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- Postcards from Scotland: Continuing the momentum, Monday 25th March 2013, 5.30 - 7.30
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- Confidence and Well-being Eight Years On: The Centre's 'integral' perspective on 24 October 2012
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- Wanting, Watching and Well-being - Joint Event with 'Aye Write', 14th March 2012 at 7.30 pm
- Well-being and Body Confidence with Jo Swinson MP, 15th February 2012, 5 pm, Glasgow
- Glasgow: Well-being, materialism and the values of consumer capitalism 12th December 2011
- Glasgow: Well-being, materialism and the values of consumer capitalism
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- Tackling Scotland's Drink and Drugs Culture: Communities That Can! - 3rd October 2011, Edinburgh
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- Tackling Scotland's Drink and Drugs Culture - What Next? 14th March 2011, Glasgow
- Tackling Scotland's Drink and Drugs Culture - What Next? 14th March 2011
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- Bounce Back Follow-up - Thursday 20 January 2011
- Creating Good Lives: Class, work, family, education, drugs, drink, well-being ... 29th Oct Glasgow
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- Creating Good Lives: Class, inequality, work, family, education, environment, drugs, well-being ...
- Professor William Julius Wilson
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- Creating a Feedback and Learning Culture, Thursday 16th September, Glasgow
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- Nature Connection: Nurturing Hope - Two separate taster days on 2nd and 3rd September, Glasgow
- Nature Connection: Nurturing Hope - Two taster days on 2nd and 3rd September, Glasgow
- Maeve Gavin - Biographical details
- Bounce Back - Thursday 17 June 2010, Glasgow
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- Bounce Back - Teacher's Handbook
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- Dr Toni Noble - Biographical details
- Self-esteem: the facts, myths, challenges and alternatives, 30 March 2010, Glasgow
- Self-esteem | the facts | myths | challenges | alternatives
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- Carol Craig: The Centre's perspective and research into self-esteem
- Keith Campbell: Living in the age of entitlement
- Amy Canevello: The Costly Pursuit of self-esteem
- Carol Craig: Better alternatives
- The Centre's recommended alternatives to artifical self-esteem boosting
- If music be..., 7 October 2009, Glasgow
- The Brain that Changes Itself, 15 September 2009, Glasgow
- Confidence and Well-being in Motion, 2 September 2009, Glasgow
- Confidence and Well-being in Motion
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- Masterclass with Prof Barry Schwartz, 16 June 2009, Glasgow
- Masterclass with Professor Barry Schwartz
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- Masterclass with Prof John Seddon, 12 May 2009, Glasgow
- Masterclass with Professor John Seddon, 12th May, 2009, Glasgow
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- Biography of John Seddon and other participants
- Nations, culture and well-being, 26 March 2009, Edinburgh
- Thriving in Turbulent Times, 9 December 2008, Glasgow
- Thriving in Turbulent Times
- Wise Words for Turbulent Times
- Wise Words for Turbulent Times: Pack of 6 cards
- Creating Confident Individuals - with Prof Carol Dweck, 18 September 2008, Glasgow
- Growing Success - with Prof Carol Dweck, 18 September 2008, Glasgow
- Growing Success: a powerful masterclass on strengths, motivation and potential
- Professor Carol Dweck biography
- Dr Alex Linley biography
- Mark Rait biography
- Bounce Back, 16 August 2008, Stirling
- Detoxing childhood, 17 June 2008, Glasgow
- Foundations for Flourishing, 10 and 11 March 2008, Edinburgh
- Foundations for Flourishing
- Foundations for Flourishing - Main Speakers
- Foundations for Flourishing - Programme
- Two evenings of inspiration and ideas from Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, January 2008, Dundee and Glasgow
- The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness, 8 August 2007, Glasgow
- The Psychology of Success: A Masterclass on Mindset and Motivation, 14 June 2007, Glasgow
- Bounce Back Resilience Training, 21 and 22 February 2007, Glasgow
- The Vanguard Programme 2005-2007, Glasgow, Inverness, Dundee and Edinburgh
- The Vanguard - Scotland's Positive Psychology
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- VP: contributors
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- VS: Glasgow 31 May 2006
- VS: Inverness 19 September 2006
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- Wisdom and Flamboyance 11 October 2007
- Scotland's Tipping Point, 2 December 2004, Glasgow
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- Women's Development & Confidence Building Workshop - 21 April 2013
- Children?s Mental Health Conference - 14 May 2013
- Autism, Relationships, Friendship & Getting On In The Social World - 22 May 2013
- Capacitar International Training Programme in Scotland Feb 2013/14
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- The root of the resilience problem in schools
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- Mindset tips for parents of under 5's
- What makes for good parenting? An interesting study with unexpected results
- Positive ageing
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- Section 1: Finding out your preferences
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- Background to the MBTI and its potential benefits
- Overview of MBTI, preferences and applications
- Extraverts and introverts
- Sensing types and intuitives
- Thinkers and feelers
- Judging and perceiving types
- The 16 types and type profiles
- Type, age and midlife
- Type and gender
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- Section 3: Applications - personal development, relationships, teams, management ...
- Using the MBTI for personal development
- Using the MBTI to improve relationships
- Communication and building rapport
- Common flashpoints between types and tips for improvement
- Type, compatibility, marriage
- Using the MBTI for personal effectiveness - solving problems
- Understanding organisational character
- Team development
- The MBTI and team development
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- Team preference clashes 1: Space
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- Tips for managing conflict
- Different preferences for appreciation and recognition and what to do about it
- MBTI and managing change
- MBTI and managing change
- Tips for using quadrant information to manage change effectively within teams
- Using the MBTI for management and leadership development
- Management and leadership development
- The four temperaments and management/leadership style
- How to manage the different temperaments
- The MBTI and teaching and learning styles - a cautionary note
- Type and entrepreneurship
- Type and influencing/advertising/sales
- Section 4: The MBTI, strengths, confidence, well-being and critiques
- A qualified use of strengths
- The MBTI and its impact on confidence and well-being
- Confidence and the 16 types
- Why knowledge of the MBTI can improve individual confidence
- Why knowledge of the MBTI can improve individual well-being
- Criticism of the MBTI
- Section 5: Next steps, further reading, resources, developments
- Next steps, further reading, resources
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- Towards a fairer Britain: seminars to share learning - June 2010
- Leadership is a people business: Towards a fairer Britain, 28th September 2010
- Power Point presentations and shared learning discussion points, 28th September 2010
- Report on 'Developing knowledge and skills of leaders in the equality sector in Scotland'
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- Too much sitting is making us ill
- Happiness
- Alcohol taxes address the most serious problems
- 'The Secret', 'The Power': why are they so alluring?
- Early life stress can alter genes
- The value of sadness
- Brain boosters
- A case of fixed mindsets?
- Trying to be happy doesn't work
- The heart of psychology
- Choosing to be happy
- Encouraging students to aim high
- Stressed mum = stressed baby
- Raising moral and compassionate children
- Nature connects the brain
- The liberal use of special needs
- Mental well-being study
- Acquiantances are good for us
- Brain development linked to physical fitness
- Creativity is not an individual act
- Problem solving and bullying
- 5 minutes in nature improves self-esteem
- Better health through social networks
- Happiness classes for parents
- How to succeed under pressure
- Rewiring the brain
- The first nine months
- Components of happiness
- Sisters bring happiness and optimism
- Babies learn best from everyday activities - not from educational DVDs
- Meditation improves resilience and health
- Parents influence is more important than school, for attainment
- Certain types of trees reduce dubious behaviour
- Parents, play, and mental health
- A wandering mind makes people less happy
- The Glasgow Effect
- The difficulties of measuring happiness
- Wholehearted love
- Dim light at night and depression
- Curiosity at work
- Leisurely acivity and depression
- Young teenagers who play sport are happier
- A little adversity is good for mental health
- The media influences how woman see themselves
- Mothers, work and child well-being
- Mothers who attend baby signing classes are more stressed
- Viewing natural scenes reduce pain
- Improving pre-school by mentoring teachers
- Healthy futures through positive traits
- Better learning by changing the font
- Psychological well-being and health
- Friendly conversations improve cognitive function
- 10 aspects of good parenting
- Social support gets people moving
- Motivating the workforce
- Changing behaviour
- Scotland's health
- Positive Psychology critique
- Treating depression with Omega-3
- Failure and sporting success
- The role of the father
- Benefits of gardening in schools
- Mental well-being impacts physical health in young people
- What happened to creativity?
- Varied practice improves performance
- Outdoor learning publication
- Downside of multitasking
- Negative feedback helps creativity
- Writing about values reduces narcissistic aggression
- Growing from threatening relationships
- Effort, hardwork and goals which involve others
- I will?
- The future is bright
- Social comparison and unhappiness
- Sad? It's nothing to do with the weather
- What's best for baby?
- Obliquity
- Building sibling relationships
- The benefits of music
- Laughing our way to good health
- What does parenting bring?
- Germs and playing outdoors
- Germs and playing outdoors
- Parents and play
- Close ties change behaviour
- Mindfulness meditation and teenage boys
- Leadership and evolution
- Money takes away happiness
- Recession and child well-being
- When bad things bring out the best
- Designing their own work space can make staff happy and productive
- Mappiness
- Why things get better with age
- Role models for boys
- What happens when staff are rude?
- Negative stereotypes undermine learning
- Choice: some suprising findings
- Friends keep you alive
- Maternal affection predicts later coping skills
- Happiest when busy
- Meditation creates focus
- Screen time and psychological health in young people
- Growing the brain in old age
- Short intervention reduces negative effects of media exposure
- Fearing a fall may cause one
- The myth of learning styles
- Promising to tell the truth increases honesty in young people
- Too much too young?
- The gut and anxiety
- Nature: nothing beats the real thing
- 'Could Michael Jackson have created twitter?'
- Measuring national well-being
- 'First, do no harm'
- 'You are what you watch'
- Freedom, personal autonomy and well-being
- What is it about Denmark?
- Positive Psychology for therapists
- Raising motivated learners
- Laughing at oneself increases positive emotion
- Teenagers and sleep
- Neuroscience of laughter
- Feeling angry? try praying
- The positive power of the media
- The improving brain
- 'Disordered environments promote stereoptypes and discrimintaion'
- Happiness and suicide
- Yoga and meditation benefit primary school pupils
- Sleep and cognitive function in adults
- Building for well-being
- Depression's silver lining
- 'The untapped power of the smile'
- Happiness and it's dark side
- Simple games improve self-regulation in pre-schoolers
- Marriage and child development
- Pets improve the well-being of 'everyday people'
- Materialism and childhood unhappiness
- Laughing the pain away
- Nurturing mothers reduce the impact of poverty
- Self-compassion key to child well-being
- Nature benefits us more than we think
- A little more optimism, but not too much
- Social connection and happiness
- Mindset and the brain's response to failure
- Don't think about a polar bear
- Mindfulness and meditation resources
- Airbrushing exposed
- Managing others changes the brain
- Evidence-based management
- 'Therapy can drive you mad'
- Positive Psychology for people with depression
- Cross cultural differences in the risk for depression
- '5 a day' tips for positive parenting
- Measuring national well-being
- Parenting, consumer culture and rioting
- Children's anxiety and depression reduced when parenting style adapted to personality
- Decision fatigue
- 'Why Parents Should Stop Overprotecting Kids and Let them Play'
- Risky play and mental health
- Creativity at work
- The adaptive-adolescent story
- City life takes its toll on the brain
- What's in a smile?
- More economic growth does not lead to happiness
- Having friends protects kids from sadness and depression
- Woman over 50 have highest levels of work-related fatigue
- How not to interview people
- Job loss and happiness
- Feeling blue? chances are others are too
- The Neuroscience of lonliness
- Interesting advice for happiness in 2011
- Curbing violence in young people
- Snacking while watching TV makes us eat more later on
- Positive emotion and creativity
- Social activities beneficial for mental health in old age
- Walking 6-9 miles a week helps our memory as we age
- Life expectancy of Scots falling behind Eastern Europe
- Your happiness influences how happy your spouse is
- Certain mental health problems in children linked to parenting, not genes
- Helping parents support each other improves well-being for all the family
- The pressures of attachment parenting
- Writing about values improves performance
- More trees please
- Being grateful is better than a magic pill
- Keeping happy through winter
- A good nights sleep improves skills
- Young people have an unhealthy craving for praise
- Thinking about our ancestors can boost success in job interviews and exams
- Mental health needs of men and boys
- Physical activity and political participation
- Teenagers influenced by what their friends watch on TV
- Chocolate, crisps and intelligence
- Some pitfalls of Positive Psychology
- Spending time together builds family bonds
- The sun may be shining, but are they happy?
- Children benefit from doing chores
- 'Smile or die'
- Brain Awareness Week
- Feeling loved reduces materialism
- Aging, happiness and longevity
- Walking changes the brain
- The benefits of marriage
- Female mental health issues
- Nourishing well-being duing winter
- Encouraging a culture of giving
- Accepting fears can loosen their grip
- The Chinese mother approach
- UK Early years report
- Top 10 neuroscience TED talks
- Mindfulness meditation changes the brain and reduces stress, in novices
- Creating a work-life balance
- Singing and child well-being
- Self-compassion and motivation
- Day time naps help us attend to the positive
- Sleep is important for learning
- Optimism and the brain
- Disguising unsustainable actions eases our mind
- Giving gifts or our time to others is good for us
- Attending to the positive reduces worrying
- Creative work is good for your health
- Cultivating happiness
- Brain turns to the positive when faced with death
- Happiness can help cut blood pressure and obesity
- A new way to think about social relations
- Public policy and effects of media violence
- Tal's tips for happiness
- Mental Health in Education
- Babies prefer helpers
- The growth mindset and success
- Bringing parenting classes to the football field
- Thought control and chocolate consumption
- Living arrangements: happiness, health and old age
- Oxytocin reveals why we are generous
- Can a lack of sleep cause Psychiatric disorders?
- Teamwork improves learning and career success
- Violent video games are great aggression teachers
- Storytelling for business
- Giving is better than receiving
- Child well-being and income inequality
- Searching for happiness at work
- Exercising judgement: the psychology of fitness
- Slowing the hedonic treadmill
- Restricting TV time reduces obestiy
- Is happiness fixed from birth?
- A resource for young people
- The commercialisation of young people
- Training in the arts improves thinking
- Healthier diets foster success and well-being
- Neuroscience for young people
- Update on The Dark Side
- Raising anxious girls
- Song lyrics are more hostile and narcissistic than ever before
- Reflecting on values transcends the self and increases love and acceptance
- Interview with Nurture Shock author
- Revolution of values
- Shifting the focus to staff well-being
- Caveman blues
- Happiness event
- Antidepressant studies unpublished
- Work stress and heart disease: the mediators
- Why life is good
- Who's fooling whom?
- From the tennis court to the work place
- What makes children happy?
- Can people be too happy?
- Older people are happy
- Debate on teaching happiness
- Happiness is the measure of true wealth
- The drugs don't work - but therapy will?
- Learning from Malawi
- Country walks can help reduce depression
- Motivation and positive relationships
- The (other) Secret
- The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
- How children use their local environment
- The biology of charitable donations
- The science of team success
- There's much more to a walk in the park
- Children are not mad or bad, they are just scared
- Educational site which shares good practice
- Handicapping with optimism
- Coaching interventions in educational settings
- Jennifer Aniston to play Harvard Professor.
- Positive ageing
- Mental health, blood pressure & happiness
- How to beat the genetic set point for happiness
- How not to talk to your kids
- Is it wrong to teach children about feelings?
- Why societies should pursue happiness
- Job vacancy for lecturer in Positive Psychology
- Mellowing with age may help you live longer
- Learning about positive psychology
- Want to achieve something - like voting tomorrow?
- The Effort Effect
- Leave No Child Inside
- Virtual 'Vital Friends'
- Simple Interventions can reduce achievement gaps
- The impact of loneliness on health and well-being
- The brain's response to a growth mindset
- Raising Grateful Children
- Predicting Health vs. Predicting Disease
- Resilient parenting
- Learning beyond the classroom
- Body-mind techniques increase performance
- Flourishing
- Some things get better with age
- Health and economic impact of reducing class sizes
- Good lives don't need to cost the earth
- Is depression overdiagnosed? yes.
- Brain's response means that we learn from mistake
- Young people can change the world
- The myth of the teen brain
- Moving from good to great
- Mindset website
- Resilience: build skills to endure hardship
- Talking about problems is not always a good thing
- Self regulation is important for academic success
- Gratitude is good medicine for organ recipients
- High hope and problem gambling
- The impact of well-being on health outcomes
- Happiness and recovery from negative events
- Rewarding children for being helpful undermines future altruism
- Victims of overprotection and worrying?
- TV and depressive symptoms in young people
- Employee well-being and organisational success
- Changing colours to enhance performance
- Building responsibility through hard work
- Positive Psychology classes have no effect
- Small changes can reduce overindulgence
- Household plants can increase well-being in old folks homes
- Alcohol on TV makes people drink more
- Conditional parenting
- Fame, fortune and looks undermine well-being
- Happiness inequality in the US
- Measuring progress
- Learning from mistakes; it's all in the process
- Synchronous activities like singing or dancing increase cooperation
- Misconceptions about the brain
- Winter walk in the park
- Selflessness, spirituality and the brain
- Pizza face turned out to be a winner
- Litter and graffiti lead to more serious crime
- Is the happiness boom making us happy?
- Acknowledging non academic success
- Smiling can change your mood
- Is personality carved in stone?
- Positive Psychology in Easterhouse
- Positive stereotyping
- Happiness is love
- Optimism is good for your health
- Self-regulation in preschool education
- Obesity is in the genes
- Do brain training games really work?
- 'Cinderella ate my daughter'
- Self-control in young children predicts later success
- Doing good deeds builds self-control
- Physical activity boosts learning in Scottish schools
- Genius is in the environment, not the genes
- The power of social networks
- Negative emotions broaden thinking
- Optimism is good for your health
- Marriage is good for mental health
- Television watching and child development
- Having children does make us happy
- The case for pessimism
- 7 steps to happiness
- Some things get better with age
- Positive Psychology progress
- Positive parenting has a long term effect
- Time pressure can lead to confidence at work
- Ecotherapy
- Parents can reduce materialism in Teenagers
- Family routines reduce obesity
- Being politically active is good for well-being
- Joining the International Positive Psychology Association
- School ethos can influence smoking behaviour in pupils
- Exam success is determined by 'mental toughness' and not intelligence
- Growing Success
- Less power may equal less success at work
- What happens when I think you can change
- The Unintended Consequences of Childline
- You may not see it, but TV is affecting children
- Allegations against Martin Seligman
- Nature has a calming effect, watching it on TV doesn't
- Happiness and longevity
- Don't climb that tree, it's too risky
- Therapeutic education is undermining young people and adults
- Grandparents are good for young people's well-being and resilience
- If at first you don't succeed, you're in excellent company
- The long tem effect of antidepressants. Who am I?
- Values are the key to happiness
- Nature can help unruly teenagers
- More is not always better
- Children of active parents are more likely to succeed
- Embracing the blues
- Giving up cigarettes is socially contagious
- It's okay to keep those feelings inside
- Artificially boosting happiness in young people impairs learning
- Scoring goals comes from having the right stereotype
- Are the Scots happy?
- The Dark Side: The Centre's view
- Leading the way to employee health and well-being
- Violent video games and aggression
- Increasing well-being through small and frequent activities
- What do happy people do?
- Thinking through Positive Psychology
- Could individualism create problem drinking?
- Even personality can change
- Which way the buggy faces influences child development
- The effect of a green environment on health inequalities
- Mindfulness therapy for depression
- Teaching emotional literacy in schools doesn't work
- Happiness is socially contagious
- Positive emotions build resources through meditation
- Self-belief increases mathematical problem solving
- 'Five a Day' to keep the blues at bay
- Sacrificing our safety and our sanity to sanitisation
- Can love and forgiveness change the brain?
- Growing from the mistakes we make
- Great expectations in the work place
- The Brain that Changes Itself
- Mothers expectations predict daughters self-confidence
- Optimism and the credit crunch
- Using humor to remember things
- A dose of nature
- Nurturing depressive symptoms in young people
- Flourishing and positive emotions
- This is your life (and how you tell it)
- Speakers, trainers etc
- Speakers, trainers and workshop leaders
- Carol Craig
- Derek Goldman
- Isobel MacNaughtan
- Zoe Van Zwanenberg
- Sylvia Brown
- Further information and fees
- Confidence handbook
- Mindset
- Information
- Action research projects
- Centre based Mindset research: Glasgow University and Stanford University
- Stanford University Scottish Schools Research Project on the Growth Mindset
- Glasgow University Mindset Research
- Positive writing
- Outdoor education
- Miscellaneous/projects
- Featured external projects
- El Sistema - Venezuela and Scotland
- Room 13
- Suzanne Zeedyk and the 'science of human connection'
- The Relaxation Company
- OYAplus Buddy Scheme
- Sporting memories network
- Outward Bound Trust - a case study on MIndset
- News snippets
- Karyn McLuskey and the Violence Reduction Unit feature in Radio 4s Book of the Week
- Two great new Scottish pieces on the internet on the hacking crisis
- Carol Craig's commentary on happiness in The Scotsman 26 July 2011
- Unreasonable learners - 3rd newsletter
- Dylan Wiliam on the key to 'world class schools'
- Ted Talks Come to Glasgow
- The Sunday Politics on Dr Agnes Nairn's UNICEF report on materialism
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