Why a workshop on friendship? Relationships are so important - whether we look at wellbeing & happiness, resilience under stress, or surviving to have a long, healthy life. The diagram below is based on a series of studies that have been around for a while - Berkman & Syme's "Social networks, host...
Here are half a dozen recent research studies that caught my eye. Diener et al, in a large sample of people round the world, found intriguingly that wealth tends to increase life satisfaction, while it is the fulfilment of psychological needs - learning, autonomy, using one's skills, respect, and the ability to count on others in an emergency - that better predicted positive feelings. ...
Yesterday I wrote a post "Disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can help past, present & future concerns". I ended it with the words "In tomorrow's post I'll argue that therapeutic writing (...