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Message From the President

Greetings and welcome to the Manitoba Psychological Society's web site. MPS is a provincial nonprofit organization made up of psychologists, psychology students, and people who are interested in psychology and in furthering psychology as a profession and science. On behalf of MPS, I invite you to explore our web site, sample our publications, and check out our institutes and public presentation listings. We pledge to make this site as informative and useful as possible and will be adding new sections as the site matures. We welcome your comments or suggestions, so feel free to contact me or any of our Board Members.

Sincerely, Jennifer C. Laforce, Ph.D., C.Psych. President, Manitoba Psychological Society

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A how-to guide in positive psychology

Happiness 101: A how-to guide in positive psychology for people who are depressed, languishing, or flourishing, The Facilitator’s Manual provides research about the latest findings in positive psychology that are instrumental in helping individuals achieve a state of happiness. The manual offers up to nine group session plans with interventions for participants to complete. It can be used like a textbook as it amasses the latest research all in one place, saving you the time of finding the information and preparing it, allowing you to focus on clients instead. It comes with a complete list of references to find the original sources easily.

Combined with Happiness 101: A how-to guide in positive psychology for people who are depressed, languishing, or flourishing, The Participant’s Manual, you are well on your way to running your own happiness group!

Modules include:
1. Myths and Beliefs about Happiness
2. The benefits of happiness
3. Adaptation, genetics, and circumstances
4. Intervention principles: Effort, fit, variety, timing.
5. Positive emotions
6. Theory of Authentic Happiness (Seligman, 2002)
7. Flow
8. Physical activity and exercise
9. Positive interventions


To obtain a free PowerPoint presentation that goes with the Facilitator´s Manual, please contact ltlamber@yahoo.com and include Happiness 101 PPT as the subject line.

Both manuals are available at: https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/default.aspx

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