The Science of Wellbeing & Success
Our capacity to initiate and to maintain sound friendships, personal, professional and romantic, are often are rooted in our ability to relate well with others.
Navigating relationships is a highly complex undertaking. One indicator of the widespread the challenges of navigating romantic relationships, is that divorce rates in the UK exceed 40%.
Unfortunately, in the modern world, very many people have become relatively socially de-skilled. This is partly because we’ve been tempted to avoid the stress and embarrassment of engaging in realtime in-person meetings with one another.
The problem is that, avoiding social challenges, can make people feel better in the short term, so it’s kind of addictive. But, this leads to a progressive de-skilling by that very same process.
Working from home, email, texting, etc, have all contributed to this problem. These societal changes may also be one causal factor for the substantial rise in the incidence of psychological distress.
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You are welcome to join our Psych-Social events. We offer weekly, in-person, group meetings where you can learn something about the psychology and biology of social isolation, and how to overcome it.
The sessions are designed so that you can attend as many, or as few, as you like. Each session is designed to be a self-contained unit, and not part of a linear course. So, if you miss a few, and rejoin, each one should make sense and be helpful as an individual event.
Psych-Social events are designed using evidence based principles and run by highly qualified and experienced Psychologists, accredited by the British Psychological Society.
The general format will include:
1) A talk by two Psychologists about loneliness, and how to overcome it.
2) A demonstration of how to initiate conversation, without offending someone.
3) A chance to practice starting informal chats with other someone, and to receive some friendly feedback on how to improve.
4) A whole group opportunity to describe individual experiences.
5) An informal social, with non-alcoholic drinks, nibbles and, yes, dancing to good music, to end the event!
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You are welcome to join our Psych-Social events. We offer weekly, in-person, group meetings where you can learn something about the psychology and biology of social isolation, and how to overcome it.
The sessions are designed so that you can attend as many, or as few, as you like. Each session is designed to be a self-contained unit, and not part of a linear course. So, if you miss a few, and rejoin, each one should make sense and be helpful as an individual event.
Psych-Social events are designed using evidence based principles and run by highly qualified and experienced Psychologists, accredited by the British Psychological Society.
The general format will include:
1) A talk by two Psychologists about loneliness, and how to overcome it.
2) A demonstration of how to initiate conversation, without offending someone.
3) A chance to practice starting informal chats with other someone, and to receive some friendly feedback on how to improve.
4) A whole group opportunity to describe individual experiences.
5) An informal social, with non-alcoholic drinks, nibbles and, yes, dancing to good music, to end the event!
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