Psychologists are very proud of being scientist-practitioners, and so we should be. But if truth be told, we don’t write too many exams on the practice bit, and once we get to the practice bit, we get nervous if it doesn’t look like the science bit.
For people new to the practice of positive psychology, the part we have clients, this may help. I wrote it when explaining my rather specialised blog, flourishing with 2.0.
“Positive psychology focuses us on the need to reach out, to engage with the world, and to pursue what we love and enjoy vigorously.”
Mmm, would you move that “vigorously” into the sentence?
UPDATE: As my contribution to keeping the internet free of debris, I shut down blogs that I have not being updating regularly. Flourishing with 2.0 is one of those.
Here is the About page from that blog!
Why flourishing and 2.0?
I’m a serial migrant and I have become good at starting again in new places with new faces.
Fortunately for me, I am both a psychologist and media savvy. The task we migrants have, is to rebuild our psychological and social spaces at a lightening pace. We want and we need to become connected again in meaningful ways. We want and need to hear our voices again. And we want and we need to be heard again.
This site is not just for us though. We are not alone in this task of rebuilding our lives. Anyone going through a large transition faces the same task – students going to university, students leaving university, women whose children have left home, breadwinners who have been made redundant. We are all reconnecting and revisioning, rebuilding and regenerating, the way we live and who we are.
Though our changes are hard, we are also quite lucky to be making them now. Since the turn of the millenium, since 2000, both the internet and positive psychology have exploded. The read/write web, or web2.0 has brought a wider and better range of content generated by ordinary people. We can join in and speed up our connections to people around us.
Positive psychology focuses us on the need to reach out, to engage with the world, and to pursue what we love and enjoy vigorously.
Welcome. I am looking forward to this site and to your comments and feedback.
Yours,
Scotchcart