Greater Good in Action – Science Based Tools for Building Resilience
by John McCann B.Comm M.OrgPsych MAPS FAIM
I have recently discovered some wonderful tools to help you build resilience in your life.
Greater Good in Action – Science-based Practices for a Meaningful Life http://ggia.berkeley.edu
– excellent resource of practices you can build including
- Awe
- Compassion
- Connection
- Empathy
- Forgiveness
- Gratitude
- Happiness
- Kindness
- Mindfulness
- Optimism
- Resilience to Stress
- Self-Compassion
Greater Good – The Science of a Meaningful Life at the Berkeley University of California http://greatergood.berkeley.edu
With sections on Family and Couples, Education, Work and Career, Mind and Body, Big Ideas
Core Themes of
- Gratitude
- Altruism
- Compassion
- Empathy
- Forgiveness
- Happiness
- Mindfulness
And a newsletter you can subscribe to and multiple blog articles you may like to read.
HopeLab http://www.hopelab.org/about-us/
The Backstory
In the late 1980s, HopeLab founder Pam Omidyar spent her days as a research assistant in an immunology lab. At night, after hours watching malignant cancer cells multiply under a microscope, she unwound by playing video games with her husband, Pierre Omidyar, the software engineer who went on to found eBay. As a scientist and game enthusiast, Pam began to wonder if giving young cancer patients a chance to blast their cancer in a video game might actually improve their health. In 2001, Pam founded HopeLab to develop and test this concept, which led to their first product, Re-Mission.
The Big Idea
Today they’re working to harness the power and appeal of technology to improve human health and well-being. Re-Mission demonstrated that specially designed technology can be both fun and effective in driving positive health behavior. Zamzee, another product developed at HopeLab, deepened their understanding of how to motivate and sustain healthy behaviour change. Their work now focuses on the research and development of new social technologies to promote human resilience and improve both psychological and biological health and well-being.
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These links are shared to help you become happier, more resilient, increase your well-being, flourish and be who you desperately want to be.