The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 9 Positive psychology in practice

In this episode, Sukh has guest Sarah Boyd on the show, and they talk about a range of things for how positive psychology is put into practice. Sarah's main area of work focuses on healthcare in the UK and enabling better change within the NHS.

They talk about appreciate inquiry as an approach for organisational change, and how it utilises positive psychology principles to enable generative dialogue and focusing on strengths and achievements. They talk about the use or language and how the language we use determines what we think and believe. They explore all manners of topics related to positive psychology with some quality thinking about approaches to change management, the importance of taking small steps, the interplay of positive psychology and life events that are challenging, and how we can think about parenting in different ways too.

As it's still early day's in Sukh's world of podcasting, the audio edit isn't as well balanced as it could be. Please do forgive Sukh's tinny and sharp speech, he promises not to do it again!

You can connect with Sukh and Sarah on Twitter - @sukhpabial and @sarahboydh

In the podcast, the following pieces are referenced:

Sarah wrote a blog post about the bits of appreciative inquiry that she loves. That's here http://www.dotconnection.co.uk/blog/2017/11/17/appreciative-inquiry-the-bits-i-love

The Grief Cast by Cariad Lloyd https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/griefcast/id1178572854?mt=2

The Emotion At Work podcast by Phil Willcox https://www.emotionatwork.co.uk/podcast/

They talk about Miriam Akhtar who is a positive psychology practitioner in the UK. You can find her here https://positivepsychologytraining.co.uk/about/miriam/

They also talk about and get all fanboi over Sarah Lewis and her work in positive psychology and as an appreciative inquiry practitioner. You can find out about her here https://www.acukltd.com/about-us/

Sarah mentioned Sarah Lewis' book - Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management which you can get here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Appreciative-Inquiry-Change-Management-Organizational/dp/0749463554/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1524923033&sr=8-12&keywords=sarah+lewis+books