Birmingham BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on emotion regulation therapy with Doug Mennin & David Fresco (1st post)
22nd July 2014
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 …
European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: flourishing, science backbone & harmonious or obsessive passion (5th post)
20th July 2014
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, positive aging, and the …
European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: self-determination, positive aging, and the economic crisis (4th post)
18th July 2014
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?" …
European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: what proportion of well-being is genetically determined? (3rd post)
4th July 2014
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 …
European positive psychology conference: love, national happiness comparison tables, & life satisfaction assessment (2nd post)
3rd July 2014
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 …
European positive psychology conference in Amsterdam: workshops on supervision and on relationships (1st post)
2nd July 2014
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, …
Five 'prescriptions' for flourishing more fully
25th May 2014
(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 …
The importance of 'emotional' not just 'rational' empathy
12th May 2014
I'm just back from four days away with friends down in Cumbria. I have been going to these long residential Spring weekends on the edge of the Lake District for well over twenty years and have written a lot about them too ... see for example the sequence of posts …
Ten ways of coping now my heart's constricted with fear: introduction (1st post)
3rd May 2014
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 …