THE FOUNDATION FOR POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
At the Foundation for Positive Psychology we are devising and implementing short term psychotherapy practices that aid families and individuals in crisis who cannot afford to pay for long term mental health treatment. We strive to provide proactive mental health interventions and techniques to help empower individuals and families, thus preventing them from becoming a larger burden to themselves, their families, and our society at large.
SAFE CONVERSATIONS INITIATIVE
The Foundation for Positive Psychology is in the unique position of being allied with two powerful entities of public discourse. The first is WBAI 99.5FM, NYC Public Radio and the second is Relationships First, an organization dedicated to empowering people with the tools to talk without criticism, listen without judgment and connect beyond our differences.
We will be launching an initiative to teach community leaders and organizers how to engage in and support effective and safe communications. Our trained professionals will fan out into under served communities to teach their leaders how to support their communities to learn this powerful yet simple technique. We see this as a groundbreaking initiative, essential to promoting mental health and well being in our city.
This is a grassroots person to person effort to create change one community at a time, right now when it’s needed most.
To date we have led two workshops in Brooklyn, NY in March and June of 2019. We produced a video out of that experience and hope that it will encourage your support of our mission.
We at the Foundation for Positive Psychology believe that a person cannot heal in a broken home. The home is supported by its community and that all the best psychotherapy falls short when someone is delivered back to a broken community.
If we can teach the leaders of our communities how to do this simple technique we believe that there will be ripples stretching far and wide into our greater culture. It takes a village to raise healthy creative individuals and that village has to be made well again.