The Centre for Spirituality, Ecology & Mental Health
Books
Positive Psychology Across the Lifespan: An Existential Perspective
Positive Psychology Across the Life Span provides an insight into how we are affected by the different stages of adult development and gives us the opportunity to change through choice rather than leaving change to chance.
The science of positive psychology offers a wealth of research and evidence-based interventions and shares insights into which habits and behaviours contribute to how to live a flourishing life. This book aims to extend that knowledge by introducing and incorporating key aspects of existential and humanistic psychology. It goes beyond theory to look at practical application, with insightful reflective questions. The book will be essential reading for students and practitioners of positive psychology as well as other mental health professionals.
A Second-Wave Positive Psychology In Counselling Psychology
Second-wave positive psychology focuses on the importance of transcending or transforming negative experiences and emotions to achieve durable flourishing. The book offers exciting new concepts and skills in the practice of counselling psychology.
Positive psychology is evolving due to changing times and circumstances. PP2.0 opens new vistas for research and interventions in counselling psychology and positive psychology. Instead of relying only on the positives, it posits the importance of navigating an optimal balance between positives and negatives in each context. It emphasizes the importance of inner peace, balance, and harmony rather than the pursuit of happiness or positive emotions.
Sharing Corn - Leadership and Self-Leadership Awareness Journal
In volume 2 the focus is thus on self-leadership awareness, as it impacts all aspects of leadership, regardless the context or environment.
Together, we will explore new ways of being and contentious aspects that impact the well-being of humanity and our magnificent planet, such as equality, social justice, planetary awareness, and education. The title holding gems and potency of sharing, awareness, and understanding in the context of leadership and self-leadership, and our creative potential to construct new models of understanding,.
Articles & Chapters
Narrative Identity: From the inside out
This article will share the preliminary findings from a wider and ongoing interpretative synthesis of narrative identity literature.
We provide the analogy of Dante’s journey through the “inferno” to contextualize the review. Then, we share interpretations of literature pertaining to how life stories create meaning and suggest polarity might play an important role in forming complex and coherent meanings of life and selfhood. Meaning making in life stories is seen as a dynamic position of equilibrium between polarities in experiences that lead to themes and patterns. We suggest as an example the interplay between self and the world creates a person’s sense of agency, the extent a person believes they create their world or are created by it.
The Journey's Hero: Birth of an existential self
The ‘Journey’s Hero’ explores and extends the ‘Hero’s Journey’ beyond Piers Worth’s (2016) contemporary interpretation in order to identify the ‘qualities of character’ that may develop within an individual as they progress through the stages of the Hero’s Journey.
Life is fraught with adversity, challenge and suffering therefore it is up to each individual to choose for what they will suffer. If this choice is for a person to realise their own potentiality, then a heroic journey of self-actualisation and self-transcendence is engaged. Life’s journey may shape a person’s ‘stand’ towards suffering. The symbolic mythology of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ makes an important backdrop for understanding how ‘suffering’ might positively shape a person’s character and story, across episodes of transition.
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