really confident this month right now
that’s where I had listened
my natural inclination I would be
gladly stayed home tonight
it would have saved me some jitters
before going on stage here but I
decided to activate half a resources
it’s the taste of challenges and the
curiosity also in your opinion what
percentage the population knows
really his resources his skills
his personal talents
you have an idea the answer is
less than a third of people
it means that between you and me here
tonight
less than one in three people only
really knows his skills not
huge but how come we
know as badly our resources
the brain of the human being is actually
programmed to focus more
on the negative
the problems the flaws the dangers
lurking and it is moreover
functional this is what allowed
evolution if prehistoric man
had not been paying attention to all
dangers that awaited him everywhere without
doubt he would not have survived
let’s take a more concrete example
imagine that you are in the process of
take a walk in this magnificent
forest in canada admire you beauty
azure lake color of trees
mountains you hear in the distance the
birds singing you feel the
pleasant sensation of sun heat
on your skin when suddenly
appears in front of you a grill j
good this one still looks
relatively friendly but let’s imagine
that he approaches you and makes you
face threateningly
at this moment you are going
Feel the fear or even the
panic at this moment your field
of attention your behaviors your
thoughts will be restricted to themselves
focus on one dimension your
survival and in this specific example where
your life is in danger
it’s obviously a good thing that
you are concentrating on your survival
only and not admiring the
beauty of the azure lake or
to listen to the song of birds
on the other hand if permanently in your
everyday every moment you are
constantly focused on
problems the dangers that await you
so that would be a lot less
positive unless you have grizzlies
who’s watching you on every street corner
do we ever know
what psychology researchers in
actually found is that when we feel
a negative emotion like fear
from the sadness of anger
then indeed our field of attention
shrinks itself narrows and focuses
on one dimension
what is interesting is that
the opposite when you feel a
positive emotion as joy of the
pride of well being then that
inverse that occurs
our attention show is growing
widens one becomes more creative more
flexible more concretely what that
means that if you have a
problem to solve in your
daily and that you get to put
humor or a positive emotion
in this situation then you
find solutions more easily
to your problems because you
take into account all
possible dimensions
not so easy so to enjoy
full of the beauty of this landscape
are the true dangers to us
but there is also the emotional state
in which we are
at the time of the ride if we imagine that
you were fired the day before
of your ride there is a good chance
so that instead of subjugated by the
beauty of the landscape you are rather in
brooding over ruminating your
termination
imagine now for a second
what people who suffer from
anxiety depression of alcoholism
could perceive in this landscape there is
high chances that a person
suffering from depression instead of seeing
the beauty of these mountains she saw
rather this ones or even if it goes
very bad
she may see this as to
the person
anguished even before the arrival of
first grizzlies it could be that she
see and already that about the person
suffering from alcoholism and lacking
alcohol at the time of the ride
it may be that instead of seeing
mountains and saw it a sweet
mix as a psychologist
I then asked myself a question these
people who are suffering from depression
of anxiety about alcoholism or
schizophrenia know such their
resources do their skills have they
confidence in it not sure all the more
that in psychiatric hospitals we
is generally more interested in
symptoms of patients to their
problems in the idea of reducing them
to diminish them
but suddenly we’re not interested
so much to their resources their
skills in the idea of them
increase
amplify them
and yet recent studies in
psychology have shown that when
consider the resources the
skills in a patient
then these symptoms decrease more
quickly here besides how does the
who defines health as in a state of
complete mental physical well-being and
social and not just the absence of
pathology or infirmity if the
first part the sentence can
look a bit utopian or difficult
to reach for everyone
finally what interests me here is
especially the second part be in
healthy
it’s not fair to have no more angoise
no more depressed it is also and
Above all, feeling a state of well-being
pleasant positive emotions that’s
for that reason I decided to
to be interested more in
symptoms of my patients but also to
their skills and so I
decided to develop a new tool
who gives us a kind of photograph
the most complete possible of all
resources in a patient at the moment
where I started in this
adventure
I was pretty naive or so very
optimistic it’s according to anyway
I was sure there was already
full of tools the kind reality has
been very different
this kind of tool are very rare
even nonexistent then on what is this
that I based myself to be able to
develop my new tool I got
based on empirical research that
is about happiness happiness you
tell me what is it that the
vast happiness indeed subject science
psychology tried to answer to
this question and found that for
to be happy it takes three dimensions
essential
the first is what is called the
nice life for that you have to increase
maximize the positive emotions the
pleasant sensations in your life and
we must minimize said
meaney and the negative emotions the
suffering the problem there are two
in fact
the first is that if I give you to
enjoy one of these succulent chocolates
the first one likes to tell you my incredible
the fourth I’ll give you for
is nice and when you eat
the whole box you will have a
indigestion
we get used very quickly to this kind of
happiness and the second problem it’s
that there is pain suffering
whose lives that are part of
the existing is that we can not just
decided to remove then this dimension
if it’s one of the dimensions of happiness
it’s the least important of the three
it’s a little icing on the cake
so what are the other two
dimensions to be happy the
second this is called the
committed city for his imagine you
be someone funny of creative of
curious then it will already take
awareness identify its resources in
you and then use them in your
work your leisure your relationships
social
your daily life as often as possible
and thanks to that you will feel
more passion commitment
the third dimension is life
full of meaning for that it takes friends
a family a job that makes sense
to your life who correspond to who
you really are to your values my
tool derive from these three dimensions
it is based on a deck of cards for
keep a playful aspect that motivates
Indeed, patients have found that
classic questionnaires are not
always adapted to patients
psychiatric
on the one hand they are not very motivating
to fill in and secondly for
patients who have difficulties
cognitive or linguistic it’s not
always very suitable then no one
offers them to make a card game
they sort the cards according to the
resources that correspond to them
so what exactly is measured
in this tool we measure 30 is a
different resource
the first are the qualities
personal as being
curious funny optimistic the second this
are the hobbies the passions like the
sport creative activities
the music is the third it’s the
external resources like friends the
family nature once my tool
created I went to the hospital
psychiatric to test it and there I
I came all happy with my
tool under the arm and I have disillusioned
because most of the patients that I
met me told me where it’s used to
nothing to do this tool with me me
I have only symptoms
I have no resources and yet the
most patients will let themselves
to convince is let take to the game and
at the end of the interview these same
people were telling me ah yeah you
were right it’s resources of
skills that I have in me is
things that I saw even more but there
now I see then how is this
we were going to help
patients to identify their resources
they were actually offered to do three
sort of different cards in their
evidence the first one was given them
all the cards say tell them among
these resources
which are present in your life
for example, I met eve who told me
tell me I am someone very
brave with all the events
difficult traumatic that I lived
in my existence
if I had no courage I would be more
here today to talk to you about it
then I suggested to aig to make a
second sort of cards
I kept all the resources that
was present in his life and I him
asked if resources how much
do they contribute to your
establishment
when really you go wrong at what
point she helps you feel
better
the sap told me without hesitation the
gratitude she told me you know
I have already been hospitalized eight
time
psychiatric hospital my husband my
children could have given up since
a very long time but they are there they me
support
he encourages me and that’s what gives me
a second chance
that’s what helps me get up every
morning then I suggested to aig from
make a third card sort
I took the resources that was
present in his life the one that was
absent and I told him among those
resources
is there any that you would like
to develop or strengthen further
total we passed this tool to more
of 200 patients who were suffering from
extremely psychic troubles
severe chronic and results
achieved are incredible patients
that had the most sufferings
heavy the symptoms the most dif
difficult to treat had also
many resources
here are the resources that she is more
present in the qualities
personal
recognition the humor and the
curiosity and here are the resources he
wanted to develop the most
self- confidence
hope is being more
listening to their bodies the other
thing we’ve seen is that a
once patients have taken
awareness of their resources
so after an hour of talk they
have had more confidence in themselves they get
have felt more serene more satisfied
from their lives he had the feeling that
their lives made more sense but especially
he felt happier it’s thanks
to these results obtained that a
twenty psychiatric hospitals in
Switzerland and France began to
use this new tool for
to focus more on
symptoms of their patients but also
to their resources
besides this tool is suitable for any
one each
it was also tested on people from
the general population who have us
said ah yeah that’s right this tool has me
allowed to become aware of quality
skills that I did not even know
that I had besides you all
received
a resource card that actually
hidden under the back of your chair
I give you time to discover it
ask the question there now
is it a resource that
you have or have a hobby that you have
in your life if yes is that it’s
something that you activate that you
use in difficult times
when it’s really bad
does it help you feel
better and if it’s a resource you
do not have is it a
skill you would like
develop further strengthen
if one day you went through a storm
as it can happen to anyone
or just that you doubt yourselves
take the time to identify if
resources his skills his talents
who are yours who are like a
treasure just waiting to be
activated to make you feel more
serene happy and happy
thank you
[Applause]
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