Parental involvement is widely recognized as important to the creation of great schools. This past week I was working with a group of school superintendents and one shared this story about ABC’s and parental involvement. “ABC” stands for “Adversity-Belief-Consequences.” It is a key construct of cognitive behavioral therapy and, from a positive psychology stance, of …
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Dave Shearon
Dave Shearon, MAPP, applies positive psychology to both law and education. Dave writes articles about applications of Positive Psychology to law and education at his site
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The Perils of Pollyanna
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonDo you dare to be an office Pollyanna?” It’s just a brief comment about a story in a Quebec paper I read while traveling, but I was positive about the concept. I still am, but I am also more attuned to the daring aspects of such an effort.
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On a Grumpy Day…
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonI’ve been a bit of a grump today. Not a bad, grump. Just some tacky, negative comments. I said as I started out this morning that I was feeling that way, and I know I was a bit terse with my staff a time or two during the day. When I got home this evening, I was still …
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The Sydney Opera House – Positive Psychology in Organizations – Stretch Goals
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonThe design for the opera house was the result of a world-wide competition in 1955-56. Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect submitted the winning design, but it did not meet the criteria of the competition and had drawings described as “simple to the point of being diagrammatic.” One widely reported story about the selection process relates …
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Psychological Capital — PsyCap
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonPsychological Capital introduces both a significant stream of research and an important framework for the application of positive psychology to organizations.
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Starbucks & Stories
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonOver the last year, I have started to develop my stories. At first, they simply came out as part of speaking to audiences of lawyers about positive psychology. Eventually, I realized that I was just doing what many of those I admire do also.
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Optimists in Law School
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonI have recently read Susan Segerstrom’s Breaking Murphy’s Law and was surprised to learn that much of her research has been with law students. Dr. Segerstrom focuses on the relationship between optimism and immune system functioning…
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Educating People to be Emotionally Intelligent
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonThis is not a book review; it is a book note for Educating People to Be Emotionally Intelligent.
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Leadership by and for rider/elephants
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonJon Haidt in The Happiness Hypothesis suggests the metaphor of a rider on an elephant for how we live life. The rider is our conscious thoughts (and emotions). The elephant is our unconscious emotions (and thoughts). Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman refers to these as System 1 and System 2, but I find rider and …
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Harry Potter and the Power of the Positive
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonChildren give wonderful gifts. Our boys have given Teresa and I an appreciation for baseball, “stop for the fun of it”, archery, and lots of great times reading to them at night. Both of them enjoyed being read to long after they no longer needed that reassurance and ritual to go to sleep. Toward the …
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My older son graduated from Emory a few weeks ago, moved to Louisville, and started his Masters in Teaching. And as we look forward with him to this change in his life, I have been thinking about what I have learned from Positive Psychology and about advice I can give to my sons. One key …
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What are the sources of poor lawyering? Open the article to see the response from sixty participants in a CLE ppresentation I made last week. Why does this matter?
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When war stories do make great CLE
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonLast Tuesday, the 10th, I participated in a continuing legal education (CLE) program that was the exception to the rule that “war stories” are not good CLE. “War stories” are anecdotes about a trial or other experience in representing a client. Often, these stories, while entertaining, primarily serve to make the storyteller look good. They …
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Applying Positive Psychology to Education
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonK-12 education is under the microscope in this country, and leaders in the field feel the pressure. Next month, I’ll be joining with Bill Robertson to present a one-day seminar to school superintendents. Two PPND authors have just made points in their posts that I have discussed with Bill as we prepare for that seminar.
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On the first day of the first ever Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program, Chris Peterson suggested that a key to positive psychology can be found in these three words: “Other people matter.” Here is a case in point. My comments follow.
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Sure they’ll think you are smart, but will they want to work for you?
by Dave Shearonby Dave ShearonSince early November, I have been giving a series of positive-psychology-based continuing legal education (CLE) seminars across Tennessee. Starting last month, I was also advertising for and interviewing candidates for Associate Director for the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization. Like peanut-butter-and-jelly, these two endeavors mixed deliciously. In the seminar, Lawyering and the …
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David N. Shearon, JD, MAPP. Dave Shearon focuses on changing legal education, lawyering, and K-12 education through helping others apply positive psychology. Dave is a frequent CLE speaker on the application of positive psychology to law practice and the challenges of being a lawyer. Drawing on extensive background in K-12 policy leadership including service …
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