Centre for Well-being and Flourishing

The Centre for Well-being and Flourishing under Psychology Resource Centre under IQAC, Daulat Ram College organized the event called ‘Positive Conversations 3.0: Igniting the H.E.R.O within’ on 29th September, 2022.
The aim of the event is to invite our college students to narrate their stories of hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism (the full form of H.E.R.O.) to inspire other students. There were four students as speakers from various departments of our college and one from Rajkiya Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Magra Punjla, Jodhpur. Each student shared their life story in terms of the numerous challenges they have faced and how due to their positive attitude, determination as well as support from others they have bounced back from adversity. The event also involved two experiential activities on character strengths and expressing gratitude. Display boards featured quotes, poems, messages by students on hope, resilience etc. We thank our media partner DU Beat for covering our event. We thank everyone for their support and cooperation in making this event a huge success!

Dr Pooja V Anand
Convenor

Thanks DU Beat for covering our event

Thank you so much everyone for supporting the Positive Psychology Centre for all these years! The Centre will now be known as 'Centre for Well-being and Flourishing'

I teach positive psychology and emotional intelligence and I’m horrified by people who are promoting ‘quick ideas to be happy’ or saying things such as ‘be positive’ and ‘everything will be fine’. Since when is positive psychology a quick fix? And since when has happiness become ‘the emotion’. I’m sorry but people should properly understand the ideas of positive psychology and emotional intelligence instead of using them loosely especially at the time of the pandemic where people are losing their loved ones. It is nothing less than a slap on the face when we tell people to ‘be positive’!!
Believe me grief, loss, and sadness have their own special place and one must experience all emotions because each emotion has its own unique function.
This year has been the worst so far for all of us with so many people getting infected and losing their precious lives.
Wish we don’t have to lose anymore precious lives now..Hoping and praying that God has mercy on us..
Till then grieving the loss of precious lives, trying to understand what lessons the Almighty wants us to learn and taking one more step towards spirituality..
At this time we are not ‘looking for happiness’, let’s just be with each other at this difficult time, hold each other and support each other..🙏🏻🙏🏻

Really happy to share that I will be conducting a workshop on ‘Resilience: Ordinary Magic’ with students of my college on 26th March, 2021. Thrilled to receive a very positive response with overwhelming registrations 😊

‘Positive Conversations: Igniting the H.E.R.O within’ was organized on 31st October by the Positive Psychology Center (under Psychology Resource Center, under IQAC). The program had four segments. The main segment was ‘Sharing inspiring stories’ in which students shared how they have coped with various life challenges by utilising their strengths of Hope, Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism. The second segment ‘Wear your signature strength’ involved identifying one’s top strength from a list of strengths and wearing it as a badge for the entire day, third segment ‘Count your blessings’ was an exercise in gratitude and fourth segment consisted of posters, poems etc on strengths as well as post it notes to write positive messages for others. Heartfelt gratitude to respected Principal ma’am for her support and motivation in organizing this program. Thanks to all faculty members and students for attending the event. Thanks to all the students for sharing their inspiring stories. Thanks to all the students of my department for their help in organizing this program. It was a fulfilling experience conceptualising this program and being its Convenor! Thanks everyone for making this program a success.

Conducted a one day workshop for students of our College today on ‘Positive Self-Development: Skills for Self and Societal Well-Being’ organised by the Positive Psychology Center under IQAC. The workshop was attended by 31 students of our College from various departments like English, Hindi, Botany, Commerce, History Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, and BA Program. The workshop was conducted through experiential exercises for positive self-development. Heartfelt gratitude to respected Principal ma’am for her encouragement and motivation. Thanks to Dr Pooja Jain for her support. It was a very fulfilling and meaningful experience conducting this workshop with curious and enthusiastic students 😊

The National Paper Presentation Competition on ‘Positive Psychology: From What’s Wrong to What’s Strong’ was organized by the Positive Psychology Center, under IQAC) on 1st November, 2018. There were more than 125 participants in the competition. Delegates were from different universities in India: Mumbai University, Assam University, Christ University Bangalore, Punjab University, Aligarh University and various colleges of University of Delhi. Many parents of the participants also attended the program. There were different categories in the competition like students, student-teacher, movie analysis, Ignite etc. The main highlight of the competition was the FDP-SDP category in which the participants were the teacher-students groups of teachers who attended the Faculty Development Program on Positive Education and students who attended the Skill Development Program on Self-Positive both organized by the Positive Psychology Center in May and June this year respectively. We express our immense gratitude to our respected Principal ma’am for her encouragement and support throughout. We also thank all the participants for their interest in the competition. A big thanks to all the student volunteers!

Greetings to all!✨
The stage is set, the wait is over.
NPPC is almost here, bringing much excitement on board.

The Positive Psychology Center is all charged up to bring its awaited and exciting event
“National Paper Presentation Competition (NPPC) on Positive Psychology: From what’s wrong to what’s strong” before you all, tomorrow.

The event is going to witness some of the finest and the most enthralling paper presentations by participants, across the nation.

Stay tuned for more updates…