promoting wellbeing light your spark
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If we are to promote the wellbeing of others, we must attend to the wellbeing of ourselves. By doing so, we not only light our own spark, we can share it with others and leave lasting leagacies.TRANSCRIPT
What lights your spark?
Daniela Falecki
www.adolescenttoolbox.com.au
Manage their emotions - Positive Emotions
Find what they love - Engagement (or flow)
Communicate with others - Relationships
Connect to their purpose - Meaning
Set & achieve goals - Accomplishment
Understand our Spark
Why knowing your spark is important
Did you Know ..... Studies in the USA have shown that most people in the USA aren't
flourishing? More than half (54%) are only "moderately mentally healthy” yet not flourishing, i.e. they lack great enthusiasm for life and are not actively and productively engaged with the world. (Sonja Lyubomirsky)
Life satisfaction has been proved to be internally based – external influences, such as marriage, health, and wealth, only account for 15% of life satisfaction (Seligman)
Happiness is directly linked to genetics, our perception of life events and our level of optimism . This means we can LEARN OPTIMISM (Seligman)
Studies in happiness show a direct link to increased production of neurotransmitters such as dopamine (pleasure & motivation) & serotonin (sensory perception and emotions)
In the past 50 years in the US, GDP has tripled yet depression rates have increased tenfold. As numbers of cars increase, antidepressant sales rise, psychotherapy bills increase, etc – wellbeing decreases.
The practice of repetitively replaying your happiest life events serves to prolong and reinforce positive emotions and make you happier, whereas systematically analysing your happiest life events has the reverse effect.
Companies with a ratio between 3:1 and 13:1 with positive to negative comments at work were the most successful and “flourishing.”
Hugs make people happier? Students at Penn State Uni who shared a minimum of 5 hugs per day over 4 weeks, became much happier. Students who merely recorded their reading activity showed no changes.
Source , Sonja Lyubomirsky, “The How of happiness”
Wellbeing is more than being happy
Resilience = Adversity Coping skills
The Positive Psychology Institute of Aust defines;
“The scientific study of what enables individuals and communities to thrive.”
University of Pennsylvania (Seligman) defines ....
Positive Psychology is founded on the belief that people want more than an end to suffering. Individuals want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within ourselves, to enhance our experiences of love and work.
Positive Psychology
1. Practice gratitude
2. Make social connections
3. Identify your character strengths
4. Establish clear goals
5. Have strategies to manage stress
6. Nurture your body and your soul
7. Live in the present
Strategies to light your spark
1. Practice gratitude
What are you grateful for?
2. Make social connections
Who are the people that are important to you?
How could you connect with others in a positive way?
3. Identifying your character strengths
How can you apply your character strengths?
http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu
Write 2 of your greatest strengths ;• How do you know these are strengths?• How do you feel when doing these things• How often do you show these strengths?
4. Establish goals
A picture of your Ideal Self
When are you at your happiest?
5. Have strategies to manage stress
If you secretly knew how to better manage your stress, what would you do?
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Aldous Huxley
6. Nurture your body and your soul
How could you support your physical body?
How could you support your spirit?
7. Live in the PresentWhat is happening for you now?
Happiness is a choice
• 50% of happiness are determined by genes
• 10% by life circumstances
• 40% by our intentional activities
Now, it’s your turn.....“All theory remains floating in air until
grounded in action”
What are your 7 steps to wellbeing?
We all have a spark inside us,we either help each other shine or we dull their light
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How can you use this in the field?
1. Gratitude – “What did you love about today?”
2. Social – Help them find things in common
3. Strengths – Identify what they do well for them –
animals
4. Goals – “How do you want it to be?”
5. Stress – Stop, breathe, think, “Is it true?”
6. Body – Check for food and water
7. Present – “That was then, this is now”
The next step ...
What is the biggest learning for you?
What is one action you will take
forward?
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer
than You.”Dr. Seuss
