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"Applying the Science of Positive Psychology to Improve Society" Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:45 am -6:10 pm Garrison Theater, Claremont, CA Positive Psychology emerged at the beginning of the new millennium as a movement within psychology aimed at enhancing human strengths and optimal human functioning. This emerging area of scholarship, scientific research, and application has inspired leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to rethink the fundamental nature of how we live, work, and educate; of our health and well-being; of how to design and lead positive institutions; and how to develop positive public policies. The ideas contained in the initial work in positive psychology have spread far and wide across the disciplines to form a broader movement, sometimes referred to as the positive social and human sciences. Claremont Graduate University is proud to announce that it will host a day-long event, possibly the largest of its kind ever on the West Coast, to celebrate the emerging positive social and human sciences, and to push their boundaries. Register Online Today and Save Your Seat! <http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5808.asp> For more information, visit the website above, or contact us at [log in to unmask] or (909) 607-9016. Speakers will include: *Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Claremont Graduate University "The Mind and Evolution: The Future of Positive Psychology" *Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania (joining us via video) *Edward Diener, University of Illinois "Happiness and Complete Wealth: Implications for Public Policy" *David Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University "The Discovery and Design of Positive Institutions: How Organizations *Magnify High Human Strengths Outward into Our World" *Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Using Positive Emotions to Enhance Human Flourishing" *Jane Dutton, University of Michigan "Seeing the Possibilities in Positive Identities and Organizations" *Shelley Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles "How Positive Psychosocial Resources Enhance Health and Well-Being" *Christopher Peterson, University of Michigan "Why Character Matters" *Kim Cameron, University of Michigan "The Effects of Positive Leadership on Organizational Performance" *Jeanne Nakamura, Claremont Graduate University "Contexts of Positive Development in Adulthood" *Nansook Park, University of Rhode Island "Why Character Matters" *Stewart Donaldson, Claremont Graduate University "Determining What Works in the Emerging Positive Human and Social Sciences" *Hans Henrik Knoop, University of Aarhus, Denmark "Positive Psychology-Inspired Teaching in Public Schools" India Swearingen SBOS Outreach Assistant School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences Claremont Graduate University [log in to unmask] ___________________________________ COMMUNITYPSYCHUK - The discussion list for community psychology in the UK. To unsubscribe or to change your details visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK For any problems or queries, contact the list moderators: Rebekah Pratt ([log in to unmask]) or Grant Jeffrey ([log in to unmask])