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Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being

You are encouraged to take the first four courses of the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization before starting this course and completing the Specialization Project. This course, taught by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman brings all the key concepts from the first four courses to practice as you develop and test a new positive intervention for an audience of your choice. You identify opportunities in your daily life to increase the wellbeing by using knowledge you developed in the first four courses of the Specialization. In this final project, you evaluate the efficacy of a positive intervention based on subjective and objective measures. Then, you compare how empirical and non-empirically-based positive interventions can be applied to influence a person's wellbeing. Lastly, you reflect on how the fundamental elements of research methods are important in the everyday application of positive psychology. After completing all five courses, learners earn a certificate signed by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, Dr. James Pawelski, Dr. Angela Duckworth, Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft and Dr. Karen Reivich.

Status: Empowerment
Status: Research Methodologies
Course13 hours

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MM

4.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2019

Please next time for the peer assessment, make the peer-review 5/5 or something. 2 is quite a low number. And some people can be quite prejudiced with their response

K

5.0Reviewed Aug 26, 2017

The full specialization was amazing! I have learnt a lot, I have flourished, I have got a lot of inspirations for my private and work life. Thank you.

SA

5.0Reviewed Nov 4, 2018

Taking this course will help you understand your emotions such as happiness and hope, and how to apply this understanding to improve quality of life.

LC

5.0Reviewed Mar 4, 2018

An excellent course! Enjoyed my learning, understanding and most importantly, applying the concepts and tools for designing my life for Well-being.

BB

5.0Reviewed Jun 13, 2020

A great introductory course in the science of Positive Psychology that sets a solid foundation for exploring the field further.

HJ

5.0Reviewed Jul 25, 2021

I loved this course because the core intention which is to get practical insights. I am forever grateful to Coursera and University of Pennsylvania.

SW

5.0Reviewed Aug 14, 2020

I was enjoying when I learned this course which provide me the methods to find my character strengths and it is a self-development course.

ET

5.0Reviewed Oct 16, 2020

I would first all love to thank all my course lecturers and professors, I am able to understand how the design process of an intervention in positive psychology work

CR

5.0Reviewed Jan 1, 2021

It made me clerar how to design and implement a scientific positive intervention, and how to measure to improve better my professional outcomes.

YA

5.0Reviewed Mar 10, 2018

A thought provoking workshop. How mental illness can be the lack, opposite or excess of our strengths. I enjoyed delving more into strengths and also having to come up with a positive intervention.

OF

5.0Reviewed Mar 23, 2019

It was very important not only personally but professionally be able to work in a positive intervention and all the lectures helped a lot.

LA

5.0Reviewed Jun 21, 2020

Excellent--I really enjoyed this course and was able to come up with some practical ways to continue being resilient in the future

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