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The Power of Positive
Introduction to Positive PsychologyAnd its Potential Power
September 2010
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Whether you
think you can,
or think you can’t,
you’re right!
Henry Ford
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We’re going to Accentuate the Positive
Who am I? o Charles Sutton, Senior Partner, Organizational Edgeo Organizational Psychology Consultancyo Consultancy solutions, coaching for success, research and insight and human
potential Positive Psychology or Positive Thinking What is Positive Psychology Some basic factors
o Easterbrook Paradoxo Negativityo Positive Emotion
Adult Hope Scale (an opportunity) Accentuate Positive Power
o Signature Strengtho Postpone the Worryo Use a Solution Focused Approach
Hope springs eternal
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Positive Thinking and Positive Psychology
‘The Secret’Published 2006Rhonda Byrne
‘Learned Optimism’Published 1991
‘Positive Psychology’Introduced 1999Martin Seligman
A Gulf of Difference
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The Differences!
Positive Psychology Concerned with 'optimal human
functioning' - it is about studying and understanding people at their best.
Researched and empirically based
Intellectual credibility, theoretical basis and recognised scholars
Understanding and exploring Individual support and
institutional change
Positive Thinking Popular movement, oversold and
about realising your dreams, changing your life
Individual stories, based on ‘amazing journeys’
Lacks intellectual credibility or coherence, premise is that you get what you want by using your mind
Telling Self help and personal
development
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What is Positive Psychology?
Positive Psychology is the study of optimal human functioning An attempt to respond to the systematic bias inherent in
psychology's historical emphasis on mental illness rather than on mental wellness o Psychological research delivered approximately 136,000 studies
on depression, anger and anxiety; and 10,000 on life satisfaction, happiness and joy over a thirty year period.
Positive psychology provides firm scientific foundation for the study of human happiness, human flourishing and optimal function
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Some basic factorso Easterbrook Paradoxo Negativityo Positive Emotion
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The Easterbrook Paradox
Gregg Easterbrook ‘The Progress Paradox’ How come as life gets better, people feel worse? Western society – enhanced income and lifestyle yet high levels of
depression and no measurable changes in happiness
The Negative Brain Research indicates the mind is hardwired to be negative and
pessimistic – for survival purposes Quick to respond to threat, so develop an attentional system that
prioritises negative aspects of environment Sidestep the natural negativity Evolutionary perspective is that ‘things’ valued by Western society
were not valued over millions of years of development
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Negativity
Losing money, being abandoned by friends and receiving criticism makes more of an impact than, Winning money, gaining friend and receiving praise (Baumeister, 2001)
When equal the negative trumps positive There seems to be an ideal ratio of positive to negative 3:1 for
human flourishing (Fredrickson, 2005)
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Positive Emotion
Positive affect - positive emotions, positive moods and positive attitudes – may in fact be the single most important active ingredient in the recipe for human flourishing (Barbara Fredrickson, 2005)
o Undo the negative effects of stress o Broaden thought action repertoireo Positive emotions build up resilience
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The Adult Hope Scale
Would you like to measure your future motivational state?
(There’s no need to share your score!!)
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Accentuate Positive Powero Signature Strengtho Postpone the Worryo Use a Solution Focused Approach
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Your Signature Strength
I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your weaknesses. Rather, I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest emotional satisfaction comes from
building and using your signature strengths. Martin Seligman, 2002
Values in Action (VIA) - behaviours are linked to our values Identify what you believe your strengths to be (individual or team) Test their significance:
o Sense of ownership (“This is the real me/us”) o Feeling of excitement whilst displaying strength o Rapid learning curve as the strength is first practiced o Continuous learning of new ways to enact the strength o Feeling of inevitability in using the strength (“Try and stop me”) o Invigoration rather than exhaustion while using the strength o The creation and pursuit of personal/team projects that revolve round it o Expectation of success from using strength
Name your signature strength Use your signature strength to benefit others
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Postpone the Worry
“Do not think about blue sheep” What we want to forget we think about more often
Considerable effort required to move thoughts from conscious to unconscious part of the mind
Solution is not to suppress but to fix a time in the future to deal with a worry
You take control and reduce the negative impact of the worry Individual and team action
‘Stimulus control application to the treatment of worry’ Borokovec
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Solution Focused Approach
Applicable to many situations requiring change, both individual and group Change and development is achieved by people drawing on their individual
and collective resources Solution focused approach includes the following ingredients
o Creating a language for change o Positive exceptions – identify the exceptions as this reduces the power of a
problemo Scaling – on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst that could happen, where are
you nowo Goal setting – achievement of future goals is shaped by memory of past goals.
Therefore need to reframe future goals on basis of success and capacity to achieve
o Resource building – engage in positive feedback to reinforce strengths and positive emotions
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The Adult Hope Scale
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Scoring the Adult Hope Scale
Select items 2, 9, 10 and 12. Add the scores and write the total into the line entitled Score One (Agency)
Select items 1, 4, 6 and 8. Add the scores and write the total into the line entitled Score Two (Pathway)
Add the two numbers in Score One and Score Two, and write into the line entitled Score Three (Hope)
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Hope - The Results
0 – 35 Level One
36 – 53 Level Two
54 – 64 Level Three
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The Meaning of your Score
Agency Subscale o Goal directed energyo Capacity to start, act and sustain actiono Willpower
Pathway Subscale o Planning to meet goalso Ability to generate ways to achieve goalso Waypower
Hope Scale o Positive motivational state on an interactively derived sense on successful
agency and pathways
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