A meditation on what Hope means in these hard times – and how to cultivate it
Hope in hard times – what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and what helps to cultivate it In these times we all know that no one of us has a monopoly on struggle and feelings of loss, fear, uncertainty...
View ArticleHappiness at Work edition #135 highlights
After many months we have published a new collection of stories, research and helpful guidelines linked to building and maintaining our happiness at work. Thank you for your patience. Here is a...
View ArticleSecond Wave Positive Psychology
It will soon be twenty years since Martin Seligman famously highlighted how sparse and unexamined our inquiry and understanding into the conditions essential for human flourishing are compared to our...
View ArticleHappiness At Work edition #133 – we are what we think
Here is a guide to some the ideas and articles we’ve collected in the latest Happiness At Work edition #133. Our theme this time is inspired by the excellent Get Happy Neuroscience for Business...
View ArticleSeligman’s PERMA+1 Essentials for Flourishing
Positive psychology is not yet twenty years old. In the short time since Martin Seligman’s 1998 call to turn on a scientific inquiry into what helps human beings to flourish, rather than merely...
View ArticleWhat you’ll find in our February 2016 Happiness At Work collection #132
Nuns from Tyburn Convent, Marble Arch perform a sponsored skip to rebuild the convent front, 17 August 1989. (Archive ref. GUA/6/9/2/1/1). Photo by Graham Turner from the Guardian story: Memorable...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #128 ~ all about how we use our minds
Clouds Floating Along ID: 257779 © Marilyn Barbone | Dreamstime Stock Photos “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and...
View ArticleProductivity, Performance and 21st century work
eyetime Here is a clutch of articles from our latest Happiness At Work collection that offer ideas for achieving/improving/maintaining/regaining productivity in our super-driven multi-connected 21st...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #125 – What is the work you can’t not do?
Untitled (Alice Cunningham, installation and performance 2009) The title of this post is taken from Scott Dinsmore’s call to action at the end of his TEDxGoldenGatePark talk: How to find and do work...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #124 ~ Happy UN International Day of Happiness 2015
don’t worry be happy INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS For the International Day of Happiness 2015 we’re inviting everyone to focus on their connections with others. This campaign is a global celebration...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #123 ~ Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Take the next step…
waiting to breathe This post collects together some different ideas about why pausing and making time for quietness and simply to breathe is essential to our happiness at work, along with some...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #122 ~ People: our greatest resource, now as it has always...
happy employees We are more and more recognising that the ‘soft people skills’ are neither unimportant nor inevitable, and we fail to give them our best attention and expertise at our peril. “…given...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #121 ~ Freeing Your Voice
freeing & Hearing diverse voices This week’s theme gathers recent stories and videos that all speak to the importance of freeing our voices and finding effective ways to be heard, seen and...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #120 ~ remembering to breathe
space to breath Welcome to our first new Happiness At Work collection for 2015. This week I have pressed the pause button to take a moment to reflect on the importance and value of taking the time to...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #119 ~ latest signs that our wellbeing matters and will...
Photo: Mark Trezona 2014 Every single person could become more effective and more able to relate to others by developing greater understanding about – and practical capabilities in – their own and each...
View ArticleResilience ~ the increasingly must-have skillset for us all
Southwick & Charney’s 10 Essential Resilience Capabilities (BridgeBuilders STG Ltd. 2014) The following post is adapted from materials we use in our resilience workshop and eLearning programmes....
View ArticleHappiness At Work #117 ~ Positivity & Overcoming Self-Doubt
Urban Abstract Self-Portrait (See-ming Lee) “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” I happened to notice this Forbes Thought For The Day on Tuesday 18th...
View ArticleWorker Wellbeing and Wellbeing Performance ~ Dept. for Business Innovation &...
happy employees are more productive This communicative and richly informative report is well worth reading in its entirety, but here is a summary of its main findings in relation to the question: Does...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #116 ~ surviving the mid-point slump
Green Grotto, Jamaica What is it about the middle that seems to suck away at our happiness? This week’s headline research news reports a mid-life slump in our happiness levels in the West, which then...
View ArticleHappiness At Work #115 ~ new science, old philosophies & everyday wisdom
This week’s headline articles include words of wisdom about happiness from a billionaire, from happiness at work scientists and from people like you and me figuring out what happiness means and how to...
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