Positive Cinema Therapy

Positive psychology is a branch of psychology that studies the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive - it is intended to nurture genius and talent to make normal life more fulfilling by enhancing experiences such as contentment and satisfaction with the past, happiness in the present and hope and optimism for the future.

The techniques used are designed to encourage people to identify and further develop their own positive emotions, experiences and character traits.

So what are the benefits

* Positive values enable people to live well despite events around them such as finding good things about each event that happens in their lives and having compassion for themselves and others and finding opportunities for development.

* Because positive emotions build resilience, they allow people to bounce back faster from negative experiences - resilience buffers against depression

* People who are pessimistic are 2 to 8 times as likely to become depressed when had things happen - early experiences with optimism help prevent depression - pessimists tend to believe nothing they can do matters, so they don't try to avoid bad events

* Negative emotions narrow one's response to 'fight or flight' as positive emotions broaden the range of responses, leading to behavioural flexibility and emotional growth

The process involves looking at strengths through movies such as cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, civic, forgiveness, connection and spirituality and then completing a series of exercises which makes positive psychology movies a natural vehicle for examining character strengths and how they are developed and maintained.

Another reason for the therapeutic affect of movies is that they usually follow the pattern of the mythological Hero's Journey which can be traced in all kinds of stories, not just those that feature hero's physical action and adventure, but also in romance, comedy and thrillers (the films on offer range from 1980 to early 2000's) The protagonist of every story is the hero of a journey, even if the path leads only in his own mind or into the realm of relationships.

Positive psychology program

This is a self paced course so you will receive movie suggestions from the positive psychotherapy index with guidelines and an exercise that you'll need to put into practice, you will be able to email your experience and any questions you have. There is six sessions and each one is accompanied by an explanation of why it's important foster positivity.

You will be required to purchase streamed movies or DVD's, the cost of these are not included and you can take as long as you want to complete the six sessions, you will just need to email me to release the next one with guidelines

The cost is £997.00 

If you wish to book on the above program, email me and I will send you the link to pay by Pay pal 

Further support can be gained after this by booking individual sessions to continue positive psychology coaching which is designed to combine positive psychology with coaching which helps clients develop and maintain virtues and strengths to encourage them to challenge a particular area within their life through goal setting.

Psychology coaching sessions can be booked individually from a link on the coaching page on www.lynn-anderton.com