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Positive Psychology: Training, Tools and Resources

Positive Psychology is essentially the science of what makes us happy and well as opposed to what makes us ill and stressed. It's become an important and growing field of psychological research and practice over the last 10 to 20 years, with the dominant figure being American psychologist, Martin Seligman. If you scroll down this page, you'll find information on Positive Psychology training, tools and resources, books, and useful web links to more information.

Positive Psychology and Resilience Training
We discuss the use of Positive Psychology frameworks and tools within our free Resilience Roadshows and our Building Resilience Through Positive Psychology train-the-trainer workshops. For more information, please check out our events page. The train-the-trainer workshop is for Professionals who wish to use Positive Psychology approaches within resilience training. We also use these approaches in our in-house resilience training for managers and staff. Please contact us directly if you are interested in in-house training.

Positive Psychology Tools and Resources
You can access to some great stress management tools on this site, including those which I have developed, on our 10 Best Stress Management Tools page.

Another great source of (specifically) Positive Psychology tools is Martin Seligman's (Penn State University) Authentic Happiness website. There are a wide variety of tools and resources you can access on this site.

Recommended Books on Resilience and Positive Psychology
Below I've highlighted some books I'd specifically recommend if you want to expand your knowledge on Positive Psychology and its links with resilience and wellbeing. Just click on the pictures of the books to access the relevant page on amazon, where you can read a synopsis and access book reviews. Most of these books also have kindle/digital versions (I have also put together a stress management book store on this site where you can explore a wider range of books on stress management and related topics.)
Positive Psychology Background - Some Wikipedia Links
If you're interested in Positive Psychology, I highly recommend that you do some reading about background theories, frameworks and approaches. One good free source of this type of information is wikipedia. Generally, the psychology sections in wikipedia are very good. Here are some useful wikipedia links for you to explore:
  • Hardiness: The 3 C’s, Commitment, Control, Challenge (Kobasa, Maddi).
  • Locus of control: The implications of an internal/external locus (Rotter)
  • Self-efficacy: Beliefs about our ability to succeed (Bandura)
  • Salutogenesis / Sense of Coherence: (Antonovski); Comprehensibility, Manageability, Meaningfulness.
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Background, applications etc. (the recommended books above are an even better source of practical information on the links between CBT and resilience)
  • Behavioural Change theories: Theories, models and research, key issues
  • Implementation Intentions: Also know as 'if-then' plans (Gollwitzer). These are powerful and effective psychological approaches to helping people make positive changes to their behaviours.
  • Positive Psychology: Background, methods, theory (Seligman). The book links above are an even better source of understanding how Positive Psychology can be used to boost resilience and psychological wellbeing.
  • Psychological Resilience: Background, history, research etc.

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