To support the Positive Psychology community and build momentum as we move toward the 2023 Positive Psychology Summit:UK we held a series of online 'In Conversation' events.
These were an arena for Positive Psychology Practitioners to talk about how they are responding to the challenges of working in the current climate, and how they are using Positive Psychology principles in their practice.
The “In Conversation Events” have now concluded.
June 2021 - Jane Jennison: “Parenting in the Pandemic”
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Jane Jennison is a Positive Psychology Coach and Practitioner. She will be running our first 'In Conversation' online event, entitled, 'Parenting in a pandemic; can Positive Psychology help?' Jane will: help parents and carers identify their unique strengths; learn how to build resilience and why it is a key coping strategy; and why other people matter. This will be of benefit to parents and carers, and also for Positive Psychology Practitioners working with them.
Jane has a Master’s Degree in Applied Positive Psychology, and is trained in a range of therapeutic interventions for families, including Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Parenting and Practice (DDP) and Person Centered Art Therapy. She has a particular interest in supporting parents and carers touched by adoption and fostering, and those with neurodiverse children. She works one-to-one with coaching clients, and also delivers bespoke workshops and training courses.
Jane is a Fellow Member of the Positive Psychology Guild, and an accredited Course Provider.
Jane has co-authored ’Happier at Home: a guided positive psychology journal for parents and carers’ and ‘Happier at work: a guided positive psychology journal'. She has also produced a set of Strengths cards endorsed by the VIA Institute, and cards for Positive Journaling. These are all available on her website and on the Positive Psychology Summit website.
For more information on how Jane could help you, visit her website https://www.adoptingpositivity.co.uk or email her on jane@adoptingpositivity.co.uk
September 2021 - Tia Moin: “Coaching for Wellbeing through Covid”
Tia Moin is a Positive Organisational & Coaching Psychologist with over 20 years of international consulting experience developing leaders and professionals. She holds a BSc Psychology, PG Diploma in Psychology and MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology (distinction). As an elected Committee Member of the Special Group in Coaching Psychology - British Psychological Society, she is closely involved in developing and shaping the profession of Coaching Psychology and prides herself on professional, ethical and evidence-based psychological practice. She is actively involved in researching coaching, diversity and inclusion through the University of East London and University of Reading (UK) and has published two research papers in academic journals focusing on positive psychology coaching for inclusion and coaching professionals working from home during the Covid19 pandemic. She is currently embarking upon doctoral level research to optimise diversity interventions and works 1:1 with leaders in this area.
November 2021 - Carol Barton
Carol is passionate about using her experience and coaching skills to help individuals and organisations to flourish. Between 2012 and 2018 she lived and worked in Kenya where she set up an organisation to support social impact leaders and agencies through tailored, strengths-based coaching and consulting with a focus on catalysing transformative social change. Since returning to the UK, she continues to partner globally with clients dedicated to reducing poverty, empowering communities and ensuring a more equitable and just society. Prior to living in Kenya, she led a number of government initiatives, at local and national level, focussing on the change impacts required by the government’s older people’s well-being agenda. Using a strengths-based appreciative approach, Carol leverages the expertise and strengths of clients to facilitate meaningful, sustainable and high-impact change, placing high value on the capacity, skills, knowledge, connection and potential of the individuals and organisations to identify their goals and implement strategies to achieve them. Carol graduated from UEL in 2020 having earned her MSc in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology (MAPPCP). Her dissertation, for which she was awarded a distinction, explored ‘The experience of self-transcendence in social activists’. Carol has been coaching since 2007, she holds a PgDip in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring, is accredited with EMCC as Senior Practitioner, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management, an NLP Master Practitioner and experienced project manager.
February 2022 - Sue Langley
Sue Langley is a keynote speaker, global consultant and positive leadership expert.
Sue specialises in the practical applications of neuroscience, emotional intelligence and positive psychology, synthesising the science and research into simple, practical tools that anyone can use.
As the CEO and Founder of the Langley Group, Sue has taught thousands of business leaders, coaches and consultants how to create positive work cultures and harness the brain's potential. As Academic Director of the Langley Group Institute, Sue created the world’s first nationally recognised Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing. She has a Masters in Neuroscience of Leadership and was a featured expert in the hit ABC TV series Redesign My Brain and in the award-winning documentary Make Me a Leader.
April 2022 - Lorna Mills
Lorna Mills – BSc (Hons), MSc, MAPPCP, MBPsS
I am an executive leadership coach who works internationally. I enjoy applying positive psychology when coaching leaders through situations of organisational and personal disruption, challenge, and change. I have an interest in second wave positive psychology and hope to publish my creative coaching study in this area this summer. I am a member of the British Psychological Society North West committee and co host the Merseyside Peer Practice group. I have a degree in Behavioural Sciences and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.