December 2012
Measure, Measure, Measure
17/12/2012
Dr Martin Seligman visited our school in February this year. At the end of his visit, our principal asked Martin’s advice on where we should start if we wanted to build a flourishing school. His response was very quick and very clear – on top of making sure all our...
Problems are our friends
13/12/2012
At the end of Martin Seligman’s first visit to Adelaide in February, I was sitting at a table with Martin and other partners in his residency. I remember feeling uncertain about how to move forward and daunted by the fact that there were so few answers to so many questions....
Beginning our positive journey
05/12/2012
I first became aware of positive psychology in January this year. Mount Barker High School was invited by the Education Department, (we call it the Department for Education and Child Development – or DECD) to become its lead school in the residency of Dr Martin Seligman, a world-leading ‘positive psychologist’....
Message from the Principal
01/12/2012
Positive education for a positive future Warren Symonds, Principal, Mount Barker High School I’m excited by the possibilities that our links with Dr Martin Seligman and positive psychology can offer Mount Barker High School. We’ve started investigating how we can use positive psychology to develop resilient and optimistic young people...
About our blog
01/12/2012
In February 2012, Adelaide Thinker in Residence Martin Seligman proposed a powerful idea: to ‘psychologically immunise’ the young people of South Australia against mental illness. Mount Barker High School is the State’s pilot site to explore how positive psychology can be applied across an entire school to improve the wellbeing...