Online Symposium in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology

Webinar: Connect using Microsoft Teams

Please note we will send out the MS teams link an hour before start.

Main language: English

Translations available to Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish

The Programme Team of the MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, and the School of Psychology at the University of East London would like to invite you to the first online symposium. We have recently celebrated the 20th anniversaries of Positive Psychology (2018) and Coaching Psychology (2020), and this seems to be the right time to look back and acknowledge achievements in the field, and also to look forward and envision the future together. Hence, we have chosen a provocative theme for our conference: Reimagining Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.

If you decide to join us, you will have the opportunity to meet some of the leading experts in the science, practice and education of Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology: Dr Suzy Green, Professor Ilona Boniwell, Dr Robert Biswas-Diener, Professor Aneta Tunariu, Professor Ciaran O’Boyle and members of the MAPPCP and the School of Psychology including Professor Christian van Nieuwerburgh, Dr Tim Lomas, Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes, Dr Kirsty Gardiner, Max Eames, Julia Papworth and Ana Nacif. We have also invited MAPP and MAPPCP alumni to share their experience during and after the programme.

We aim to open a space of reflection and dialogue with the broader community of professionals in the field and with anyone interested in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.

This looks set to be an inspirational and insightful event, and I encourage you book a place for Monday 29th June, Friday 3rd July and Wednesday 8th July today!

Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes

Programme Leader

MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology

Symposium chair

Day 1

Monday 29th June – 16:45 to 20:15 (BST)

16.45 – 17.00 – Connect on Teams

17:00 to 17:10 – Welcome to UEL: Professor Hassan Abdalla, Provost

Welcome to MAPP-CP at UEL: Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes, MAPP-CP Programme Leader

17:15 to 18:00 – Being a Positive Psychology Coach (Keynote)

Prof Christian van Nieuwerburgh (MAPP-CP UEL) and Dr Robert Biswas-Diener

18:00 to 18:15 – Break

18:15 to 19:00 – Communicating your way to well-being (Workshop)

Dr Tim Lomas (Senior Lecturer in Positive Psychology MAPP-CP UEL) and Dr Kirsty Gardiner (Lecturer in Positive Psychology MAPP-CP UEL)

19:00 to 19:45 – Rethinking Coaching Supervision (Workshop)

Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes (Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Coaching Psychology – MAPP-CP UEL) & Julia Papworth (Lecturer in Coaching Psychology – MAPP-CP UEL)

19:45 to 20:15 -Q&A with MAPP-CP Team chaired by Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes

Day 2

Friday 3rd July – 16:45 to 20:15 (BST)

16.45 – 17.00 – Connect on Teams

17:00 to 17:10 – Welcome to UEL: Dr Paul Marshall, Pro-Vice Chancellor Career & Enterprise

Welcome to MAPP-CP at UEL: Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes, MAPP-CP Programme Leader

17:15 to 18:00 – Leadership for uncertain times. Positive and existential leadership approaches for building employees’ agility and resilience (Keynote)

Dr Ilona Boniwell (Founder of MAPP at UEL) & Professor Aneta Tunariu (Dean of Psychology at UEL).

18:00 to 18:15 – Break

18:15 to 19:00 – There is Power in Numbers: Coaching in Groups

Ana Nacif (Lecturer in Coaching Psychology MAPP-CP UEL)

19:00 to 19:15 – Q&A with MAPP-CP Team chaired by Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes

Day 3

Wednesday 8th July – 8:45 to 12:15 (BST)

8:45 to 9:00 – Connect on Teams

9:00 to 9:10 – Welcome to MAPP-CP at UEL: Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes, MAPP-CP Programme Leader

9:15 to 10:00 – Leveraging the positive in positive psychology coaching (Keynote)

Dr Suzy Green (Director of The Positive Institute Director and Honorary Professor at UEL)

10:00 to 10:15 – Break

10:15 to 11:00 – Search for Strengths: Building Resilience with Strengths Based CBT approaches

Max Eames (School of Psychology – University of East London)

11:00 to 11:45 – Positive Psychology and Health (Keynote)

Professor Ciaran O’Boyle (Director, Centre for Positive Psychology and Health. RCSI-University. Ireland)

11:45 to 12:30 – What did I take most from studying MAPP and MAPP- CP?”: interactive dialogues with accomplished MAPP & MAPP-CP alumni

Paul Conway. Creator of Skychology

Dr Aarti Anhal. Founder of before nine

Ross Hasting. Co-Founder at Ne-Lo

Miriam Akhtar. Director of Positive Psychology Training

Ruth Cooper-Dickinson. Founder and Managing Director of CHAMPS

11:45 to 12:15 – Q&A with MAPP-CP Team chaired by Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes