Wellbeing Explained

Wellbeing Explained

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Wellbeing Explained episodes

  • E17. Gad Saad on Happiness: A Book Review

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    Trying something different this week! Professor Gad Saad, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University has just released a book on 8 secrets of the good life. Love him or Hate him, this will be one of the best selling happiness books of all time.


    On a 15 hour flight home from the IPPA World Congress in Vancouver, Matt reads and reviews the book, finding some really great insights from Professor Saad (AKA the Gadfather, AKA Dr Good Looks) who brings levity, fun, and playfulness whilst drawing on ancient tradition, evolutionary theory, and academic literature. As a result, there's something for everyone, even those fully across the wellbeing and positive psychology literature. The unexamined life is not worth living, and Professor Saad provides 8 timely prompts for introspection and reflection to live with intention towards a good life.


    Let us know what you think! Accurate review or severe jet lag - you be the judge!

    36 min
  • E16. LIVE from IPPA World Congress 2023 and two of Matt's presentations

    Coming to you LIVE from Vancouver BC. Hear some thoughts on the past 4 days of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) World Congress. Attached at the end are two of the presentations Matt gave at the conference. You can watch the slides in Spotify or on Youtube


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    1 hr 15 min
  • E14. What’s God got to do with wellbeing? Theology, love of enemy, and more | Dr Brendan Case

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    Dr Brendan Case joins the show this week. Brendan is the Associate Director of Research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He works to develop integrative research strategies that draw together explorations of human flourishing from across the social sciences and humanities. Brendan introduces us to the field of Theology and its relevance to investigation of human flourishing. We talk about the strength Theology and Philosophy bring to the multi-discipline team at the Human Flourishing Program, particularly ensuring that the other disciplines are not naive to the rich discourse on human flourishing that has occurred in the past 2000+ years. Finally, Brendan introduces us to his work on a theological account of Love, including love of neighbour, love of enemy, and love of God.


    1 hr 31 min
  • E13. How to be practically more mindful | Dr Craig Hassed

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    This week we are joined by Professor Craig Hassed OAM from Monash University and the Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies. Hear Dr Hassed’s incredible experience on the topic of mindfulness, having introduced mindfulness into the Monash University medical program since 1992.  We discuss the differences between informal and formal mindfulness, and their relative merits in day-to-day life. Find out more on Prof Hassed’s work at https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/general-practice/our-people/craig-hassed 


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    1 hr 8 min
  • E12. A wellbeing science repository for government, business, and community | Nancy Hey

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    This week’s guest is Nancy Hey, Executive Director of the ‘What Works Wellbeing’ centre in the UK, an independent body for wellbeing evidence, policy and practice. They collect well-being data, analyse it, and aim to communicate it to the public and make it consistent, robust, usable and accessible.

    Nancy talks about the process for creating a centre which tries to bring together different perspectives on wellbeing from many disciplines and have them speak a consistent language around what they can do to improve wellbeing. She discusses the difficulties around doing this in a setting where everyone is interested in wellbeing but it’s nobody’s core focus. Nancy talks us through why the quality of the research they are collecting is more important than quantity, and how she is attempting to combat the misconceptions that often occur around what is being measured and passed off as wellbeing measurement. She outlines some of the success stories of the centre, and we have some fun pondering the potential for research that looks into the wellbeing of sporting fans with their teams’ wins and losses.
    Find more info on the What Works Wellbeing Centre through their website https://whatworkswellbeing.org
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    1 hr 10 min
  • E11. Eating Disorders, Help-seeking, Wellbeing, and Border Closures | Dr Kathina Ali

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    Today I sit down with a great friend and colleague Dr Kathina Ali. Kathina is a clinical psychologist and researcher, passionate about understanding and breaking down the barriers towards seeking professional help which is such an important (but difficult) step for someone experiencing serious mental illness. 


    We talk about her work in Eating Disorders, and learn that it’s always more complicated than it may appear! Kathina reflects on her clinical practice, noticing that sometimes the symptoms of Anorexia can produce happiness and a sense of purpose for an individual. 


    We talk about research team dynamics, suggestions for prospective students, and a study that Kathina and I led on the mental health impact of the International Australian border closure. 

    1 hr 38 min
  • E10. Can wellbeing therapy and eudaimonia prevent relapse? | Dr Chiara Ruini
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    This week I chat with Associate Professor Chiara Ruini from the University of Bologna. Along with her colleagues, Chiara has been focused on the development and evaluation of Wellbeing Therapy, a clinical approach to supplement traditional therapies with positive psychological interventions with the aim of preventing relapse. We talk Italy, culture, immigration, and what it takes to pull together a European research grant!
    1 hr 25 min
  • E9. What do YOU mean by Flourishing? | Dr Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley
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    This week I chat with Dr Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Senior Lecturer in Education (Policy) at Bath Spa University.
    We discuss a topic that has been largely overlooked, the poor use of language in positive psychology. Namely, Eri has focused is PhD research on the topic of Flourishing, a term that has the risk of becoming an overused buzzword that could ultimately meet the same fate as terms such as grit and resilience. We also discuss an exciting community-based series of Events that Eri has developed, FlourishCafe, aimed at the co-creation of communities, organisations, and institutions where everyone has the opportunity to flourish.
    Find out more about Eri’s work:
    https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/eri-mountbatten-omalley/
    https://www.flourishcafe.org
    1 hr 30 min

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Wellbeing Explained brings in the experts to answer the questions others won't, bust myths, and go deeper into the science of wellbeing.