Center for the Advancement of Well-Being

CWB Senior Scholar Millie Rivera Works at the Intersection of Well-Being, Diversity, and Inclusion

  By: Whitney Hopler, Communications Manager Diversity and inclusion are a vital part of well-being, and as our culture grapples with social justice issues, our […]

Senior Scholars Cher Chen and Graziella McCarron Collaborate to Research Student Activists’ Well-Being

by Whitney Hopler, Communications Director Two of our center’s new senior scholars, Cher Weixia Chen, Ph.D. and Graziella McCarron, Ph.D., are collaborating on a research […]

Leading Well: Becoming a Mindful Leader-Coach Executive Summary

by Steve Gladis, Ph.D., CWB Senior Scholar This is an excerpt from Gladis’ book, Leading Well: Becoming a Mindful Leader-Coach. Gladis co-teaches the Positive Leadership […]

Dr. Suzie Carmack Shows How to Optimize Well-Being and Work Performance

by Whitney Hopler, Communications Manager Dr. Suzie Carmack, who serves on Mason’s adjunct faculty developing and teaching courses for the Department of Global and Community […]

Leadership: New on the Job? Go Slow to Go Fast

by Dr. Steve Gladis, CWB Senior Scholar As a leader starting a new job at a company, you’ll often hear executives and hiring managers tell […]

Book from CWB Senior Scholar Steve Gladis: “Self-Leadership: Become the CEO of Your Own Career”

CWB Senior Scholar Dr. Steve Gladis, who co-teaches our Positive Leadership program, has released the book Self-Leadership: Become the CEO of Your Own Career. Gladis, […]

Are There Different Types of Subjective Well-Being?

by James E. Maddux, Ph.D., CWB Senior Scholar This column is the second in a series that will deal with a variety of issues in […]

Theories of Subjective Well-Being

by James E. Maddux, Ph.D., CWB Senior Scholar In my last column on types of subjective well-being, I described hedonic and eudaimonic ways of thinking […]

New CWB Senior Scholar: Lauren Kuykendall

Dr. Lauren Kuykendall, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, has joined our center as a senior scholar. Her teaching and research focuses on workplace […]

Positive Leadership Certificate Program Empowers Leaders

by Whitney Hopler, Communications Manager Leaders face many stressful situations and challenging problems in the workplace, but in the middle of all that, one simple […]