IPPA WC 2023
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Registration
Full Day Workshop - With Nature in Mind: The Role of Nature in Psychological Well-Being & Resiliency - an experiential exploration
Chair: Holli-Anne Passmore
Science for Scientists Day: Advancing the Science of Positive Psychology
Chair: Lara Aknin
Full Day Workshop - Strengths Based Resilience: Culturally Nuanced Skills for Educators and Clinicians
Chair: Tayyab Rashid
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Full Day Workshop - Character Strengths: The Latest Science, the Best Interventions, and How Practitioners and Leaders Can Take Action Now!
Chair: Ryan Niemiec
Full Day Workshop - Advancing positive psychological practice
Chair: Aaron Jarden
Full Day Workshop - Bio-Dash: Harmonizing mind and body using evidence-based wellbeing strategies, personalised biodata and technology-enhanced training
Science
Chair: Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Half Day Morning Workshop - New Developments in Positive Psychology Coaching
Practice
Half Day Morning Workshop - The Human Gap: What we know and what we need to do to address the world's crises
Chair: Rick Hanson
Half Day Morning Workshop - Coming to terms with death: How meaning can help us
Chair: Michael Steger
Half Day Afternoon Workshop - Meaning in good times and bad: Where the better living actually happens
Chair: Maria Sirois
Half Day Afternoon Workshop - Practical Strategies for a Psychologically Healthy and Safe Workplace
Chair: Mary Ann Baynton
Half Day Afternoon Workshop - How to Write (Many) Journal Articles and Books
Chair: Roy Baumeister
Half Day Afternoon Workshop - The Strong Heart: Combining Kindness and Assertiveness in Important Relationships
Chair: Rick Hanson
Welcome Address
Chair: James Pawelski
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Plenary Panel - World Happiness Report 2023: Latest global research on the power of the positive to maintain resilience in times of crisis
Chair: Meike Bartels
Welcome Orientation
Welcome Reception
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Guided Run led by Lululemon
Registration
Making Meaning with Character Strengths led by Jillian Coppley
Plenary Panel - Flourishing and the Global Flourishing Study
Chair: Tyler VanderWeele
IPPA Past President's Symposium - Positive Psychological Processes in Societal Contexts: Incorporating Structural Inequities and Culture in Studies of Social Connectedness and Physical Health
Chair: Barbara Fredrickson
Symposium - The mechanisms and benefits of flow in education, mental health, teamwork, and individual performance
Chair: Orin Davis
Symposium - The PRISM Powers: Thriving at Work in Uncertainty
Chair: Scott Riddell
Podium - Enacting a Eudaimonic Vision and Meaningful Work
Chair: Michael Steger
Keynote - Permission to Flourish: A week-long wellness retreat for Ukrainian refugees based on the PERMA + theory of well-being
Chair: Margarita Tarragona
Symposium - Making positive psychology better
Chair: Aaron Jarden
Symposium - Character strengths use and development at work: New interventions and perspectives
Chair: Philippe Dubreuil
Positive Organizational Intervention Challenge (POIC)
Chair: Vicki Cabrera
Symposium - Courageous Leadership and Storytelling as a Gateway to Mental Health and Well-Being: Empowering Law Students as Healthy Future Leaders
Chair: Pearlette Ramos
Podium - Gratitude and Humility as Buffers of Wellbeing
Chair: Mark Rye
Podium - Role of Positive Psychology in Political Engineering, World Beliefs and in Lifestyle Medicine
Chair: Jer Clifton
Apply - Creating the World We Want to Live in & Careers in the VUCA World
Chair: Clive Leach
Morning Tea Break
Keynote: Arts Engagement as a Social Determinant of Health: What is the Evidence?
Chair: James Pawelski
Keynote - Positive Provocation: A model for positive change
Chair: Tayyab Rashid
Podium - Role of Meaning in Moderating Racial Differences and Fostering Growth in Black Community
Chair: Elliot Friedman
Symposium - Understanding the dynamics of the meaning-making process in everyday life: contributions from intensive longitudinal studies
Chair: Michela Zambelli
Keynote: Conversation, relationships and human flourishing
Chair: Leona Brandwene
Symposium - Applied Positive Psychology for the Masses: Increasing access to Research-Based Resources
Chair: Jared Warren
Health & Wellbeing Division Award Session
Chair: Joel Milam
Podium - Mindfulness, Purpose, Coherence and Belonging
Chair: Michael Steger
Podium - A Positive Psychology based Autism Intervention, Effective Positive Psychology Practice from Messy Theories, Integrating Positive Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice, Postnatal Thriving and A Wellbeing Course for Gender Equality
Chair: Sherri Fisher
Positive Psychology Interventions for Firecare, Cocare and Emcare
Chair: Louise Giaume
Apply - Improving Wellbeing in Schools and Exploring Core Values
Chair: Jamie McCreary
Keynote - A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning
Chair: Jamie Shapiro
Symposium - Group coaching impact: Evidence from across the world
Chair: Stephanie McCarthy
Symposium - Strengths-Based Resilience: A Cross-cultural Approach to Foster Resilience Among Communities Experiencing Adversity & Trauma
Chair: Tayyab Rashid
Symposium - Practicing the Positive Humanities: How Music and Theater Interventions Can Bolster Confidence, Connection, and Subjective Well-Being
Chair: Shannon Polly
IPPA Fellows Series - Psychological well-being and physical health in the context of our rapidly aging world
Chair: Judith Moskowitz
Podium - Positive Psychology: from Biggest Mistakes to Inspirational Bullshit and Map of 155 Measures of Positive Mental Health
Chair: Aaron Jarden
Positive Clinical Division Case Presentations
Chair: Phoebe Atkinson
Podium - Relations: From Disclosure of Personal Growth to Dyadic Actualization
Chair: Cagla Sanri
Podium - Authenticity in Action, Wellbeing Training and Curriculum for Early Education, Teacher Wellbeing and Resilient Post-secondary Student Leaders
Chair: Vinesh Sukumaran
Ignite - Education & Wellbeing
Chair: Katie Shillington
Apply - Positive Health Coaching and Resilience following Operating Room Crises
Chair: Christian van Nieuwerburgh
Lunch Break
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IPPA Past President's Symposium - Flow as a key resource for individual and societal development
Chair: Antonella Delle Fave
Symposium - Positive higher education: Challenges and opportunities
Chair: Grace Zhao
IPPA Fellows Series - What Have We Learned About Building Blocks of Well-Being & Positive Functioning?: Empirical Findings and Practical Evidence-Based Applications
Chair: Ilona Boniwell
Symposium - New Research on the Cultivation, Causes, and Consequences of Gratitude
Chair: Philip Watkins
Symposium - Resilience, Growth and Purpose instead of Silence and Submission: Cross-cultural Narratives of Posttraumatic Growth of Three Muslim Women
Chair: Tayyab Rashid
Podium - Cross-cultural Perspective on Optimism, Character Strengths, Mattering and Post-traumatic Growth
Chair: Tahira Mubashar
Podium - Digital Health Platform, Teacher Wellbeing and Role of Hope in Burnout
Chair: Christopher Freeze
Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice: Positive Psychology’s Best-Kept Secret?
Chair: Ryan Niemiec
Podium - Gratitude, Post-traumatic Growth and Organizational Citizenship
Chair: Wenceslao Unanue
Podium - Psychedelics and Coaching, and Teacher Resilience
Chair: Lauren Thompson
Ignite - Meaning, Purpose & Nature
Chair: Holli-Anne Passmore
Apply - Friendship Garden of Migrant Women and What is Friendship Fire?
Chair: Tyson Greenwood
Panel - Top Scientists in the Journal of Positive Psychology: ‘Ask Me Anything’
Chair: Scott Riddell
Podium - Character Strengths and Goals, Rebuilding Wellbeing, Flourishing, Connection and Belonging
Chair: Stephanie McCarthy
Symposium - Well-Being, Vitality, & Positive Functioning at Work: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Advances
Chair: Jamie Shapiro
SIPPA Mentor-Mentee Meet and Greet
Chair: Patricia Groß
Podium - Gratitude and Family Functioning, Positive Parenting, and Positive Interventions in Primary Schools
Chair: Hali Kil
Podium - Wellbeing: Prosocial Behaviour, Character Strengths, PERMA, Big Five and Forgiveness
Chair: Andy Skidmore
Podium - Positive Psychology Interventions in Schools and Strengths-based Student Coaching
Chair: Dana Fulwiler Volk
Podium - Positive Psychology: Cultural Adaptation to Cultural Responsiveness
Chair: Naghmeh Taghva
Ignite - Resilience
Chair: Rosie Hancock
Apply - What Sabotages Your Relationship and Wellbeing at Breakfast
Chair: James Pawelski
Afternoon Tea & Poster Session 1
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Yoga led by Lululemon
Qi Gong led by Lisa Barker
Plenary Panel - Compassion: Neurobiology, Applications, and Global Implications
Chair: Rick Hanson
Congress Soiree
Guided Run led by Lululemon
Registration
Meditation & hopeful gratitude led by Dan Tomasulo
Plenary Panel - Connecting Nature to Wellbeing
Chairs: John Zelenski & Holli-Anne Passmore
Plenary Panel - Communicating Positive Psychology to Massive Audiences: What Works?
Chair: Jason Marsh
IPPA Past President's Symposium - Positive Psychology for kids and Teens: Building strength, resilience and empathy at an important life stage
Chair: Lea Waters
Keynote: Cultivating Happiness From trauma to community building at scale
Chair: Tayyab Rashid
Panel - Life Stories in the Formation of Purpose, Gratitude, and Positive Identity
Chair: Andrew Soren
Symposium - Principles to Practice: Teachers Training Program from India
Chair: Sanjeev P. Sahni
Symposium - Exploring new perspectives on wellbeing in the Gallup World Poll
Chair: Tim Lomas
Symposium - Where (the heck) do primal world beliefs come from?
Chair: Jer Clifton
Podium - Personal Growth, Intention-Action Gap, Ecological Momentary Assessment and Measuring Grit
Chair: Meike Bartels
Podium - Positive Psychology in Organizations, Psychological Safety, Job Performance and well-being, and Investment Decisions
Chair: Rebecca Jarden
Podium - Racial Trauma, Novel Wellbeing Intervention, and PPI for Open Heart Surgery
Chair: Matthew Iasiello
Apply - Manifesting Meaning and Seasons of Meaning
Chair: Michael Steger
Apply - Sustainable Leadership and a Strength-based Alternative to Tradition Job Description
Chair: Rob Baker
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Morning Tea Break
IPPA Past President's Symposium - Emerging Topics in Positive Psychological Interventions
Chair: Judith Moskowitz
Symposium - Bring Light to the Dark: Positive Psychology Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Chair: Jan Stanley
Keynote - Embodied positive psychology
Chair: Tayyab Rashid
Discussion Hour - Future Directions for Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Programs Around the World
Chairs: James Pawelski & Christian van Nieuwerburgh
IPPA Positive Education Symposium
Chair: Maggie Zhao
VIA Character Strengths - The Latest Science and Practice
Chair: Ryan Niemiec
Keynote - The Dynamics of Well-Being in Daily Life: A Multilevel Perspective
Chair: Daniel Shek
Health & Wellbeing Division "Data Extravaganza"
Chair: Joel Milam
Podium - Meaning and Purpose from Transdisciplinary Perspective, Promoting Gratitude and Applied Positive Psychology in Portugal
Chair: Giacomo Bono
Apply - Survival Through Strength-based Storytelling and Digital Wellbeing for LGBTQ+ Teens
Chair: Rachel Colla
Podium - Active-Constructive Responding, Positive Emotions: 39 years later, and Protective Factors for Suicidal Behaviour
Chair: Belinda Merkle
Symposium - 10 years later: Where are we on the journey to psychologically healthy and safe workplaces?
Chair: Mary Ann Baynton
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Symposium - The sense of meaning in education: Empirical evidence and their practical implications
Chair: Shiri Lavy
Conversation Hour with Martin Seligman: Everything you wanted to know about Positive Psychology but were afraid to ask
Chair: Leona Brandwene
Symposium - Innovation in Positive Educational Interventions across Cultures
Chair: Daniel Shek
IPPA Fellows Series: How can positive psychology empower a nation? & Tackling the climate crisis from a place of positivity
Chair: John Zelenski
Podium - Applications of Positive Psychology and Character Strengths in Higher Education
Chair: Anna Belykh
Podium - Resilient, Positive and Happy Leaders
Chair: Markus Ebner
Podium - Wellbeing: Golden Threads and Elements and its Bibliometric Review, and Optimistic Forecasting of Life Satisfaction
Chair: Joline Guitard
Podium - Positive Psychology in Palliative Care, Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Soaringwords, Self-care and Low Consumption Lifestyle
Chair: Suzy Green
Apply - Multitarget and Multicomponent Positive Psychology Intervention and Practical Steps to Agency
Chair: Shannon Suldo
Ignite - The Journey of Life
Chair: Carmel Proctor
Lunch Break
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Education Division Meeting
Health & Wellbeing Division Meeting
Work & Organisations Division Meeting
Positive Clinical Division Meeting
Keynote - First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum (FNMWC) Framework
Chair: Andrew Soren
Symposium - The Positive Humanities: Examining the Role of Arts and Culture in Human Flourishing
Chair: James Pawelski
Symposium - Integrating Positive Psychology Coaching and Coaching Psychology: The Past, Present, and Future of these Coaching Approaches
Chair: Suzy Green
Symposium - Using a positive approach to suicide prevention: The Sources of Strength model and its application in college settings
Chair: Kelly Chang
IPPA Fellows Series - Measuring the Well-being of Populations Using Social Media: Three Generations of Technology
Chair: Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Podium - Psychedelics, Positive Humanities and Well-being buffering Mortality
Chair: Max Genecov
Podium - Culture-based Positive Education, Play-based Positive Interventions, Positive Youth Development, Happiness and Developmental Disabilities
Chair: Lori Dotson
Podium - Teaching Positive Psychology Online, Statistical Case Study of Wellbeing, Marital Strengths in Military Couples, REVAMPing PERMA
Chair: Lisle Baker
Podium - Finding Awe and Inspiration, Resilience, Flourishing Leadership, Wellbeing and Socio-economic Gaps, and Competitive Sports Teams
Chair: Jodi Burns
Apply - Experiencing Strengths and A Gendered Perspective on Post-traumatic Growth
Chair: Markus Ebner
Podium - Wellbeing and Early Education, Teacher and Professor Wellbeing
Chair: Peter Malinowski
IPPA President's Symposium - What are the implications of genetically informative research for wellbeing prevention and interventions strategies?
Chair: Meike Bartels
Keynote - Positive psychology research and interventions in the African context: Advances, challenges, and future directions
Chair: Steve Leventhal
IPPA Fellows Series - Transforming Teaching: Wellbeing and Professional Practice
Chair: Rosalinda Ballesteros
Keynote - Lessons from the CovSocial Project: How to reduce mental health problems exacerbated by the Covid19 pandemic through app-based mindfulness or socio-emotional dyadic online trainings
Chair: Judith Moskowitz
Symposium - Global Soaringwords' SOARING into Strength Positive Health Initiative to Impact Community Well-Being
Chair: Lisa Buksbaum
Symposium - Appreciating and advancing the intellectual contributions of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Chair: Jeanne Nakamura
Spirituality & Meaning Division Session - Learn, Meditate, and Mingle: Engaged Spirituality and Practical Meaning
Chair: Ryan Niemiec
Podium - Positive Psychology and e-Health, Resilient Families, and Building Capacity of Families with Children with Disability, and Gratitude and Generosity
Chair: Annick Janson
Podium - Adolescent Wellbeing in Singapore, Adolescent Flourishing and Positive Youth Development Program
Chair: Daniel Shek
Apply - Positive Psychology for Women and Positive CBT
Chair: Dalia Alony
Ignite - Work & Organizations
Chair: Andrea Svicher
Afternoon Tea & Poster Session 2
Yoga led by Lululemon
Qi Gong led by Lisa Barker
Award Ceremony
Plenary Panel - New Directions in Understanding Agency
University of Pennsylvania MAPP Cocktail Hour
The PP Interventions Party! Activate Somatic Learning & Joy
Guided Run led by Lululemon
Registration
Gentle Mindful Yoga for Maya Rajah
Plenary Panel - Youth Mental Health, Positive Psychology, and Climate Change: A Call to Action
Chair: Steve Leventhal
Keynote - Growth 2.0: Using Positive Neuroplasticity to Build Lasting Inner Strengths
Chair: Meike Bartels
Symposium - Hope across Cultures - Interdisciplinary Foundations and Empirical Findings from the International Hope-Barometer Research Network
Chair: Andreas Krafft
Symposium - Revolutionising positive psychology approaches: tangibility, personalisation, gamification and portability
Chair: Sarah Lewis
Symposium - What matters to resilience building?
Chair: Clara Y.W. TO
Symposium - Well-being and quality of life of teachers and students in the school environment
Chair: Marie Oger
Podium - Strech a Novel Wellbeing Intervention, Increasing Compassion, and Gratitude Intervention to foster Resilience
Chair: Pninit Russo-Netzer
Apply - Cultural Adaptation of Wellbeing Program and Implementation Positive Education in Hong Kong School Community
Chair: Jacqui Francis
Morning Tea Break
Plenary Panel - Understanding Unfolding Lives: The Integrative Science of MIDUS
Chair: Carol Ryff