Promoting wellbeing light your spark
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If we are to promote the wellbeing of others, we must attend to the wellbeing of ourselves. By doing so, we not only light our own spark, we can share it with others and leave lasting leagacies.
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- 2. Manage their emotions - Positive Emotions Find what they love - Engagement (or flow) Communicate with others - Relationships Connect to their purpose - Meaning Set & achieve goals - Accomplishment
- 3. Did you Know ..... Studies in the USA have shown that most people in the USA aren't flourishing? More than half (54%) are only "moderately mentally healthy” yet not flourishing, i.e. they lack great enthusiasm for life and are not actively and productively engaged with the world. (Sonja Lyubomirsky) Life satisfaction has been proved to be internally based – external influences, such as marriage, health, and wealth, only account for 15% of life satisfaction (Seligman) Happiness is directly linked to genetics, our perception of life events and our level of optimism . This means we can LEARN OPTIMISM (Seligman) Studies in happiness show a direct link to increased production of neurotransmitters such as dopamine (pleasure & motivation) & serotonin (sensory perception and emotions)
- 4. In the past 50 years in the US, GDP has tripled yet depression rates have increased tenfold. As numbers of cars increase, antidepressant sales rise, psychotherapy bills increase, etc – wellbeing decreases. The practice of repetitively replaying your happiest life events serves to prolong and reinforce positive emotions and make you happier, whereas systematically analysing your happiest life events has the reverse effect. Companies with a ratio between 3:1 and 13:1 with positive to negative comments at work were the most successful and “flourishing.” Hugs make people happier? Students at Penn State Uni who shared a minimum of 5 hugs per day over 4 weeks, became much happier. Students who merely recorded their reading activity showed no changes. Source , Sonja Lyubomirsky, “The How of happiness”
- 5. Resilience = Adversity Coping skills
- 6. The Positive Psychology Institute of Aust defines; “The scientific study of what enables individuals and communities to thrive.” University of Pennsylvania (Seligman) defines .... Positive Psychology is founded on the belief that people want more than an end to suffering. Individuals want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within ourselves, to enhance our experiences of love and work.
- 8. 1. Practice gratitude 2. Make social connections 3. Identify your character strengths 4. Establish clear goals 5. Have strategies to manage stress 6. Nurture your body and your soul 7. Live in the present
- 9. What are you grateful for?
- 10. Who are the people that are important to you? How could you connect with others in a positive way?
- 11. How can you apply your character strengths? http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu Write 2 of your greatest strengths ; • How do you know these are strengths? • How do you feel when doing these things • How often do you show these strengths?
- 12. A picture of your Ideal Self When are you at your happiest?
- 13. If you secretly knew how to better manage your stress, what would you do? “There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” Aldous Huxley
- 14. How could you support your physical body? How could you support your spirit?
- 15. What is happening for you now?
- 16. • 50% of happiness are determined by genes • 10% by life circumstances • 40% by our intentional activities
- 20. 1. Gratitude – “What did you love about today?” 2. Social – Help them find things in common 3. Strengths – Identify what they do well for them – animals 4. Goals – “How do you want it to be?” 5. Stress – Stop, breathe, think, “Is it true?” 6. Body – Check for food and water 7. Present – “That was then, this is now”
- 21. The next step ... What is the biggest learning for you? What is one action you will take forward? “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss
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- Thanks for inviting me – it is a pleasure to be hereWhen Clare first asked me to talk about “What lights your spark” I spent many days thinking to myself , what does this even mean, to light your spark, what is a spark and where is it? I came up with – its when i fell alive, i feel connected, purposeful and the moment seems effortless eg laughing with family and friends, walking through wentworth falls in the BM, being here infront of you – what about you?I recently watched a movie where a lady said she was tired of just making a living and instead she wanted to make a life and I suppose this is what we are talking about here.On a scale of 1-10 where is your spark now?The concept of PP is not so much about avoiding illness or disease but building on strengths to thrive with meaning and purpose.So, today Im going to talk to you about lighting your spark in the context of PP – has anyone heard of this before?
- We are going to look at PP in more detail later but in a nutshell it can said that our spark becomes lit when we experience;1. Positive Emotions - love, joy, happiness 2. Engagement (or flow) - time seems effortless3. Relationships - we connect with others4. Meaning (and purpose) – we feel purposeful5. Accomplishment - we see results and feel recognisedThe reason i share this with you is because, it can be easy to think that lighting our spark is wishy-washy, when in fact it can be directly related to the science of Positive psychologyActivity – how would you rate your inner spark right now out of 10?
- Science of happiness includes studies on the biochemincal pathways of the brain that show a direct link to increased production of neurotransmitters such as dopamine (pleasure & motivation) & serotonin (sensory perception and emotions)
- Wellbeing is being able to live with hope, possibility and optimism. In order to so this we require a level of optimism – lets face it, we all experience challenges in our lives, the question is not what happens but how we approach it. Now I know you teach this every day in the field so I'm not going to patronize you with how to do this. What I will do though is explain to you’re the science and the strategies behind what you are already doing and why it is important to keep doing it – even more consciously.Activity,Given this information, I want you to stand up and hug 5 people and sit back downWho is the best hugger in the group?How would you rate your spark? – we rate this against - PERMA
- Ask participants if anyone has ever set a goal and NOT achieved it?How did it make them feel? How did they overcome the disappointment?Introduce the concept of RESILIENCE – recap the resilience formula Often reflecting on choices and decisions can be both a challenging and a rewarding experience. When we achieve a success we may feel great & when things don’t go our way, perhaps we don’t feel that great..... and let’s face it, we have all made mistakes along the way. The key here is not to judge ourselves for perceived mistakes or focus on the challenges. Instead it is to embrace resilience and optimism. Resilience is our ability to “bounce back” from challenging situations – it is not born but learnt.
- Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning. The Positive Psychology Institute of Aust defines it as “The scientific study of what enables individuals and communities to thrive.” This theory is based on Martin Seligman’s (2003) research where he asserts there are three roads to the good life (or positive mental health and wellbeing):More simply, Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what makes life worth living. It’s foundation lies in understanding the psychological science and practice of working with strengths as much as weakness. It aims to support building the best things in life and not just repairing the worst. It has a focus in helping make the lives of normal people more fulfilling instead of focussing on healing pathology such as depression and anxiety. In a study of nuns who ate the same bland diet, had the same medical care, same socioeconomic status, didn’t smoke, didn’t drink alcohol & refrained from sex. It was found that the amount of positive feeling they expressed in their lives was significant in predicting life expectancy. When two nuns were compared, Sister Cecilia described herself as being very happy and joyous, eager to start her life as a nun and used the word ‘love’ to describe starting her life with God’s grace. Sister Marguerite described her pre-convent life as unrelated to God, didn’t describe feelings of positive emotion – joy or happiness – but rather considered her role as a nun as one of duty and order, like a job. These differing attitudes had a dramatic effect on life expectancy. It was found that 90% of nuns who described their life as cheerful were alive at age 85, while only 34% of the less cheerful nuns were alive at that age. Positive Psychology is the science of wellbeing
- Lets take this further .....These are known as foundation in PP
- Turn to any of your notes pages and list as many things as you can that ANNOY you at work in 30 secNow make a list of everything you are grateful for at workWhat is the energy of each of the lists?Which was easier to write or longer?
- From my experience, social connections have never really been a problem at OEG, everyone is one nig family – some a little too close at times but there is real strength in its community – would you agree.Why are they important?What do they give us?Yes, as himans we all have basic needs, one of them is a sense of belonging – social connections are essnetial for this. They also offer us different ways of thinking to help us step out of our own head.
- The next key to understanding what lights your spark is knowing you are good it.In the PP we talk about this as character strengths such as virtue, honesty, reliability and I have put in a free strengths test in your notes for you all to do and perhaps share with your teams. For now, though, I want you to write down 3 of your greatest strengths in your role at work.How do you know they are a strength?Next to these, write how you feel when you are doing these things?Write how often you do this things?DISC, Pen Uni etc are godd indictors of our strengths – by knowing this we can plan activities and roles in relation to hwat is going to make us feel good, more meaningful, in flow, engaged etc. Part of our role as OE’s is to giving people a variety of experience to help them uncover what their strengths are,, to help them grow and develop in their own charcter.
- In pairs, one is A and one is B. Person A put your hand up, point to your partner as say ‘you're answering first’.So person A asks the question to B – when are you at your happiest at work? Person A writes the answers. Repeat the question 3 times until an extensive list is developed. Look at the list and circle the words that show a reoccurring theme.Change over …….When are you happiest at work … is it when you are with people, without people, signing contracts, writing strategy, alone in your tent, walking, cooking, singing, talking ………is it based on what you do or others do ( the challenge here is that you cant control others so you may never find what your looking for) This is the area that you goal should be centered around – this way you are emotionally connected to it, are more likely to be in flow to achieving it etc ….. The point here is to SET AN INTENTION that is CONSCIOUSLY CONNECTING TO YOUR SPARK.
- I know from personal experience the season stress that comes with several programs at once in March , little in June and then crazy again in October.Everyone handles this differently – the important thing here is that stress has a direct effect on the adrenal glands in our body, it causes an increase in cortisol, it can deplete our body of vitamin D, B and calcium if not addressed.While we all know stress, we again, must consciously have strategies to manage this that are more than just having a beer after work.
- I know was very conscious about meeting this need with the food and workshops planned for today
- Did you know that we have 60,000 thoughts a day and they are usually the samae 60,000 thoughts from the day before etc …… You see often we have the same story going round and round our heads, and each time we tell the story, we embellish it a little more where it gets bigger, more exciting, more dramatic etc.I think we all know someone who has a tendency to catastrophise with comments like “you don’t understand how bad it is”, or generalizes with comments like “That always happens to me”, “ I never get anything” etc. By living in the present, we consciously stop this loop from reoccurring.Everyone stand up, close your eyes and imagine that you about to go through a big body scanning machine, expect it s not a machine aits actually just your inner eyes looking at your own body.Start from your toes and really feel your toes connect with the floor, move up etc…….Open your eyes
- So, In a nutshell, happiness is a CHOICE. In Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book “The How of Happiness” she explains how studies show that 50% of individual differences in happiness are determined by genes, 10% by life circumstances, and 40% by our intentional activities.( pp. 20-22 ). In this workshop, we will be giving you some tools to help support that 40%of intentional activities. Through these activities you will be able to support your own wellbeing.
- As we know, all theory remain theory until we ground it in an experience.Using the template in your NOTES, answer each of the 7 questions to create a 7 step strategy for connecting to your spark and supporting your wellbeing for TODAY. I encourage you to do this again for setting your intention for the coming month, but in the mean time, practice setting your intention for today – it can be as deep or superficial as you choose.On a scale of 1- 10 how connected to your inner spark are you right now?
- In a nutshell, we each have a spark...... You choose how much it shinesThe one thing you can be sure of is, if you support others light they will inturn support yours, if you dull others light .....We either feed each others spark or we put it out? This is where relationships are important