[005 Research Review | PERMA Series: 1] A 2002 study by psychologist Corey Keyes clarifies the scope of coaching, the need for coaching, and its possible usefulness. The study quantifies a correlation between flourishing well-being and lowered likelihood of mental illness, and between incomplete well-being and higher likelihood of mental illness.
[004 Research Review | HR Series: 1] Modello and Homestead Gardens. The story of two public housing communities in Miami, Florida in the late 1980s continually shows up in the positive psychology literature. These publicly-funded community revitalization projects generated amazing, some say maybe even too amazing, results.
[003 Research Review | FUTURES SELF Series :1] The future self exercise, crafting a clear picture of who you are going to be at some distant point in the future anywhere from 9 to 20 years, is often a favorite in life coach training. Essentially, the exercise is one in shifting perspective, to playing out the next decade or two, and seeing yourself with the amassed wisdom of those years.
[002 Research Review | PSW Series: 1] In 1989 University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist Carol Ryff undertook the previously unattempted theoretical challenge of defining the dimensions of psychological well-being. Her resulting publication, “Happiness Is Everything, Or Is It? Explorations on the Meaning of Psychological Well-Being”, first advances the theory of well-being itself, then analyzes the results of a real world study designed to test it.
[001 Research Review | FLOW Series: 1] In 1971, Csikszentmihalyi and Bennet proposed a conceptual model for play. The model theorized that play is fun when your skill in the game is matched with the challenge of the game. The result is that you can act without thinking, propelled from moment to moment by a sense of timelessness, intrinsic focus, and total enjoyment.
