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Vanessa King -
Psychological Well-being
Sustenance For Life!
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“We live in worlds our questions create”
David Cooperrider
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We see what we are looking for…
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1. What are you focusing on?!
2. What choice do you have?!
3. What choices are you making? !
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus”
Mark Twain
3 Questions
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Aims of Psychology 1. Curing Mental Illness !
2. Making people’s lives more productive and fulfilling!
3. Identifying and nurturing talent!
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Re-balancing psychology Psychology as was! Positive psychology
What’s broken?! What working?!
Cure! Prevention !
Decrease suffering!
Increase !well-being!
Correct weaknesses!
(what’s wrong?)!
Nurture strengths!
(what’s right?) !
!©Vanessa King!
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“ +5 is different from 0”
Martin Seligman
-5 0 +5
©Vanessa King!
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We have evolved to have a natural bias towards what’s wrong
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Positive emotions have a purpose too…
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©Vanessa King!(Illustrated by Mozarella Ltd) !
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7 in 11 out!
Experiment 1
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Experiment 2
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3 x 1 = 6 “Happiness is a skill you can learn”
Matthieu Ricard
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A sense of control is a vital psychological nutrient
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions”
Dalai Lama
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How much control do we have?
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Squeezing more out of life
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The most happy 25% of nuns in 1930 lived on average 10 years longer than the least happy 25%
This matters
Danner et al, 2001
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“Psychology has revealed much about man’s shortcomings but little about his potentialities”
Abraham Maslow
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What are your signature strengths?
Using one or more of signature strengths in new ways for 1 week had a positive impact in well-
being for up to 6 months !
• Natural, can’t help using it!• Feels like the real you!• Rapid learning curve when
practiced!• Energising!
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Using your strengths in new ways..
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“Feeling good and functioning well” !
Felicia Huppert
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What makes up our well-being?
Huppert & So, 2011!
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What can you do?
Developed by Vanessa King for Action for Happiness!
www.actionforhappiness.org!
10 Keys to Happier Living !
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