Saturday, 22nd July International Positive Psychology Association 8th IPPA World Congress 2023

Join lululemon ambassador Geoff Scoates for an easy run to start the day.  The runs will consist of an easy out and back route heading towards Stanley Park that caters to all levels, and will leave you feeling energized for the day ahead.   

Start you day with a guided meditation and hopeful gratitude, led by Dan Tomasulo. Take time to enjoy, energize, and connect (with yourself and others). In addition, you can prepare yourself for the deep learning and connecting of the day.

Hosted by the Spirituality/Meaning Division of IPPA.

Start you day with a guided meditation and hopeful gratitude, led by Dan Tomasulo. Take time to enjoy, energize, and connect (with yourself and others). In addition, you can prepare yourself for the deep learning and connecting of the day.

Hosted by the Spirituality/Meaning Division of IPPA.

• Connecting Nature to Well-Being - John Zelenski, Holli-Anne Passmore, Kelley Thackeray (Bird-Naytowhow), Thomas Doherty and Louise Chawla

• Communicating Positive Psychology to Massive Audiences: What Works? - Jason Marsh, Tal Ben-Shahar and Sonja Lyubomirsky

• Positive Psychology for kids and Teens: Building strength, resilience and well-being at important life stages. - Lea Waters, Anne Johnstone, Rhea Owens and Claudia Zavala
• Positive Psychology for kids and Teens: Building strength, resilience and well-being at important life stages. - Lea Waters
• Embedding Well-being into School: A Case Study of Positive Education Before and During COVID-19 Lockdowns - Anne Johnstone
• Preliminary Findings of a Meta-analysis Involving Positive Psychological Interventions for Children and Adolescents - Rhea L Owens
•   “It’s a Family Matter”: A Strengths-Based Intervention for Parents of Sexual Minority Individuals - Claudia Zavala

• Cultivating Happiness From trauma to community building at scale - Karen Guggenheim

• Life Stories in the Formation of Purpose, Gratitude, and Positive Identity - William Damon and Pamela King

• Principles to Practice : Teachers Training Program from India - Sanjeev P. Sahni, Pulkit Khanna, Sneh Kapoor, Kishor Adhikari and Sucharita Belavadi

• Exploring new perspectives on wellbeing in the Gallup World Poll - Tim Lomas, Holli-Anne Passmore, Richard Cowden and Jeanne Nakamura

• Where (the heck) do primal world beliefs come from? - Jer Clifton and Nicholas Kerry

• A Protective Mechanism in the Relation of Stress and Life Satisfaction: Personal Growth Initiative as a Moderator - Xu Jiang
• A Prescription of Positive Psychology : Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap in Social Prescribing in the UK - Jill Rzym
• The Ecological Momentary Assessment of Well-being: a genetically informative study - Meike Bartels
• A new measure of grit: How does it relate to achievement goal orientations, goal adjustment and flourishing in young adults - Rafia Rafique

• Positive psychological constructs promoting technology acceptance in organisations - Mariella Noriega Del Valle
• The effect of leader’s transgression for the procrastination and anxiety of employee’s: the role of psychological safety - Milena Gojny-Zbierowska
• Flourishing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Does meaning at work mediate the associations between psychosocial work factors and job performance and wellbeing? - Carol-Anne Gauthier
• Assessment of founders in investment decisions - Gregory G Hennessy
• Wellbeing measures for workers: A systematic review and methodological quality appraisal - Rebecca J Jarden

• Racial trauma and self-care in tragedy - Roslyn D Burton-Robertson
• Taster of the Be Well Plan, a novel wellbeing intervention to maximise person to intervention fit.  - Matthew Iasiello

• The Manifesting Meaning Workshop: A Meaning and Purpose Intervention for University Students - Maeve B O'Donnell and Jessica L Morse
• Seasons of Meaning: Experiential Approaches to Deepening Meaning in Everyday Life. - Michael F Steger and Pninit Russo-Netzer

• Sustainable Leadership: Surviving or Thriving in the C-Suite? - Charlotte Wiseman
• Exploring and experiencing the Job Canvas - an agile, strengths-based, person-centred alternative to a traditional job description  - Rob Baker

• Emerging Topics in Positive Psychological Interventions - Judith Moskowitz, Kenneth Tyler Wilcox, Marie Sizmore and Elizabeth Addington
• An Integrative Data Analysis of Positive Psychology Interventions - Kenneth Tyler Wilcox
• Optimizing an app-based PPI: Considerations for JITAI design, EMI delivery, and micro-randomized trial design - Marie Sizmore
• FOREST: Positive Emotion Regulation Skills for Frontline Gun Violence Prevention Workers - Elizabeth Addington

• Bring Light to the Dark: Positive Psychology Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Bereavement - Jan Stanley, Jodi Wellman, Lucy Hone and Sarah François-Poncet

• Embodied positive psychology - Alla Klymenko

Since the first Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program was launched in 2005 at the University of Pennsylvania, a number of MAPP programs have been started around the world—some quite recently. The structure of these programs varies, but they have as their core emphasis a deep introduction to positive psychology research and a careful preparation for professional practice in the field. This session, conceived as a discussion hour, will bring together directors from a number of MAPP programs to discuss with members of the audience the nature and importance of these programs, the valuable role they play in the field of positive psychology, and especially their most important directions for development and growth in the future in light of changes in the field (e.g., results of new research) and changes in the world (e.g., artificial intelligence, climate change).

• IPPA Positive Education President’s Symposium - Maggie Zhao, Mathew White, Rosalinda Ballesteros and Peggy Kern

Speakers:

• Holli-Anne Passmore
• Maria Sirois
• Claudia Zavala
• Margarita Tarragona
• Pninit Russo-Netzer
• Marjorie Aunos

Each scientist and practitioner will take 5 minutes to share their latest, hot-off-the-press findings and/or practices. You’ll learn about numerous scientific discoveries and applications, across a range of contexts. This popular session is not to be missed! Hear from Drs. Tayyab Rashid, Lea Waters, Holli-Anne Passmore, Dan Tomasulo, and many more in this tightly-packed experience. Dr. Ryan Niemiec will chair the event.

Delivered by the winner of the IPPA Dissertation Award 2021

• The Dynamics of Well-Being in Daily Life: A Multilevel Perspective - David Newman

Jolanta Burke: New positive psychology and health interventions: Exploring over 100 research-based tools that improve positive psychological and physiological outcomes, view abstract here

Andrea von Schultzendorff: Benefits of a psychological well-being intervention in Chilean patients at high risk of chronic diseases, view abstract here

Emily Bartley: Boosting resilience in older adults: Pilot trial of a positive psychology telehealth intervention for chronic low back pain, view abstract here 

Loni Berkowitz: Healthy eating as potential mediator of the relationship between sense of purpose in life and better nutritional status in US and Chilean adults, view abstract here 

Sonia Mangialavori: A longitudinal intervention study on mental health and work experience of professionals in geriatric services during the COVID-19 pandemic, view abstract here

Anomi Berden: The effects of HeartMath heart lock-in on elementary students’ HRV and self-reported emotion-regulation skills, view abstract here

• MAPPing the impact of 10 years of applied positive psychology post-graduate training in Portugal: A qualitative study - Sara Ascenso and Helena Marujo
• Meaning and Purpose in life from a transdisciplinary perspective; A third wave approach to positive psychology coaching - Omid Alaei
• Promoting Gratitude Effectively in High School: Interpersonal Intervention that Supports Wellbeing - Giacomo Bono

• Survival, storytelling and strengths: An innovative approach to Holocaust education - Rachel Colla and Jennifer Levitt-Maxwell
• Co-creating and testing a digital wellbeing tool with and for LGBTQ+ teens:  A how-to-guide - Emma Bruehlman-Senecal

• Fostering active-constructive responding in online communication - Actual and perceived active-constructive responding as mediators of the interventions’ effect on positive affect. - Belinda Merkle
• Assessing the associations of feedback self-efficacy and utility with eight emotions in learning situations: A control-value perspective - Anna Belykh
• Children’s positive emotions predict multiple well-being outcomes 39 years later - John K. Coffey
• Protective factors for suicide and suicidal behaviors of older people: systematic review and meta-analysis     - Myung Ki

• 10 years later - where are we on the journey to psychologically healthy and safe workplaces?      - Mary Ann Baynton, Liz Horvath and Sari Sairanen

• The sense of meaning in education: Empirical evidence and their practical implications - Shiri Lavy, Tammie Ronen, Pninit Russo-Netzer and Imelda Caleon

• Conversation Hour with Marty Seligman: Everything you wanted to know about Positive Psychology but were afraid to ask - Martin Seligman

• Innovation in Positive Educational Interventions across Cultures - Kaiping Peng, Wei Yan and Yukun Zhao

• The positive psychology changed a nation (Transformational Impact of Positive Psychology in the UAE) - Noof Aljneibi
• Tackling the Climate Crisis from a place of positivity  - Mohammad Asfour

• Chinese international student wellbeing: From a systematic perspective - Jacqui Francis
• What College Students Are After and Why: A Longitudinal Study - Anne Colby
• Character Strengths: A roadmap to students life satisfaction - Rosalinda Ballesteros
• Character strengths versus neoliberal values in higher education: comparative analysis in student integral formation - Anna Belykh

• Understanding educational leader resilience: Examining stress and self-care in school and district administrators - Sebrina L Doyle Fosco
• PERMA-Lead: A Behavioral Leadership Approach to Positive Leadership. - Markus Ebner
• Happy Followers of Happy Leaders: Leader-Follower Well-being Cross-over and the Role of Leadership Style - Przemysław Zbierowski

• Well-Being: A bibliometric review - Jaymes Paolo Rombaoa
• The Model of Elemental Wellbeing: the golden threads and elements that thwart and support wellbeing. - Annalise Roache
• The Cost of Optimism in Prospection : An Examination of Accurate and Optimistic Forecasting of Life Satisfaction - Joline Guitard

• Less is More: Why low-consumption lifestyles make us happy (and might save the planet) - Kasey Lloyd
• The Healing Power of Positive Narrative and Appreciative Inquiry: Soaringwords’ Case Studies, Enhancing Health Equity and Wellbeing - Lisa H. Buksbaum and Julie Haizlip
• Based on a scoping review to establish a Flouring Adaptation Program for patients with advanced brain tumor receiving boron neutron capture therapy - 穆佩芬 Mu
• Harnessing the power of positive psychology in self-care and health care - Liana Lianov
• Applying positive psychology in pediatric palliative care: Aligning PERMA principles with the Starlight Moments program - Suzy Green

• How to Increase Middle School Students Subjective Well-Being using a 10-Week Multitarget, Multicomponent Positive Psychology Intervention - Shannon Suldo and Kristen Mahony
• Agency – A Key to Well-Being and Flourishing – Practical Steps to Agency - Philip Streit

• The Rogerian fully functioning person: A positive psychology perspective - Carmel Proctor
• The ambivalent role of state curiosity on emotional well-being among older adults: examine the moderating effect of activity diversity in a time-sampling study - Yiwen Wu
• The effect of emotion socialization on positive and negative qualities towards self and others: The roles of mindfulness and gratitude - Sarah E Moran
• Positive eating and cooking with positive psychology coaching. - Eve Loo
• Types and frequency of altruism among those experiencing homelessness - Jenna Lee
• A conceptual model for the promotion of maternal wellbeing in the perinatal period - Jenn A Leiferman
• Post-psychedelic growth? mental healthcare providers' beliefs about personal growth after psychedelic-assisted therapy and naturalistic psychedelic use - Maya Atlas
• How chronic loneliness levels and well-being are associated with resting heart rate variability - Andy Proctor
• The impact of novelty on positive emotion in shared experiences - Brian Hill

All members of the IPPA Education Division are welcome to attend!

All attendees are welcome to attend!

All members of the IPPA Work & Organisation Division are welcome to attend!

All members of the IPPA Positive Clinical Division are welcome to attend!

• First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum (FNMWC) Framework - Carol Hopkins

• The Positive Humanities: Examining the Role of Arts and Culture in Human Flourishing - James O. Pawelski, Christa T. Mahlobo, Katherine N. Cotter and MacKenzie Trupp

• Integrating Positive Psychology Coaching and Coaching Psychology: The Past, Present, and Future of these Coaching Approaches - Suzy Green, Robert Biswas Diener, Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Ilona Boniwell

• Using a positive approach to suicide prevention: The Sources of Strength model and it’s application in college settings - Kelly BT Chang, Grace Emhoff, Anne Drescher and Luz Robinson

• Measuring the Well-being of Populations Using Social Media: Three Generations of Technology - H. Andrew Schwartz

• Psychedelics, positive psychology, and positive humanities - Hamide Eygoren
• After adjusting for ill-being, well-being still protects from mortality: A meta-analysis - Max J Genecov

• Culture-based Positive Education Program for Chinese Young Children   - Jinghan JC Chee
• Effectiveness of Wellness Skills Package on increasing professors' character strengths and psychological well-being - Naghmeh Taghva
• Just like everyone else: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities describe happiness in their own words - Lori Dotson
• Social networking addiction among Hong Kong secondary school students: the roles of positive youth development attributes and positive parenting - Lu YU

• Well-Being on Prince Edward Island, Canada: a Statistical Case-Study of Well-Being Related Community Factors - Connolly Aziz
• Marital Strengths Correlated to Well-Being in Military Couples - Stephen V. Bowles
• REVAMPing PERMA to teach well-being practices to law students - R. Lisle Baker

• Finding awe: Enhancing personal resilience and inspiring others. - Jeff Thompson
• Reframing Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth Through the Hero’s Journey - Naila deCruz-Dixon
• Leadership for Flourishing: Positive Approaches to Relationship Building in Education - Benjamin Kutsyuruba
• When Science Catches Up With Grandma: How Going to Church Can Ameliorate Socioeconomic Gaps - Robin Johnson
• Improving collective well-being in competitive sports teams - Jodi A Burns

• 4- Evening- Questions: A simple technique to experience strengths - Markus Ebner
• The impact of self-efficacy and optimism on Melbourne business owners’ post-traumatic growth post-pandemic: A gendered perspective. - Michelle L Falzon

• Wellbeing and early education - are we literate?  - Lisa M Baker
• How college professors can support students’ psychological well-being - Rachel Baumsteiger
• Building voice and choice:  Fostering teacher wellbeing through community - Theresa Blake
• Mindfulness-based strengths practice in higher education – four years of experience - Peter Malinowski

• What are the implications of genetically informative research for wellbeing prevention and interventions strategies? - Meike Bartels and Ragnhild Bang Nes

• Positive psychology research and interventions in the African context: Advances, challenges, and future directions - Richard Appiah

• Transforming Teaching: Wellbeing and Professional Practice - Mathew White

• Lessons from the CovSocial Project: How to reduce mental health problems exacerbated by the Covid19 pandemic through app-based mindfulness or socio-emotional dyadic online trainings - Tania Singer

• Global Soaringwords' SOARING into Strength Positive Health Initiative to Impact Community Well-Being - Lisa Buksbaum, Stacey Flanagan and Richard Tedeschi

• Appreciating and advancing the intellectual contributions of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Marta Bassi, Jeanne Nakamura, Antonella Delle Fave and Hans Henrik Knoop

Hosted by Ryan Niemiec, Dan Tomasulo, Holli-Anne Passmore, and Maya Rajah

This unique event will feature multiple short speakers, mindfulness/experiential activities, and opportunities to socially connect with one another. This special experience is hosted by the Spirituality/Meaning Division of IPPA. It will include scientists casually sharing their latest findings and answering your questions! You will learn from Pninit Russo-Netzer, Holli-Anne Passmore, Amir Friedman, Dan Tomasulo, and many more! You will also learn about the Division’s core activities and ways you can become involved. Emphasis of this event will be placed on Engaged Spirituality and Practical Meaning. We will practice mindfulness meditation geared toward spiritual harmony and growth. There will be time to network and connect as well as to co-create something memorable together. You won’t want to miss one minute of this special experience!

• Using a positive psychology mHealth app (Roadmap) to boost mood and well-being in college students - Sung Won Choi
• The Resilient Families Program Pre- and Post-COVID: Does Modality of Intervention Matter? - Katherine Bono
• Now & Next: An innovative SIPP-informed, parent-led program for building capacity in families of children with disability - Annick Janson
• Gratitude and generosity: Does putting the “you” in “thank you” promote giving behavior? - Patrick Dwyer

• How do peer networks influence adolescents’ well-being and ill-being? Insights from a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Singapore - Imelda S. Caleon
• Fragile connectedness with caregivers: Implications for adolescent flourishing and psychological well-being - Greg Fosco
• Evaluation of a Positive Youth Development Program in Mainland China: Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project - Daniel TL Shek

• Positive Psychology for Women: Why It's Different and What We Need (AKA - The Eve Impact) - Carin Rockind
• OTZMA - Positive CBT training program and toolkit for teachers and students in a multicultural high school - Dalia Alony

• Evaluating wellbeing at the me, we, and us-levels: a proposed systems-level effectiveness study of a community-based wellbeing course. - Naomi L Hill
• Job crafting experiment workshop in a playful way - Eve Loo
• Applying job crafting during assessment debrief  - Patti Weiter
• Innovative behaviors and eudaimonic well-being: the contribution of human capital sustainability leadership to healthy organizations - Andrea Svicher
• Increasing PERMA through a community-wide worksite well-being initiative: The People Project - Jill R Nelson
• Strengthening vitality through autonomy support techniques: Empirical findings and practical impulses - Michaela Brohm-Badry
• Human capital sustainability leadership for healthy organizations: emotional intelligence as a positive resource - Andrea Svicher
• Positive healthy organizations and occupational fatigue: The positive resource of the human capital sustainability leadership - Andrea Svicher

• The influence of life satisfaction and subjective well-being on job hopping tendency - Maeve Dymale
• Money and well-being: expanding the reach of well-being theory to change the landscape of the family wealth and inheritance industry - Richard S Franklin
• Parenting stress modulating the relationship between children’s cognitive flexibility and social anxiety in a longitudinal study - Ting Hin Lee
• How the pursuit of well-being has changed over time in Taiwanese society - Wei-Fang Lin
• The interaction between solo activities, preference for solitude, and SES on older adults’ vital engagement: a disposition-situation perspective - Dwight Tse
• Tuesday, 25 October 2022 10:27 pm   Title: Positive Psychology Coaching in a digitized way     - Eve Loo
• Positive Psychology workshop to enhance engagement in the workplace - Eve Loo
• Positive Psychology Coaching in the dark - Eve Loo
• Mind our Mothers. A wellbeing program for pregnant women, to support flourishing during pregnancy and early motherhood.  - Chloe Lorback
• Positive Leadership in Practice: A Model for our Future - Cornelia Lucey
• Character Strengths and Functioning Among Young Children - Margaret N Lumley
• Positive Psychology For COVID-induced, and other, interruptions: wisdom from high-level athletes - Melanie Machorro
• Teacher perspectives on acceptability and feasibility of the Open Sky School outdoor education program to foster wellbeing in elementary school children: Survey results from a pilot study. - Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise
• Virtual art-based intervention for children during COVID-19: Comparing mindful mandala and emotion-based drawings on elementary school students' wellbeing - Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise
• Environmental studies programs: A hit to happiness - Ajay Mangat
• A longitudinal intervention study on mental health and work experience of professionals in geriatric services during the COVID-19 pandemic - Sonia Mangialavori
• “You don't necessarily feel like you belong there”: Understanding belonging and social connectedness among engineering students in South Africa - Wandile Tsabedze
• The What, Why, and How of adolescent interpersonal goal setting following a growth mindset intervention - Jennifer H. Martow
• Effects of image rescripting on nightmare reduction in university students -Comparison between Japan and Canada using a web-based experiment   - Eiko Matsuda
• A Vital Mind in a Vital Body: Impact of a Yoga Program embedded within Positive Education on Undergraduate Students’ Emotional, Social, and Psychological Well-being - Sarah McAllister
• Importance of social support and engagement to well-being in college students during the pandemic - Jamie McCreary
• Do you have my back: The relationship between perceived organizational support and turnover intention in rural police departments and the mediating role of psychological capital  - Ricky J McCreless
• Nature's inherent appeal: Evidence of nature as a "good thing" in one's day - Carolina C Mendes
• A grateful volunteer is a resilient volunteer: the crucial link between engagement, gratitude & resilience - Gesa Christin Mey
• Preliminary study of prototypes of small, but certain happiness in everyday life among Japanese - Kauhisa Miwa
• Efficacy of yoga and societal interaction as an intervention on uplifting emotional maturity on elderly affected by financial insecurity - Debjani Mukherjee
• A two-wave structural equation model of hope as a driver of resilience among adult survivors of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - Ric Munoz
• The development and validation of a collective hope in the workplace scale: A new measure for promoting more hopeful work environments - Ric Munoz
• Challenge to create a well-being school～A happy school where children want to go to school every day and where teachers want to work - Harumi Nakajima
• Gratitude in a Japanese company: grateful disposition, the leadership of managers and subsection chiefs, and the behavior of their members - Hiroshi Nakamura
• Assessing how trait gratitude, self-esteem, and optimism relate to subjective and psychological well-being among Japanese individuals - Norberto Eiji Nawa
• Implementation and efficacy of mindfulness as self-care for medical students  - Etsuyo Nishigaki
• Caregivers' perspectives on making strength-based parenting programs accessible and engaging - Ryan O'Byrne
• The Relationships between Cultural Humility, Intercultural Communication, and Therapeutic Communication in Interprofessional Medical Providers - Justina Or
• Integrating Movement Interventions into Transdiagnostic Treatment for Emotional Disorders - Justina Or
• Strengths Theory: Contextually Adaptive Traits and Skills - Rhea L Owens
• Cultural considerations for Latinx caregiver engagement in school-based positive psychology interventions.  - Nicole Gabriela Pacateque Rodriguez
• Positive well-being during pandemics and epidemics: Understanding Canadian workers’ well-being during COVID-19 - Tyler Pacheco
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) in qualitative wellbeing research: A proof-of-concept study - Yue Pan
• Evaluation of an app-based meditation intervention for working students with regard to health and performance-related aspects. - Rebecca Petri
• Conceptualization and evaluation of a positive-psychological intervention for students to reduce test anxiety. - Saskia Pilger
• Qualitative evaluation of a mindfulness-based digital detox intervention in Germany. - Saskia Pilger
• Fostering parents’ positive perceptions of adolescent development - Elyse L Postlewaite
• Can wearable vibroacoustic stimulation devices impact perceived loneliness via artificial heart rate variability increases? - Andy Proctor
• Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the self-esteem of children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities - Carmel Proctor
• Unconditional positive self-regard: The role of perceived parental conditional regard - Carmel Proctor
• Courageous action as a potential protection from moral injury - Cindy LS Pury
• Serious leisure, satisfaction, and task load - Cynthia L S Pury
• Qualitative datas on integrating child, parents, and teacher in a common strength culture by means of a book - Martine MRL Regourd Laizeau
• PERMAnent satisfied team – A qualitative evaluation of a positive feedback intervention. - Katarina Rieckmann
• Girl power! Impacts of an uncompetitive sporting challenge on a group of women - Marie-Claude Rivard
• Cultural and psychological components in Guiding the Process of Change (Individual and environmental changes) into something similar but with other emphasize: Guiding the Process of Change A digital platform to impart skills to individual, employees and managers - Tammie Ronen
• The Counter-Intuitive Upside of Building a Fun Habit - Mike Rucker
• Effectiveness of Group Positive Counseling on Enhancing Communication Skills and Self-Esteem in Gifted Students - SeyedSaeid SSS SajjadiAnari
• Psychological Interventions for Young Filipino Mothers returning to the Formal School System - Felisse Marianne Z San Juan
• Psychological Impacts of Dietary Modifications among Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Basis for Psychosocial Support Program - Felisse Marianne Z. San Juan
• Positive shift: creating a whole college well-being culture - Kerry Sanderson
• Catch them doing things right - A research-based framework for the effective delivery of in-situ positive feedback in the workplace - Lisa Sansom
• The relationship of coping strategies and perceived worries with mental health levels among university students during the pandemic - Silvia Sanzò
• What motivates learners in Finland to study Japanese in an isolated environment? Differences in factors of interest and self-improvement for beginners and intermediate-to-advanced learners - Shizuki Saruta
• Positive Education Program design and implementation in Russia - Tatiana Shemiakina
• Investigating personality traits of those who recall lucid dreams: A comparison of undergraduates from China and Japan regarding the big five - Junyi Shi
• A novel method of processing traumatic implicit memories reduces distress and allows greater efficacy of positive psychological techniques. - Cynthia A Sholes
• Studying the impact of psychology courses on undergraduates’ wellbeing and mental health. - Kyra Simons
• How parental beliefs about school can potentially influence student engagement - Charmaine Skepasts
• Evaluating individual positive psychology interventions in a school setting:  Do they work and how? - Emma Smadbeck
• Supporting community wellbeing through simple life hacks. - Kathy Snyder
• Beyond workplace health promotion: Introducing the 'health-active collaboration'  - Gordon B Spence
• How are you today? A rapid well-being assessment for applied settings - Harold Stanislaw
• Awe’s impact on meaning in life across two experimental studies - Angelina Sung
• Decentering allows for a more proactive response to climate change - Rhonda Swickert
• Grateful for tomorrow: Anticipatory savoring mediates the association between gratitude and positive emotion - Emily K. Tan
• Eastern and Western Conceptualizations of Happiness and Well-Being: Lessons from my Mentors and Travels through Japan, the U.S., and Peru - Christy Teranishi-Martinez
• "Creativity plus Value Education" (C+VEd): A curriculum with character strengths intervention to promote Hong Kong teenager's engagement and resilience - Yue Man Tym To
• Development and validation of Brief Sustainable Strength Skills Scale (B4S) - Yoga Tokuyoshi
•   Investigating the use of a conceptual framework for a Positive Psychology coaching practice using grounded theory: An international study - Meriflor Toneatto
• The science of well-being in economics: expanding the regenerative revolution - Jamie Trevino
• Covid-19 adjustment and well-being of the incarcerated population in Kgosi Mampuru II and Polokwane correctional centres: An exploratory sequential mixed-method study - Wandile Dr Tsabedze
• Positive factors contributing to greater role engagement and maternal satisfaction for mothers with multiple sclerosis. - Andrea Tyszka
• Benefits of a psychological well-being intervention in Chilean patients at high risk of chronic diseases. - Andrea von Schultzendorff
• Indian Resilience – Developing a model and questionnaire of resilience in the Indian population. - Mahimna Vyas
• Autoethnography as research method: a pathway to more diverse voices in positive psychology   - Kimberley Wakefield
• Using somatic psychology in a coaching context to deal with heightened emotions     - Kimberley Wakefield
• The relative contribution of various religious worldviews to meaning in life   - Ric Munoz
• A preliminary evaluation of an applied positive psychology framework in Sweden - Kristoffer Walsund
• What influence does Pragmatic Prospection have on subjective well-being? Construct validity of Pragmatic Prospection in a large German-speaking sample. - Martin Wammerl
• Assessing mindfulness in adolescents: A polish validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measurement (CAMM) - Maria Wasylkowska
• Neural correlates of hedonic functioning during pleasant touch - Sarah A Wellan
• A Land Called Hope: Assessing positive views in the form of hope, optimism and primal world beliefs in people living with cystic fibrosis.  - KC White
• Interracial Relationships among White College Students: An Anti-Racist and Virtues-Driven Intervention - William B Whitney
• Will your passion feed you or eat you alive—protecting your passion when it pays the bills - Kim Wimmer
• Differences in resilience and psychosocial adjustment following a diagnosis of prostate or breast cancer - Sarah M. Worch
• An umbrella review of the effectiveness of dignity therapy for patients with advanced illness - Yi-Chen Wu
• Why do weak-ties promote well-being? Evidence for dual pathways involving relationship forming expectations and positive interaction quality. - Zizhong Xiao
• Psychometric properties, factor structure, and measurement invariance of the learning-related achievement emotions questionnaire (L-AEQ) in Chinese students - Anna Belykh
• Development of artificial intelligence engine to measure subjective well-being by natural language processing - Toshiyuki Yasui
• Let’s SMILE! the role of the meaning-making process as a mediator between young people’s identity dispositions and future perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic  - Michela Zambelli
• Vitality: The Continuum of Physical Health - Emiliya Zhivotovskaya
• Galapagos Islands to London examining the hope for survival of the fittest in international higher education leadership - Lisa Miller
• Evaluation of a positive-psychological intervention to increase vitality, optimism, and satisfaction among nurses. - Eileen Thoenissen

Join Lululemon for a gentle guided 30 minute yoga flow in the Rest & Recharge area in the Atrium Foyer. Note spaces are limited. 

Wrap up your day with a 30-minute yoga practice led by lululemon ambassador Christie Baumgartner.  The class will cater to all different levels.  Mats are provided.

Calming our nervous system is absolutely essential in the modern world. 
Qi Gong is an ancient and highly effective way to do this each day. 
For close to five thousand years, Qi Gong has been a foundational pillar of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Qi means energy or life force. Gong means steady practice or cultivation.  Qi Gong is an embodied way of being.

As much as possible, we want to align ourselves with the pace of nature in order to stay in homeostasis. 
Qi Gong is a series of slow, intentional standing forms derived from observing, and being one with nature. 
Done in a standing position, it connects mind, body and breath in deliberate, differentiated movement. 
Qi Gong is highly accessible to all people of all ages and abilities.

Lisa Barker is an accredited Qi Gong Instructor and Positive Psychology Practitioner based in Melbourne Australia. 

• New Directions in Understanding Agency - Kennon Sheldon and Martin Seligman
• Freely determined:  Understanding our Radical Free Will - Kennon Sheldon

The University of Pennsylvania's Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program cordially invites you to enjoy a conversation at a cocktail reception on Saturday evening, after the plenary discussion on agency. Engage in meaningful discussions with Penn and MAPP-affiliated researchers, MAPP alumni, and program staff. We look forward to the opportunity to connect with you and others who share a passion for this transformative field.

• The PP Interventions Party! Activate Somatic Learning & Joy - Emiliya Zhivotovskaya