Translating wellbeing science into positive community experiences.

www.PositivityMatters.org

Our vision is a world where everyone is experiencing authentic friendship and abundant practical hope. To realize that vision, our mission is to translate wellbeing science into constructive community practices. Our core values of playfulness, curiosity, creativity, and kindness form the compass that guides our waymaking.

Hope is a belief about the nature of the world that centers around the idea that the future can be better, while optimism is the belief that the future will be better. “[Practical] hope is a perceived capability to derive pathways to desired goals, and motivate oneself via agency thinking to use those pathways.” ~C.R. (Rick) Snyder

The Next Big Event:

International Day of Play
www.postivityitymatters.org/dayofplay
Saturday, June 13, 2026
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Constellation Studios
2055 O St, Lincoln, NE 68510
Free and open to the public!

Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Events:

• The weekly Hope Sharing Circle
• The Positivity Matters podcast: Spotify | Apple | YouTube | Amazon (Archive)
• Kinds of Kindness
• A directory of weekly/monthly events in Lincoln, Nebraska that are free and open to the public where community is created around shared interests like poetry, music, visual art, comedy, etc.
• The quarterly Connective Collective is a peer support group for stewards of social ecosystems and an incubator of organically emergent bonds of mentorship between emerging community builders and seasoned community serving leaders.

• Health: physical and mental.
• Aesthetic experience: natural and created beauty.
• Play: a basic drive that prompts us to broaden our awareness of potential resources through curiosity and to construct additional resources through creativity (game creation, humor, the arts, etc.) and gameplay.
• Pleasure: liking, positive emotions, and happiness (emotional wellbeing).
• Yes-saying: creating values (purpose and meaning in life research) we say ‘yes’ to in thought (goals thinking and pathways thinking) and through action.

• Life: the web of life.
• Information: knowledge/know-how.
• Friendship: good social health.
• Engagement: absorption in flow.