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          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...

            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...

Join us in one of seven cities (NY, San Fran, Chicago, Boston, DC, Toronto, and Philly) this fall (my class in Philadelphia starts this coming Saturday) for a personal and professional development experience that is sure to knock your socks off! Calling anyone who works or lives with other people: come learn the science of human nature and behavior and impact your own life in such a way that you impact others! www.certificateinpositivepsychology.com  ...

NEW YORK, NY – The Flourishing Center (TFC) announces it will launch Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) cohorts in Philadelphia, PA and San Francisco, CA this spring. TFC has been successful in the New York market since 2012, when it launched its first cohort and now has 100 graduates. The upcoming New York cohort will begin there in January 2015. CAPP draws a unique and diverse cohort of students from around the world: educators, wellness and fitness coaches, entrepreneurs, business consultants, HR, trainers and OD professionals, everyday citizens and more. Since 2012, nearly one hundred students have earned a Certificate in...

Finding voice in celebration of justice EDFD 554/Dr. Jeremy Price May 2006   Introduction In “the shadow of silent majorities,” then, as teachers learning along with those we try to provoke to learn, we may be able to inspire hitherto unheard voices.  We may be able to empower people to rediscover their own memories and articulate them in the presence of others, whose space they can share.  Such a project demands the capacity to unveil and disclose.  It demands the exercise of imagination, enlivened by works of art, by situations of speaking and making.  Perhaps we can at last devise reflective communities in the interstices...

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