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Birmingham BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on emotion regulation therapy with Doug Mennin & David Fresco (1st post)

Well ... here I am again at one of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) annual summer conferences.  It's before breakfast on the first morning and I'm a bit wrapped in a funny mix of feelings.  It's about 6.30am on a stunning morning.  The view from my room is of a lovely sun-splashed green lawn leading to a lake.  I'm really looking forward to the conference too.  It's got all kinds of goodies in it. Fascinating.  But in the train on the way down from Edinburgh yesterday, I 'tweaked' my back.  It stiffened up overnight and when I first got going this morning, I wondered if I was going to be able to make it to the conference today.  Well, it seems to be loosening up.  Dignified cautious posture & movements are on the menu just now.

European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: flourishing, science backbone & harmonious or obsessive passion (5th post)

I have written a series of blog posts about the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology held in Amsterdam earlier this month ... "Positive supervision and positive relationships""Love, national happiness comparison tables, & life satisfaction assessment""What proportion of well-being is genetically determined?" and "Self-determination,

European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: self-determination, positive aging, and the economic crisis (4th post)

I have already written three blog posts about early July's 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology in Amsterdam ... firstly on pre-conference workshops "Positive supervision and positive relationships", then on "Love, national happiness comparison tables, & life satisfaction assessment" and most recently on "What proportion of well-being is genetically determined?" After lunch on the first full day of the conference, I was faced with choosing from fifteen different workshops, symposia & paper sessions. I picked a "paper session" on "Self-determination theory (S-DT)". S-DT is a bit of a passion of mine ... absolutely central to my clinical and personal understanding of eudaimonia, well-being & positive psychology.

European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: what proportion of well-being is genetically determined? (3rd post)

I have already written a couple of blog posts about this 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology - the first on pre-conference workshops about supervision & about relationships and the second on love, national happiness league tables, and life satisfaction assessment. After the coffee break I went on to, what for me turned out to be, one of the most interesting sets of presentations at this conference - an invited symposium on "Biological aspects of wellbeing and resilience".

European positive psychology conference: love, national happiness comparison tables, & life satisfaction assessment (2nd post)

I wrote yesterday about the two pre-European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP) workshops I went to on "Positive supervision" and on "Positive relationships".  Then in mid-afternoon on Tuesday, the conference proper began.  It was heralded by Taiko drummers and a cluster of brief welcoming speeches.  Apparently there are 920 people at the conference from about 50 different countries.  The country spread is similar, but the numbers are up 50% on the approximately 600 attendees at the 5th ECPP I went to in Copenhagen four years ago.

European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: workshops on supervision and on relationships (1st post)

The 7th biennial European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP) began here in Amsterdam yesterday.  Four years ago, I went to the 5th European Conference in Copenhagen.  It was pretty special and I wrote extensively about it in this blog - see, for example "European positive psychology conference in Copenhagen: arriving, opening speeches & reception".  

Five 'prescriptions' for flourishing more fully

(this blog post is downloadable as a handout both in Word doc and in PDF format)

Professor Ken Sheldon is a bit of a hero of mine.  I've followed his research for many years and have great respect for his work and what I've gleaned about the way he leads his life.  I have just been looking at the recording of a lecture he gave at the University of Missouri a little while ago. The points he makes about how to flourish more fully are still pretty much bang on.

Ten ways of coping now my heart's constricted with fear: introduction (1st post)

It’s about six in the morning.  A cuckoo is calling repeatedly and I’ve just woken.  I’m warm in my sleeping bag, but it’s quite cold in the tent.  How am I feeling?  Frightened!  Externally I’m fine, but when I look inside there’s a constriction.  When I explore it more awarely I get an image of a cold, heavy snake lying down the length of my body and most obviously there’s a constriction around my heart.