The Mills International Center will conclude its “It’s Always Sunny in the Mills Center” event with a public presentation and workshop on happiness.
Vania Situmeang, Mills International Center co-program manager, said the event “is designed to create a sense of happiness and lighten the moods of students and faculty.”
The University Counseling & Testing Center will host the “How Happy Are You?” workshop on Monday in the EMU Mills International Center. Carla Davey, a psychology intern at the Counseling & Testing Center, is coordinating the presentation.
“The workshop is on positive psychology, and positive psychology is focused on increasing positive emotions and recognizing people’s strengths,” Davey said. “A lot of time during the winter it can be hard to get in touch with some of those positive emotions and do actions that make people feel good.”
Situmeang said Davey would discuss three major points: the study of contentment with the past, happiness in the present and hope for the future.
“The presentation will be informational at the beginning, about positive psychology, to fill people in on the situations,” Davey said. “Then there will be a discussion on what people are doing to create this positive energy and emotion, if at all.”
After that, there will be an activity session, including a questionnaire and small-group work designed to create positive ways to increase happiness in daily life. Situmeang said the workshop would measure people’s happiness.
Other “It’s Always Sunny in the Mills Center” events included a Hawaiian game night, a feature presentation of Wall-E, and a “funny corner” with bright colors and Hawaiian and beach theme decorations designed for people with seasonal affective disorder.