Today’s article gives some inside perspective to the recent events at Penn State from two fellow UPenn MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology) graduates. Leona Brandwene is a performance improvement coach and positive psychology instructor and Lorrie Peniston is a positive psychotherapist in Bermuda with Pennsylvania roots. Both are proud alumni of Penn State. “Penn State” elicits a broad […]
You think you’ve had a rough life? This guest post is by Dr. Rob Pennington,a psychologist and the author of Find The Upside Of The Down Times: How To Turn Your Worst Experiences Into Your Best Opportunities, which chronicles the lessons he learned after getting shot, fired, divorced, audited and remarried with a spouse who then […]
I recently received an advance copy of “The Hour that Matters Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal” by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. As a new parent with a 1-year old son and #2 already on the way, this is a topic that I have been thinking about a lot lately. In fact, […]
This weeks article comes from a reader, Allison Gamble, who read my article on “What’s Good About Work?” and felt I was only telling half the story. Allison has been a curious student of psychology since high school. Her perspective on making the most of time “between jobs” is inspring and an important reminder for […]
Sandye, an old high school friend of mine, recently shared an uplifting true story on Facebook. She was waiting on line for the food service (pizza, hot dogs, etc.) at Costco with her husband and daughter. After waiting what seemed like forever, they finally got up to the front of the line and ordered their […]
September 11, 2001. I was staying at the Pierre Hotel in New York City and woke up just as the first plane was crashing into the tower. I was living in Mexico at the time but had stopped in New York on my way back from somewhere (my memories of whatever was happening the week […]
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, floods, volcanoes and terrorist attacks. In just the past year these disasters have all hit somewhere in the world. We’ve had every kind of disaster you can think of short of an attack of zombie hordes. This time, the disaster came pretty close to home for me with Hurricane Irene […]
A recent series of research studies found that women are lured away from math and science by their desire for romance. This research is fascinating on two levels. First, because it highlights a difference between the genders as researchers found that women, but not men, would express less motivation to pursue a career in science, […]
The recent World Congress for the International Positive Psychology Association happened immediately following the horrific terrorist attacks that occurred in Norway, taking the lives of dozens of people and devastating many many more. As I mentioned last week, a comment was made at the congress that “if one person can do this much bad in […]
This week I attended the International Positive Psychology Association World Congress, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As you might imagine, it has been almost overwhelming with a variety of talks regarding the state of positive psychology today and workshops covering specific research that has been done or application of the science to a variety of domains. Here […]
