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of the Czech Positive Psychology Centre!

 

The Czech Positive Psychology Centre (CPPC) was established in 2009 in reaction to the ENPP demand for promoting positive psychology in Europe.
The activities provided by the CPPC (seminars, workshops, lectures, research, international cooperation) are open to all students and professionals interested in positive psychology. One of the feature activities of the Centre was co-organizing a Symposium on Positive Psychology with Martin Seligman which took place in Prague on June 29, 2010 (www. seligmaneurope.com).
All colleagues interested in the international cooperation in research, teaching and/or application of positive psychology are warmly welcome!

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1st Czech Positive Psychology Conference
CPPC 2012

 May 23-24, 2012
Brno, Czech Republic
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University


NEW: Download detailed Conference program here


Dear colleagues,

it is a pleasure and honour for me to invite you to the 1st Positive Psychology Conference in the Czech Republic (CPPC 2012) held in Brno, the Czech Republic, in May  23-24, 2012.
Lectures, workshops, poster session and discussions will feature the topical research as well as applications of positive psychology in variety of fields – from psychotherapy to education to business.
The exclusive screening of the HAPPY movie will be a special part of the conference.
Anyone interested in science and practice of positive psychology is welcome.
The conference language will be Czech language but we encourage you to take part in the  international section held in English.

You can download the CPPC 2012 Conference Flyer

The 1st Czech Positive Psychology Conference will include:

  • pre-conference workshop
  • invited speeches by distinguished scientists from the Czech Republic and abroad
  • paper sessions
  • poster sessions
  • student section
  • screeeing of the HAPPY movie


Invited speakers:

Mag. Dr. G. Lueger (Director of the Solution Management Center, Vienna, Austria): "Retooling: how to design positive-oriented tools for companies and consultants"
Prof. J.P. Van Oudenhoven (University of Groningen, Netherlands): "Virtues across 12 nations: An international comparison of moral principles"
Prof. K. Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India): "Impact of socio-cultural factors on well-being in Indian setting"
Dr. P. Streit (Director of the Institut für Kind, Jugend und Familie, Graz, Austria): "Age and positive interventions: First experiences with clinical program"
Doc. Mgr. P. Halama, Ph.D.  (Institute of Experimental Psychology SAS, Faculty of Philosophy, University of  Trnava, Slovakia): "Meaning of life in the context of positive psychology"


Keynote speakers from the Czech Republic:

PhDr. Alena Slezáčková, Ph.D. (Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno): "Positive psychology: A science on human flourishing"
Prof. PhDr. J. Křivohlavý, CSc. (Charles University, Prague): "Four steps of Martin E.P. Seligman on his way to the realisation of the knowledge of positive psychology"
Prof. PhDr. V. Smékal, CSc. (Inst. of Psychology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno): "Positive psychology as the basis for formation of ethical culture of personality"
Doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Vojtíšek, ThD. (Dept. of  of Religious Studies, UK, Prague): "A positive approach to spirituality"
Prof. PhDr. J. Mareš, CSc. (Faculty of Medicine, University Hradec Kralove): "Use of positive psychology in education"
Prof. PhDr. M. Blatný, CSc. (Inst. of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of CR, Brno): "Born to be brave: the temperamental nature of character strengths"

 


Timing

December, 2011:     Registration and Abstract Submission opens
March 31, 2012:      Abstract Submission Deadline
March 31, 2012:      Early Bird Registration Deadline
April 30, 2012:        Acceptance Notifications
May 23-24, 2012:    1st Czech Positive Psychology Conference

Conference venue

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.
Brno is the second larges city of the Czech Republic, located in the South Moravian region.
Brno is easy to reach from Prague or Vienna (Austria) by trains or buses.
You can make reservation of your accomodation in Brno through Booking.com

Registration and  Abstract Submission

Please download  the CPPC 2012 Registration Form.
Registration and Abstract Submission is possible only by sending a completed Registration Form via email to: CPPC2012@email.cz

Abstract Submission Deadline is April 10, 2012. 
Registration Deadline is May 20,  2012.


Conference fee
Payment can be done on site: 800,- CZK (31 EUR)


We look forward to meeting you in Brno!

Alena Slezackova, Ph.D.
CPPC 2012 Conference Chair

Masaryk University
Faculty of Arts
Dept. of Psychology
Arna Novaka 1
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic

tel.: (+420) 737 620 399
fax (+420) 549 491 523

E-mail: CPPC2012@email.cz



ABOUT US

Alena Slezackova, Ph.D.

  • founder and coordinator of the Positive Psychology Centre in the Czech Republic (CPPC)
  • country representative for the Czech Republic in the European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP)
  • member of the IPPA Board of Directors

Obrazek



Current scientific interests

positive psychology, positive education, posttraumatic growth, health psychology

 
Education

  • 2010: Positive Psychology Masterclass (Bristol, UK)
  • 2005-2009 Ph.D. program at the Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic (clinical psychology)
  • 1997 - completed studies of clinical psychology (MA) at Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
  • 1997 - obtained the Certificate of Teaching Ability


Professional practice

  • since 03/2008: research associate at the Inst. of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • since 10/2008: lecturer at the Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
  • 2001-2007: psychologist at the Institution of Social Care for Disabled Children, Brno
  • 2000: lecturer at Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University
  • 1999: psychologist at the Home for old people, Brno
  • 1998-1999: personnel manager at a business company, Brno


Research projects funded by grant agencies

  • 2010-2014: Studying Optimal Development Longitudinally: Potential of Prague and Brno Studies on Life-span Development. Grant No. 407/10/2410 of the Czech Science Foundation (co-worker)
  • 2008-2012: Psychosocial Needs and Quality of Life in Healthy Siblings of Paediatric Cancer Patiens. Grant No. 406/09/1255 of the Czech Science Foundation (co-worker)
  • 2007-2010: Quality of Life Longitudinal Study in Paediatric Oncology Patients (QOLOP). Grant No. 406/07/1384 of the Czech Science Foundation (co-worker)


Organisational activities in scientific community


Membership in scientific associations:

  •    European Network for Positive Psychology ENPP
  •    International Positive Psychology Association IPPA (charter member)
  •    Centre for Applied Positive Psychology CAPP
  •    International Association of Applied Psychology IAAP
  •    European Health Psychology Society EHPS
  •    Czech-Moravian Psychological Society CMPS


Selected publications and Conference presentations

Slezackova, A., Lukacova, F. (2011). Relation between temperament dimension Harm Avoidance and character strengths Curiosity and Courage. 2nd World Congress on Positive Psychology, July 23-26, Philadelphia, USA.

Slezackova, A. et al. (2011). Personal growth in adults with chronically ill child. 2nd World Congress on Positive Psychology, July 23-26, Philadelphia, USA.

Slezackova, A. (2011).  Application of positive psychology in Ethical education (in Czech). Conference on School Psychology "Skola jako misto setkavani". Praha: Charles University,  Dept. of Psychology.

Slezackova, A. (2011). School as positively functioning institution (in Czech). Journal for School Management Rizeni skoly,  2/2011, Praha: Wolters Kluwer CR.

Slezackova, A., Gregussova, D., Kahankova, P. (2011). Gratitude, hope, and well-being in students of Czech secondary schools and universities. International conference "Kondasuv den", Masaryk University Brno. 

Slezackova, A. (2010). Positive psychology: Beyond the science of happiness. E-psychologie,  http://www.e-psycholog.eu/clanek/97

Slezackova, A. et al. (2010). Posttraumatic growth in parents of childhood cancer patients. 5th European Conference on Positive Psychology, June 23-26, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Slezackova, A. (2010). Posttraumatic growth in context of positive psychology. 15th European Conference on Personality, July 20-24, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic.

Slezackova, A. (2010). Positive psychology: Valuable inspiration for workers with youth in risk.  July 1, 2010, Most, Czech Republic.

Slezackova, A. (2010). Present development and prospects of positive psychology in the Czech Republic (in Czech). Symposium on Positive Psychology with M. Seligman, June 29, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic.

Slezackova, A. (2010). 21st century brings positive psychology. (in Czech). Psychologie dnes, 6,32-33.

Slezackova, A. (2010). Health psychology and positive psychology: Connections and prospects. (in Czech).  Conference on Health Psychology, Vernirovice, Czech Republic

Slezackova, A. (2010). On positive education. (in Czech). Conference of School psychology, Prague, April 19, 2010.

Slezackova, A. (2009). Posttraumatic growth in parents of childhood cancer survivors in context of positive psychology. Academic Dissertation (in Czech). Brno: Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno.

Slezackova, A., Blatny, M., Jelinek, M., Kepak, T., Vlckova, I., Pilat, M. (2009). Health behaviour and posttraumatic growth in parents of childhood cancer survivors. Psychology & Health, Pisa: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 24, 1, od s. 366-367, 2 s. ISSN 0887-0446.

Slezackova, A. (2009). Posttraumatic growth in context of positive psychology (in Czech). Brno: Sborník prací FF MU, P 13, 45-59, Brno.

Slezackova, A. (2008). The position of positive psychology among other psychological subjects (in Czech). Brno : Sborník prací FF MU,12, 2008

Slezackova, A., Blatny, M. & Kepak, T. et al. (2008). Social and emotional quality of life of children after treatment of oncological disease. Preliminary results of the QOLOP project. Book of abstracts, Conference on Health Psychology, Vernirovice, Czech Republic

Slezackova, A., Blatny, M. & Kepak, T. et al.. (2008). Brno Quality of Life Longitudinal Study in Pediatric Oncology Patients (QOLOP): Posttraumatic growth in parents of childhood cancer survivors. Book of Abstracts, IV. European Conference on Positive Psychology, July 1-4, 2008, Opatia, Croatia

Slezackova, A., Blatny, M. & Kepak, T. et al. (2008). Identification and facilitation of posttraumatic growth of parents of childhood cancer patients. 146. Day of Clinical Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic

Blatny, M., Kepak, T., Vlckova, I., Pilat, M., Jelinek, M., Navratilova, P., Slezackova, A., Karova, S., Sterba, J.(2007). Quality of life of child cancer survivors: Current findings and implications for future research (in Czech). Psychologia a patopsychologia dietata, 42, 4, 291-306.



POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

The Czech Positive Psychology Centre (CPPC) was established in 2008 in Brno, Czech Republic.
The Centre organizes regular seminars, lectures and workshops for students, professionals and public interested in positive psychology. The CPPC also promotes the research activities and develops international cooperation.
One of the feature activities of the Centre was co-organizing a Symposium on Positive Psychology with Martin Seligman which took place in Prague on June 29, 2010.

The number of original publications on Positive psychology in the Czech Republic is slowly increasing. We can also find many publications on Health psychology which are thematically very near to the issues of Positive psychology.
Jaro Krivohlavy is the author of the first book on Positive psychology (Krivohlavy, 2004) in Czech language. He published also the works on psychology of meaningfulness (2006), gratitude (2007) and wisdom (2008) and many other articles on related topics.
Marek Blatny (Blatny et al., 2004), head of Inst. of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, led a series of discriminant validity investigations between personality dimensions, Self-esteem, Life satisfaction and gender. He and his colleagues are also running the longitudinal research project on quality of life of childhood cancer survivors (Blatny et al., 2008) and established the Centre for Quality of Life Clinical Research (www.ceqol.cz).
Jiri Mares (Mares, 2008) publishes on the quality of life at childhood and the posttraumatic growth.
Vladimir Smekal (2007) has investigated spirituality with respect to Myers-Briggs personality and the dimensions of Sence of coherence.
Vladimir Kebza and Iva Solcova (2005) examined the predictors of well-being in a Czech population sample.
Alena Slezackova (2008, 2009, 2010) studies the posttraumatic growth in parents of childhood cancer survivors and teaches the course of Positive psychology at Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.

 

TEACHING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC


Positive psychology (PP) has been taught by Dr. Alena Slezackova in the Dept. of Psychology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, since the spring of 2008.
This distinct, optional course has been taught every week for 2 hours, i.e. 24 hours per semester as a whole, and has currently passed 235 students of psychology. The PP course teaching methods comprise of lectures, exercises and class discussions. Every lesson starts with introductory questions and answers, followed by a lecture on a particular topic with exercises and discussion, and ending with a summary.
The aim of the course is to provide students with a general overview of PP by covering a wide range of researched topics including: historical and philosophical foundation of PP, happiness and positive emotions, mindfulness and flow, optimism, hope, gratitude, forgiveness, character strengths and virtues, positive education, posttraumatic growth, and positive psychotherapy. Students gain practical knowledge of how to foster positive traits and facilitate wellness in themselves and others.
They learn how to encourage optimism, hope, flow, and fulfillment. Even though each topic is presented separately, mutual connections and relations between the topics are emphasized. The use of the positive psychology approach in counseling, clinical psychology, education and work is also highlighted. Practical exercises and homework (gratitude letter, 3 good things, etc.) play an important role in enhancing learning from one’s own experience. We encourage a critical approach through informed discussions with particular emphasis on each student’s ideas and opinions.
Students read primary source materials and books written by major researchers in the field. We also use journals (The Journal of Positive Psychology, Journal of Happiness Studies, etc.) and  online teaching sources (Positive Psychology Centre website and other online materials). As the majority of materials are in English we have created the website on positive psychology in the Czech language. There one can find basic information, recommended books and articles, and internet links as well as information on conferences and other events in positive psychology.
The course is completed by colloquium. It requires active participation of students during seminars and writing an essay on a selected topic specified in advance. Students make a verbal evaluation of the course at the last lesson. 
We firmly believe that teaching PP is invaluable at the undergraduate level of psychology, social science and education.


INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Czech version of the International Well-being Study http://www.wellbeingstudy.com


POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EVENTS

CONFERENCES

2012:

May 23-24, 2012
1st Czech Positive Psychology Conference CPPC 2012
Brno, Czech Republic

June 26-29, 2012
6th European Conference on Positive Psychology, Moscow, Russia
More information on http://www.ecpp2012.ru/


2011:

July 23-26, 2011

Second World Congress on Positive Psychology, Philadelphia, USA
More information on http://www.ippanetwork.org


2010:

July 21-24, 2010
15 th European Conference on Personality, Brno, Czech Republic
www.ecp15.cz
Invited symposium: Positive potentials in personality (A. Slezackova, J.P. van Oudenhoven,   S. Joseph, P. Steca)

June 29, 2010
Symposium on Positive Psychology with Prof. Martin Seligman - June 29th, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic.
Registration: www.seligmaneurope.com

June 23-26, 2010
5th European Conference on Positive psychology, Copenhagen, Denmark
www.ecpp2010.dk

May 21-23, 2010
Health Psychology Conference, Czech-Moravian Psychological Society, Vernířovice u Šumperka, Czech Republic
http://www.cmps.ecn.cz/?page=english


2009:

June 18-21, 2009
First World Congress on Positive Psychology, Philadelphia, USA

May 2009
Health Psychology Conference, Czech-Moravian Psychological Society, Vernířovice u Šumperka, Czech Republic
http://www.cmps.ecn.cz/?page=ps-zdravi

April 1-3, 2009
2nd Applied Positive Psychology Conference, Warwick, Great Britain
http://www.cappeu.org/conference.aspx


2008:

July 1-4, 2008
4th European Conference on Positive psychology, Opatija, Croatia
http://www.pospsy.ffri.hr/index.htm



LINKS




CONTACT

Feel free to contact us:

alena.slezackova@phil.muni.cz