Sharing Stuff

Just keeping in touch and trust all is going well for you. Here are some further resources that will add value to your work as you continue to be the very best you can be and do the very best work you can do.

From , something from the field of Organisational Scholarship:

Go to http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications.html to pull up a .pdf of Chapter 11 in the book by Cameron, K., Dutton, J. & Quinn, R. (Eds. 2003) Positive Organizational Scholarship. This chapter speaks to how positive emotions lead to thought-action repertoire which her theory states overtime strengthens our resiliency and our positive disposition – a field of work I am very interested in. By the way, Barbara is doing the closing keynote at the AI Conference in Orlando, Florida in a couple of weeks http://www.2007aiconference.com/index.htm
I am very excited about a meeting we have set up at the conference because I have a hunch that the Positive Matrix meetings (at the front of the manual you received during your training) serve to support her “broaden and build theory.” She is looking for tools that “…(encourage) organizational members to explore ways to cultivate meaningful positive emotions within their organizations”.
My experience is that participants in Positive Matrix meetings, because of the deliberate structure, language and questioning sequences, based on AI, open up to “thought-action” tendencies which she describes as play, exploration, envisioning future possibilities and actions, enlarge the cognitive context, and in another paper she describes “greater feelings of self-other overlap and “oneness” and this broadened sense of self may predict a more complex understanding of others”.

John Findlay and I are presenting a session entitled “21st Century Wisdom Tools that Broaden and Build” on the last day of the conference, just before Barbara’s closing keynote. I’ll let you know what transpires.
Talking of 21st Wisdom tools here are two excellent slide shows on the topic of Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG) and happiness.

Jane McGonigal, whom Juergen and I met at the AMP Innovation and Thought Leadership Conference – we attended her presentation and she ours – and we got very excited about where our interests overlap talking about the role of play, games and positive psychology and more. I encourage you to take a look at two slide presentations she has uploaded to http://www.slideshare.net/avantgame on a game designer’s perspective on the future of happiness.

David Cooperrider’s live Webcast on Becoming a Green Company for Profit and Value

you can now download at http://weatherhead.case.edu/webinar/archive/

On the topic of “Greening”

if you know the magazine EnlightenNext, http://www.enlightennext.org/ their next issue is on Greening and also features an article on Second Life – virtual reality that is about play and happiness from my perspective.

I would love to create a game that takes women on a quest to become fearless …… that draws on strengths and positive psychology.