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Incorporating ancient African wisdom into wellbeing interventions could push positive psychology beyond its Western roots ...

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I’m in a Zoom meeting, speaking to a screen full of black squares, trying to coax voices out of the void. The other callers are all members of an executive board, and they’re in turmoil over the ...

Practising Carl Rogers’s unconditional positive regard helps me be more compassionate and less judgmental – of myself too ...