Workshop Description:
Join us for a transformative workshop led by an internationally acclaimed expert in the science of happiness. This engaging session will empower attendees with essential skills to foster lasting psychological well-being, both personally and professionally.
The workshop begins with an in-depth exploration of the science behind happiness, setting the stage for a review of 14 evidence-based principles proven to enhance well-being. Participants will also gain practical, easy-to-implement strategies to cultivate resilience and positivity in their daily lives.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your understanding of happiness and bring these powerful tools to your personal and professional roles!
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the key benefits of happiness to our physical health, emotional well-being, interpersonal relationships, and job performance.
2. Explain key barriers to wellbeing including the negativity bias and genetic factors that may impede a person’s happiness.
3. Employ research-backed approaches to effectively treat common mental health struggles, drawn from positive psychology and other strength-based methods.
4. Explore specific areas of the brain linked to positive emotional states, and learn techniques to increase neuronal firing to these regions in order to create lasting change through the process of positive neuroplasticity.
5. Identify fourteen research-backed principles linked to psychological wellbeing.
6. Administer specific practices to cultivate gratitude, compassion, self-compassion, awe, and connection – and describe how to integrate these effectively into treatment.