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Happy the Movie
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Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution?
Roko Belic, director of the Academy Award® nominated “Genghis Blues” now brings us HAPPY, a film that sets out to answer these questions and more. Taking us from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the villages of Okinawa, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion.
I am
I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better?
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Movie to promote character strengths through discussion: From the book Positive Psychology at the Movies.
Philosophy Guide to happiness playlist
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VIDEO LECTURES BY LEADING SCHOLARS
Christopher Peterson
What makes life worth living (Part 1), 2011
What makes life worth living (Part 2), 2011
Martin E.P. Seligman
TED talk: The new era of Positive Psychology, 2004
Interview on Positive Psychology, 2009
Google talk: Positive Psychology, well being, and interventions, 2010
Aspen Ideas Festival: Flourishing and Public Policy, 2011
On BBC: Positive Psychology and PERMA, 2011
Flourishing: a new understanding of well being, 2012
Science of well being conference, 2012
On ABC (Australia): Toward a science of human flourishing, with Dalai Lama, 2012
On well being and happiness, 2013
Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy with Martin Seligman Ph.D. and Randall C Wyatt Ph.D.
Angela Duckworth
TED talk: The key to success? Grit, 2013
Profile of Angela Duckworth, 2013 MacArthur Fellow
AP Annual Conference: True grit, 2013
The psychology of achievement, 2014
Interview: Grit and perserverance in development psychology, 2013
TED talk: True grit: Can perseverance be taught? 2009
Grit, self-control, and achievement, 2012
Karen Reivich
On Positive education and well being, 2012
Tal Ben-Shahar
Barry Schwartz
TED talk: Our loss of wisdom, 2009
TED talk: Using our practical wisdom, 2010
TED talk: The paradox of choice, 2005
TED talk: Why justice isn’t enough, 2012
Google talk: Practical wisdom, 2011
Google talk: Why more is less, 2012
Wharton talk: Practical wisdom, 2012
Doing the right thing for the right reason: Why incentives are no substitute for character, 2012
Love, empathy, wisdom, and justice, 2014
Ed Diener
A recipe for happiness (short version), 2014
A recipe for happiness (long version), 2014
The new science of happiness, 2013
On being an effective teacher, 2012
On happiness and character strengths, 2011
What you need to be happy, 2010
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Living in flow, the secret of happiness, 2014
TED talk: What makes a good life, 2011
TED talk: Flow, the secret of happiness, 2004
Flow, creativity, and the evolving self, 2010
Jonathan Haidt
The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion, 2013
Three stories about capitalism, 2014
TED talk: How common threats can make common political ground, 2013
TED talk: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives, 2008
TED talk: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence, 2012
Barbara Fredrickson
Love: a new lens on the science of thriving, 2012
The science of compassion, 2012
Be positive, not productive, 2011
Positive emotions open our mind, 2011
Positive emotions transform us, 2011
A blueprint for character development, 2010
Using positivity to bounce back from inevitable setbacks, 2010
Roy Baumeister
Self-control as the greatest human strength, 2014
The science of willpower, 2012
Willpower and self-control in everyday life, 2012
How rejection affects people, 2012
Understanding self-control and the limits of willpower, 2012
Shane Lopez
Making hope happen: Create the future you want for yourself and others, 2013
Robert Emmons
How gratitude heals, energizes, and changes lives, 2014
The science of gratitude, 2013
Graced gratitude and disgraced ingratitude, 2014
Gratitude as the lynchpin between adversity and delight, 2013
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The science of happiness, 2014
The science and practice of happiness across the lifespan, 2014
The myths of happiness (Part 1), 2013
The myths of happiness (Part 2), 2013
The how of happiness on Good Morning America, 2008
Happiness for a lifetime, 2010
Google talk: The how of happiness, 2008
Carol Dweck
The power of believing that you can improve, 2014
Dacher Keltner
What indicates a moral decline in the U.S., 2012
Touch and the spread of goodness, 2010
The evolutionary roots of compassion, 2012
Laura King
Your life is probably pretty meaningful, 2014
Laurence Steinberg
Adolescence as an age of opportunity, 2014
Lessons from the new science of adolecence, 2014
Are millenials lazy, self-absorbed and needy?, 2014
The new science of adolescence: Understanding risky behavior, 2013
George Vaillant
TED talk: From emotionally crippled to loving personality, 2014
The importance of relationships to health. resilience, and aging, 2014
Amy Wrzesniewski
Job crafting to create meaning, 2014
Prospective Psychology
Chandra Sriipada on the future brain, 2014
Roy Baumeister on free will and the future, 2014
Martin Seligman on creativity and aging, 2014
Other Speakers
Examplars and paragons of positive psychology leaders, 2011
PPC Speaker Series 2011: