Here's the Amazon review:
"What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement. A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, Dr. May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives. His insightful book offers us a way through our fears into a fully realized self."

To describe the workshop and the contents, we would like to share here the post that one of the participants, from Hat Trick Consultancy, wrote on her blog:

"An international conference like #ECPP2014 offers an abundance of possibilities to get acquainted with a subject, like positive psychology. Every day we could choose from lots of workshops, paper sessions and symposia. Richard and I coordinated our programs, to learn as much as we could. Every break we told each other what we saw and heard. Already at the first break I found him with radiating eyes and a smile from ear to ear, eager to tell what he experienced. He attended the workshop of Edite Amorim from THINKING-BIG on ‘Positive Leadership, changing leaders from within.’

His first words were: ‘It was a workshop, so we worked! We walked and talked and got connected. Edite has so much energy, she energizes her whole audience.’

In Edites vision, powerful teams show 5 characteristics:

1.       Empathy and attention to colleagues
2.       Powerful communication (active listening, information flowing)
3.       Commitment to the goal
4.       Feeling of belonging & meaning
5.       Continuous improvement of goals & methods

She illustrated her vision with the story of a young Swedish couple that started a restaurant that has many volunteer-chefs. They all come to learn leadership from the chef and owner. And like this chef-leader, throughout the workshop Edite let the attendants see, hear, feel and almost smell these characteristics with simple but joyful tasks. Of course I won’t reveal those tasks, you just have to come to experience her workshop your selves. But at http://www.thinking-big.com/about.html you can peak and see the slides.

One great point of view of Edite I like to share with you, because so many organizations still try to shove their employees in sets of competences or job requirements, instead of looking at the qualities their employees already have: Everybody starts on his or her own level. There is no good, better or worse: this is your level and from that level you can improve. You are good as you are, challenge yourself to become even better!

Somewhere during the #ECPP2014 we exchanged business cards and Edite got my card with ‘Miracles’, the only card that fits her!

Here you find a video from Edite Amorim, explaining the BIG THINKING concept."

(By Francine ten Hoedt)

And here one review more by another participant in our Workshop, Bridget Grenville-Cleave, published in the Positive Psychology News Daily:

"During the four day conference I took part in many marvelous workshops, among them a workshop by Edite Amorim titled workshop, Positive Leadership – Changing Leaders from Within. There we discussed the importance of taking a strengths-based approach at work. Edite explained that, in her experience, getting the most out of leaders depends on them being self-aware, as well as them encouraging the best from their staff.
We kicked off the workshop with a simple warm-up exercise aimed at creating closer connections. We took a pen and a bunch of Post-It notes, and mingling around the room, introduced ourselves to others. After each encounter we could write a compliment or other positive comment about the person we’d just met, put it on a Post-It which we stuck to their back. In just a few minutes we’d connected with half a dozen or more people, reversed the in-built negativity bias, sharpened our strengths-spotting abilities and received a host of compliments from people we’d only just met. It still feels good looking back at those Post-It compliments now, 3 or so weeks later, even though I have no idea who wrote them. Other people matter! To see the Post-it exercise in action, watch the video on the front page of her THINKING-BIG Website."

From the 1st to the 4th of July, Thinking-Big’s team is in Amsterdam for the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology, with 920 participants from 50 different countries!
During the 4 days of the conference there will be 34 workshops, one of which will be presented by Thinking-Big! It is very good to be able to participate in this big conference and with it to have the opportunity to show our work to people that work in the same field.

From the opening day some interesting ideas stood out that we want to share:
-          All of us working in Positive Psychology are the “progress implementers” (Carmelo Vazquez).
-          The importance of two components that should always be present: Openness and Criticism, that is, to be open to new ideas but with the ability to criticize them (Hans Henrik Knoop).

The opening keynote was presented by Barbara Fredrickson, specialist on Positive Emotions and Love research, who, based on psychophysiological and bio-behaviourist studies, showed a clear relationship between Love and Health. The presented studies show that increasing the number of daily positive emotions (for example, through “loving-kindness” meditation) it is possible to increase the expression of biologically healthy behaviours.

Tomorrow we will be back for another day at the Conference, looking forward to learn more, and tomorrow is the day for Thinking-Big’s workshop! Let’s do it!