Learning Lab Tag

02 Dec

Posted at 20:20h in Moments that matter, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership by

As some of you know, I've spent the past several years running learning labs in positive psychology, the science of success, well-being, and happiness. A learning lab is not a workshop. Instead, it's a co-created learning experience, where I bring some content (the science of positive psychology + a call to action to step up as leaders in your lives and social networks) and those who show up to the lab bring the rest. I do not have the answers, but instead the questions, and whoever is meant to be there is there. This I believe. I've done close to 100 of...

14 Oct

Posted at 15:35h in Action Research, Opportunity/Threat, Positive Psychology, Thoughts-Action, Workshop by

Last Tuesday evening I gave a talk at NYU Langone Medical Center for Faces: a nonprofit center to improve lives of people affected by seizures and epilepsy. The program last week, Caring for the Caretaker, attracted 200 people, many of whom were parents of children with epilepsy, and some were patients themselves. What happened though was quite unlike anything I’ve experienced before as a facilitator: resistance writ large across a crowd of folks up against real stinkin’ conditions. “Who will pay the medical bills?” “Will he ever be able to ever live alone?” “I never know if my son’s next seizure will...

29 Sep

Posted at 17:56h in Glimpse into Me by

Louis Alloro, M.Ed., MAPP, is a Fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Consciousness & Transformation, and owns a NYC-based consultancy which specializes in consulting (facilitating + coaching) services to learning organizations and individuals of all kinds. Louis uses a unique, proprietary approach to building social, emotional, psychological, and communal capital which facilitates growth and resilience, even in the face of challenges. He partners in the SOMO (Social/Emotional+) Leadership Movement, a city-wide intervention in Cleveland, Ohio, teaching positive psychology in learning labs all across town: in businesses, schools, community groups, living rooms -- and baking principles of applied positive psychology into as...

10 Sep

Posted at 09:17h in Positive Psychology, Workshop by

and the amazing Emiliya Zhivotovskaya . . . in NYC this fall . . . three Sunday afternoons (Oct 23, Nov 20, and Dec 4) . . . in an experiential learning lab at the NYC Open Center . . . which will leave you feeling energized, engaged, and alive! From the Open Center Catalog: The dynamic new field of positive psychology uses rigorous research to understand happiness and well-being and is expanding rapidly worldwide. In this lab, participants can enter this psychological revolution—a scientific movement helping people flourish, become happier, and be more alive. The program provides tools to measure our baseline happiness, well-being,...

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