I have been lucky enough to know Dr Sue Roffey since my days of living in New Zealand (2002-2009) and running Circle Time and Flourishing Schools Training and she respectively was also living, writing and running Circle Solutions Training in Australia.
Since then we’ve both returned to the UK and in the past few years, I have got to finally spend time with her and had the pleasure of working alongside her as part of the Education Wellbeing Collective #EdWellColl.
Sue is a psychologist, academic, author, activist and speaker. She holds posts as Honorary Associate Professor at University College, London, an Associate Fellow at the University of Exeter, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Western Sydney University, and is also affiliated to the Wellbeing Institute at Cambridge University. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools.
Her latest book, Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology can Build a Brighter Future, where she is a contributing author, came out in the summer – and the timing could not have been better.
Creating the World We Want to Live In challenges long-held beliefs and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world. Weaving together the latest well-being science with accessible stories of hope, it offers a blueprint of what works to create flourishing lives and communities.
The unique collective of authors are experts and practitioners in positive psychology and leaders in their respective fields. Together they have created an optimistic vision for a world that would work for everyone.
The book is in three parts:
- What makes for a good life?
- The foundations of everyday flourishing
- The world around us
Creating the World We Want to Live In shows how it doesn’t have to be like this. The pandemic has shown us that at an individual and community level we can work together, help each other, and take action to promote change. The authors explore different political models and the powerful potential of ‘positive politics’ built around honest information sharing and effective public consultation and involvement in key decision making.
Creating the World We Want to Live In is both ambitious and aspirational. It is an essential read for anyone involved in public policy and politics or who would simply like to help create positive change in the world, their institutions or communities.
Given the challenges in our world today this is a book I highly recommend reading.
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