although all would agree with this statement, until recently, it has remained largely a slogan. But in the last ten years, with the emergence of positive psychology, the scientific study of what makes life worth living, theories, studies, and applications directly relevant to health in the positive sense have emerged.
This course provides an overview of what positive psychologists have learned about well-being and especially how to achieve and sustain it with respect to one's personal life, social relationships, work, and physical health. This course is a more focused, updated, and elaborated version of the Mentor Coach class taught several years ago by Christopher Peterson: 'Positive Psychology Immersion 2—The Applications in Action Master Class.'
The Eight Class Sessions
1. Key definitions
2. Positive psychology applications and interventions
3. Positive psychology and your personal life
4. Positive psychology and your social relationships
5. Positive psychology and your work
6. Positive psychology and your health
7. Positive psychology and the world
8. The future of positive psychology applications
Readings: The course entails readings from a primary text—Chris Peterson's A Primer in Positive Psychology (Oxford Positive Psychology Series). New York: Oxford University Press. In addition, each week Chris will post relevant research articles, videos, and blog entries for the next week on the class' password-protected website.
Class Website: There will be a password-protected class web site. In advance of each session, we'll post Chris' power points for the next class in multiple formats. We'll also post Chris' special lecture notes in advance of each class, relevant articles and blog entries. And after each session, you'll be able to listen online or to download a digital recording of that class to your computer and MP3 player (eg your iPod).
Thus, when you have a conflict with a particular class, you'll have the recording, power points, and reading and you won't miss a thing. For the Authentic Happiness Coaching™ Program, some students had ongoing conflicts and listened to the entire class by recording. We anticipate that a number of Chris' students in this class—for example, those living in Australia—will experience the class entirely by recording, still emailing in questions to Chris between classes.
What You Will Learn: Chris will focus on the most important, latest research—including, at times, unpublished papers—and practice. His aim is for you emerge with an overview of how you and your clients can achieve wellbeing. How you can sustain it. And how you can do this in the most important arenas of your life: your personal life; your relationships; your work; and in your physical health.
Go to the MentorCoach web site for more information and to enroll.
A Primer In Positive Psychology Ebook
A Primer In Positive Psychology Christopher Peterson
Chris on his New Class
Hear Chris talk about his hopes and plans for Positive Psychology and Well-Being (11 mins.). Just click here.
Chris' In-Depth Interview (1/20/12)
Here's an extensive, widely-attended interview with Chris on the latest issues in Positive Psychology with questions coming in from listeners all over the world (80 mins). To listen, click here for streaming audio or to download an mp3.
A Primer In Positive Psychology Christopher Peterson Pdf
About Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. Chris Peterson will teach 'The Positive Psychology and Well-Being Master Class' by global teleconference from his office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Chris is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and is one of the founders and leading figures in positive psychology. He is noted for his work in the study of optimism, health, character, and well-being. He is one of the 100 most cited psychologists in the world and is now Co-Director of the newly-established Michigan Positive Psychology Center. He received his PhD. in social psychology from the University of Colorado and respecialized in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed a clinical psychology internship at the Philadelphia VAMC. Chris is widely regarded to be one of the seminal figures in Positive Psychology. He is a member of the Positive Psychology Steering Committee, a member of the board of directors of the Gallup Organization Positive Psychology Institute, a consulting editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology, and the positive psychology series editor of Oxford University Press. He was the research director of the Values in Action (VIA) project, the most ambitious undertaking to date from the explicit vantage of positive psychology; the VIA project describes, classifies, and measures important strengths of character. Chris' VIA Survey of Signature Strengths has been taken by more than a million people throughout the globe. It has been translated into Chinese and Spanish as well. Chris has twice been named best teacher at the University of Michigan and in 2010 won the 2010 Golden Apple Award—the most prestigious teaching award at the University of Michigan. He is the author of more than 350 publications. He is the co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (2004) and the author of the best-selling, A Primer in Positive Psychology (Oxford Positive Psychology Series) (2006). |
Go to the MentorCoach web site for more information and to enroll.
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