Resources
Please find links below that may be of use.
International Positive Education Network (IPEN)
The aim the International Positive Education Network (IPEN) is to bring together teachers, parents, academics, students schools, colleges, universities, charities, companies and governments to promote positive education. There goals are to support collaboration, change and education practice and reform government policy.
Centre of Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP)
From researcher, author, and positive psychologist, Alex Linley, Capp are world leaders in strengths development and building strengths-based organisations - including Realise2, Capp’s online Strengths Assessment Tool.
VIA Institute on Character
The VIA Institute on Character, a non-profit organisation, advances the science and practice of character development.
Authentic Happiness
www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu
The work of Dr. Martin Seligman (founder of Positive Psychology), this is an excellent site to find surveys measuring happiness. In addition to the three VIA Surveys, the site offers 14 other surveys.
Positive Psychology Center
The Positive Psychology Center promotes research, training, education, and the dissemination of Positive Psychology.
Black Dog Institute
The Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit, educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility offering specialist expertise in depression and bipolar disorder.
Beyond Blue
Beyondblue is a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.
Australian Psychological Society (APS)
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is the largest professional association for psychologists in Australia , representing nearly 19,000 members.
Society for Coaching Psychology (SCP)
www.societyforcoachingpsychology.net
SCP is an international professional membership body established to further the discipline and profession of coaching psychology.
Wellbeing Australia
Wellbeing Australia is a not-for-profit network of people and organisations committed to developing the healthy relationships that lead to individual and community wellbeing, especially in education.
positive schools
The Positive Schools Initiative consists of three key domains – The Positive Times online magazine (www.positivetimes.com.au), The Positive Teacher of the Year and The Positive Schools Conference series.
The Positive Schools Initiative is a combined Australian and UK initiative proudly supported by The University of Western Australia Faculty of Education, The University of Cambridge Wellbeing Institute, Geelong Grammar School Institute of Positive Education and The Berry Street Childhood Institute among others.
international positive psychology association
IPPA has several related missions:
- To promote the science of positive psychology and its research-based applications.
- To facilitate collaboration among researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners of positive psychology around the world and across academic disciplines.
- To share the findings of positive psychology with the broadest possible audience.
In all of these endeavors, we want to create rigorous standards for positive psychology, so that the field always represents the very best levels of current knowledge.