Strengths Media

 

Strengths philosophers and practitioners are often in the press. This section of the site shares links to members of the strengths community's work in the media.



August 12th, 2010

Altruism

Samuel and Pearl Oliner on Altruism

Samuel and Pearl wrote The Altruistic Personality. This uplifting book describes the qualities demonstrated by Gentile rescuers of Jews in the Second World War. Here is a short overview about some of those qualities.
 

Here are two further videos about The Institute for Altruism.

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August 12th, 2010

Virginia Satir

Virginia was one of the pioneers of family therapy. Whilst helping families to deal with pain, she also encouraged people to build on their inner strengths. Here is an old film that expresses some of her personality.

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August 12th, 2010

Martin Seligman

Martin is one of the giants of Strengths Psychology. Here he is talking at TED.

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August 12th, 2010

Sir Ken Robinson

Ken’s famous first talk at TED on schools and creativity.

The follow up talk he did several years later.

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August 12th, 2010

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly has devoted his life to studying Flow. These are the times when we become completely absorbed in an activity and sometimes do great work. Here he is talking at TED.

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