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Practicing Positive Psychology on Your Placement and Beyond · SLV.GLOBAL SLV.GLOBAL HomeWell-nighPlacements Blog Contact Jobs Apply Now Back Sri Lanka Bali India Fees HomeAbout Placements Sri Lanka Bali India Fees BlogContactJobs SLV.GLOBAL Apply Now Practicing Positive Psychology on Your Placement and Beyond I recently had the privilege of spending a week at the EuropeanPrimingon Positive Psychology and was thrilled to hear so many unrenowned educators, clinicians and practitioners reaffirm, though various talks, research presentations and workshops, how valuable the work is that our teams facilitate on their placements.Whether working with service users and promoting the PERMA model, which includes fostering (P)ositive emotions, facilitating meaningful (E)ngagement, forming healthy (R)elationships with other service users, participating in (M)eaningful interactions and supporting (A)chievements throughout sessions, or using hands-on thinking and play as a way to reduce stress and uneasiness and make utopian ideas and concepts tangible, there is no doubt that volunteers on placement are increasing their practical Positive Psychology skills; oftentimes without plane realising. However, it is important to note that the skills volunteers proceeds and strop throughout their placement are not unchangingly session-specific. There are interpersonal relationships flourishing constantly for volunteers throughout the placement's elapsing with polity members, homestay families, staff and, of course, fellow volunteers. Employing a positive tideway to these interactions is equally important. Promoting positive mental health is the main aim for participants, whether working with service users or engaging with colleagues. The current, and future, mental health practitioners that participate in our placements get the endangerment to really utalise their epic empathy skills by living and working with each other, which encourages a increasingly joint tideway to everything from planning and executing sessions to having breakfast. This can be new and intense but, just like at projects, spreading the good vibes is a surefire way to not only hoist the mood of others, but moreover increase everyone's overall feelings of well-being! Increased well-being leads to improved overall functioning, resilience and life satisfaction. Talk well-nigh #winning! As we all know, mental health isn't simply the sparsity of mental illness. Therefore, promoting positive mental health is equally as important for the well-being of service users presenting with mental health concerns as it is to the people volunteers come into contact with every day like roommates and colleagues on projects.  Spreading enjoyment though treating people with kindness, and contributing positively to individual relationships and to society as a whole, is how we increase meaningful interactions and joint mental capital. One of the priming speakers I was lucky unbearable to see, Zipora Magen, spoke well-nigh how, through her research, she discovered that people of all month proceeds the most happiness and fulfilment not through material possessions or individual achievements, but through helping and towers relationships with others. She illustrated this in a trappy parable, which I think makes the point well-nigh how crucial it is to squint at the world in a less individualistic way and to try and spread positivity at every opportunity. It is an old Hasidic story of a rabbi who was trying to understand increasingly well-nigh the afterlife.Firstly the rabbi was taken to hell where he observed a huge table full of the most wonderful supplies you can imagine; meat, cheese, fruit, cake, chocolate...pizza...but the people sat virtually the table were emaciated; their faces hollow and slick with tears. The sight of this repast made the rabbi salivate and he couldn't understand why no one was eating despite how in need of nourishment they looked.Upon closer inspection the rabbi saw that each diner had their hands tied to a very long-handled fork - long unbearable to reach the food, but too long to get the supplies into one's mouth. The rabbi saw that their suffering was indeed terrible and bowed his throne in compassion.Next the rabbi was taken to heaven and entered a room identical to the first. He saw the same large table, leaden with food, and the same long forks tied to the diners' hands. However, there was joy in the air and everyone appeared well nourished and jubilant.The rabbi could not comprehend how these people were not sick and starving like the others until he saw that the people virtually the table were not concerned with getting the supplies into their own mouths, which was impossible, but instead were feeding their neighbours so everyone virtually the table was happy and healthy.I love this story considering it demonstrates that the way to end suffering is often obvious if you work with others and welsh the individualistic mindset. Feed your neighbours considering the increasingly we squint out for each other, and support each other, the increasingly resilient we are to negative vibes and the increasingly understanding we are as humans.Participants on our placements spend so much time together that it is easy to get fatigued, but is often through these relationships, not in spite of them, that the most trappy things happen and the strongest friendships form. In conclusion, we're all missing a trick if we're just showing compassion to only those we see as stuff "in need" of positive mental health interventions. Everyone benefits when we are warm and kind to each other. Spread the love, finger the love!   Lee MJuly 5, 2018 Facebook0 Twitter Google LinkedIn0 StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes Previous We Do Not Run Mental Illness Placements Lee MAugust 22, 2018 Next SLV.Global to NCS... and Back Again Aurora TrentinMay 2, 2018 SLV.Global 122 Minories, London, England, EC3N 1NT, United Kingdom 02070961718 [email protected] Hours Mon 9am to 6pm Tue 9am to 6pm Wed 9am to 6pm Thu 9am to 6pm Fri 9am to 6pm Home  |  About  |  Placements  |  Psychology  |  Blog  |  FAQs | Reviews SLV.Global, 122,  Minories, London, EC3N 1NT+44 (0)20 7096 1718  |  [email protected] Ⓒ SLV Intl Ltd Company No. 08338869  ·  All rights reservedSLV.Global Mental Health Fund - Registered Charity Number 1175589.Privacy Policy  ·  Responsible Volunteering Policy