By Zak Maymin, Guest Author

I have read PPND articles for years, and recently several of the articles showed me the similarity between positive psychology and chess. There may be two analogies in chess that illustrate and bolster up a few positive psychology principles about change and happiness.

Today (March 31st) for is the last day for registering for The First World Congress on Positive Psychology, and receiving the early-bird discount rate.
The First World Congress on Positive Psychology will take place June …

I have had the good fortune of being born into a large, Italian family, for which I am utterly and completely grateful…. Communitas is a ritual-building process that inspires and revitalizes while reaffirming relationships within a community, state University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his colleagues. According to Anthropologist Victor Turner, building communitas is an essential step to activating a community to healthy family functioning, healthy child development, and other dimensions of well-being.

“… but just to be on the safe side, we’ll need to operate.”
Those are words many of us will have to deal with at some point in our lives and which happened for me earlier …

If you want to learn more about the applications of positive psychology in work, education and the wider community, the 2nd Applied Positive Psychology Conference will be the event for you. Hosted by the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) at the University of Warwick from 1-3 April 2009, delegates from all over the world will come together to share experiences, explore new research and applications, and build connections.

I don’t think emotions, positive or negative, need to be kept in the closet at work. But you need to take the heat out of the discussion, and give business people the opportunity to explore their emotions dispassionately, setting goals which will enhance their performance. Here is one of many ways to do this. Providing you show real benefits, emotions can be transformed into serious business.

I look forward to the day when the word “positive” is no longer needed to describe psychology or psychotherapy because the association will automatically be there. How is the field of psychotherapy integrating with the positive psychology movement to re-gain its original focus on helping people to achieve their potential?

Day 3 of the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference included discussions of the business value and success factors for both inclusive diversity and wellness programs. [...]

If you met Denni Chipollini before one of his speaking engagements, you’d see his communicative smile and feel his positive attitude. But you’d never guess what the story behind his energy is.

Highlights from Day 2 of the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference included presentations by Chris Peterson and Nansook Park, as well as from several of the organizations that won the awards. Award winners demonstrate that creating positive workplace is not only possible, but also lines up with company values and contributes to the bottom line. [...]