The Flourishing Center

EPISODE 88: Business With Conviction and Accomplishment- Coaches Corner

Coaches Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coaches Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover to positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF.

Listen in on this session with Emiliya as she uses the positive psychology coaching model to help her client Jen to navigate discovery of conviction and accomplishment in her recently launched business.

In this episode, Emiliya coaches Jen, a consultant who recently left her employment of 22 years to launch her own business. Together Emiliya and Jen work through growing, learning, and processing the emotions that come up freeing Jen to break through, get energized, recognize her existing strengths and successes, and move her forward towards the next phase of her career.

This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website.

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

In this Flourishing Friday episode, Emiliya sits down to talk with Louie Schwartzberg, an award-winning cinematographer, director and producer who tells inspiring stories that celebrate life. Join in this joyful conversation about Louie's career, the link between his work and positive psychology, his latest film Gratitude Revealed and more…

This episode is sponsored by the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) Program. Celebrating it's 10 year anniversary, with over 1700 practitioners in 55 countries, CAPP is the world's premier practitioner training in positive psychology. Discover more about CAPP at https://theflourishingcenter.com/capp

In this Science Says episode Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder of The Flourishing Center, shares what The Flourishing Center has been up to for the past year. She also dives into the opportunities brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic for pause and pivot and shares a recently published study on how positive psychology has played a role in helping people cope with Covid. Plus 9 strategies that can help you rebuild now!

During the pandemic The Flourishing Center created programs and training to help people use positive psychology to cope with the challenges. Check out the Lift Program, a joyful journey of daily positive psychology practice.

EPISODE 85: IMPROV AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY- Nancy Watt-Practitioner Profile

Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler, where we highlight ordinary people doing extraordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the Certificate in Positive Psychology Program. Please find out the exciting ways people are putting the science into practice within their Communities, Organizations and Lives.

In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder of The Flourishing Center, highlights Nancy Watt.

A Writer, Actor, Improviser & Speaker. A wife, mother, community activist & board member. A dog owner, voracious reader, marathon runner and eternal optimist. Nancy delivers dynamic and interactive workshops on Positive Psychology, Social Psychology, Bridging the Gender Communication Gap, Organization Development, Neuroscience of Resiliency, Leadership and the Study of Creative Problem Solving.

For full show notes visit the website.

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

EPISODE 84

STRENGTH SPOTTING AND ACTS OF KINDNESS: Flourishing Friday

Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

Today's podcast is about how you can take two research-based interventions for improving your well-being and combine them into one. Performing an act of kindness and spotting strengths

Research shows that performing acts of kindness for others boosts the giver's well-being as much as it promotes the recipient's well-being, if not more.

Sometimes, the mere thought of performing an act of kindness is enough to boost our happiness and well-being by giving us a dose of positivity.

The reason being is that for most of us, when we imagine ourselves doing something, our brain and body respond as though we're doing it, and imagining doing it, we put ourselves in the shoes of the person about to receive it.

The second intervention is about noticing strengths. One of the pillars of positive psychology is taking a strengths approach. We're not just trying to shore up weaknesses - we want to recognize and build the positive.

For the full show notes visit our website.

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EPISODE 81: FRIENDSHIP MATTERS: Karen Riddell-Practitioner Profile

Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler, where we highlight ordinary people doing extraordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the Certificate in Positive Psychology Program. Please find out the exciting ways people are putting the science into practice within their Communities, Organizations and Lives.

In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder of The Flourishing Center, highlights Karen Riddell, Coach, Speaker and Author.

After earning her undergraduate and law degrees from The University of North Carolina, she discovered friendship and its power to positively impact a woman's life personally and professionally, emotionally and physically. Following her mission to spread this message, Karen became a friendship blogger on Psychology Today's website and began speaking to women's groups about friendship. She loves to share both the scientific research on friendship as well as the spiritual gifts of shared connections.

Karen's interest in friendship led her to become certified in both applied positive psychology and life coaching. In her practice, she works with groups and individuals to find the sweet spot where their strengths, purpose and passions align. Karen partners with clients to clearly conceptualize their goals, envision the possibilities, and map out a concrete action plan for thriving. Karen's practice centers on positivity, engagement, connection, purpose, and vitality.

In December 2020, with the world deep in a pandemic, Karen published Friendship Matters, a book extolling the miraculous power of friendship to transform your life.

Listen in and discover how Karen is integrating Positive Psychology into her life.

You can reach Karen Riddell

https://karenriddell.com

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visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

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EPISODE 82: CRISITUNITY-TURN CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY: Flourishing Friday

Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

Shout out to Dan Trommater CAPPster from Canada in our recent Better Than Before COVID 19 programs.

We were talking about how to turn obstacles and crisis into gifts or opportunities.

He said, in typical animated Dan fashion, You mean, a crisitunity!

I thought he was friggin brilliant, then he told me it wasn't his, it was Homer!

It turns out in a Simpsons episode, and daughter, Lisa Simpson, says, "dad, did you know that the Chinese have the same word for crisis as they do opportunity?"

And homer exclaims, "Crisitunity!"

The word they're referring to is both a Chinese and a Japanese word called Kiki. It's made up of two characters.

The first symbol represents dangerous, while the second one means opportunity: Aka, a crisitunity.

Yes, a crisis may be scary, it may be dangerous, but it also forces the chance for change, and with that chance, a doorway to opportunity.

This, of course, with the pandemic, is on the minds of many of the people that I work with and corporations that I support. People are asking how do we pivot? How do we become resilient? Since the pandemic started, I've been running a low-cost online program called Better Than Before COVID-19. We've had over 1,500 people go through the program in the past nine months, all united around a shared vision of learning positive psychology skills to be better after the pandemic than you were going into it.

That's why I'm in love with the word crisitunity.

1. A mindset shift that the moments of crisis can be a gift can be an opportunity. It makes me think of the first principle of Anusara yoga, a yoga style that I used to teach. The first principle is "open to grace.
2. Accept the past - check out last week's Flourishing Friday episode on psychic masochism and how to stop beating up on yourself about the past.
3. Ask yourself - how can I learn from this? How can I grow? How can I view this as a contrast? Meaning what I'm experiencing is what I don't want. How can I use this to create something I do want?
4. Asking yourself, what are my options? What can I do? All these things get us out of problem focus into solution focus.

Food for thought. What crisis have you turned into an opportunity?

EPISODE 81: Annemarie Brogan- Practitioner Profile

Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler, where we highlight ordinary people doing extraordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the Certificate in Positive Psychology Program. Please find out the exciting ways people are putting the science into practice within their Communities, Organizations and Lives.

In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder, The Flourishing Center, highlights Annmarie Brogan, professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer.

As an Applied Positive Psychology Practitioner, she brings the science and evidence-based resources of positive psychology to her work as a professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer. But before all that, I worked in Corporate America.

She is the co-author of Beyond Tidy: Declutter Your Mind and Discover the Magic of Organized Living, from Skyhorse Publishing, merges her top 8 organizing principles with the science of positive psychology. Each principle saves you time, money, space and energy, giving you more to spend on family and activities you love!

Listen in and discover how Annmarie is integrating Positive Psychology into her life.

You can reach Annmarie Brogan at

https://organizemeny.com

www.annmariebrogan.com.

For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer:

visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

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EPISODE 80: SHOULDA WOULDA COULDA- STOP PSYCHIC MASOCHISM: Flourishing Friday

Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

This week Emiliya worked with a coaching client who came to her because he wanted more happiness and positivity in his life. His wife, the love of his life and high school sweetheart died of a brain aneurysm 5 years ago. COVID has led to a lot of alone time and a lot of time to ruminate on what could have should have and would have. She calls this self-talk: psychic masochism. It hurts to say these things to ourselves, yet it's like wiggling a loose tooth, it hurts, but it feels good.

Emililya shares how she thinks there's an evolutionary role in why we beat ourselves up over the past. Most of the time, we're facing something that was entirely out of our control. Autonomy and having a locus of control are highly coveted human needs, but it's rarely something we truly have. And when it comes to the past… we have no control over changing the past. The only control we have is what we do with it in the future.

When you imagine the should have, could have, would have… you imagine a different past… you're imagining yourself actually having control.

For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer,

visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

EPISODE 79: GRACE FUELED WITH A NEW PERSPECTIVE

Coaches Corner (CC)- Welcome to the Coaches Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching in action with master-level certified coaching. Listen to positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF.

Listen in on this session to hear coaching in action. Emiliya uses the positive psychology coaching model to help her client, Grace. Through this process, she can reveal what she desires to be FUELED WITH A NEW PERSPECTIVE. Through this session, you can hear she wants to move forward but feels frustrated and stuck. Listen to how coach Emiliya helps her discover how to tap into her resourcefulness. Emiliya uses paraphrasing, metaphor and curious questions to help support her on her journey. She helps her tap into her own wisdom, and she lets her lead the dance of the coaching session to help her client overcome her difficult challenges. Emiliya holds the space for Grace effectively that allows her to go from feeling stuck to liberated.

A Return to Battle.

Grace feels initially like she is fighting an endless battle, and through this coaching session, she can challenge her own thinking patterns and gain a clearer direction. She expresses her many feelings and how she feels and sees many obstacles. About midway through this session, Emiliya asked Grace, "What needs to change? This powerful question broadens her thinking and allows her to consider her options and tap into what she really needs.

For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer,

visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com