Beyond Happiness and Success: The New Science of Self-transcendence
This is Paul T. P. Wong’s Keynote Abstract for the upcoming 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference. This keynote will provide a framework for existential positive psychology (PP 2.0) which embraces suffering as the foundation for flourishing. According...
Positive Psychology Goes to Hell and Back
My friends in Taiwan call me a laughing Buddha. Most of my friends comment on my happy smile. An English as a second language (ESL) school even used my photo as an example of happy smile. Does anyone know that I live with pain day and night? Literally, I experience...
Two Different Models of Human Flourishing: Seligman’s PERMA Model Versus Wong’s Self-transcendence Model
Seligman’s (2011) PERMA model is limited by its failure to address existential suffering, which can undermine our best efforts to achieve flourishing. Wong’s model is developed from the framework of existential positive psychology (PP 2.0): Existential...
Meaning Conference 2025 will be the INPM’s first in-person conference with a virtual option after the pandemic.