Loving hope

Bringing my focus in tight to my own family, I see my grandchildren who are indeed the living future. They have a language for naming the good in themselves and others; they approach the world with curiosity and savor it; they have langauge for their own agency and actively engage it. They freely engage their strengths and shine when doing so. Positive psychology has the ability to inform the structures at every level that can serve to maintain and foster these capacities in children as they grow into adults – flourishing! One of my students recently asked me what I thought the world would be like if everyone had an autotelic personality…what a world indeed!