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The Graduate Counseling Program at UM is offering an inspiring course through MOLLI that you and your connections may be interested in. Here's the information:<br>
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<span style="font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43);">In collaboration with the MOLLI program on campus at the University of Montana, I’m offering a unique “Happiness” class that combines an initial lecture with 5 small
group experiential discussions. The course begins in about 1 month (April 2, 2024). Here’s the course description:</span></div>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-weight: 700;">Evidence-Based Happiness: An Experiential Approach</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43);">In this course, participants will learn about and experience seven different research-based approaches to achieving greater happiness. Using a unique format, participants
will have one week of traditional lecture, followed by five weeks of small-group experiential learning sessions. Each small group (aka happiness lab) will meet to practice, experience, and discuss specific happiness interventions. Before each lab group, participants
will be provided with a short reading and a short video to guide their weekly happiness practice. Specific positive psychology interventions to be covered include (a) three good things, (b) savoring, (c) gratitude, (d) cognitive behavior therapy, (e) forgiveness,
(f) acts of kindness, (g) and the best possible self. Labs will be facilitated by graduate students in counseling and supervised by John Sommers-Flanagan.<br>
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<span style="font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43);">Learn more here:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://johnsommersflanagan.com/2024/03/04/check-out-this-happiness-class-and-experiential-small-group-for-older-adults-50-years/" id="OWA1dc023c7-288e-2ac5-39a1-2e089c371e14" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">https://johnsommersflanagan.com/2024/03/04/check-out-this-happiness-class-and-experiential-small-group-for-older-adults-50-years/</a></span></p>
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I hope to see you there!<br>
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Rebekah McDonald<br>
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Counselor Education Graduate Student<br>
University of Montana </span></p>
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