I’m Caroline Rogers, I’m from East London in Hackey and I work as a professional organiser - which means I help people get to grips with their possessions and make a home that feels more aligned with their self-identity. It's the best job ever. Everyone I work for, I've loved. but anyway let's not get distracted… :)
What does positive psychology mean to you?
A useful, constant invitation to look at life and the world and everything in a more helpful way. So it's like an invitation to notice what's happening, notice the automatic response, and then to have the choice of how we choose to respond in perhaps a more useful way for us and the rest of the world.
So what positive psychology intervention has had the greatest impact in your life?
Okay, I didn't have to think about that at all. It was character strengths. So it was something about (for me) discovering my own strengths meant that I could be more me. And so it means that I have no shame at all about writing lots of love on an email because it is my answer to everything is to love it. But also the strengths in others, that theirs might not be love it might be something else and so use that.
So what about the community? What in positive psychology intervention could make the biggest difference in our community?
Okay. It hasn't been validated yet, but it needs to be - it's really really important and I think positive psychology overlooks the importance of home. Home is an absolute platform for our wellbeing and so I would love to see a PPI that's connected with either curating home, #decluttering, #organising. The sort of “aaaah” we get from just knowing that when we open a drawer everything's going to be in it, we will be able to find it. We can't control what's going on in the world, we can control what's in a drawer! There's a reason that we call people homeless, not houseless.
And a one-line message of hope for the world.
Okay, my hope is that more findings from possible psychology will weave their way into the vernacular of parenting, education, work so that lots of those common sense PPIs become common practice.
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