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EP76: The Importance of Positive Education - Part 2

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week we sat down with positive psychology and well-being thought leaders live at The Festival of Positive Education in Dallas, TX. We asked them why positive education was so important, what children can gain from it and how focusing on developing character strengths in students can begin to help society as a whole.

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0:00.0

Hello and greetings and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast.

0:13.7

I'm your host, J.R. Houston.

0:14.9

Please that you are making us a part of your day wherever you are in the world.

0:18.0

And however you may be listening, we are just thrilled to be right there with you make sure to check out the latest edition of live happy magazine is

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cell phone, so you can always take Live Happy with you, and we would appreciate you doing so.

0:43.2

Now, if you joined us in Dallas last week, that was a good time. The IPenn Festival was in Dallas,

0:49.1

Texas, and we had the chance to talk with a numerous amount of people, a huge amount of people.

0:54.8

Grammatically incorrect sentences are fine when you're as excited as we were about the IPEN festival,

0:59.9

and we got a chance to talk with a couple of people in the positive psychology field.

1:05.2

And the well-being thought leaders came together in Dallas, and we sat down with a few, as we mentioned, including

1:11.4

Dr. Abdullah al-Karam, who helped establish the KHDA in 2007, which is an organization that focuses

1:17.9

on private education in Dubai, which includes early learning centers, schools, universities,

1:23.2

and training institutes. It was a fascinating conversation, and we'd like you to hear some of it.

1:28.2

The first question I have for you is, what is the baseline? You're very much into positive

1:32.7

education and teaching children with this positive psychology and education. What is the baseline?

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What's the access point for parents who are trying to teach their kids? What should,

1:43.6

what fundamentals, I guess, should the children have as they head into this type of education?

1:48.9

So when we look at their schooling systems, we find out that most of these parents,

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they want the kind of education they gut.

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