What Gives Our Work its Meaning

What Gives Our Work its Meaning

Submitted by Patti McCarthy, Director of Cultural Chemistry for the Positive Living Newsletter (November 2016). Read the rest of the newsletter here. When we work alone, it can be very easy to work in a vacuum, being so busy pursuing our personal visions that we...
What Gives Our Work its Meaning

Featured Member: Lia Naor

Submitted by Lia Naor, PhD Candidate for the Positive Living Newsletter (November 2016). Read the rest of the newsletter here. When Therapy Takes a Hike With a rich background in therapy and wilderness studies, it was only natural for me to combine my love of nature...
What Gives Our Work its Meaning

Featured Member: Shizuka Modica

Submitted by Shizuka Modica, PhD, ACC for the Positive Living Newsletter (November 2016). Read the rest of the newsletter here. Farming Village to Kyoto and to America Running through the neighborhood, climbing a giant tree in our public plaza, making mud pies in the...
Positive Psychology in North America

Positive Psychology in North America

贝莉儿 NG Authors Co-authored with Roger Tweed, Ph.D., Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada. Abstract Positive psychology in America can be traced back to humanistic psychology, founded by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, with its emphasis on...
What Gives Our Work its Meaning

Featured Member: Luis A. Marrero

Submitted by Luis A. Marrero for the Positive Living Newsletter (September 2016). Read the rest of the newsletter here. It has been a tradition of this newsletter to feature INPM members in order to make them known to others, and to reinforce the bonds of friendship...
What Gives Our Work its Meaning

Peak Experience: When Flow Gains Meaning

Submitted by Lia Naor, PhD Candidate at the Department for Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa, for the Positive Living Newsletter (September 2016). Read the rest of the newsletter here. On a daily basis, human beings have a large array of...
Self-Transcendence: A Paradoxical Way to Become Your Best

Self-Transcendence: A Paradoxical Way to Become Your Best

Introduction I propose that the way to become your best self is, paradoxically, to become more selfless. I want to make the case that, in a world of cut-throat competition, the best strategy to survive and prosper for individuals and societies is to give our best in...