"Sustainable Happiness "

Interactive Coaching Group

Forming Now!

WHERE:  701 Adams Dam Road, Greenville, DE 19807
WHEN: When registration is complete
TIME: Thursday Evenings from 7:00 - 8:30 pm
FEE: $40 per weekly session (3 SEGMENTS of 8 weeks)
PHONE: CALL 302-888-2345 TO REGISTER

Linda Brackin, MSS, LCSW, Positive Psychotherapist, Therapist Trained Life Coach, Certified Graduate of Dr. Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness Coaching Program, Psychospiritual Therapist, Hypnotherapist

This interactive coaching experience is designed with 3 Segments each lasting 8 weeks, with an approximate 10-week break between SEGMENTS designed to relax the schedule and also give participants an opportunity to practice and integrate the concepts into daily life. Attendance at all 3 Segments is required for participation. One absence per Segment is permitted with no charge. The financial commitment for all 3 Segments is required. Exceptions can be negotiated for unusual circumstances such as serious illness or relocation.

SEGMENT ONE: THE PLEASENT LIFE: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past and future.

SEGMENT TWO: THE GOOD LIFE: using your signature strengths to obtain abundant gratification in the main realms of your life.

SEGMENT THREE: THE MEANINGFUL LIFE: using your signature strengths and virtues in the service of something much larger to obtain meaning, to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is infused with meaning.

(Dr. Martin Seligman)

The ground breaking, shape-shifting Science of Positive Psychology started nine years ago. Now the entire world is starting to hear about it through the endless efforts of two pioneers in the field, Dr. Martin Seligman and Dr. Christopher Peterson. One of the desired outcomes of positive Psychology is authentic happiness (Martin Seligman's term for sustainable and reflective happiness.) The possibility of sustainable authentic happiness is supported by solid empirical evidence. The measures of positive emotion used by Seligman and Peterson are measures, which are repeatable, stable across time, and consistent across situations...the tools of a "respectable science", says Martin Seligman. The primary emphasis in this approach to life satisfaction is to identify and strengthen that which is already positive in each of us. These strengths are called Signature Character Strengths. The hottest finding in the New Positive Psychology is that happy people live longer. In addition, empirical evidence reveals that authentically happy people:

• Have Fewer chronic illnesses
• Have much lower depression rates
• Have more friends
• Have more stable marriages and closer families
• Are more creative and more productive at work
• Give more generously to community causes and organizations

Positive Psychology offers a pathway to sustainable happiness by suggesting that, "rather than fixating on what is wrong, what is missing, what we have not been given or have not achieved, we instead focus on what is right, {what isn't lost}, what is already working." The Science of Positive Psychology emphasizes health rather than pathology." What would happen if you made a choice to do less fixing and decided instead to build on strength?"

(Dr. Martin Seligman)

I invite you on the journey.