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Report Second World Congress on Positive Psychology

The future is PERMA and cross-linkage

2nd Congress of the International Association of Positive Psychology (IPPA) in Philadelphia

23-25. July 2011

Over 1200 participants from more than 60 countries, 15 lecturers, 27 workshops and 26 symposia: Just the statistic of the second World Congress of Positive Psychology is impressive.

Contentwise there were mainly two formidable achievements: Firstly the successful combination of scientific research and practical application and secondly the dialogue with other scientific concepts and intellectual edifices.

At the opening three “founding fathers” of Positive Psychology presented the current status and the future tasks.

Ed Diener impressively showed the benefits of well-being. He highlighted two important factors to increase well-being: Giving meaning and goal-directedness.

Chris Peterson encouraged no to stop now. Positive Psychology must now move on inward (neurobiology), outward (intercultural sociology), forward and backward (developmental psychology), between (individuality), and including further develop (social psychology) boldly and selflessly. New interventions and cooperations need to be developed.

Martin Seligman outlined his new theory of well-being, which needs to be explored both continually and systematically. Positive emotions, Engagement, Relation, Meaning and Accomplishment are the cornerstone of wellness. These are teachable and learnable. The time was ripe to aspire PERMA for 51% of the world’s population by 2051. Seligman also relies on the benefits of large social networks such as Google and Facebook.

The first to present was Edward Deci, the founder of self-determination theory (SDT) According to Deci the major motivation comes from within. The needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness makes people a lot more sustainable and to act than external motivators such as pressure and money. Still, Positive Psychology needs to focus more on negatives too in order to discern the positives more accurately.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the founder of the “flow” and his son, professor of cultural anthropology Mark Csikszentmihalyi, had an inspiring conversation about happiness in time and space between East and West. The benefit of "loneliness" is something that the West could learn from the East.

Barbara Fredrickson, founder of the Broaden and Build Theory of Emotion presented her latest research: love. She defines love as an interpersonal and social experience of one or more positive emotions, which is characterized by increased investment in the welfare of the loved one. XXX Biobehaviorale Verhaltenssynchronizität, seligmaneurope it die einzige website im netz mit diesem wort XXX and increased tendencies to mutual exchange. Sooner or later this leads to physical rapport, social commitment and dedication. Love is a positive response. This positive feedback affects well-being even more than just any emotionally positive experience.

Robert Vallerand, the new IPPA president, added the results of his research on compassion.

Antonella Delle Fave, the outgoing president of IPPA showed impressive figures in her report on the development of the Association and the development of a common understanding of wellbeing. The definitional confusion about what is happiness or contentment now seems to be overcome wit with the term “well-being” to some extent.

Richard Davidon finally came up with his results on how meditation and awareness alter brain structures, which could be of enormous importance for responsible Positive Psychological Practice.

In the workshops and symposia it was repeatedly emphasized that the positive psychology does no consider itself a new psychology or a new non-clinical approach. It considers itself an important independent movement within the scientific and applied psychology, whose primary goal is to contribute to the welfare of individuals, social communities and ultimately to mankind. This does not happen in contrast to previous achievements in psychology but in a useful complement and increasingly considering the role of the so-called "negative", too.

The participants were able to take participate in a variety of workshops and symposia and therefore be rewarded with practical suggestions, especially in the field of education, organization (including Positive Leadership), consulting (coaching), health and sports. The main results are published in the foreseeable future on www.ippanetwork.org, the official IPPA website.

Have fun and good luck with Positive Psychology

Yours sincerely

Philip Streit, Austrian member of the IPPA, Board of Directors and Coordinator Seligman Europe

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Photodocumentation of the Second World Congress on Positive Psychology

As promised, the photodocumentation of the Second World Congress on Positive Psychology.

We hope you enjoy it.

All the best Dr. Philip Streit and the Seligman Europe Team

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Report of the Symposium in Heidelberg

Second Symposium on Positive Psychology in Heidelberg on July 10^th 2011

300 people from all over Europe and various occupational groups (psychologists, psychotherapists, coaches, teachers, etc.) took part in the second symposium in Heidelberg. They all enjoyed a day of the latest and largely very practical information. At the same time all the challenging issues on luck were put forward.

Prof. Dr. Michael Eid amazed with the statistically proven fact that already 44% of German universities and colleges teach and research Positive psychology regularly … and counting.

Dr. Gunther Schmidt, showed how people can discover and use their skills and worked out parallels to the flow concept of positive psychology. Dr. Philip Streit described the design and implementation of the fourteen most important interventions of Positive Psychology and its application contexts. Simple, clear, immediately usable. Prof. Dr. Michael Frese introduced in a concept of the Positive Psychology of labour. The chief point is individual initiative and self-determination leading to well-being, motivation and high work efficiency of employees. Within this frame, the reflection of the negative things can have even motivating effects.

Ernst Fritz Schubert outlined his almost unbelievable range of experiences concerning a school subject “happiness”. Happiness is far more than just being "happy". It’s more like a comprehensive approach to wellbeing and positive, encouraging conditions for learning, focusing on key experiences and dignity.

Heiko Ernst, editor of "Psychology Today", examined "Potential happiness traps" like the usage-trap, the optimism-trap, the individualism-trap and the absoluteness-trap and conducted a discussion about the possibilities of positive psychology in a social context.

Shortly before the lunch break, Dr. Eckhart von Hirschhausen unexpectedly appeared and amused the audience with his satirical summary of the day.

Later in the afternoon Prof. Dr. Martin Seligman presented his new theory of well-being. The critizism of Heiko Ernst existed with good reason, the professor from Philadelphia conceded, but only related to the old theory of Happiness. The theory emphasizes five areas of well-being and happiness. PERMA: Positive emotions, engagement, relationship, Meaning, Accomplishment. This makes Positive Psychology a model - that psychologically speaking - is based on subjective and objective variables. Prof. Dr. Seligman reported on the many possible applications of positive psychology and outlined his vision of the 51%. He thinks with the aid of positive psychology 51% of the world's population could live under conditions of well-being by 2051.

Positive psychology has been deployed in the U.S. Army Soldier Training as the Comprehensive Fitness Programs (CIF). About a million servicemen were already at examined concerning their mental health and the possibilities to feel better and more than 10.000 were trained to become instuctors. In this way valuable data on the mental health of the population could be found.

Soon a first-PENN certified training in Applied Positive Psychology for German-speaking countries will be available. Contact Seligman Europe via www.seligmaneurope.com or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it +4369916030040

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Mindmaps of the Symposium in Heidelberg

created by Dr. Artur Hornung

Mindmaps of

Prof. Dr. Michael Eid

Dr. Philip Streit

Dr. med. Gunter Schmidt

OStR Ernst Fritz-Schubert

Prof. Dr. Michael Frese

Dipl.-Psych. Heiko Ernst

Prof. Dr. Martin Seligman 1

Prof. Dr. Martin Seligman 2

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Photoreportage Heidelberg

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Presentations of Heidelberg

Präsentation von Prof. Dr. Michael Eid

Präsentation von Dr. Philip Streit

Präsentation von OStR Ernst Fritz-Schubert

Präsentation von Dr. med. Gunther Schmidt

Präsentation von Prof. Dr. Michael Frese

Präsentation von Dipl.-Psych. Heiko Ernst

Präsentation von Prof. Dr. Martin Seligman

Präsentation von Dr. Gunther Schmidt

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Report of the Symposium in Zuerich

Report of the Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland

About 450 people participated in the first Symposium on Positive Psychology in Zurich. The main auditorium was bursting at the seams with people from almost all professional groups. The symposium started off with Prof. Dr. Willibald Ruch giving an overview on his latest research. The internet platform www.charakterstaerken.org became essentially for any practitioner

and not just for those interested in Positive Psychology. Dr. René Proyer presented his study on making use of one’s strengths and clarified which strengths are available to whom.

Afterwards Oberstudienrat Ernst Fritz Schubert and Dr. Philip Streit showed both theory and practice of “lerning” happiness at schools. Dr. Fred Berger pointed out how "Happyness" works in Switzerland, stressing the importance of positive relationships. Furthermore Dr. Maja Storch introduced to the secrets of positive motivation. A highlight!

Dr. Martin Seligman also kindly paid a visit and surprisingly turned his whole theory on happiness upside down: Life satisfaction is not the goal any more. The clue is well-being! Well-being has five pillars: PERMA: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relations, Meaning, Accomplishment.

Seligman reported on the use of Positive Psychology in American schools and in psychotherapy. Moreover Prof. Seligman gave a lecture on the role of positive psychology in troop training of the U.S. Army. Positive Psychology in the Army is not intended to shape berserks, but rather produce mentally stable soldiers, who are both socially competent and committed and are in this way able to deal with their civilian life.

Since Prof. Dr. Seligman wanted to present as much as possible on his new approach in the four hours of his presence, the translation into German was stopped eventually. But the courageous audience demanded it back and their claim was finally satisfied. Positive conflict management live!

We are already looking forward to meeting you the Heidelberg symposium next Saturday. Prof. Michael Eid will report on Positive Psychology at Universities and Colleges, Prof. Michael Frese will present a concept of Positive Psychology on the topic of labour. Heiko Ernst will introduce in the concept of the "happiness trap". Philip Streit will introduce the most important positive interventions in practice, Ernst Fritz Schubert will show the results of his examinations on happiness as a basis for educational and social action. Gunther Schmidt will point out what competence and hypnosystemic flows have in common.

A special highlight of the concluding panel will be a panel discussion of all lecturers on the "Future of Happiness". Coming and coming again could pay off!

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