Meaning Conference 2021 Summit Symposium: From Vulnerability to Resilience – Introduction
Abstract The paradoxical truth is that vulnerability can save lives. For example, denying that one is vulnerable to the deadly coronavirus and refusing to be vaccinated has caused many unnecessary deaths. Vulnerability is an existential reality. It becomes our...
Integrative Meaning Therapy workshop
This is Paul T. P. Wong’s preconference workshop abstract for the upcoming 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference. The prolonged disruption of life caused by the pandemic and mandatory lockdowns has severely tested the human capacity to adapt. While some...
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...
Meaning Conference 2021: President’s Welcome Message
What a difference a year’s delay has made! The pandemic has achieved something I was not able to after 4 decades of research and publication on the positive psychology of suffering. With daily exposure to images of death like the above, and the constant drumbeat of...
Song of life in the face of death
Don’t waste your time waiting for a break, Value your present and live fully right NOW; There are always exciting things to do, Whatever your present condition, everyday offers opportunities to: Be grateful for whatever you have, Appreciate life as it is, Do...
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...
A Festival to Celebrate the Human Spirit
It is the worst of times; it is the best of times. But we cannot celebrate the best without overcoming and transcending the worst. This fundamental principle of flourishing is what we want to covey at our forthcoming Meaning Conference. By all accounts, it is the most...
Dancing with Death
I) Death Avoidance Dance I can sense your dark presence, whether I go East or West. Where can I hide from you? How can I flee from Thanatos? Don’t follow me like a shadow. Don’t haunt me like a hungry ghost. Let me eat, drink & have a good time, Until...
