Asian American Pacific Islander Month DDSD 2024.pptx
Michael carr gregg
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2012 conference
Only 20% of
adults report
The secrets of a happy, healthy Are you a stressed are
they
resilient staff flourishing
Business Manager?
(Keyes 2002)
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
Child and Adolescent Psychologist
FLOURISHING = PERMA
• positive emotion
• engagement
The opposite of a flourishing
organization is a withering
• relationships
organization.
• meaning
• accomplishment
Research has shown:
— a clear link between staff mental health and
What about staff mental student mental health and wellbeing
health?
— the importance of having functional adults in
schools as role models and the key adult for many
students
— the enormous impact on classroom learning of
individual teachers and their feelings of self-
confidence and efficacy.
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Males comprised — the highest age-specific suicide rate for
males in 2010 was observed in
approximately 77% of suicide deaths
for 2010 (1,816 deaths compared to 40-44
the
33% females 545 deaths for females).
suicide deaths in 2009 (4.9 per 100,000).
year age group (27.7 per
100,000), with the lowest in the 15-19 age
group (11.4 per 100,000).
The Eggs in a Basket Test 30 Eggs
1 egg = 1 unit of your life’s energy
What many in Education
Don’t do this! tell me is their life!
SELF FAMILY WORK SELF FAMILY WORK
10 10 10 5 10 15
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Sign of good psychological health !
How do we put 15 eggs in
our own basket and make
SELF FAMILY WORK our organisation flourish?
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So what are the secrets of
positive psychology that
help us flourish?
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Life Laws I have found
helpful
— Life is not Fair
— Random and chaos happens in the universe
— Everyone’s got something going on - Some Essential life advice 1
peoples’ issues are more visible than others, but
everyone, it turns out, is dealing with something.
— Don’t worry about dying - No need to waste your
next breath waiting for the last one. When it’s your
time, it’ll be your time. In the meantime, live.
8 secrets of happiness
— Write down once a day 3
or 4 things for which you
are currently thankful
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PROFESSOR
SElIGMAN
I phone app
Essential life advice 2
Volunteering Information Service on
8327 8500 for a list of organisations
that frequently engage young
volunteers.
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Essential life advice 3
“...There is nothing either
good or bad - but thinking
makes it so”
Hamlet (Act II - Sc. II)
William Shakespeare
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My list of how I came to
think about it differently
1. Died quickly – no suffering
2. Died in Africa a country he loved
3. Died doing what he loved
4. He had the pleasure of having me as a brother
5. His memory will live on in his two boys
Essential life advice 4
Essential life advice 5
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• Thank a mentor - if there is someone
whom you owe a debt of gratitude for
guiding you at one of life's crossroads
express your appreciation in detail and in
person.
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Savouring
Savouring
Essential life advice 6
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Essential life advice 7
— For millions of years our brains thrived under
constant motion
— If we sat around for even a few minutes we could
become someone’s lunch
— We walked up to 19.3 kilometres a day
— Cars, couches and cubicles have replaced walking
In 18 studies of older adults,
exercise toand problem-solving specific
ability selectively attend to
groups outperformed
stimuli ability
detection, search and attentional tasks.
sedentary groups every time
Colcombe, S and Kramer, AF (2003), Fitness effects on the cognitive function of older Colcombe, S and Kramer, AF (2003), Fitness effects on the cognitive function of older
adults: a meta-analytic study , Psych Sci 14: 125 - 130 adults: a meta-analytic study , Psych Sci 14: 125 - 130
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Among 27 yo, a 12 week exercise
ability to manipulate or transform visual
program showed what happens to brain
and spatial information
function when you start and stop
Colcombe, S and Kramer, AF (2003), Fitness effects on the cognitive function of older Harada, T. et al (2004) Jogging improved performance of a behavioral branching task:
adults: a meta-analytic study , Psych Sci 14: 125 - 130 implications for prefrontal activation Neuroscience Research 49: 325 - 337
Aerobic or strength better The best way to prevent
for brain? dementia
Kramer, AF et al (1999) Aging, fitness and neurocognitive function Nature 400: 418 - 419 Rovio, S. et al (2005) Leisure-time physical activity at midlife and the risk of dementia
and Alzheimer's disease Lancet Neurology 4: 705 - 711
Nine secrets of
a good night’s
sleep"
1. Dim lights/
Implement a
routine
2. Don’t exercise
before bed
3. Cool down
4. Avoid cat naps
5. Minimise
anxiety
6. Avoid
stimulants.
7. Warm & soothing
drinks
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Essential life advice 8
There are many different ways of
finding meaning in our lives.
— through experiences (often difficult ones)
Where do we find 'meaning and
— deep reflection
purpose'? It might be our
religious faith, being part of a — others from loving and being loved
political or environmental — others just from the way they choose to
movement or doing so approach other people and the world
meaningful that it makes a around.
difference.
Great EFFORT TO FIND MEANING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA5C-1N_r1w&feature=plcp
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Raffles Hotel, Singapore
Essential life advice 12 The
importance
of positive
cognitions
Self Talk
Thinking errors
You are — are irrational patterns of thinking that cause you to
constantly feel bad, and sometimes to act in self-defeating ways.
— Black-and-white thinking
thinking about — Filtering
and interpreting — Personalising
the situations — Mind-reading
— Catastrophising
you find — Overgeneralising
themselves in.
— 'Can't standitis’
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Parenting
Do you get angry, irritated and
annoyed by one or more parent There is no
from time to Time?
such thing as a
perfect parent
Teach them to recognise and
challenge thinking errors
— Black-and-white thinking - Look for shades of
grey
— Filtering – consider the whole picture
— Personalising – it’s not always about you
— Mind-reading - Don't assume that you know
what others are thinking
— Catastrophising – Decatastrophise
— 'Can't standitis’ - Accept that frustration is a
normal part of life, and that we can't always
get what we want
Action No secrets of happiness
8 1
— Write down once a day 3
or 4 things for which you
are currently thankful
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Action No 2 Practice acts of
kindness
these should be both systematic
and random
Action No 33
Action No Savou
r life's
joys
Savouring
— Pay close attention to momentary pleasures
and wonders.
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Savouring
Action No 4
—
— Invest
time and
energy
in
family
and
friends
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Action No 5
—
— Develop strategies to cope
with stress and hardships -
positive self talk
Action No 6
Take care of your body –
sleep, exercise, stretching
Action No 7 Action No 8
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• Thank a mentor - if there is someone whom you
owe a debt of gratitude for guiding you at one of
life's crossroads express your appreciation in — Learn to forgive - let go of anger
detail and in person. and resentment by writing a
letter of forgiveness to a person who has hurt
or wronged you..
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Lord Richard Leyard
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living living
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