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Exercise boosts teach wellbeing by boosting happiness, energy and confidence. Both yours and your students! Do you ever feel that with all the demands on your

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The academic and psychological benefits of exercise in healthy children and adolescents

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The academic and psychological benefits of exercise in healthy children and adolescents

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The academic and psychological benefits of exercise in healthy children and adolescents on JSTOR

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This review examines the psychological benefits exercise is connected to in healthy children and adolescents. Studies on the effect of exercise on academic perf...

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THE ROLE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING OUR WELL-BEING DURING & POST-COVID PANDEMIC

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THE ROLE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING OUR WELL-BEING DURING & POST-COVID PANDEMIC

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This editorial presents some key domains with explorations of the benefits of the Performing Arts and how these can be practically applied globally across our current COVID pandemic landscape and beyond. More than ever before there is a need to acknowledge that, despite complex logistics and ethical and economic issues in delivering effective performing arts programs for health and well-being, its evidence-based benefits cover a range of disciplines, from psychology to anthropology, sociology to medicine making the approaches transdisciplinary, and enriching end-users lives throughout, but not exclusively, in their coproduction. Performing arts programs may also offer the way for alternative solutions and pathways where conventional approaches may have reached the end of the road and helping to embed biopsychosocial models of wellbeing promotion through social prescribing. The COVID pandemic has offered the opportunity to revisit how we look at prevention, promotion, management, and treatment of ill-health in unprecedented adversity. This editorial hopes to start this important conversation.

Keywords

Performing arts; well-being; COVID; prevention; promotion; management; treatment

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performing arts; well-being; covid; prevention; promotion; management; treatment

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THE ROLE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING OUR WELL-BEING DURING & POST-COVID PANDEMIC | Roncaglia | Psychological Thought

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THE ROLE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING OUR WELL-BEING DURING & POST-COVID PANDEMIC

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Geographies of brain culture: optimism and optimisation in workplace training programmes

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Geographies of brain culture: optimism and optimisation in workplace training programmes

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Abstract This article outlines the strategic alignment of novel modes of emotional and psychological governance characteristic of 'brain culture' with intensified forms of workplace performance management within specifically neoliberal organisational cultures. We introduce the recent emergence of positive psychology-based workplace training programmes in the UK human resources field as a new empirical site for the study of cultural geographies of education. We demonstrate how such programmes promote a culture of optimism and optimal functioning, focussing on the cultivation of positive emotions among individual workers and in workplace cultures. This emphasis on well-being sits somewhat uncomfortably in the context of the global financial crisis, the United Kingdom's recent recession and the diminishing role of the UK state in the provision of welfare, but is wholly concurrent with the neoliberal promotion of 'lifelong learning' and the spread of individualised practices of performance management in the UK workplaces. The article reports on in-depth interviews with trainers and practitioners who variously use positive psychology, mindfulness training and strengths-based competencies in workplaces in the United Kingdom and outlines their connection to the development of positive psychology as a new academic discipline in the United States. In outlining the importance of context for understanding changing workplace cultures and worker subjectivities, a cultural geography analysis of rapid advancements in psychological knowledge provides a useful new perspective on the links between neoliberalism, the behaviour change and happiness 'industries' and brain culture.

Journal Information

cultural geographies is an international journal of peer-reviewed scholarly research on and theoretical interventions into the cultural dimensions of environment, landscape, space, and place. We encourage papers that engage the cultural politics of geographical issues. cultural geographies is particularly committed to the development of methodologically rigorous interpretive approaches that explore how meaning, materiality and/or practice are implicated in the (re)production, maintenance and transformation of cultural worlds as they are materially constituted, represented, imagined, and lived. We do not restrict our remit to any particular methodological or theoretical orientation, but publish both empirically grounded, and theoretically speculative pieces designed to further understanding and debate. We welcome contributions from scholars and practitioners across the arts, humanities, and social and environmental sciences.

Publisher Information

Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality content publishing more than 900 journals and over 800 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. A growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company's continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. www.sagepublishing.com

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Abstract This article outlines the strategic alignment of novel modes of emotional and psychological governance characteristic of 'brain culture' with intensified forms of workplace performance management within specifically neoliberal organisational cultures. We introduce the recent emergence of positive psychology-based workplace training programmes in the UK human resources field as a new empirical site for the study of cultural geographies of education.