Invited Symposium – ECPP 2016

Please find below the details about the invited speakers and the symposium scheduled:

Positive psychology in Europe: recent and future developments

Chairmen: Dora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, Hans Henrik Knoop, Jan Auke Walburg

1. Positive psychology for society

Author: Dora Gudmundsdottir

2. Positive psychology in education

Author: Hans Henrik Knoop

3. Positive health

Author: Jan Auke Walburg

The chairs will each give a brief overview of the most recent developments in research and implementation of positive psychology in Europe.

After this overview of recent developments in Europe, future developments will be discussed. Questions to deal with are: What research is needed in Europe to proceed? What kind of knowledge should be implemented? How can the authority of positive psychology be improved.

The chairs will summarise the discussion in terms of an agenda for the future with consequences for the activities of the European Network of Positive Psychology.

Dr. Dora Guðmundsdóttir is an authorised psychologist who works as the Director of Determinants of Health and Wellbeing at the Directorate of Health in Iceland. On behalf of Iceland, she is a governmental expert on mental health and national focal point in public health for the European Commission. She is the director of a Positive Psychology Programme at the University in Iceland. She is also a lecturer in positive psychology and a board member of the Coaching academia at Reykjavik University. Dora is the president of the European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP – www.enpp.eu)

Dóra Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir

President of ENPP, Iceland

Hans Henrik Knoop is Associate Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Extraordinary Professor, North West University, South Africa. His work is focused on flourishing through learning and creativity in education and professional work. In recent years, his work has also regarded the idea of engaging (positive) criticism, which is becoming influential in the so-called “constructive Journalism” movement, and in feedback practices in education and work-life. He is member of ENPP Executive Board, past president of ENPP and member of the IPPA Board of Directors.

Hans Henrik Koop

University of Aarhus, Denmark

Jan Auke Walburg is Professor positive psychology at Twente University in The Netherlands. He published books and articles mainly in the field of integral applications in systems like schools and communities, of the principles of positive psychology. He is editor in chief of the International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, board member of the ENPP, and was chair of ECPP7 in Amsterdam in 2014.

Jan Auke Walburg

University of Twente, Trimbos-instituut, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Jellinek, Amsterdam

Positive Psychology in Society and Communities

Chairman: Pascale Haag

1. Epistemological reflections on the concept of community

Author: Gaël Brulé

2. Building connections to promote well-being: challenges and resources

Author: Antonella Delle Fave

3. To affinity and beyond: on the personal and social value of friendship and friendliness

Author: Neil Thin

Pascale Haag, PhD in Indology and M.A. in Psychology, is assistant professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris since 2003, and member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Issues (Social Sciences, Politics, Health). Her current research interests mainly concern positive psychology and education. She is the secretary of the AFFPP and the coordinator of the research circle on education Lab School Network (http://labschool.hypotheses.org)

Pascale Haag

Maître de conférences EHESS, IRIS, Paris France

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Mindfulness, Loving Kindness Meditation and Positive psychology

Chairman: Rebecca Shankland

Learning to Love: Cumulative Variability in OXTR and CD38 Moderates the Positive Emotion Yield of Loving-kindness Training.

Author: Barbara L. Fredrickson – Co-Author: Suzannah F. Isgett, Sara B. Algoe

Lessons from the ReSource project: Behavioral and brain changes in affective processing after a 9-month longitudinal mental training program

Author: Pauline Favre, Max Planck Institute – Co-Author: Tania Singer, Max Planck Institute

Differentiating underlying mechanisms in Mindfulness and positive psychology interventions for social workers

Author: Rébecca Shankland – Co-authors: Damien Tessier, Julie Jacquet, Samuel Garnier, Ilios Kotsou

Rébecca Shankland is Associate Professor and coordinator of the Positive Psychology Diploma at Univ. Grenoble Alpes. Her research studies focus on the comparison of mechanisms and effects of mindfulness based and positive psychological interventions in educational, organizational and therapeutic settings. More specifically, she is interested in studying orientation of attention, compassion, and psychological flexibility. She has published numerous books on eating disorders and one on positive psychology (Ed. Dunod, 2014). Her next book, focused on gratitude, will be released this year (Ed. Odile Jacob, 2016).

Rébecca Shankland

Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de psychologie : Personnalité, Cognition, Changement Social, France

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Pistes novatrices de recherche en psychologie positive francophone

Chairman: Jacques Lecomte

1. L’apprenance : une ressource pour la résilience. Le cas des femmes ayant été victimes de violences

Author: Joanna Dupouy

2. Appreciative Inquiry et intervention positive dans les organisations

Author: Jean Christophe Barralis

3. Impacts multiples chez les élèves de la restauration de la motivation de sécurisation par les enseignants

Authors: Catherine Favre, Nathalie Augier et Daniel Favre

Docteur en psychologie, j’ai enseigné à l’Université Paris X Nanterre – La Défense. Je suis actuellement Président d’honneur de l’association française et francophone de psychologie positive. Je m’intéresse tout particulièrement aux implications sociales de la psychologie positive, dans de multiples domaines (éducation, santé publique, travail, protection de l’environnement, etc.).

Président d’honneur de l’Association Française et Francophone de Psychologie Positive, France. Fondateur et webmaster du site : http://www.psychologie-positive.net

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Symposium: Flow research: conceptual advancements and applications

Chairmen: Marta Bassi & Jean Heutte

Discussant: Antonella Delle Fave

1. Proposal for a conceptual evolution of the flow in education (EduFlow) model.

Authors: Jean Heutte, Fabien Fenouillet, Charles Martin-Krumm, Ilona Boniwell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

2. Flow metacognitions as predictors of flow in work

Authors: Giovanni B. Monet, Edith E. Wilson

3. Difficult but (ir)relevant? Physiological contributions on the relationship between flow and stress.

Authors: Corinna Peifer, Johanna S. Lehrich, Julia Ingwersen, Hartmut Schächinger, Conny H. Antoni

4. Not just flow: A cluster approach to daily experience fluctuation

Authors: Marta Bassi, Luca Negri, Lucia Ceja, José Navarro, Antonella Delle Fave

Marta Bassi is assistant professor in general psychology at the Medical School of the University of Milano and she is currently president of the Italian Society of Positive Psychology. Her research interests primarily focus on optimal experience and its role in psychological selection. She has conducted research concerning individuals’ quality of experience in areas such as education, leisure and health.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ‘Luigi Sacco’ University of Milan, Italy

Senior Lecturer (MCF) full-time faculty position at Univ. Lille (France), Jean Heutte is one of the european leaders in the field of positive psychology: optimal experience theoretical modeling (autotelism-Flow), as well as the social and conative dimensions of volition, in educational contexts, notably the personal and collective conditions necessary for the emergence of well-being. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean_Heutte Jean is member of the Board of Directors of the French and Francophone Association for Positive Psychology/Association française et francophone de Psychologie Positive (AFfPP) and the European Flow-Researchers’ Network (EF-RN).

Jean Heutte

Univ. Lille, EA 4354 – CIREL – Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Education de Lille, France

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Meaning, engagement, and wellbeing: Positive Psychology at work

Chairman: Lisa Vivoll Straume

1. Eudaimonia this and eudaimonia that: Can modern work-life learn anything from such an archaic concept?

Authors: Prof. Joar Vittersø and PhD student Benedicte Langseth-Eide, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

2. Setting the stage: Creating meaningful and engaging work environments

Authors: Senior advisor / MA Bente Kristin Malmo (Mind) and PhD / Academic Director Lisa Vivoll Straume (Mind)

3. Staging work engagement, strength-based leadership and simulation training in the Norwegian governmental company Enova

Authors: CEO Enova Nils Kristian Nakstad & Øyvind Husby

Lisa holds a PhD in positive psychology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has several roles in the international research community, and is a guest lecturer for Master and PhD students in Applied Positive Psychology at the Spanish University in Castellon and The University of Iceland. She is founder and Academic director of MIND, a company that has specialized on bridging the gap between research and practice within the field of positive psychology and strengths-based development. Particularly, MIND have succeeded with their research-based program on strength-based leadership and organizational development.

Lisa Vivoll Straume

Director of MIND: AS, Trondheim, Norvège

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Promoting children’s emotional wellbeing…for life

Chairman: llona Boniwell

1. From the start of school: Zippy’s Friends

Author: Caroline Egar

2. Reinforcing the skills in mid-primary years: Apple’s Friends

Author: Marion Panis

3. Implementing Personal Well-Being Lessons in the Anglophone and Francophone contexts

Authors: Ilona Boniwell, Laure Reynaud, Scholavie

Dr Ilona Boniwell heads the International MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (I-MAPP) at Anglia Ruskin University and consults businesses and educational institutions around the globe as a Director of Positran. She wrote or edited seven books, delivered over 150 keynotes/invited presentations, founded the European Network of Positive Psychology, and was the first vice-chair of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).

Ilona Boniwell

Director – Positran, Anglia Ruskin University, Uk and Associate Professor – Ecole Centrale Paris, France

This symposium is focused on a selected range of positive psychology programmes developed for educational context. Positive education is a new area that brings together the findings of positive psychology and education, with the aim of providing pupils with psychological knowledge and skills that can help them to live a life of flourishing and become more resilient by coping with problems in productive ways. This broad aim is often achieved by means of specific positive psychology interventions that have been developed and successfully implemented at schools in various countries, including but not limited to the USA, Australia, and the UK. One of the objectives of this presentation is to provide a general overview of the state-of-art evidence based interventions in education from an international perspective. Another, perhaps even more ambitious objective of this presentation is to offer a vision for future developments in positive education, respecting both the scientific foundations and cultural contexts.

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Positive psychology and life span

Chairman: Colette Aguerre

1. Proactive coping and positive aging

Authors: David Delalu, Colette Aguerre

2. « ABCD – Atelier Bien-être et Coping envers la Douleur Chronique”: a workshop for chronic pain patients including positive interventions

Authors: Colette Aguerre, Morgiane Bridou, Rajaa Jourdy

3. Well-being and intergenerational approach

Authors: Catherine Giraudeau, Nathalie Bailly, L. Prouver

Maître de Conférences (MCU) en Psychopathologie et en Psychologie Clinique à l’Université François Rabelais (Tours, France) – Habilitée à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) en Psychologie – Membre de l’EA 2114 « Psychologie des Ages de la Vie » – Psychologue Clinicienne (spécialisée en psychologie de la santé, thérapies cognitvo-comportementales, psychologie positive) – Co-fondatrice et vice-Présidente de l’Association française et francophone de Psychologie Positive (AffPP) – Co-fondatrice de l’Association Française de Psychologie de la santé (AfPSa) – Trésorière de l’Association Résilio (Association Internationale pour la Promotion et la Diffusion de la Recherche sur la Résilience).

Colette Aguerre

Maître de Conférences Universitaire en Psychologie Clinique et Pathologique, Tours, France

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Positive Psychology in Sports and Physical Activity

Chairman: Joan Duda

1. The relationship of motivational processes to the well-being of young athletes

Authors: Isabel Balaguer and Isabel Castillo

2. Assessment of the objective motivational climate in sport and it’s implications for optimal functioning

Authors: Damien Tessier and Philippe Sarrazin

3. Promoting optimal engagement in physical activity in at risk/patient groups

Author: Joan L. Duda

Professor Duda is internationally known for her expertise on motivational processes and determinants of adherence and optimal functioning in sport, exercise, and dance. She is an experienced mental skills consultant, working with athletes, coaches/instructors, and other performers at all levels.

Joan Duda

Professor of Sports Psychology in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at The University of Birmingham, UK

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Positive Psychology Interventions Efficacy and Effectiveness

Chairman: Antonia Csillik

1. Effects of Loving-kindness Meditation

Author: Barbara L. Fredrickson

2. Addressing Eudaimonic well-being across the life span by Well-being Therapy

Authors: Chiara Ruini, Elisa Albieri, Francesca Vescovelli and Giulia Cesetti

3. Positive psychology interventions for increasing well-being and adherence to treatments

Authors: Antonia Csillik, Marine Miglianico, Mélanie Bay-Smadja, Fabien Fenouillet

4. The Therapeutic Relationship as a key factor in recovering from Relational Trauma

Author: Zoe Chouliara

Antonia Csillik, Ph.D. is a Associate Professor in clinical psychology, and Vice-President of the French speaking Positive Psychology Association, member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, MINT. She is clinical psychologist and clinical trainer with experience in addictive behaviours, personality and mood disorders. Her research interests are in positive psychology, psychotherapy effectiveness (especially client-centred approaches) and positive behaviour change, and in protective factors against the development of psychopathology (dispositional mindfulness, trait-hope, psychological mindedness) and subjective well-being. Her book on “Psychological resources: contributions of positive psychology” will be released in 2017 (Dunod, Paris).

Antonia Csillik

Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France

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Flourishing

Chairman: Felicia Huppert

1. The impact of the global financial crisis on flourishing across Europe

Author: Kai Ruggeri

2. Mindfulness Based Flourishing: Practical Wisdom in Modern Buddhism

Author: Francis Mckay

3. Engaging Communities: Improving Resilience and Wellbeing: Positive psychology in media based approaches

Author: Marten W. deVries

Professor Huppert is internationally renowned for her work on the science of well-being and the promotion of human flourishing. Her research examines the causes and consequences of well-being across the life course, using data from large population samples, longitudinal cohorts, and intervention programs such as the Mindfulness in Schools Project. Felicia spends part of the year in the UK, where she is Director of the Well-being Institute at the University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology. She advises the UK Government and international bodies on the measurement of well-being, and on policies to enhance well-being. In addition to a large body of peer-reviewed journal articles, her book publications include the seminal book “The Science of Well-being”, a four-volume set “Major Works in Happiness and Well-being”, and a recent volume “Interventions and Policies to Enhance Well-Being”.

Felicia Huppert

Director of the Well-being institute, University of Cambridge, UK

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Economy and Positive Psychology

Chairman: Claudia Senik

1. Teaching methods, non-cognitive skills and happiness. Evidence from matched teacher-pupil British data

Author: Sarah Fleche

2. Unemployment benefits and job satisfaction: evidence from Germany

Author: Alexandre Georgieff

3. Work-time duration and subjective wellbeing: evidence from a French reform

Author: Anthony Lepinteur

Claudia SENIK is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also member of the IZA and of the Institut Universitaire de France. Educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she received her PhD from EHESS. Her main research areas include happiness studies, political attitudes and post-transition economies, with a special interest in the subjective welfare effects of income growth and income distribution. She is also involved in a research program on well-being ats work.

Claudia Senik

School of Economics and the University Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France

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Meaning, Strengh values and spiritual accomplishments

Chairman: Willibald Ruch

1. Meaning in the context of better living: evidence from daily experience sampling research

Author: Michael F. Steger, Colorado State University

2. Self-Transcendent Experience: A Potent Source of Spirituality and Meaning

Author: David Yaden, University of Pennsylvania

3. Interventions on meaning in the realm of the Authentic Happiness-theory and extensions: Findings from two recent studies

Authors: Rene T. Proyer, Fabian Gander, Willibald Ruch from Halle University, Zurich University

Currently he is working on positive psychology traits (e.g., character strengths and virtues; orientations to happiness, cheerfulness, humor) in adults and children/adolescents and their role in contributing to the good life. He is the founder and current president the Swiss Positive Psychology Association (www.swippa.ch).

Willibald Ruch

University of Zürich, Switzerland

Positive cultures of criticism: how positive psychology may learn from, and contribute to good criticism

Moderator: Hans Henrik Knoop

Participants: Dora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, Jan Auke Walburg and more

We could not live without criticism. Criticism in the right context and form is nothing less than a precondition for wellbeing. It is the bedrock of democracy and trustworthy business life. It lies at the heart of any game, play, indeed any human activity worth mentioning if we take a close look at what’s going on when we interact in the world, constantly adapting to ever so slightly changing circumstances, learning from pain also. And it is the essence of scientific endeavor. No science could exist without proper critique of methodology and results.

However, critique is not to be confused with negativity, just like acceptance is not to be confused with positivity. Critique is just critique, yet it cannot function without its counterpart: openness. Critique and openness are complementary values in human interaction. Thus, democracy clearly depends on people being both open to one another’s viewpoints and skeptically reflecting on what they learn. Likewise, science will not work without combined openness towards new ideas and critical scrutiny of these ideas to weed out the bad ones. This goes for positive psychology as for all other branches of science.

Thus, interestingly on the one hand positive psychology has received criticism for not sufficiently accepting criticism, so to speak; while on the other positive psychology may indeed hold important keys to a better, indeed more positive (that is: effective and humane), culture of critique in the future.

This invited symposium, in the form of a round-table dialogue, will address both of these important aspects of criticism.

Firstly, it will focus on some of the most important criticism forwarded against positive psychology, on how this criticism has been answered by the field, and where we stand on the issues today.

Secondly, the psychology of criticism, and especially the potential for creating a culture of criticism, where criticism can be understood as not only a necessity but indeed as a gift, and where the all-too-well-known humiliation following critique is minimized to the least necessary, will be explored. Of special interest will be the contributions to this coming directly from research within positive psychology itself.

As preparation for the session, participants are encouraged to exercise three justified critiques to peers in ways that, without any doubt, leaves the criticized part grateful and warm. Have fun!

Positive Psychology and Heroism

Chairman & discussant: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

1. The Personal and Social Impact of Heroism: Stories of Elevation and Personal Transformation

Authors: Jeanne Nakamura, Laura Graham

2. Positively Deviant Heroes: Factors Influencing The Decision to Engage in and Sustain Social Heroism

Author: Michael Condren

3. Prosocial Disobedience Behaviours of Eminent Creators

Author: Izabela Lebuda

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (PhD) is currently the Co-Director of the doctoral program in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. He is the Co-founder of the field of Positive Psychology, and the author or co-author of over 250 peer-reviewed articles and 19 books, translated in 26 languages (Flow), 11 (Good Business), and 9 (Creativity).

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Co-Director of the doctoral program in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, USA

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