Welcome to the MAPP Alum website. |
MAPP Magazine Now Online The MAPP Alumni Magazine is now being published in a web-based format with more frequent updates. The mission of the MAPP Magazine is to keep Penn MAPP alumni connected and share the wide range of our community's applications of positive psychology made accessible to a broader audience with hopes for inspiring collaboration and growth in the field. Visit the MAPP Magazine site for access to the the latest articles. Past editions of the MAPP Magazine are available here. | For the Public Webinars about ways to thrive in a time of crisis Quick videos demonstrating a way to gain join in movement MAPP Alum whose expertise may serve your application needs or geographic area
If you are a MAPP alum, log in to access members-only content! For example, consider the fete/summit history page with pointers to artifacts from previous year's community gatherings, including pre-reads and presentation slides. Get inspired, learn more about the vision for this year's MAPP Alum weekend, and register for Fete 2025! |
Starting in 2023, MAPP Alumni created two important action groups: DEIA+ Library: MAPP Alum's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee (DEIA+) has curated books, news articles, journal articles, podcasts, assessments, videos, and websites with the goal of inspiring students, researchers, and practitioners to be more culturally responsive in order to ensure that positive psychology remains relevant as our demographics continue to change. M4FP: We’re excited to announce that MAPP for a Flourishing Planet (M4FP) is evolving into Regenerate: People & Planet — a new IPPA Community of Practice devoted to nurturing human and planetary flourishing, launching January 2026. Please join us as we co-create circles for learning, reflection, and action that foster a culture of active care and regeneration for people and planet. Scan the QR code below, or click here, to enroll and help shape the future together.
Thanks to contributors to 2024 MAPP Sponsors 2025 Sponsorship Drive Underway Thank you to the donors who sponsored our 2024 fete or chose to be sponsoring donors to the MAPP Grant Program. Impact of the MAPP Grant Program so far Grant Donation made by a MAPP-owned business:
Sponsors of the 2024 Fete The following MAPP-owned businesses and individuals sponsored the 2024 fete, the annual one-day conference organized by MAPP alumni to help alumni stay connected to each other and keep their positive psychology skills sharp. They contributed at multiple levels of sponsorship. Love Level Sponsor
Gratitude Level Sponsors
Hope Level Sponsors: Elaine O'Brien, PhD and Tom Rotelli |
Here you can learn about a growing community of positive psychology practitioners
who earned a master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania studying the science of human flourishing.
Perhaps someone in this community could help you increase well-being and engagement in your workplace, bring resilience practices to your schools, coach you through a major life transition, or help you build stronger relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. Our site will introduce you to MAPP alumni and their current work.
Members of this community have written outstanding books, blogs, and articles on many aspects of human flourishing.
Are you looking for coaches to work with executives or individuals to enhance performance? For help with writing projects to make a mark on the world? For someone with experience helping organizations work collaboratively toward important goals? For someone who has helped school districts build on the strengths of teachers, parents, and students? For someone who can help with major life challenges such as dealing with new babies or aging parents? All of these levels of expertise exist in our community.
We are friendly, kind, and encouraging towards anybody who shares our commitment to increase human flourishing around the world. Our collective goal is to see 51% of the world population flourishing by 2051.
We contribute to this goal by practicing positive psychology in schools, corporations, healthcare organizations, universities, and the media. We write books and articles about evidence-based approaches that work. We teach courses and give lectures on the science of positive psychology at all educational levels.
We do this all over the world. We have graduates in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Canada, Mexico, the US, Europe, and Africa. MAPP alumni are proud to be an international and diverse community.
There is something intangible that the MAPP alumni have. We call it “MAPP magic.” It is a deep sense of love, kindness, and shared purpose that we experience when we go through the MAPP program at UPENN. One of our goals is to keep the MAPP magic alive and share it with others throughout the world. We cannot wait to share our passion about positive psychology with you!
With love, The MAPP alumni
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