Throughout my career thus far I have had the opportunity to explore many different psychological interventions and the interventions that sit best with the professional I envision are positive psychology interventions (PPI). PPIs are a set of scientific tools and strategies that focus on increasing happiness, wellbeing, and positive cognitions and emotions. It has been my belief and the available research shows that over the years, psychologists have focused more on treatment than on prevention. Psychotherapy and assessments developed and popularized in the past mostly offered solutions to anomalies like depression, anxiety, stress, panic, and trauma, etc. Positive psychological intervention primarily focuses on raising positive feelings, positive thoughts, and positive behavior, positive psychology interventions have two components: Focusing on enhancing happiness through positive thoughts and emotions and sustaining the effects for long-term.

A great example of how we have applied positive psychology in our organisational setting is in the work we have done assisting our more mature workforce through the transition to retirement. Our team of organisational psychologists worked within the theory of active aging, also called positive aging or optimal aging which promotes the idea of growing old gracefully. Active aging PPI encourages the older population to accept their aging and live through it with joy. Whilst active aging is most often used in aiding the elderly to look at the brighter side of life through losses of loved ones and family or illness associated with old age we found the basis for this to aid our retiring workforce. Many of the participants of the program, agreed to practice positivity as a daily habit after that they would continue throughout their retirement journey.