Step 1: Assume you want to encourage a 29-year-old man that he needs to move out of his parents’ house and be on his own; he does have sufficient income from his job to make it happen.
Create a project for promoting well-being for this person.
What guidelines would you give him to successfully build well-being appropriate to his age? Incorporate the following in your response:
How can you use the aesthetic sense of transforming tragedy and sadness into the ability to promote hope, compassion, relief, empathy, and courage for this man who is dealing with living on his own so he will also have a sense of well-being and meaningful life?
Add to your project a description of options he could take for each of the paths to maturity: Achievers, conservers, seekers, and the depleted.
Your communication needs to present a rationale that makes it plausible that he could successfully perform any of the paths and successfully cope with responsibly moving on his own.
Add in guidelines for coping with anxiety by the use of the integrated emotional regulation style. Also explain the drawbacks of using any of the other styles: Defended, complex, and dysregulated.
Step 2: Prepare an integration model for how you can implement the following towards your synthesis project goal.
What elements within the creative person could you use to foster your own ability to increase creativity?
What new focus could you hypothesize to go beyond intelligence in the areas of excellence and creativity? How can you make that the center of your striving for excellence?
Using the last 4 stages of Erikson’s psychosocial development (Ego identity, intimacy, generative, and ego integrity – page 237, Table 8.1), what positive psychology principles from this chapter could you use to help these stages become even more adaptive?
Using the Five-C’s of competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring, devise a plan to foster and adopt these qualities into your personal routines that you think will promote your ability to flourish and thrive over your lifespan. Explain how your plan promotes the positivity effect and selective optimization with compensation.
Describe which of the paths of maturity most applies to you, define the personal challenges that you would have if you follow that path, and describe options on how to best meet those challenges.
Which emotional regulation style (integrated, defended, complex, or dysregulated) best fits you? How can you use that style to promote your well-being over the long-term of your lifespan?
