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A Healthy and Fit Nation: Spotlight on Dr. Regina Benjamin
By Elaine O'Brien  
July 30, 2010 – 11:00 am | 2 Comments
A Healthy and Fit Nation: Spotlight on Dr. Regina Benjamin

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin gave a keynote speech at the Exercise is Medicine™ conference. In charge of 6500 uniformed health officers, Dr. Benjamin is an advocate for prevention in health care, and told the audience “People need our help!”

Tuning your Metacognitive Skills
By Sherri Fisher  
July 5, 2010 – 9:58 am | 6 Comments
Tuning your Metacognitive Skills

What highly competent and incompetent students share is this: both miscalibrate the perception of their own and of others’ performance. The difference is that competent students believe their peers have done only slightly better than they have, and so they work to apply success strategies. Incompetent students believe they have done significantly better than their peers and therefore do not work harder. How’s that for a counter-intuitive finding?

Positive Psychology Responses to Depression
By Bridget Grenville-Cleave  
May 30, 2010 – 3:54 am | 3 Comments
Positive Psychology Responses to Depression

“Hands up anyone who studied emotional mountaineering at school?” was Dr Chris Johnstone’s opening question. Had we been taught how to overcome low, negative or otherwise troublesome emotions? Not a single hand went up. Nevertheless said Chris, it is possible to learn how to become more resilient and to find your power. (Second in the series about the 5th Annual Bristol Happiness Lecture, subject, Positive Psychology Responses to Depression).

The PE Kit: Five Tools for Countering Depression
By Bridget Grenville-Cleave  
May 27, 2010 – 2:51 am | 19 Comments
The PE Kit: Five Tools for Countering Depression

Keynote speaker, Miriam Akhtar, described the Positive Emotion Kit (PE Kit) approach to countering depression. To boost mood naturally and experience more positive than negative emotion, people can form personal PE kits by selecting interventions from five essential evidence-based categories.

The Happiness Project (Book Review)
By Marie-Josée Salvas  
February 23, 2010 – 3:22 pm | 21 Comments
The Happiness Project (Book Review)

On an apparently meaningless bus drive home, Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany: “I am not as happy as I could be.” She also realized that the problem might not be the conditions of her life, per se, but with how she lived and perceived it. She wondered if she could change her life without actually changing her life, and made a year-long commitment to work on improving her happiness.

No Worries, Andy! Immunize Yourself Against Job Anxiety
By Christine Duvivier  
February 9, 2010 – 11:45 am | 10 Comments
No Worries, Andy! Immunize Yourself Against Job Anxiety

Dear Student,
Don’t worry when people tell you it will be hard to find a job. What the doom-and-gloom folks don’t understand is that they have something as contagious as the H1N1 virus– anxiety. Like the flu, they are probably “carriers” without even realizing it. You can innoculate yourself.

Planning for 2010: How Daily Mental Time Travel Can Increase Happiness or Decrease Anxiety
By Bridget Grenville-Cleave  
December 26, 2009 – 5:00 pm | 6 Comments
Planning for 2010: How Daily Mental Time Travel Can Increase Happiness or Decrease Anxiety

“The future is looking a whole lot better”
It was the reference to that classic film “Back to the Future” in the title of this new piece of research on future thinking that first caught my …

Evolution of Psychotherapy: Resilience through Client Strengths
By Laura L.C. Johnson  
December 25, 2009 – 6:00 pm | One Comment
Evolution of Psychotherapy: Resilience through Client Strengths

Earlier this month, I attended the Evolution of Psychotherapy. Billed as the world’s largest psychotherapy conference, it is held every 4-5 years and attracts over 6,000 people. I first attended the Evolution conference …

Your Well-Being Balance Sheet: The Happiness Equation, a book review
By Sherri Fisher  
December 5, 2009 – 5:45 pm | 6 Comments
Your Well-Being Balance Sheet: The Happiness Equation, a book review

Are you looking for a way to personalize your well-being by adding and subtracting the research-based, positive psychology way? Don’t miss The Happiness Equation: 100 Factors That Can Add To or Subtract From Your Happiness, …

Holiday Strengths
By Amanda Horne  
December 3, 2009 – 6:02 pm | 6 Comments
Holiday Strengths

Your Holiday Strengths
Some people anticipate the holidays with excitement and enthusiasm. Some find it can be a stressful time with obligations to fulfil and busy schedules to juggle. Wherever you are along this continuum, …

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