Elina Teboul - Exploring Positive Psychology - Podcast Episode
Elina Teboul shares her expertise on positive psychology
SUMMARY:
Discover some of the secrets of people who flourish and thrive at life. Contrary to conventional thought, it is not an endless supply of money. In this conversation, find out what positive psychology is, the relationship it has with mindfulness, and how it effects us all in business and personal relationships. Hear what lawyers are often challenged by, and uncover ideas that may lead you to a more positive, creative, and collaborative approach to work and life.
Join Sarah Parkins and Elina Teboul as they discuss thriving and flourishing using the principles of positive psychology and mindfulness. Elina, founder of the Lightup Lab, a performance coach, and prior corporate lawyer, shares her expertise and insights, and offers you different techniques to explore that can be used to impact performance, creativity, emotions, resiliency, and more.
Learn about positive psychology, what it brings into our life, how it makes a difference, and why it’s invaluable for us all to apply daily principles, and especially at the moment as we cope with the very real effects of Covid-19 in our communities.
Elina Teboul is a performance and executive coach, consultant, speaker, and founder of The LightUp Lab, which inspires and empowers people and organizations through positive psychology, mindfulness and coaching.
Elina is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School where she teaches a course on Positive Lawyering. The course focuses on how developments in positive psychology and executive coaching can be leveraged to produce positive and peak performance lawyering.
Elina began her career as a corporate lawyer practicing at Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP and explored in-house legal work at Credit Suisse. Elina is passionate about philanthropy and spent two years working for the Allan & Gill Gray Foundation as both legal counsel and philanthropic adviser.
Elina has completed the Columbia University Executive Coaching Program. She holds an M.A. in Psychology from Columbia University, Teacher’s College, a B.A. in Economics from New York University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
During the conversation these are some of the references shared:
The Lightup Lab: Custom workshops, 1:1 coaching. Contact: elina@lightuplab.com
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor: Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar
Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine: In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. Nearly 95 percent of the executives in his Stanford lectures conclude that these Saboteurs cause "significant harm" to achieving their full potential. With Positive Intelligence, you can learn the secret to defeating these internal foes
PRODUCED BY:
Parsley Sky, the podcast series, thoughtfully explores the profound and positive lessons of life throughout the COVID-19 pandemic experience. Sarah Parkins hosts conversations with scientists, creatives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders, so that we discover ways to blossom, commit, and connect more passionately as individuals, families, communities, organizations, and businesses around the globe, as well as taking care of our planet.
The production of this podcast episode is made possible thanks to the incredible talent of David Obuchowski, and with special mention for the composed music by David which is licensed exclusively to the Parsley Sky podcast series.
Duration: 32 minutes, 15 seconds
Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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