The evidence is clear that teaching children, especially our most vulnerable children, skills that increase social and emotional competence, resilience, emotional intelligence, happiness, cognitive abilities, and psychological flexibility significantly improves the outcomes of their lives resulting in: * Higher high school graduation rates * Prevention of mental health problems * Higher college admission rates * Stronger families * Higher college graduation rates * Less likely to be involved in crime and violence * Less likely to have drug and alcohol problems * Better long-term physical...

In the future, the value of Primary Prevention, which is preventing illnesses and diseases before they occur will be the standard of care. Science evincing that we currently treat symptoms, not the root causes of illnesses, exists. True Prevention: Optimum Health: Remember Galileo takes up the challenge of building a bridge to the future where prevention is done at the root cause. In layman's terms, practical solutions are provided to improve human thriving now. We remind readers to remember Galileo because of the tendency to resist information that conflicts with what we believe we know...

Suicide prevention efforts are aimed at identifying individuals at (or near) a crisis and attempting to stop an outcome for which momentum has already built to a point where significant psychological pain is the best expected outcome and death is the worst case outcome (unless you want to include the murder/suicide scenario) with its attendant outcomes. This is not good enough. It is far from the best we can do. Primary Prevention is where suicide prevention efforts should focus the majority of the resources. Primary Prevention aims to avoid any of the negative outcomes by avoiding the...

Is there a false premise that is blinding us to the truth? Is the reason our jails and prisons are bursting at the seams because we have been blinded by a lie? Does this lie prevent us from seeing a truth that has been proven repeatedly by scientists who cannot connect the dots between their work and the problem with the current system because they, too, believe this lie? Research has repeatedly shown that sustained low emotional states precede criminal activity. Research has also shown that positive emotional states lead to increased kindness, corporate citizenship, better relationships,...

Your organization can achieve the ultimate competitive advantage of enthusiastic and empowered employees if your aim at the right target in your employee engagement program. Strategies to increase engagement based on research help you achieve your goals. Employee Engagement lingers around 30%, with 20% of employees actively disengaged and half not engaged because traditional methods of increasing employee engagement aim at the wrong target. Individual employee characteristics--the way they think about work and life--as well as their stress levels have a tremendous impact on employee...