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TSPP Tips: Holiday Edition 16 Jan

TSPP Tips: Holiday Edition

Minding Mental Health this festive season It’s a Feel-Good Season? While a good number of people are excited for Lunar New Year celebrations, there are also some – especially those socially isolated or those estranged from family – who find this period more...

Rani: Empowering students to thrive 26 Oct

Rani: Empowering students to thrive

Returning to the classroom after completing the Graduate Diploma in Applied Positive Psychology during retirement, Rani now uses her newfound knowledge to empower struggling students.

Sally Mounir: The Accidental Therapist 30 Sep

Sally Mounir: The Accidental Therapist

Sally Mounir, our Professional Diploma in Psychotherapy graduate, shares how her education at The School of Positive Psychology (TSPP) enabled her to discover her calling as a psychotherapist.

Gratitude: A Building Block for the Culture of Appreciation 20 Sep

Gratitude: A Building Block for the Culture of Appreciation

Written by Jana Dawson   “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”– Cynthia Ozick   Lately, social media and human resource news have been awash with quiet quitting, quiet firing, and a plethora of other ‘quiet’ spinoffs....

TSPP Tips: International Friendship Day 27 Jul

TSPP Tips: International Friendship Day

We may have heard of how individuals are the average of the five people they spend the most time with. Indeed, most people have friends, but have you considered how greatly your friendships can shape who you are as a person? In fact, friendship bonds can be so crucial...

Tips to Combat Loneliness 6 May

Tips to Combat Loneliness

Do you feel lonely? Up to 80% of people under 18 years old and 40% of adults over 65 years old report being lonely at least sometimes. Loneliness can have devastating effects; individuals who reported often being lonely showed a significantly greater risk of poorer...

Luciana: Using Personal Toolkits for Better Wellbeing 15 Nov

Luciana: Using Personal Toolkits for Better Wellbeing

Luciana shares with us the ways in which she has been able to apply her learnings throughout various aspects of her life, be it in a classroom, at home, or for herself. She highlights the importance of taking care of oneself in order to be able to help others and ourselves thrive.

Hiroshi: Taking on a new approach to work 19 Nov

Hiroshi: Taking on a new approach to work

Hiroshi Limmell was understandably hesitant to take up life as a student again mid-career, but he now views it as the best decision he has made, describing his journey in Positive Psychology as one that improved his workplace greatly.

Niamh: Creating positive changes in the world of education 13 Oct

Niamh: Creating positive changes in the world of education

Niamh Bowman shares her experience engaging in Positive Psychology for well-being in academic, and familial settings. She speaks about her takeaways from connecting with people to inspire and motivate one another, and where she applies her learnings.

CHALLENGE WITH LOVE, FOR IMPACT 12 Aug

CHALLENGE WITH LOVE, FOR IMPACT

Do you give bla bla feedback, or do you care enough to challenge? Most leaders care about their people, their colleagues and their mission. But many of them are too shy about challenging their fellow leaders. They are not energetically questioning status quo, bringing...

HIGH CHALLENGE, HIGH SUPPORT LEADERSHIP 20 Aug

HIGH CHALLENGE, HIGH SUPPORT LEADERSHIP

Only 26% of employees experience so-called High Challenge & High Support leadership (HCHS) from their leaders, and fall into the Thriving quadrant. According to Mckinsey, 61% of employees experience only a low level of support from their leaders. So, when we say...

WHY MIDDLE MANAGERS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN SENIOR LEADERS 18 Aug

WHY MIDDLE MANAGERS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN SENIOR LEADERS

To move the organization from surviving to thriving, middle managers are now more important than senior leaders. As they are closer to the workforce through their daily interactions, middle managers can directly influence and support employees to thrive anew. Not all...

What is a Mentally Healthy Workplace? 28 Apr

What is a Mentally Healthy Workplace?

With one-third of adult life spent at work, how can workplaces help employees feel safe, supported and valued especially in the face of increased occupational burnout due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic? “My workplace is toxic”: these words are often shared with me...

Calm within Chaos: A Covid-19 Resilience Awareness Model 1 Apr

Calm within Chaos: A Covid-19 Resilience Awareness Model

The challenges arising due to Covid-19 provide us with a chance to develop our resilience and increase our wellbeing. Shared amongst the whole world, Covid-19 is a common enemy that all of humanity is fighting. Before this pandemic, we already face a common enemy –...

Gratitude: A Building Block for the Culture of Appreciation 19 Aug

Gratitude: A Building Block for the Culture of Appreciation

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude” - Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928) With Facebook and Google choosing Singapore as a base for their Asian headquarters, their unique corporate cultures have sparked interest and conversations—on...

Enhancing Positive Emotions Through Fashion Choices 4 Sep

Enhancing Positive Emotions Through Fashion Choices

Author: Lydia Wan   Are feelings and fashion choices connected? True or false? I experience emotional swings through the clothes I wear. I am aware that my fashion choices for a day affect my feeling high or low. It sets my mood for the day. My mood when I wake...

Improve our work engagement and combat possible burnout! 13 Aug

Improve our work engagement and combat possible burnout!

Time is a valuable commodity to most of us, especially in the workplace where we are constantly challenged by limited time and resources for our ever increasing and demanding workloads.  Many people I know who live in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland work long hours...

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