Your current wellbeing is a 60 /60.
Your PERMA+ Snapshot
Three things to know about Your PERMA+ Snapshot
- Keep coming back and taking this survey. These questions are meant to be answered regularly. Your journey to wellbeing is ongoing and we’re here to support you every step of the way.
- Use your PERMA+ Snapshot to reflect on your wellbeing at this moment. Which elements of your wellbeing are you satisfied with and which would you like to improve? Wellbeing is dynamic; it changes over time and can be positively impacted by practicing the skills of wellbeing.
- Improve your wellbeing. Start practicing the skills of happiness today. These evidence-informed skills of well-being are accessible to you, your autistic students and children, and all those who support them.
Choose a PERMA+ category that you want to improve from below.
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Positive Emotions
We can increase our wellbeing by enhancing how we experience positive emotions and pleasure in both frequency and intensity. Positive emotions such as love, joy, gratitude, pride, inspiration, hope, interest, serenity, amusement, and awe. We have the capacity to increase our positive emotions about the past, present, and the future.
These skills can help enhance both the frequency and intensity of how you
experience positive emotions. Pick one and start today.
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Need a spark of joy in your life? Try Jolts of Joy for an instant boost to your wellbeing.
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Practicing gratitude each day? Try a gratitude practice to improve your students’ mental health.
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Want to improve your mood? Try engaging in regular
physical activity for happiness.
Engagement
An optimal human experience, which has been referred to as “flow,” is when we are truly absorbed and engaged in a situation or task by using our skills, strengths, and full attention. We lose a sense of self, lose track of time, and concentrate intensely on the present. The more we are able to experience this type of engagement, the more likely we are to experience wellbeing.
Trying to build opportunities to experience more flow? Try one or more of these skills.
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It’s easy to spot what’s wrong … But can you spot what’s right in yourself and those around you?
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Need a spark of joy in your life? Try Jolts of Joy for an instant boost to your wellbeing.
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See the positive side of people! Strength Spot to improve your wellbeing, relationships and life satisfaction.
Relationships
As innately social beings, relationships are fundamental to our wellbeing. Connections to others can give us purpose and meaning, increase motivation, boost our positive emotions, and support us during our hard times, increasing our resilience. We have the ability to cooperate, show empathy, the capacity to love, offer compassion and kindness because the bottom line is … other people matter.
These are all skills that can enhance our ability to connect to others. Build stronger relationships by selecting one of these skills to practice.
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Enhance your relationships, write a gratitude letter to someone who has positively impacted your life.
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It’s easy to spot what’s wrong … But can you spot what’s right in yourself and those around you?
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Want a quick relationship boost? Try spending a little more time celebrating the good together.
Meaning
A sense of meaning and purpose comes from serving a cause and connecting to something bigger than ourselves. Whether this is family, science, politics, religion, a social cause that helps people of the planet, having a deep sense of purpose increases our wellbeing. Purpose motivates us, protects us from setbacks and failures, and provides us with a greater connection to the world and those around us.
Practice these skills to learn how to connect to something bigger than yourself.
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Practicing gratitude each day? Try a gratitude practice to improve your students’ mental health.
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It’s easy to spot what’s wrong … But can you spot what’s right in yourself and those around you?
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Enhance your relationships, write a gratitude letter to someone who has positively impacted your life.
Accomplishment
We tend to pursue competence, success, achievement, and mastery in a variety of domains. Whether we are seeking to better ourselves through healthy routines and self-care, master a hobby or skill, achieve a valuable goal or promotion at work, or win a competitive event, accomplishment is an important element of wellbeing.
Select one of these skills of happiness to experience greater success and goal achievement.
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Measure what matters most. Your wellbeing! Start here with the PERMA+ Snapshot.
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The little things count, and add up!! Use a Positivity Portfolio to feel more positive emotions.
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Practicing gratitude each day? Try a gratitude practice to improve your students’ mental health.
+Health
Although health was not included in Dr. Martin Seligman’s original framework of wellbeing and flourishing, we know that it is a vital element of wellbeing. Nutrition, movement, and sleep fuel our bodies and minds to get us ready to pursue each of the other elements of PERMA, enhancing our wellbeing!
Practice one or more of these skills to improve your physical health.
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Want to improve your mood? Try engaging in regular
physical activity for happiness.
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The little things count, and add up!! Use a Positivity Portfolio to feel more positive emotions.
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Need a spark of joy in your life? Try Jolts of Joy for an instant boost to your wellbeing.
Positive Emotions
These skills can help enhance both the frequency and intensity of how you experience positive emotions.
Engagement
Trying to build opportunities to experience more flow?
Relationships
These are all skills that can enhance our ability to connect to others.
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Meaning
Practice these skills to learn how to connect to something bigger than yourself.
Accomplishments
Select one of these skills of happiness to experience greater success and goal achievement.
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Practice one or more of these skills to improve your physical health.
Proof Positive wants to impact the wellbeing of the autism community.
This is the collective PERMA+ of every member of the autism community.
Let’s work together to promote greater wellbeing for ALL.
The PERMA+ Theory is a framework developed by Dr. Martin Seligman, the founding father of positive psychology. PERMA+ stands for the essential elements of human flourishing. Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Mattering, Accomplishment, and Health. Learn more about the science of happiness.
