Proactive wellbeing from school to adulthood – you're at your best when you work with your character strengths.

Frederika Roberts, known as "The Happiness Speaker", brings the science of wellbeing to life through applied positive psychology. Her background as a teacher served to launch her work into whole school wellbeing, for both students and teachers. The idea is to work with character strengths for wellbeing. Her method helps children (and adults) learn the vocabulary necessary to discover one’s own character strengths.

Frederika Roberts ran an online challenge for International Day of Happiness in March, and Klárka Penzešová won the competition.

Klárka Penzešová is a massage therapist based in Maison Paramédicale du Pafendall. Her studies include Ayurvedic massage, Breuss massage, the spine-focused Dorn method physiotherapy manipulation and Theta healing.

Dana Moldoveanu Brandes is President of the Positive Psychology Association Luxembourg (PPL), a Psychologist and Coach who works as part of the European Commission's psycho-social team, and as an Occupational Clinician, Coaching Psychologist, EMDR Therapist and Trainer via her organisation, ProActive Mind. 

In this conversation we talk about the increasing need to ensure our mental health is robust enough to buffer the challenges of an increasingly busy life, with little down-time.

Further information on Frederika's work:

BOOKS

The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing (2021), by Kimberley Evans, Thérèse Hoyle, Frederika Roberts & Bukky Yusuf (Editors) with Foreword by Andrew Cowley

For Flourishing's Sake: Using Positive Education to Support Character Development and Well-being (2020), by Frederika Roberts with Foreword by Andrew Cowley

Character Toolkit for Teachers: 100+ Classroom and Whole School Character Education Activities for 5-11 Year Olds (2018), by Frederika Roberts and Elizabeth Wright, with Foreword by Kristján Kristjánsson

Recipe for Happiness: 9 Essential Ingredients for a Happy Life (2013) by Frederika Roberts

STRENGTH CARDS

Character Toolkit Strength Cards (2020) by Frederika Roberts and Elizabeth Wright.

PODCAST

Check out the For Flourishing's Sake podcast - a weekly Monday-morning wellbeing boost for teachers and school leaders, available on all the major podcasting platforms and from the podcast website www.forflourishingssake.com.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danamoldoveanu/

https://www.ppl.lu/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Whole-School-Wellbeing-Corwin/dp/1529764254

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flourishings-Sake-Education-Development-Well-being/dp/1787750248

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Character-Toolkit-Teachers-Activities-11-Year-Olds/dp/1785924907

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Recipe-Happiness-Essential-Ingredients-Happy/dp/0957438370

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Character-Toolkit-Strength-Elizabeth-Wright/dp/1787752739

https://forflourishingssake.com/

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