Positive movement,
Flourishing Lives
Savor mental fitness, physical vitality, positive relationships, optimal health, and happiness like never before. Via “The Power of Play,” I can help you create enjoyable and meaningful movement to enrich your life, health, and well-being. You will learn to embody “Happy Habits,” and flourish and flow at home, work, and recreation. Making playfulness your calling, and a priority, is a joyful positive difference for you and the world.
My New Book!
Glad to meet you!
My mission is to help people live their most vital lives.
The foundation of my core beliefs is that the combination of intentional physical movement and positive psychology leads to a life full of positivity, purpose, vibrant health, mental agility, and joy. As a pioneer fitness leader, expert in the psychology of well-being and movement science, I have learned it’s possible to live a life at any age, filled with meaning, vitality, and appreciation. Your body can be a path to a better you.
I am one of the first 100 people worldwide to earn a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of world renowned, Dr. Martin Seligman. After MAPP, I studied for my PhD in Human Movement Psychology from Temple University Kinesiology, earning my doctorate in 2015.
Through my professional speaking, writing, teaching, and fitness program design, I have led tens of thousands of people, and organizations, large and small, to move toward flourishing. Take a deeper dive with me to gain the skills, tools, and guidance you need to optimize your health and live your most inspiring, vibrant life. Let’s work together.
Wishing you loving happiness and flourishing health,
— Elaine O’Brien, PhD, MAPP
Elaine O'Brien, PhD, MAPP
Helping people experience positive change, better health, greater fitness, optimal performance, and meaningful relationships.
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WORK WITH ME
Consulting
Dr. Elaine O’Brien consults with organizations and teams of all sizes and offers content creation, train-the-trainer workshops, appreciative feedback strategies, resilient well-being, stress management, and specialty programs and classes that help people revitalize and thrive.
Speaking Engagements
Elaine is an engaging speaker, specializing in positive psychology, fitness science, and positive movement. Elaine’s content includes positivity, managing stress, finding new pathways to happiness, resilient wellbeing, and harnessing personal and group positive energy. Dr. Elaine O’Brien’s newest signature well-being and thriving presentation is: “The SHAPES of Transcendent Movement.”
Fitness, Well-Being, and Resilience Program Design
With your team’s needs in mind, Elaine designs customized well-being programs based on Positive Movement Psychology, Resilience Science and Lifestyle as Medicine. Elaine’s programs help people improve their motivation, boost confidence, and create a more positive mindset steeped in radiant vitality.
My Latest Book - the power of play!
Would you like to experience more happiness and spontaneity in your life? Do you feel life isn’t as fun and exciting as it could be and crave more positivity, closer relationships, and a deeper understanding of what matters most to you? You need to play!
In the book, The Power of Play: Optimize Your Joy Potential, you will discover how igniting joy and uplifting experiences through the power of play can transform your life, help you through challenging times and even lead you on a path to appreciation and great fulfillment. Play positively matters.
“I have learned it’s possible to live a life at any age filled with meaning, vitality, and appreciation.”
-Elaine O’Brien, PHD, MAPP
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