A three-day intensive on-site Workshop
introduces
Positive Psychology for schools, including:
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Bring Positive Psychology to Your School.
Flourishing Schools programs…
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Incorporate multiple
intelligences and learning styles
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Build in time for processing,
integrating and applying information
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Create a culture of positive
peer interaction, peer review, peer observations, personal
and active inquiry
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Base curriculum on empirical
research
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Integrate reflective practice
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Provide guided practice and
feedback
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Support implementation in the
actual work setting
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Measure the results of the
program through empirical studies, self-reflection reports,
and collegial networks feedback
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Make direct connections to
teachers’ work and individual strengths
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Offer continuing research,
analysis and follow-up of results to ensure sustainability.
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Give Your School
Community the Positive Edge.
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Workers with higher life satisfaction are more likely to
be engaged and passionate about their work and to view
their work as a calling (Wrzesniewski, et
al., 1997). They stay on the job longer, too.
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People who have a calling orientation to their work are
more likely to demonstrate optimism (Gillham,
et al., 2001), mastery (Rawsthorne
and Elliott, 1999) and conscientiousness
(McCrae and Costa, 1999), and are
more intrinsically motivated (Wrzesniewski,
et al., 2003). They miss fewer days from work.
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 A calling orientation can be
developed through Positive Psychology exercises
(Wrzesniewski and Dutton, 2001).
Learn about job crafting!
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Identify your
individual and community strengths
profile. The character strengths of
hope, zest, curiosity, love, and
gratitude are significantly related to
life satisfaction (Park,
Peterson, & Seligman, 2004).
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Think all
schools have or need the same strengths
set? In their Master of Applied Positive
Psychology Capstone research at the
University of Pennsylvania, Sherri
Fisher and Dave Shearon found that a
school district has a unique strengths
profile. Discover and leverage yours.
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The Benefits of Positive Emotion:
They’re Contagious!
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Positive emotions such as joy, interest, contentment,
pride and love…
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improve an individual’s attention, creativity,
cognition, and scope of possible action
(Fredrickson, 2001),
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may undo the effects of the negative emotions thus
protecting health (Fredrickson, 1998),
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increase resilience and resistance to physical illnesses
ranging from colds to cardiovascular events
(Fredrickson, 1998), and
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can spread to others as
people share feelings of competence,
achievement, involvement, significance, and
social connection (Fredrickson,
2003).
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Keep Track of Program
Effectiveness in Your School. |
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We can investigate links between constructs such as teacher general
happiness, approaches to happiness, explanatory style, work-life
orientation and strengths profile with your data including:
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Dave Shearon
and Sherri Fisher presenting their research
“Building a Foundation for Positive
Psychology in Schools” at the International
Positive Psychology Summit.
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John Yeager
presenting his research “Character Strengths
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Consulting:
Flourishing Schools customizes
programs
based on your individual needs.
Coaching:
Then we’ll help you sustain
the enthusiasm
that develops among teachers, students,
schools, parents, and communities.
Here’s what participants say about
Flourishing Schools’ Programs:
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