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WOOP It Up! Rethinking Positive Thinking
By Mina Simhai What is your dearest wish? What holds you back from achieving it? These strike me as questions out of a self-help book, yet they come to us from Gabriele Oettingen, an NYU and...
WBI Goes to IPEN
by Lori Tuominen The Wholebeing Institute will be represented at the inaugural IPEN Festival in Dallas, Texas, July 18–20. What is IPEN, you ask? IPEN is the International Positive Education...
The Community Connector
Alumni Spotlight Featuring Phoebe Atkinson The Certificate in Positive Psychology (CiPP) is more then a course. The connections formed at CiPP are not meant to end when CiPP ends. They are intended...
Awestruck!
by Ruth Pearce There’s a famous story about the making of the movie The Greatest Story Ever Told. During a rehearsal, the Duke—John Wayne—was asked by director George Stevens to deliver his line...
When “Being Yourself” Isn’t Enough
by: Karissa Thacker Authenticity in leadership carries with it a fundamental paradox. We think of authentic leadership as being the real “us,” i.e., the real deal. Moreover, we talk a lot today...
Looking Ahead Through the WBI Lens
by Megan McDonough One of my goals for the recent Embodied Positive Psychology Summit was to share ideas about the future of the field, based on our experience at Wholebeing Institute. Below are the...
Positive Resonance in Action at the Embodied Positive Psychology Summit
by Martha Fagan and Susan Peppercorn Imagine having your interests, values, and feelings amplified more than 100 times. That was the effect of participating in the Embodied Positive Psychology...
I Am the One I’m Waiting For: Finding Happiness After Loss
by Mina Simhai In A Short Course in Happiness After Loss (and Other Dark Difficult Times), beloved WBI teacher and master storyteller Maria Sirois offers us a compassionate way to be with the pain...
Listening to Connect
Alumni Spotlight CiPP4 graduate Jonathan Aronoff has spent his whole life listening. “It’s easy for me to connect with others after growing up with an identical twin brother,” he says. He credits...