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I am piloting (in Lincoln, NE) and refining an open-source framework to help communities apply empirical research about the nature of human flourishing (positive psychology) toward continuously improving the local assets that move their collective positive mental wellbeing closer to maximal flourishing and away from languishing, that state we all experienced during the pandemic.Positivity Matters - www.positivitymatters.org - is an asset-based community outreach and engagement model designed to help individuals, organizations, neighborhoods, and cities live a H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. along nine dimensions:• Health: physical and mental wellbeing.• Aesthetic Experience: natural and created beauty.• Pleasure: the common ingredient of positive emotions.• Play: dancing, singing, theater, humor, games and much more.• Yes-saying: meaning and purpose. What values do we say yes to?• Life: appreciating and enhancing the web of life.• Information: the goodness of knowledge and lifelong learning. • Friendship: the upper end of the scale of positive social interaction. • Engagement: absorption, flow, and being in the zone.The H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. framework is an aggregation of extant models of wellbeing (the Gallup Organization's, PERMA by Martin Seligman, the U.S. Surgeon General's Wellbeing at Work framework (profile pic with Dr. Vivek Murthy after he spoke in Lincoln, Nebraska 4/2/2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ctpvv7H37A), the Five Vitamins by Corey Keyes, etc.)

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