The Science and Art of Happiness with Alison Ogier-Price

Dates: Thursday 12th January 9.00am - 4.00pm

Regular Cost: $ 125.00

Earlybird: $ 110.00

Maximum class number: 15

Venue: Mt Hutt College

About the Course

This 1-day workshop offers an insight into what science has found that  actually makes us happy. The study of Positive Psychology is providing real evidence for understanding the foundations of what makes life worth living and how we can actively engage ourselves and others in activities that sustain our emotional and psychological wellbeing. In a small group environment, we will explore the theories and practices of happiness, and look at how to apply the various tools and techniques within our own lives, and the lives of those around us. You will receive take-away materials and activities to support your ongoing practice and interest.

The workshop will use the foundation of the science of happiness and the information provided by up-to-date research, to consider the role emotions play in our lives, and to identify our personal resources for happiness. We will learn how to develop a more positive and appreciative perspective, and how to develop a realistically optimistic view of adversity and challenges. How we perceive our lives is greatly affected by how we see our future, so we will look at how to be more hopeful and create realistically achievable goals.

This workshop is suitable for anyone with an interest in wellbeing and human nature, whether it is your own or that of others, from a personal or professional perspective (academic references will be available). A comfortable atmosphere will provide the opportunity to learn, enjoy and optionally share experiences and knowledge, increase personal skills and take away an understanding of happiness and emotional wellbeing that can be accessed immediately and into the future

Alison Ogier-Price (MSc, B.Comm, BA Hons, C.Ad.T., MNZAPP)

Alison specialises in the application of the science of Positive Psychology to increasing subjective wellbeing, which is often described as happiness. She has extensive experience in teaching and facilitating courses and workshops for good mental health and wellbeing, and stress management, and is currently engaged in providing resilience programmes particularly throughout Christchurch and the Canterbury region.

Alison is vice-president and editor for the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology, and is actively engaged in research at the University of Canterbury into developing and sustaining positive psychological wellbeing. Alison’s programmes have a firm research and evidence basis, and are both richly informative and deeply experiential. Her workshops are fun and interactive and participants can expect to come away with new and renewed personal knowledge of how to maintain their own subjective wellbeing and happiness.

To find out a little more about Alison you can visit her website here.