2nd Positive Psychology in Practice Conference

Co-founder, Ondernemen met ballen, Netherlands

Chantal is Chief activation officer at “Ondernemen met ballen”. She creates challenging experiences to enhance energy and motivation in a person and system to overcome obstacles and turn ideas into action. Knowing how to change is not enough you also have to act upon this knowledge. She helps governments, healthcare companies and corporates to put theories of psychology, business and change management into practice, by creating games, interventions, communities and programs.

Director CHAP Happiness Institute. International speaker, writer and consultant on happiness and professional well-being, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Patrick van Hees is an international speaker, writer and consultant on happiness. As founder of the CHAP Happiness Institute, Patrick is praised for his practical translations of evidence based research on professional well-being to working and private life, and connecting scientific insights from neuroscience and positive psychology to both the CEO and the man-in-the-street.

Patrick uses humour, real-life examples and a personal touch to deliver his message of inspiration. Happy professionals are more productive, creative and cooperative. Patrick explains how this works and how to maximise these effects. He has published three books on happiness, has been organising events and masterclasses on the subject of management and happiness in Cambridge (UK) for the last eighteen years and usually is one of the top rated speakers at (national and international) seminars.

Program Designer - Facilitator | Guiding organisational change & enabling change agents Amsterdam, Netherlands

Transformational Leadership & Mediation

Titia is a certified Mediator, Coach and Leadership Expert with over 20 years experience in mediation and conflict resolution. Titia is the founder of Winning Leadership Strategies, a company focused on helping leaders create profitable winning teams by improving their leadership skills and working environment. She is also the co-host of the 'Let's Talk Leadership Podcast' and a mum of 6.

Founder of the European Institute of Positive Psychology (IEPP)

Leadership Development Trainer, Positive Psychology Practitioner, Gallup Strengths Coach

Giselle was fortunate to study with Martin Seligman in his first MAPP class at UPenn (’06) and since then has partnered with leaders in the Americas, Europe, and Middle East to help create positive team cultures that are highly motivated and resilient. Prior to founding Positive Work LLC, Giselle worked as a strategy and management consultant for social purpose organizations. This experience developed her passion for working at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and culture. She currently splits her time three ways: leadership coaching; experiential leader and team trainings; and Masters-level teaching in Managing Change, Organizational Health, and Conscious Leadership. Giselle has also served on the leadership team of the International Positive Psychology Association’s Work Division since 2013. She earned her Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Psychology from New York University.

Psychological coach, Positive psychology expert and Public speaker

How to face challenges and suffering with self-compassion

Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant, Specialist in Positive Psychology and Happiness Previously worked in operational and strategic roles with Virgin Care, Virgin Limited Edition and the NHS

PhD Student at Cardiff Metropolitan University

My name is Jennifer Ward. Following my love for health and wellbeing, I obtained a 1st class Honours Degree in Sport and Exercise. After, I went on to complete a Masters in Psychology which specialised in Mental Health. Now, I am completing a PhD at Cardiff Metropolitan University which is in collaboration with The Health Dispensary Pharmacy and Wellness Clinic in Wales. My study is focused on designing, implementing and evaluating an evidence-based positive psychology intervention in a community-pharmacy setting. I aspire to educate and support individuals and communities on ways to lead happy and healthy ways of living.

Coach and Consultant

Tünde Erdös, MSc. in Executive Coaching, Ashridge Accredited Executive Coach EMCC EIA Senior Practitioner, MCC ICF

Book Signing Opportunity!

Sustainability & (International) Development Expert

Lavinia Warnars (1985) is an enthusiastic (international) sustainability developer with a focus on moving people, companies and organizations out of Ego (materials, money, power) and towards Eco (equality between humans and nature). She likes to support this shift and help people grow towards it. The more challenging the better, is her motto. She has a strong analytical mind, combined with a strong intuitive feeling of what is right and what is ´wrong´. Together with her flexibility and eagerness to change and grow, she knows well what to do in crisis situations, especially if it is related to the necessary Eco shift. For that, she mainly uses positive psychology as a tool to enhance and push this growth in herself as well as in others.

Lavinia will talk about this during the conference, and delves into her own internal shift she had to make in order to practice what she preaches.

B.A. Organisational Communications. Studied Psychology / Marketing / Public Relations M.A. Liberal Arts, Emphasis on Psychology / Philosophy, PhD Social Psychology Anticipated completion 2018

My 30 years of education and experience as a teacher, trainer, coach and now author has given me the professional tools to bring folks to have many "aha" moments during my talks.
I will couple the "science of happiness" namely Positive Psychology, quantum physics and epigenetics with the Eastern teachings of “mindfulness" “self-compassion” and "self-perception" which makes the presentation very modern and well-rounded.
It will be interactive and the folks will walk away with the fact that:

• It's never too late to have a happy childhood
• Happiness is a Choice...our own
• Our Thoughts Create Things

We are living in fast changing times...and during these times, the choices we make will determine our happiness in all our relationships, especially the relationship with ourselves.
My personal experiences as a child growing up in a mafia family in a highly religious and racist neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago in the 60's and 70's gave me what we call in science "resilience".
I was abused in just about every way, did a multitude of drugs and was in jail twice...but with my resilience, I got out of the neighborhood, went to school, got a B.A, M.A. and a Phd, raised a healthy child, learned German, created a booming business, and recently wrote a book telling that story....Those were the choices I made, and now I'm here to show folks that they can make positive choices for themselves too...

Dipl.(FH) Business and Computer Science, M.Sc. Psychology, Yoga Teacher (RYT 500) Global Talent Development Consultant, ERT Würzburg, Germany

Yoga Teacher and Talent Development Consultant Lukas Holter is passionate about helping individuals and organizations to their full potential by unfolding the exciting synergies between Yoga, Positive Psychology and Leadership.

Lukas has been a dedicated practitioner of martial arts, yoga and meditation since over 25 years. His professional Career started in IT- and Business Consulting. A passion for research and teaching led him into the field of developing people in organizations.

He supports organisations and individuals to balance towards mindfulness, employee health and compassionate leadership. At the same time he utilizes research around yoga and Positive Psychology to promote yoga as a holistic and undogmatic practice inside and outside the workplace.

Dipl.(FH) Business and Computer Science, M.Sc. Psychology, Yoga Teacher (RYT 500) Global Talent Development Consultant, ERT Würzburg, Germany

Key Points will in include:

• Defining Yoga
• Parallels between Yoga and Positive Psychology
• Cross-selling Yoga, Positive Psychology and Leadership

Co-founder, Ondernemen met ballen, Netherlands

Chantal is Chief activation officer at “Ondernemen met ballen”. She creates challenging experiences to enhance energy and motivation in a person and system to overcome obstacles and turn ideas into action. Knowing how to change is not enough you also have to act upon this knowledge. She helps governments, healthcare companies and corporates to put theories of psychology, business and change management into practice, by creating games, interventions, communities and programs.

Flow Specialist, Coach for Creative Industry Professionals, Flow psychology & science, Leverage flow navigate block London, United Kingdom

Donna has over 20 years experience working in the design industry, creating and delivering public campaigns for clients from a wide variety of sectors, including art, culture, broadcasting, education, conservation and the motor industry.

Her early career started as a designer for the BBC, where she was part of the team responsible for maintaining the BBC brand identity. Later, she became manager of BBC Corporate Design.

In 1996 she co-founded a London-based design company, Evolve. Evolve went on to win 6 international design awards in its first year.

Over the years, Evolve has created work for among others, the BBC, MINI, Ford Motor Company, DCMS (Department of Culture, Media and Sport), English Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces, John Lewis Partnership, NHS, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Horticultural Society, The Arts Council and The Design Council.

Throughout her career, Donna has maintained a deep desire to understand how creative professionals perform their best in the workplace and have their best ideas.

Alongside her creative career, for over 20 years Donna has studied and trained in human dimension understandings, which has led her to her current work – how to help creative professionals achieve optimal performance (flow) and sustain their mental wellbeing in the workplace.

Donna now brings together her creative, psychology and coaching experience to offer unique programmes for professionals and teams across all sectors of the creative industry.

Key points will include:

• ✔ Why does flow feel so good and block feel so bad – the ‘feeling scale of creativity’ study.
• ✔ Flow Psychology, Flow Cycles, Flow Science – where does flow really come from?
• ✔ The fundamental determinant to flow – understanding how it works.
• ✔ The value of flow in the workplace – productivity, creativity and mental wellbeing.

senior coach & specialist werkbeleving

Professional coach and job crafting specialist Ron de Jong has a clear goal in mind: making people happier at work or rather helping them doing this themselves.

Ron: “You shouldn’t be chained to your interests and choices of the past. Being happy and being successful at work will ask continuous effort. This does not mean everybody is in need of a career switch, but for many some changes are very much in order.”

Ron practices what he preaches, he has made quite some drastic changes himself to keep on experiencing happiness at work. He started his career realizing his childhood dream by becoming a veterinary surgeon. For several years he enjoyed working as a ‘vet’, but at some point he realized that he wanted to focus on helping people instead of animals. He became a teacher first and started his own professional coaching company a few years later. The more work experience he gained, the more fascinated he became with how we (choose to) work and how this effects our results and our happiness. This eventually led to his specialization on happiness at work and job crafting in particular.

In his training programmes Ron combines insights from science with practical personal development exercises. You can find more info on www.deur2.nl

Job Crafting

Get happier at work and improve performance with job crafting! Crafting your job means making changes in order to create a better match between your work and you as a person. But where to begin? In this session the basics of job crafting are introduced. In addition you will learn in what ways job crafting can contibute to happier organizations.

Positive psychologist and one of the uk‘s leading practitioner of positive psychology, trainer, coach, visiting lecturer, contributor to the world book of happiness and the world book of hope and author of 5 books including positive psychology for overcoming depression and what is post-traumatic growth?

Positive psychology coaching is an evidence-based coaching practice for the enhancement of resilience, achievement and wellbeing. In this talk Miriam Akhtar, one of the UK’s leading positive psychology practitioners, explores what positive psychology has to offer coaching and how it can help people to feel good, function well and flourish. Miriam (www.positivepsychologytraining.co.uk) is a coach, trainer and visiting lecturer. She is the author of the Little Book of Happiness (2019), Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression (2nd edition 2018) and What Is Post-traumatic Growth (2017). .

Bente is Provocative Laughter coach. In the last 6 years she gave around 900 laughter workshops, mostly within companies

Bente is owner of GetTheLaughFlow and her mission is to let people embrace laughter and playfulness more.. We take everything so serious in life and we should start taking laughter and playfulness serious. Since it can give us so many benefits for our mind and body.

Laughter is serious business

• • Experience how you can fool your brains positively with laughter for no reason
• • How Laughter effect our mood and can bring us less stress, more relaxation and helps to clear our head
• • Feel how laughter can connect you to others

Co-Founder and Lead Consultant, Bailey & French. Co-Organiser, Action for Happiness Brighton

Joshua is a personal development expert, dedicated to helping people lead increasingly meaningful and rewarding lives. He is passionate about supporting a brighter future for workplace culture and loves supporting individuals and teams to focus positively, deepening their appreciation of their potential and developing the mindsets that will help them achieve it.
A founder of Bailey & French, he has over 15 years’ experience creating and facilitating positive learning environments that accelerate personal and team growth. His work includes a range of wellbeing, performance and leadership programmes with a diverse range of organisations, such as Allianz, Nando’s, the NHS and the World Health Organisation.
He also loves being an organiser at Action for Happiness Brighton, one of the largest local AFH groups in the world and regularly hosts and co-facilitates events.

Co-Founder and Lead Consultant, Bailey & French. Co-Organiser, Action for Happiness Brighton

This interactive introduction to the practical application of the PERMA model of wellbeing will cover the following:

• ✔ An overview of Martin Seligman’s PERMA model of flourishing
• ✔ Exploration of the practical application of this model into organisations and its relevance to performance conversations and leadership development
• ✔ An introduction to tools that empower everyone in an organisation to take accountability for their own and others’ wellbeing
• ✔ A case story of the ‘Wellbeing Confident Leaders’ programme, which Bailey & French led with Senior Civil Servants across the UK Civil Service - currently the largest global application of PERMA model of wellbeing in the world

Life coach, bestselling author, 2xTedx speaker, online course creator, university teacher, culture trainer, and also a vlogger sharing how to create a freedom lifestyle on YouTube.

Rachel is dedicated to inspire people to create the life they desire. On a mission to help ambitious professionals with the 3C’s: Clarity, Confidence and Create your next actionable steps, so they can live a meaningful and fulfilled life and be the person they truly want to be. Multi-passionate: Life coach, bestselling author, 2xTedx speaker, online course creator, university teacher, culture trainer, and also a vlogger sharing how to create a freedom lifestyle on YouTube.
Through her experience living abroad in many countries, she worked in various fields and industries, developed a passion for languages and cultural diversity. Besides boosting people's confidence, she teaches cultural competence to internationals to work and interact effectively across borders. Also, for those moving abroad, Rachel takes away the overwhelm while settling in, resulting in a successful stay abroad.

She graduated from the University of Maryland (US) with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and achieved her master’s degree in management from the University of St Andrews (UK).
Rachel enjoys motivating and inspiring people to become the person they want to be.
~ Life changes, and so can you! ~

Links:
Website: https://www.rachelsmets.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelSmets
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rachelsmets/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1.RachelSmets/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsmets

Key points will include:

• ✔ Cultural differences can be quite a challenge at an international workplace, but it doesn't have to be.

• ✔ Whether you travel abroad or have clients or colleagues from another country, culture diversity can be fascinating.

• ✔ Starting with your culture identity, and gain culture sensitivity with this talk.

Key points will include:

PCC- Professional, Certified Executive Coach, MBA- International Economics

Credentials

Coaching Work

Background

Psychologist, author, trainer for authentic happiness and conscious lifestyle. Founder of happyroots

Nathalie Marcinkowski is (positive) psychologist and mentor for happiness and a fulfilled life and blogs on happyroots.de about the interplay between happiness and a conscious, sustaining lifestyle. She supports teachers and students in selfworth and selfcare, is instructor for the "Happiness Trainer"-program and her first book is about to be published. Her passion: To foster the flourishing of individuals so that the flowering of the earth will remain.

What our happiness really needs (will save the earth)

The current challenges in our world need practitioners from every field. And I find the field of positive psychology highly important, meaningful and transforming in the context of sustaining life on earth. Because this quest begins with finding back to our true inner happiness, to our connectedness and to our innate power to contribute helpfully.

We will dive deeper into three elements from the vast field of positive psychology and connect them to sustainability.
~ Choosing gratitude – remembering fullness
~ Feeling connected – remembering the fact that heals separation inside and around
~ Win-Win-Win – where self-compassion and helpful action create happiness

The interactive talk will touch the following three perspectives:
~ What positive psychology – including the 2nd wave of PP – and the science of well-being can contribute to going through the big turning and meeting the ecological crisis ahead of us
~ What each one of us can put into practice right now – that benefits not only the earth but mostly stabilizes ones own happiness by becoming ever deeper rooted in contentment and fulfillment
~ What we as practitioners can fuel and inspire in our clients for themselves and life on earth

Shared practices:
~ meditation
~ exchange in pairs
~ maybe writing exercise, depending on time

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Chartered Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Chartered Scientist

Dr Gwyer is a Chartered Scientist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychology Society and Chartered Psychologist. He completed his PhD in Applied Cognitive Psychology in 1997 after which he worked as a Research Officer for a UK law enforcement agency. Subsequently he taught and researched Applied Psychology at the University of Winchester. In 2006, he completed his doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsychol) at the University of Southampton.

In 2016, upon completion of an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, he specialized in consultancy for individuals and organizations across the adult wellbeing spectrum, focusing on resilience, recovery, wellbeing and happiness.

Dr Gwyer is also the Clinical Advisor for The Mountain Way (http://mountainway.org) a specialist veteran mental wellbeing charity that promotes peer support for Post Traumatic Growth for veterans who have experienced trauma as part of their military service.

More details about Dr Gwyer can be obtained form his website http://carpevitatherapies.com or via his Linkdin profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpatgwyerphd/).

Director of Rehabilitation Center and the main psychotherapist Revocanda Plus

PhD Researcher and Freelance consultant

Testing an expanded model of task crafting behaviour - a mixed methods approach

Professional adventurer, explorer, educator and speaker

What makes an explorer tick? In this session explorer, adventurer and author Justin Miles provides an insight into the extraordinary levels of resilience of people who tackle expeditions in some of the harshest environments on Earth. Disassembling the term 'resilience' in to component parts, Justin examines the six pillars of resilience, overlaying tales from some of his own adventures to build a picture of the explorers mindset.