AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS
Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Martin E. P. Seligman
The Free Press, 2004
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Understand evidence that by identifying the best in ourselves we can change the world around us
• Learn how to reach new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.
• Focus on strengths rather than weaknesses and that happiness is not the result of good genes or luck.
• Analyze how drawing on “signature strengths” that people already possess, they can develop buffers against misfortune and negative emotion
• Learn that our signature strengths can be nurtured throughout our lives, with benefits to our health, relationships, and careers.
• Learn how people move their lives to a more positive plane
• Learn that happiness can be cultivated by identifying and using many of the strengths and traits they already possess including kindness and originality.
• Learn the life-changing lesson by identifying the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve happiness
Martin E. P. Seligman is the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the Director of the Positive Psychology Network, and the former president of the American Psychological Association. He has written more than twenty books, including Learned Optimism (also available for CE credits, see http://ishkbooks.com/cehome/LEOPC.html) and The Optimistic Child.
9 CE credits; 260 pages (text)
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