Joyfulness and Creativity

I was talking with Year 3 boy in a South London school and asked him what he liked to do when he got home after school.

I never would have predicted his answer. 'I really like to go into my room and listen to opera.'

Making healthy people possible involves increasing health-making actions, accessing joyfulness, acknowledging the creative happiness and healthy options that everybody has or does or that are possible.

'Problems' bring people in contact with psychologists. Too many professionals are trained into narrow pathways of relating, identifying problems and responding to problems, with too few skills in hearing and acknowledging the diverse range of creative options that can be used to sustain happiness, personal agency and joy.