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Positive Action Cards
In recent years, the notion of “positive psychology intervention” (or PPI) has grown in importance, as it has been discovered that certain intentional actions can be effective in increasing and maintaining happiness and other positive states, as well as reducing depression and anxiety. A good definition of what constitutes a positive intervention would be “treatment methods or intentional activities aimed at cultivating positive feelings, positive behaviors, or positive cognitions” (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009, p. 467).
How do you know what works and what doesn't? What is effective and what is less effective? This is where the science is useful! Positive interventions are tested in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). RCTs involve randomly dividing participants into two or more groups and comparing the proposed intervention to another exercise designed as a placebo. All actions in the game have been tested through RCTs AND have appeared in one or more meta-analyses. Considered the gold standard of applied research, a meta-analysis evaluates the overall impact of a group of interventions on our. functioning.
The 64 intervention cards are organized into seven categories, which correspond to the acronym ACTIONS.
A is the abbreviation of Activities concerning sport and physical activity.
C is the abbreviation of “Understanding” like Thinking or taking stock working through and integrating past events, whether negative or positive, into our current situation.
T as (calming interventions), which relate to mindfulness and meditation.
I as Identity, for activities around personal strengths and self-representation self.
O is for Optimism; actions that allow you to set goals, look to the future and potentially improve the current situation.
N is for We which represents social actions, that is, establishing and maintaining relationships positive
Finally, S as Satisfaction for actions that aim to calm down, take pleasure and take care of oneself.
Happiness Dashboard
Like a dashboard of a car or an airplane, the happiness dashboard is equipped with a range of instruments allowing you to get a complete idea of your mental health and your well-being.
For the purposes of the dashboard, well-being is defined as both hedonic well-being and eudemonic well-being.
Hedonic well-being corresponds to a pleasant and happy life and is measured using cognitive and emotional indicators. Six of the seven indicators on the dashboard are mainly linked to hedonic well-being: energy level, reservoir of emotions, temporal balance, scale of life, domain satisfaction, stress meter. Eudaimonic well-being, represented by an indicator, concerns the subjective perception of a life well lived. Combined hedonic and eudaimonic well-being are important and complementary, contributing to everyone’s overall flourishing.
Who are they aimed at?
While anyone can use this tool to improve their own well-being, the Positive Action Cards are a treasure for any coach or training professional. Too many positive psychology interventions rely primarily on cognitive processes, leaving clients with very few ways to truly explore well-being. This can also give rise to difficult group dynamics, where the conclusions of a session are abstract and difficult to remember.
These allow you to introduce, test and vary your interventions, resulting in greater engagement and likelihood of continued use.
The Happiness Dashboard is first and foremost a tool professional.
Coaches, psychologists, therapists, youth workers, guidance counselors, managers and human resources specialists can use it in individual sessions to support their clients or employees.
The happiness dashboard can also be used as a pair or small group exercise during group training sessions. Individuals can also use it as a self-coaching tool.
Use of Positive Action Cards
You can start with our article which invites you to practice 7 positive actions to strengthen your resilience every day.
Here are other ideas to help you get started with the full game. These activities are written with the end user in mind, so if you are a coach, trainer, or therapist, please note that by “you” we might also mean “your client.”
1. Actions laboratory
Alone or with a friend or coach, examine all the cards and identify the actions you are using at the moment or that you have tried in the past. What did they do to you/how did they make you feel? Have you noticed any changes in your home following their implementation? If so, what were they? Do you want to continue or start using any of these actions again? If so, which ones, why and how?
2. What is the best fit?
Look at the cards, select the action that seems most natural to you, another (or the same) that seems most interesting to you and another (or the same) that seems most important to you. How many cards do you have? One, two or three? This action, or these actions, are probably the ones that best suit your personality. On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to try this action(s)?
3. A small step towards happiness
Even though many of us dream of making radical changes to our lives, these are often doomed to failure. It is much more reliable to start with very small changes. Select a new action from the pack and plan how you could realistically start implementing it. Don't worry if you can't follow the instructions or times exactly. Instead, think about what you are capable of doing and the very first step you can take to incorporate a new habit into your life.
4. Well-being at work
Use these cards during any training, coaching or team-building session. First, ask each member of the group to share their usual ways of looking after their well-being, before working together to develop a team-level action plan.
Using the Happiness Dashboard
The Dashboard is designed for repetitive use, provided you use whiteboard markers.
Exploring Happiness:
Take a look at the happiness dashboard in front of you. If life were a ladder, which staircase would you stand on? How satisfied are you with your family situation, your hobbies or your financial situation? How full is your cup of positive versus negative emotions? Stress-wise, are you in a cold, high, or red zone? These questions tap into hedonic happiness, or well-being in life. Do you view the activities in your life as purposeful and useful? Absorbing and engaging? They capture eudaimonic happiness, concerned with doing well and being a vector of meaning. What indicators seem most interesting to you at the moment? For what ? Are they related? If yes, in what way? Given your current state of happiness, what actions, if any, would you like to take?
The happiness assessment dashboard can be followed by a positive action card exercise to select one or more well-being-enhancing interventions.
Retrospective:
Since the dashboard is intended to be used again and again, one can compare one's own progress on the available indicators. However, it is not a tool for comparing people, as standards can vary across cultures, ages, and other demographics.
Your Personal Happiness Metrics:
What other questions would you ask to get a snapshot of your happiness? To make it a little more interesting, why not create your own happiness dashboard indicator(s), to capture your daily states as YOU see them. Think about the dashboard in the car or on the plane and draw parallels. What would the speedometer look like as an indicator of happiness? What about the gauge or fuel temperature? A customer suggested a “smilometer” to measure the frequency of their daily smiles.
Positive Action Cards
In recent years, the notion of “positive psychology intervention” (or PPI) has grown in importance, as it has been discovered that certain intentional actions can be effective in increasing and maintaining happiness and other positive states, as well as reducing depression and anxiety. A good definition of what constitutes a positive intervention would be “treatment methods or intentional activities aimed at cultivating positive feelings, positive behaviors, or positive cognitions” (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009, p. 467).
How do you know what works and what doesn't? What is effective and what is less effective? This is where the science is useful! Positive interventions are tested in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). RCTs involve randomly dividing participants into two or more groups and comparing the proposed intervention to another exercise designed as a placebo. All actions in the game have been tested through RCTs AND have appeared in one or more meta-analyses. Considered the gold standard of applied research, a meta-analysis evaluates the overall impact of a group of interventions on our. functioning.
The 64 intervention cards are organized into seven categories, which correspond to the acronym ACTIONS.
A is the abbreviation of Activities concerning sport and physical activity.
C is the abbreviation of “Understanding” like Thinking or taking stock working through and integrating past events, whether negative or positive, into our current situation.
T as (calming interventions), which relate to mindfulness and meditation.
I as Identity, for activities around personal strengths and self-representation self.
O is for Optimism; actions that allow you to set goals, look to the future and potentially improve the current situation.
N is for We which represents social actions, that is, establishing and maintaining relationships positive
Finally, S as Satisfaction for actions that aim to calm down, take pleasure and take care of oneself.
Happiness Dashboard
Like a dashboard of a car or an airplane, the happiness dashboard is equipped with a range of instruments allowing you to get a complete idea of your mental health and your well-being.
For the purposes of the dashboard, well-being is defined as both hedonic well-being and eudemonic well-being.
Hedonic well-being corresponds to a pleasant and happy life and is measured using cognitive and emotional indicators. Six of the seven indicators on the dashboard are mainly linked to hedonic well-being: energy level, reservoir of emotions, temporal balance, scale of life, domain satisfaction, stress meter. Eudaimonic well-being, represented by an indicator, concerns the subjective perception of a life well lived. Combined hedonic and eudaimonic well-being are important and complementary, contributing to everyone’s overall flourishing.
While anyone can use this tool to improve their own well-being, the Positive Action Cards are a treasure for any coach or training professional. Too many positive psychology interventions rely primarily on cognitive processes, leaving clients with very few ways to truly explore well-being. This can also give rise to difficult group dynamics, where the conclusions of a session are abstract and difficult to remember.
These allow you to introduce, test and vary your interventions, resulting in greater engagement and likelihood of continued use.
The Happiness Dashboard is first and foremost a tool professional.
Coaches, psychologists, therapists, youth workers, guidance counselors, managers and human resources specialists can use it in individual sessions to support their clients or employees.
The happiness dashboard can also be used as a pair or small group exercise during group training sessions. Individuals can also use it as a self-coaching tool.
You can start with our article which invites you to practice 7 positive actions to strengthen your resilience every day.
Here are other ideas to help you get started with the full game. These activities are written with the end user in mind, so if you are a coach, trainer, or therapist, please note that by “you” we might also mean “your client.”
1. Actions laboratory
Alone or with a friend or coach, examine all the cards and identify the actions you are using at the moment or that you have tried in the past. What did they do to you/how did they make you feel? Have you noticed any changes in your home following their implementation? If so, what were they? Do you want to continue or start using any of these actions again? If so, which ones, why and how?
2. What is the best fit?
Look at the cards, select the action that seems most natural to you, another (or the same) that seems most interesting to you and another (or the same) that seems most important to you. How many cards do you have? One, two or three? This action, or these actions, are probably the ones that best suit your personality. On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to try this action(s)?
3. A small step towards happiness
Even though many of us dream of making radical changes to our lives, these are often doomed to failure. It is much more reliable to start with very small changes. Select a new action from the pack and plan how you could realistically start implementing it. Don't worry if you can't follow the instructions or times exactly. Instead, think about what you are capable of doing and the very first step you can take to incorporate a new habit into your life.
4. Well-being at work
Use these cards during any training, coaching or team-building session. First, ask each member of the group to share their usual ways of looking after their well-being, before working together to develop a team-level action plan.
The Dashboard is designed for repetitive use, provided you use whiteboard markers.
Exploring Happiness:
Take a look at the happiness dashboard in front of you. If life were a ladder, which staircase would you stand on? How satisfied are you with your family situation, your hobbies or your financial situation? How full is your cup of positive versus negative emotions? Stress-wise, are you in a cold, high, or red zone? These questions tap into hedonic happiness, or well-being in life. Do you view the activities in your life as purposeful and useful? Absorbing and engaging? They capture eudaimonic happiness, concerned with doing well and being a vector of meaning. What indicators seem most interesting to you at the moment? For what ? Are they related? If yes, in what way? Given your current state of happiness, what actions, if any, would you like to take?
The happiness assessment dashboard can be followed by a positive action card exercise to select one or more well-being-enhancing interventions.
Retrospective:
Since the dashboard is intended to be used again and again, one can compare one's own progress on the available indicators. However, it is not a tool for comparing people, as standards can vary across cultures, ages, and other demographics.
Your Personal Happiness Metrics:
What other questions would you ask to get a snapshot of your happiness? To make it a little more interesting, why not create your own happiness dashboard indicator(s), to capture your daily states as YOU see them. Think about the dashboard in the car or on the plane and draw parallels. What would the speedometer look like as an indicator of happiness? What about the gauge or fuel temperature? A customer suggested a “smilometer” to measure the frequency of their daily smiles.
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