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If you are interested in the research we are doing on compassion you may also be interested in the following websites. These links will take you to individuals and groups who are also conducting research in areas related to healing, growth, and vitality. |
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This is the website for the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology (PEP) Laboratory. Most of the research being conducted by the PEP Lab centers on Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. The theory states that positive emotions broaden the scope of people's attention, cognition, and action, thereby creating openness to new ideas and new courses of action.
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website that takes you to information about a newly formed not-for-profit
organization dedicated to research, dialogue and education on unlimited
love. The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love defines "the essence
of love is to affectively affirm as well as to unselfishly delight in
the well-being of others, and to engage in acts of care and service on
their behalf; unlimited love extends this love to all others without exception,
and in an enduring and constant way. THe research website provides access
to white papers on this topic, describes calls for research and offers
other useful leads. This link connects to the homepage of The Martin Seligman Research Alliance. This is a not-for-profit organization committed to the discovery and application of psychological knowledge acquired in scientific research to solve real-world problems, alleviate suffering, and help individuals and institutions achieve a high quality of life. This website has a particular focus on positive psychology, a new field focused on developing an understanding of character strengths and civic virtues.
The Appreciative Inquiry Commons website (hosted by Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management) is devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change. AI assumes that every living system has many untapped, rich and inspiring accounts of the positive. In AI, the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. Link the energy of this core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized. Project Resilience is a private organization that promotes a strengths-based approach to people struggling to overcome hardships. This idea of resilience is grounded in research aimed at understanding how some people are able to pull a gratifying, constructive life out of the tremendous adversity they have faced. The organization offers teaching materials and products, provides training, and disseminates information for professionals working in education, treatment, and prevention. This website is an interdisciplinary hub for information sharing about ideas pertaining to positive science that draws on information and energy from a number of fields such as psychology, education, the arts, medicine, spirituality, and more. This is a
site for sharing information, ideas and stories about emotional pain and
compassion at work and for exploring positive leadership practices. It
also has information on Peter Frost’s book Toxic Emotions at Work
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003).
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