哈佛《幸福课》PPT

Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Psychology 1504,Positive Psychology,Bridging Ivory Tower and Main Street,The objective of positive psychology is to unite the rigor of academic research with the accessibility of the self-help movement.,House keeping,Feedback or questions,In case of an emergency,well take a PP-break,Powerpoints,and videotape on website,Active note-taking,Regular Time-Ins,“Words are not the sole medium of exchange in teaching and learningwe educate with silence as well.Silence gives us a chance to reflect on what we have said and heard In authentic education,silence is treated as a trustworthy matrix for the inner work students must do,a medium for learning of the deepest sort.”,The Road to Positive Psychology,Humanistic Psychology(50s),The Third Force,Reaction to behaviorism(First Force),Reaction to psychoanalysis(Second Force),Lacked rigorous methodology,Abraham,Maslow,(1908-1970),Karen,Horney,(1885-1952),Meet the Grandparents,Aaron,Antonovsky,(1923-1994),Meet the Parents,Martin Seligman,Ellen Langer,Philip Stone,Meet 1504,It is not merely about information,It is also about transformation,Covering less;uncovering more,“In pursuit of knowledge,every day something is acquired;in pursuit of wisdom,every day something is dropped.”,Lao Tzu,“The soul grows by subtraction,not addition.”,Thoreau,In Search of“WOW”,There is no“WOW”!,Making common sense more common,Information is not enough,“What is wrong is not the great discoveries of scienceinformation is always better than ignorance,no matter what information or what ignorance.What is wrong is the belief behind the information,the belief that information will change the world.It wont.”,Archibald,MaCleish,Information is not enough,“Humanistic philosophy offers a new conception of learning,of teaching,and of education.Stated simply,such a concept holds that the function of education,the goal of educationthe human goal,the humanistic goal,the goal so far as human beings are concernedis ultimately the self-actualization of a person,the becoming fully human,the development of the fullest height that the human species can stand up to or that the particular individual can come to.In a less technical way,it is helping the person to become the best that he is able to become.”,Abraham,Maslow,It is not about providing definitive answers concerning the good life,It is about identifying the right questions,Education is the,quest,for information and transformation,and therefore must begin with a,question,.,“The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.”,Peter,Drucker,“The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”,Bishop Creighton,The Question of Questions,How can we help ourselves and othersindividuals,communities,and societybecome happier?,It is not a survey of positive psychology,It is a selective exploration of the question of questions.,Eclectic,Cross cultural psychology,“We were a little surprised by the Dalai Lamas seeming resistance to the notion of cultural differences.”,Daniel,Goleman,Studying Ourselves(as well),“What is most personal is most general.”,Carl Rogers,“We must remember that knowledge of ones own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”,Abraham,Maslow,“There is one thing,and only one in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation.That one thing is ourselves.We have,so to speak,inside information;we are in the know.”,CS Lewis,It is not English 10a or Math 55,It is about rigorous fun,“I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity,but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”,Oliver Wendell Holmes,A different kind of effort,“On Monday,dont tell me how great it was;tell me what youre doing differently.”Peter,Drucker,Final Project,20-30 minute Presentation,Any topic within positive psychology,Written text(10-15 pages double spaced),Slides(word or,powerpoints,),Include:,Reference to research,Optional:stories,film clips,exercises,etc,Why a presentation?,Teaching as learning,Spread goodness,Why Positive Psychology?,Anger:5,584,Anxiety:41,416,Depression:54,040,Psychological Abstracts(1967-2000),Joy:415,Happiness:1,710,Life satisfaction:2,582,Ratio:21/,1,Focusing on What Doesnt Work,“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side;it has revealed to us much about mans shortcomings,his illnesses,his sins,but little about his potentialities,his virtues,his achievable aspirations,or his psychological height.It is as if psychology had voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction,and that the darker,meaner half.”,Abraham,Maslow,Psychology Needs Help,21/1 ratio is unhealthy,but it reflects reality,depression 10 times higher tod