Meaning and Valued Living

Course Enrolment Opens 2023

Course Description

The last few decades globally has witnessed unprecedented and growing rates of mental illnesses, such as depression, loneliness and anxiety, stressful lifestyles, high rates of divorce. Living without a clear and confident sense of meaning, values and purpose in life has resulted. This course covers the complexities of ‘meaning’, addressing the problem in defining meaning, different types of meaning, and ways to increase meaning in life. The link between values and meaning is explored including the importance of focusing on values, beliefs about values, different types of motivation underpinning values, and ways to foster value-congruent behavior.

Topics

• The complexity in defining and applying the construct of meaning
• Key aspects of meaning, the sources of meaning and the four different types of meaning
• The importance of meaning for psychological wellbeing.
• Meaning-based coping strategies to create meaning in your life
• Value awareness and the link between values and meaning.
• Assess your core values using different techniques.
• Impact of rigid beliefs about values and strategies to reduce these
• Intrinsic and extrinsic values and their underlying motivation
• Barriers to value expression, mechanisms for increasing value expression
• Values-based techniques to promote value-congruent action

Certification

Participants are awarded a ‘Certificate of Completion’, based on completing lessons within the flexible timeframe. A pass mark for each quiz per module (5 multiple choice questions/1 hour), is required for receiving the certificate.

Who This Course is for?

The course is suited to anyone who seeks a scientific approach to study wellbeing and to gain knowledge to apply positive psychology and wellbeing science principles in the various life domains, such as relationships, family, career, religion, health, etc . Please note: the courses do not carry professional accreditation.

What is Included in this Course?

This course includes:

• 60 page colour digital handout
• 30 page colour digital workbook
• Lifetime access to the course material
• Lesson video & audio presentations with Aisha Meguid
• Many exercises and activities
• Extra reading resources20