Translating wellbeing science into generative community experiences.

www.PositivityMatters.org

Elements of Positivity Matters:

• Organizing community events around the H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. themes of positive psychology:
  • On Saturday, July 12, 2025, Nebraska celebrates the International Day of Hope (Facebook)!
  • 2025 International Day of Happiness celebrations: Lincoln, NE | Omaha, NE
• Seeds of Kindness: acts of kindness sow seeds of happiness and hope!
• The Hope Generator: building a H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. bridge of hope with small-group conversation.
• The Positivity Matters podcast (Spotify | Apple | YouTube | Amazon) (archive | formerly Community Matters)
• Happiness Lincoln: celebrating the 15th anniversary of the birth of positive psychology when the threads or wellbeing research were roped together at an event that took place in Lincoln, NE in 1999. Additional past events and coverage.

• Health: physical and mental.
• Aesthetic experience: natural and created beauty.
• Play: the pursuit and creation of the interesting.
• Pleasure: liking
• Yes-saying: What values do we say yes to?

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