Flourishing through Creativity and the Arts

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This course in the Applied Positive Psychology series addresses the question, "How do creative endeavors and engagement with the arts contribute to well-being?" The link between well-being, creativity, and the arts is an emerging field. In this course, you will gain an understanding of the major theories and fundamental findings related to creativity, the arts, and flourishing, including the scientific principles that underlie this research. This course will integrate the latest findings from cutting-edge research (including findings from the new field of the Positive Humanities, launched right here at Penn), and discuss implications for practice and application. Finally, you'll be able to examine interventions and techniques that are emerging from the research, and test them to see how well they may apply in your own life.