Dr Martin Seligman
The Science of Positive Psychology
Monday 8 September 2008
Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street
Canary Wharf, London E14 5JJ

Dr Martin Seligman is founder of Positive Psychology and Director of the Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Centre. His main mission has been the promotion of the field of Positive Psychology. This discipline includes the study of positive emotion, positive character traits, and positive institutions. Dr Seligman is now turning his attention to training Positive Psychologists, individuals whose practice will make the world a happier place, parallel to the way clinical psychologists have made the world a less unhappy place. In this lecture Dr Seligman presented the foundations of Positive Psychology as a science, how it has developed since he founded it in the US, and the potential for its practical replication in the UK.

Other Speakers
Prof Lord Richard Layard, Founder and Director of LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, and author of ‘Happiness: Lessons from a New Science'.
Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation.

For other information contact Fancy Sinantha at the Young Foundation fancy.sinantha@youngfoundation.org or tel 020 8709 9275.