Events

04 Mar

Posted at 14:32h in Events, PhD Life by

          In response to the continuing failure of many research-based interventions to create systems change at scale, I am happy to announce a new initiative – The Change Lab – I’ve co-founded with Michelle McQuaid and Michelle Etheve.The Change Lab hosts conversations that challenge and amplify frameworks, tools and best practices which increase our confidence, motivation, and impact as change-agents working powerfully together in beloved community. We will re run the Certificate In Creating Positive Change – a twelve-week online experience beginning March 17. If you’ve been trying to help people, teams, workplaces, schools, or entire communities to create positive changes and feel that...

09 Sep

Posted at 11:44h in Events, PhD Life by

            This summer I attended the Sixth World Congress on Positive Psychology in Melbourne, Australia. I gleaned many insights, strengthened old and made new connections, spoke on several panels, won the positive organizational intervention challenge award. Colleagues and I created a high-tech and high-touch system called “Feedforward” to help organizations step up how they have development conversations that actually work. I also got clearer on my own research agenda for the PhD I’m working on to build systems-informed positive psychology. My research serves to enhance the efficacy of positive interventions and increase our collective social impact. Social impact is anything that improves...

12 Dec

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[caption id="attachment_2246" align="alignleft" width="300"] Join us in January; we'll will have wine in that coffee cup![/caption] Have you been stopping yourself from going after the life you really want?  That’s going to end in 2018. Join me and my dear friend, Louisa Jewell, author of Wire Your Brain for Confidence; The Science of Conquering Self-Doubt, on January 15th at 7pm, for an up-close and personal discussion about her newly launched book!  Louisa is going to share her best strategies for conquering self-doubt in your life and building a more action-oriented kind of confidence that will break down any barriers you have to...

26 Jul

Posted at 12:27h in Events by

On Saturday, July 29 we will convene for a volunteer event that will leave you and an anonymous recipient feeling especially charged.  Our task will be to leave messages on sidewalks -- with chalk and by simply leaving greeting card messages in "random" locations around the city. Our mindful creation, filled with love, will certainly find their way to the right recipients. One morning, in 2015, I woke up and walked down to the first floor of my building and onto the sidewalk — where I stumbled into the chalked gift above. It felt so good to receive this surprise message, which I later learned...

24 May

Posted at 17:18h in change-agent, Events, Positive Psychology by

Change Agents turn their passions into actions that further the greater good, inspiring others to do the same. The locally, regionally and nationally recognized speakers at the inaugural TEDxCheltenham will deliver their ideas worth sharing to our community as we co-create a bright future. For more information, click here. For tickets, click here.  ...

22 Jun

Posted at 14:40h in Events by

Join me in Vancouver on July 9-10 for a TED-like summit featuring stories of personal/professional growth and transformation. I'm honored to be among the amazing lineup. Send me a message on what you think makes U the master of Ur Universe and I'll include it in my talk. Use discount code "Louis" for a $$ off. PM for details on some other available discounts while they last. ...

16 May

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"Eleven amazing human beings will be each taking the stage. Messengers, motivators, trail-blazers, creators, inspirational ass-kickers… whatever you want to call them… they have each helped transform so many people’s lives, including my own." -Mark Groves, Host + Convener of Masters of the Universe Summit. I'm so honored to be one of the speakers! July 9-10 in Vancouver.  In this Weekend experience you will: Connect – Meet 200 likeminded and like hearted people who are all on a quest to make their lives better and contribute to this world in meaningful ways. Create – Connections with yourself, to your heart and what inspires you...

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