Positive

Environment
 Presenters

Saad Shahid

Wazeer Ullah Khan

Hafiz M Usman

Ahsan Najeeb
Positive Environment

• Theoretically, a positive
environment (PE) includes (a)
tangible and intangible
resources that satisfy human
needs, (b) enablers of healthy,
pro-social, and pro-
environmental behaviors that
guarantee socio-
environmental quality and
wellbeing, and (c)
environmental challenges that
must be faced and solved.
Positive Parenting
• Positive parenting is about showing
children love, warmth and kindness.
• It’s about guiding children to act the way
you want by encouraging and teaching
them.
• It’s about helping children thrive by
sending the powerful message: You are
loved, you are good, you matter
Positive Parenting

Guiding Leading Teaching Caring

Unconditional Setting
Empowering
Love Boundaries
Power of Positive Parenting

Positive parenting
Positive parenting Positive parenting
is linked to a happy
sets children up for helps the teenage
and healthy
success brain
adulthood
 P.R.I.D.E Skills
5 Ways to Provide Positive Parenting

P: PRAISE LOVE WHAT R: REFLECTION SAY I: IMITATION DO WHAT D:DESCRIPTION SAY E: ENJOYMENT SHOW
THEY DO WHAT THEY SAY THEY DO WHAT THEY DO WARMTH AND
ENTHUSIASM
 As with all parenting advice, experts
recommend using the skills in a way
that feels right for you and your
TIP family.
 The impact on However, this has also
educational systems has brought a number of
been to ensure that unintended

Traditional
• students receive a “standard” consequences, including
education, student disengagement
A multibillion-dollar
• Their abilities can be directly with learning, high rates
industry centered compared, of depression, anxiety,
around academic testing • High performance is attention deficiencies,

Education
has emerged in the rewarded and school violence, self-
name of education. • Students who fail to conform
to expectations are corrected
harm, and suicide and
or excluded. many teachers leaving
the profession within
their first few years of
practice.
Positive Schooling

Positive education originated from positive psychology. Positive psychology is the science of positive
subjective experience (e.g., happiness), positive individual traits (e.g., talents, interests, and strengths
of character), positive relationships (e.g., friendship), and positive institutions (e.g., families, schools,
and communities

It is Combines the traditional education principles with the study of happiness and wellbeing ( Martin
Seligman, pioneer of Positive Psychology)

The fundamental goal of positive education is to promote flourishing or positive mental health within
the school community
 Teaching children
to think positively

Sharing
Fostering the
excitement with
importance of
Positive diversity
the multitude of
others

Schooling is...

Turning students
Create sense of
into teachers to
trust in the
transfer their
classroom
learning
 Models of Positive Educations

GGS FLOURISHING MODEL THE PERMAH FRAMEWORK

Geelong Grammar School (GGS)
Model for ​Positive Education

• FLOURISHING IS THE CENTRAL

AIM OF THE GGS MODEL FOR
POSITIVE EDUCATION AND IS
DEFINED AS A COMBINATION OF
‘FEELING GOOD AND DOING
GOOD’.

The wellbeing domains are integrated into

the School on three levels, referred to as:
1. Live it 2. Teach it and 3. Embed it
 Seligman, has incorporated positive psychology into education
models as a way to decrease depression in younger people and
enhance their wellbeing and happiness. By using his PERMA
The model (or its extension, the PERMAH framework) in schools,
educators and practitioners aim to promote positive mental

PERMAH
health among students and teachers.

framewor
ks Main Elements

Positive (Positive)
Engagement Meaning Accomplishment Health
emotions relationships
 Positive Education in Practice

The Bounce Back

The jigsaw The character Restorative
program and
classroom growth card Practices
building resilience
 The concept of ‘good work’ is not just about
ensuring that jobs do not make people ill; it is
about organising work in a way that actually
promotes good physical and mental health
Good The concept of good work was initially conceived in

work 1971 when the Swedish Trade Union Confederation

called for a debate on working environments and
democracy with both government and employers

. This was part of a wider ‘industrial democracy’

movement, but by the 1980s it had been developed
into a call for good work
There are five key principles that underpin the definition of
Good Work:

Participation and
Satisfaction Fair pay
progression

Voice and autonomy

Well-being, safety (freedom to work in
and security a way that suits the
individual)
Positive Work Environment

“Positive” work environments can be defined as those workplaces where there is trust,
cooperation, safety, risk-taking support, accountability, and equity.
The Characteristics of a Positive Work Environment
• Trust
• Cooperation
• Positive Behaviors in the Workplace
Benefits of Positive Psychology in the
Workplace

Positive Connect Engage Create Accomplish Push Beyond

Emotions Meaning Your Goals

Reward
Yourself
 The mental state of true engagement was first
studied in depth by a Hungarian psychologist
The Theory of Professor mihályi Csíkszentmihályi

Flow and According to him the secret to optimal performance

Individual is the ability to enter the state of flow frequently
and deliberately

Engagement
Flow is a mental state of focused attention so
intense that it does not allow us to have cognitive
bandwidth left for anything else. It is a state of such
profound task-absorption and intense concentration
that makes a person feel one with the activity
How Individuals Can Cultivate Flow at Work
1. Clear Goals

10. Autotelic 2. Immediate

Personality Feedback

9. Intrinsic Motivation
3. Balance of
and Autonomous
Challenge and Skill
Initiative

8. Altered Sense of 4. Merging of Action

Time and Awareness

7. Loss of Self- 5. Concentration and

consciousness Focused Attention

6. Perceived Control
of the Situation
Positive Communities

• A community is a social unit (or group of living things) that share

something in common, such as customs, identifying characteristics,
values, beliefs, or norms.

• Positive communities are groups that inspire their members in

ways that promote a sense of self-discovery and group
connection, encourage members to express their beliefs and
values and build relationships with others.
Why Communities are Formed?

1. when one or more individuals

want to connect with others
2.Inadvertently, as a result of being
possessing similar values, beliefs,
co-located
interests, etc., and such a group
doesn’t currently exist
5 Drivers
of Helpful • 1. Shared identity
• 2. Shared purpose

Communit • 3. Common objectives

• 4. Shared interests or passions
y • 5. Common Behavior

Formation
Traits of Positive Communities

Common goals
Freedom of expression
Address member concerns with sensitivity
Set clear policies and obligations
Fairness
Celebrate heritage and traditions
Promote interaction among members
Elect leaders that stand by community values
Prioritize effective communication
Make smart decisions
Positive
Aging
 • Positive aging is basically adopting a positive view of aging as a
healthy, normal part of life.

• Different Definitions:

Introductio • A way of living rather than a state of being (Institute of

Psychology, U.K).

n To +ve • “The process of maintaining a positive attitude, feeling good

about yourself, keeping fit and healthy, and engaging fully in
Aging life as you age” (Positive Psychology Institute, Australia).
• “Successful aging is multidimensional, encompassing the
avoidance of disease and disability, the maintenance of high
physical and cognitive function, and sustained engagement in
social and productive activities” (Rowe & Kahn, 1997 U.S).
• “The process of developing and maintaining the functional
ability that enables wellbeing in older age” (WHO, 2020).
Cathleen Toomey
Secret of
successful aging
• Cathleen Toomey discusses the upside of
aging in her Tedx Piscataqua River talk, The
Secret of Successful Aging. The key? Don’t
let loneliness take over your life. Real
conversations are the answer. We’re social
beings and need to stay connected to
others.
She also suggests these three things:
1. Celebrate your age
2. Defy expectations
3. Grow friendships
Principles and Philosophy Behind Positive
Aging

• In Positive Psychology: The history of theories contributing to positive aging. The theorists they
discuss are:

• Stowe and Cooney (2015) view successful aging from a life course perspective: “a dynamic lifelong
process, embedded in historical time and place, and influenced by the web of relationships
individuals are linked to, as well as more distal social factors.”
• Erikson’s eighth stage called integrity versus despair. Successful aging involves an “evaluation of one’s
life as having been fulfilling and satisfying” (Martin et al., 2015).
• Havighurst’s focus was satisfaction and happiness as the basis for defining successful aging. He
believed aging is either active or disengaging. Active means a person carries over activities and
attitudes from middle age into later life. Disengaged means the person desires to remove him-herself
from an active life.” (Zhou et al., 2018).
• Rowe and Kahn’s three-factor model is the one many follow today. Their focus is freedom from
disease, remaining cognitively and physically adept, and social engagement.
 Disengagement Theory
• Elaine Cumming and William E. Henry (1961) developed the disengagement
theory. Their theory is that as we age we remove ourselves from social
roles and interactions. We do this because we realize death is imminent.
(APA)

Positive Postulates Of this Theory:

• Everyone expects death.

Aging • Fewer contacts create behavioral freedoms.(“I can do whatever I want”)

• Men and women differ in their experience.

Theories • The ego evolves as it ages.

• Complete disengagement occurs when society is ready for it.
• Individuals become ready to disengage when they are aware of the
shortness of life.
• This theory is independent of culture.
The Activity
Theory (Implicit or
lay theory of aging)
• Developed in 1961 by Robert
Havighurst, proposes that
successful aging occurs when
older adults stay active and
maintain social interactions.
It takes the view that the
aging process is delayed and
the quality of life is enhanced
when old people remain
socially active. This theory
assumes positive relationship
between activity and life
satisfaction.
Continuity Theory

• Robert Atchley is credited with the development of Continuity Theory

• Person’s ability to maintain their habits, preferences, lifestyle, and
relationships as they did in their earlier years of life. According to this
theory, older adults try to maintain this continuity of lifestyle by
adapting strategies that are connected to their past experiences.
• It’s like the concept of crystallized intelligence. A person takes their
knowledge from the past and applies it to future changes.
 The Irish Longitudinal Study on
Ageing (TILDA) in 2016, their
researchers shared, You’re only as
old as you feel! The report

How Does
highlights two important findings
about attitude:

Attitude
Impact Aging Older adults with negative
attitudes towards aging had
slower walking speed and worse
If you have any doubts about how
attitude affects well-being, 109-
year-old Alice Herz-Sommer can
cognitive abilities, compared to change your mind. She survived
older adults with more positive the Holocaust and cancer. She
attitudes towards aging. says, “Everything in life is a
(Robertson & Kenny, 2016) present.”
 References
• Asiamah N (2017) Social engagement and physical activity:
commentary on why the activity and disengagement theories of
ageing may both be valid. Cogent Med 4(1):1289664
• Crewdson JA (2016) The effect of loneliness in the elderly population:
a review. Healthy Aging Clin Care Elder 8:1–8
• Ellen Heuven (2021) Psychology of Positive Aging: Life Stories about
50-plus Happiness and Growth 8:2-2