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Working on PurposeMattering: The Signs, Sources and Significance of Feeling Valued and Adding Value for Well-BeingMattering—feeling valued and knowing one adds value—is essential to mental health, wellbeing, and flourishing. How does one recognize mattering in oneself and others? Why does it seem so elusive in personal and professional life? What can individuals do to elicit it, how can leaders celebrate it, and how do we collectively embrace it to champion the world we can all thrive in? Guest: Dr. Isaac PrilleltenskyWorking on Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 6PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk...2025-08-0551 min
Truly Human LeadershipZach Mercurio and the Power of MatteringAlmost ten years ago, our CEO, Bob Chapman’s book, Everybody Matters was released. It is a documentation of the lessons Bob and Barry-Wehmiller have learned along our journey. Among the most important insights we gained: Everybody wants to know that who they are and what they do matters. Mattering is a term that is getting more and more attention lately. A while back, you may remember episodes of our podcast that featured our friend Jennifer Wallace, who has written a book on mattering and children. And separately, Professor Isaac Prilleltensky, who has done a lot of re...2025-07-0946 minTruly Human LeadershipZach Mercurio and the Power of MatteringAlmost ten years ago, our CEO, Bob Chapman’s book, Everybody Matters was released. It is a documentation of the lessons Bob and Barry-Wehmiller have learned along our journey. Among the most important insights we gained: Everybody wants to know that who they are and what they do matters. Mattering is a term that is getting more and more attention lately. A while back, you may remember episodes of our podcast that featured our friend Jennifer Wallace, who has written a book on mattering and children. And separately, Professor Isaac Prilleltensky, who has done a lot of re...2025-07-0946 min
Mental WorkWhat does a community psychologist do? (with Shane Puxley)Bron and Shane (Community Psychologist) dive into Community Psychology! We talk about 👉🏽 the role and functions of community psychologists 👉🏻 the discipline's focus on addressing societal and systemic issues 👉 Shane's personal journey and experiences within the profession 👉🏿 the decreasing number of community psychologists in Australia 👉🏾 the integration of political and social advocacy within psychological practice. LOVE love loved this chat, thank you Shane! Guest: Shane Puxley, Community Psychologist LINKS Professor Isaac Prilleltensky who writes a lot about Community Psychology The Community Tool Box - a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social chan...2025-01-0149 min
London Writers' Salon#120: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky — Wellness For Writers, How to Matter, Writing Non-Fiction, Building Communities, Why You Should Stay Away From NarcissistsDr. Isaac Prilleltensky has dedicated his life to studying happiness. In this episide we talk to him about ‘mattering’ and how we can use his research findings to write more, worry less about our status and embrace a lightness in our creative work.*ABOUT DR. ISAACDr. Isaac Prilleltensky holds the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami. He has published 12 books and over 140 articles and chapters on wellness and creativity. His most recent book is How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and S...2024-11-0457 min
Positivity MattersFoundations of Community: Mattering and FairnessGuest: Professor Isaac Prilleltensky, Director of the Community Leadership Doctoral Program at the University of Miami
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Recorded: 6/7/2024
2024-06-1235 min
The Connected CommunityIn Pursuit of the Connected Community - A Year in Review with Sacha and CormacSend us a textSacha wishes to correct her wording around a program being offered at Mount Allison Univeristy. There is work toward a Master of Community Supported Education not a Bachelor of a community Engaged Learning.Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theoryMattering Theory: https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/the-psychologists-guide-to-living-a-good-life-through-mattering-wellness-fairness-isaac-prilleltensky/Jamie Vollmer: Schools Can’t Do it Alone: Vollmer, J. (2010). Schools cannot do it alone : building public support for America's public schoo...2024-06-011h 11
Meaningful Work MattersBuilding a "We Culture": Lessons from Dr. Isaac PrilleltenskyIn this episode, we sat down with Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Mautner Endowed Chair in Community Well-Being and Professor of Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of Miami. Dr. Prilleltensky is also an internationally renowned keynote speaker, author, researcher, and well-being advocate.
Andrew and Dr. Prilleltensky discuss the importance of meaningful work and mattering. Dr. Prilleltensky draws from his scholarly research on topics like justice, mattering, and well-being, as well as his practical experience improving workplace environments.
Dr. Prilleltenky shares insights into how feeling valued through recognition while adding value to others through meaningful contributions a...2024-04-1537 min
Good Life ProjectHow to Feel Like You Matter | Isaac PrilleltenskyWhat if mattering could be the key to living your best life? Psychologist Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky joins us to unpack the profound human need for mattering. Isaac explains the two components of mattering—feeling valued and adding value. Discover how cultivating mattering through fairness, purpose, and small generous acts can transform health, happiness, work, and relationships. Learn why extremism rises when mattering is lacking, and how finding meaning by contributing to something bigger than yourself is the antidote. Get Isaac’s practical tips for taking responsibility to add value, listen generously, and promote wellness in yourself and...2024-02-1554 min
Walk and TalkWalk and Talk - An invitation to eavesdrop with Dr Isaac PrilleltenskyProfessor Isaac Prilleltensky has a history in research and practical application in community wellbeing and has lived in various countries around the world. Listen along as Sue and Isaac discuss the importance and impact of community wellbeing and mattering.2023-12-0528 min
Empathy Power UpWhy does it matter to matter at work?What does it feel like to matter at work? This concept was a lot to wrap our minds around, as it doesn’t seem as straightforward like the other parts of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Framework on Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing—it’s a lot more abstract. When we matter at work, we feel valued and we also add value to our workplace. We can feel or give value to ourselves, others both at the workplace and in our communities we gather.Mattering involves “more than feeling like you belong in a group, it's also being...2023-11-1044 min
THE VALUES ROOM with Ana Sasmiresan"How People Matter" with Professor Isaac Prilleltensky Welcome to THE VALUES ROOM with Ana Sasmiresan! In this episode, I am interviewing Professor Isaac Prilleltensky; Speaker, Author, former Dean and Vice Provost, Mautner Endowed Chair in Community Well-being, Professor of Educational and Psychological studies, Coordinator of Doctorate Degrees in Community Leadership Concentration at the University of Miami. Professor Isaac's career is centered around community well-being and people mattering. He wrote "How People Matter" along with his wife Ora. What to look forward to from this episode?Bringing deep understanding to the importance of the cycle of feeling valued and ad...2023-09-0849 min
Permission To Be Human - the podcastEpisode 11 - Permission to want to be mom and moreIn this episode I talk about how so many of us mothers, myself included, have this often secret desire, craving, a whisper even, to be mom and more. We discuss mattering, purpose, meaning, and why it is so important that each of us listens to that little voice in our head telling us what we need.
We explore some of the writings by Isaac and Pro Prilleltensky in How People Matter and use it to explore what you can do to feel more like you matter too. 2023-07-1827 min
The Radical TherapistThe Radical Therapist #112 – How People Matter w/ Dr. Isaac PrilleltenskyIn episode #112 Chris meets with Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky to discuss the book How People Matter, co-authored with his wife Ora Prilleltensky. They discuss the importance of mattering and why it effects health, happiness, love, work , and society, and how there can be a dark side to mattering, or rather not mattering.
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2023-05-2952 minTruly Human LeadershipThe Science of Mattering with Prof. Isaac PrilleltenskyOne of the cornerstones of Truly Human Leadership is that everybody wants to know that who they are and what they do matters. Someone else that came to that same insight in a scholarly manner, through his experiences and his research, is Professor Isaac Prilleltensky. He, along with his wife, Ora, wrote a book on the science and importance of mattering: How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work and Society. You can find our more about the Professor, his work and his book on his website: professorisaac.com On this p...2023-02-0243 minTruly Human LeadershipThe Science of Mattering with Prof. Isaac PrilleltenskyOne of the cornerstones of Truly Human Leadership is that everybody wants to know that who they are and what they do matters. Someone else that came to that same insight in a scholarly manner, through his experiences and his research, is Professor Isaac Prilleltensky. He, along with his wife, Ora, wrote a book on the science and importance of mattering: How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work and Society. You can find our more about the Professor, his work and his book on his website: professorisaac.com On this p...2023-02-0243 min
Spark ConnectionFairness, Worthiness and Wellness with Isaac PrilleltenskyIn this episode, I have the opportunity to sit down with my teacher, advisor, and someone I deeply respect: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky. Together we discuss a more holistic, ecological definition of what it means to be well as individuals, organizations and communities. In this episode, Isaac and I cover a lot of ground as we explore together the subjective and objective factors that create wellbeing across multiple levels of our lives. Isaac shares from his career as a community psychologist, academic, and researcher, as well as from his personal experience of being born in Argentina, losing his...2022-10-2754 min
Mo TherapyRole Playing Games in Therapy (Like Dungeons and Dragons)Summary of Podcast
The Epidemic of Loneliness
The Benefits of Using Role-Playing Games in Therapy
Examples of How it Can be Used
Any technique I suggest is an invitation, not an expectation. I am but a therapist in training and I say this because I want the very best for your mental health. Above all else, I encourage you to be compassionately curious and try these things out to see what works for you.
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw
For more...2022-06-0122 min
OneSchool Project18 - Isaac Prilleltensky, PhD, Author of "How People Matter"Dr Isaac Prilleltensky, author of How People Matter spoke with me today about the practice of meaning-making and how we matter to each other. His book is a great practical guide on co-generating meaning in relationships and how it intersects with the OneSchool Project. He has experience living in a boarding school and the benefits of that kind of community. I really appreciate the dynamic image in his wheel of mattering (see image below). He is especially quotable when referencing one's right to feel valued, "that is 100% correct, about 50% of the problem." How much of your life does that a...2022-03-1048 min
Happiness 2.0222: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky: The importance of having a structure in place for well-being and productivity“It is impossible to change personal or collective behavior without sustainability practices.” – Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Vice Provost for Institutional Culture and Professor at the University of Miami, who has contributed to bringing the University to be the number one employer in the country's education sector as ranked by Forbes.
After losing his parents in a car accident at age eight in Argentina, and being adopted by an aunt along with two other siblings, Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, through his personal hurt and pain went on to pursue helping other people who are going through difficult situations. As well, he has...2022-03-0740 min
Journeys to BelongingEpisode 82 with guest Steve SostakSteve Sostak, the co-founder of Inspire Citizens, centers all of his work on teacher creativity, student agency, and transformative learning. He aims to enable youth to develop more compassionate empathy; think critically about information and community issues; solve problems flexibly through the application of interdisciplinary skills and civic literacies; embrace the challenges of uncertainties and complexities; make ethical decisions, and take informed action.Twitter: @inspirecitizen1Website: https://inspirecitizens.orghttps://highresolves.orgCathy Berger Kaye: Service LearningIsaac Prilleltensky: MatteringISTE Student StandardsMathew Barzun interviewed by Simon Sinek about his new book...2021-11-1744 min
Journeys to BelongingEpisode 82 with guest Steve SostakSteve Sostak, the co-founder of Inspire Citizens, centers all of his work on teacher creativity, student agency, and transformative learning. He aims to enable youth to develop more compassionate empathy; think critically about information and community issues; solve problems flexibly through the application of interdisciplinary skills and civic literacies; embrace the challenges of uncertainties and complexities; make ethical decisions, and take informed action.
Twitter: @inspirecitizen1
Website: https://inspirecitizens.org
https://highresolves.org
Cathy Berger Kaye: Service Learning
Isaac Prilleltensky: Mattering
ISTE Student Standards
Mathew Barzun...2021-11-1744 min
The Psychology PodcastIsaac Prilleltensky || The Need to MatterIn this episode, I talk to Isaac Prilleltensky about well-being and happiness. We start our discussion by highlighting the environment and community’s role in well-being instead of conceptualizing it as a purely individualistic construct. Isaac further elaborates on the dangers of mattering “too much” and why we need to balance personal and collective wellness. We also touch on the topics of fairness, social justice, humanistic psychology, and Isaac’s works as a humor writer. BioIsaac Prilleltensky holds the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami. He’s published...2021-10-281h 00
Find Enlight - Sandbox Series🍄 The Exploration of Mattering w/ Felix & Guests (Find Enlight - Sandbox Series)JOIN THE NEXT GATHERING Here 👉 http://bit.ly/findenlight-events
This gathering 👉 Felix introduced & ignited conversation around the concept of Mattering by Isaac Prilleltensky.
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Sandbox Sprout Series (SSS) is an open space for us to explore and start embodying qualities of the world we want to move towards. With a variety of hosts & participants bringing their own piece of the puzzle. &nb...2021-04-0140 min
Where Dreams Come FromIsaac Prilleltensky (English)Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is Vice Provost for Institutional Culture. He speaks here to Media for Change founder Sanjeev Chatterjee about his very humble beginnings in Argentina and his dream of a world that cares about community and happiness. Dr. Prilleltensky is a leading figure in the field of critical psychology and is the former dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=HGJKF8TKYSKRN)2021-03-2223 min
TerraLexTerraLex INsights - Interview with Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Vice Provost for Institutional Culture at the University of MiamiAttending to all domains of well being is more important than ever. Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is leading an interdisciplinary team developing assessments and online interventions to promote interpersonal, community, occupational, psychological, physical, and economic (I COPPE) well-being. Listen to him discuss strategies and benefits of using the I COPPE model in the workplace.
Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky was born in Argentina and has lived and worked in Israel, Canada, Australia, and the United States. He is Dean of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being, and...2020-10-2220 min
Conscious TalkConscious Talk Radio - 10 - 10 - 19 - CBD Oils - Dr. Isaac PrilleltenskyTopic: When it comes to CBD Oil, we only know one scientifically based company we can trust that can give us the real and transparent information on processing of hemp and why that’s important. That company is CV Sciences and the product is “PlusCBD Oil”. Then… Is laughter really the best medicine? We’ll talk to Isaac Prillentensky, the author of “The Laughing Guides”, a trilogy on the practical uses of laughter.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2019-10-1053 min
The Laughing Guide To Happiness with Dr. Isaac PrilleltenskyIsaac Prilleltensky is the former dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, where he is currently professor of educational and psychological studies and vice provost for institutional culture. He is the author of ten books and the recipient of awards by the National Newspaper Association for his humor writing; and from the division of community and counseling psychology from the American Psychological Association for his scholarly work.
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Tell Me Your Story190804 Isaac Prilleltensky - The Laughter Trilogy190804 Isaac Prilleltensky - The Laughter Trilogy by Richard DuganBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tell-me-your-story--6541985/support.2019-07-091h 09
Inspire Possibility ShowInspire Possibility Show, June 2, 2019Get Ready to Laugh with Dr Isaac Prilleltensky, is an award-winning humor and academic writer. He is the Author of the Laughing Guides and former Dean of the University of Miami.2019-06-0329 min
School for Startups RadioAsk and Choose Ryan LevesqueJune 7, 2019 Ask and Choose Ryan Levesque and Laughing Guides Isaac Prilleltensky2019-06-0254 min
FSHD Straight Talk with Tim HollenbackGuests Ora and Isaac Prilleltensky, PhD
Ora Prilleltensky, PhD, obtained her doctorate in counseling psychology from OISE at the University of Toronto. She is the former director of the major in Human and Social Development at the University of Miami and has also worked in a variety of clinical settings, including a child guidance clinic, a university counseling center and a rehabilitation hospital. She is the author or co-author of four books dealing with well-being, change, and disability. Isaac Prilleltensky, PhD, is the vice provost for institutional culture at the university, where he is also a former dean and professor of educational and psychological studies. He...2019-04-251h 04
The Family ArchivesArthur Brooks and Isaac Prilleltensky - #1599-2Been hoping for a more positive episode? Well here it is. Arthur hates hate and Isaac loves laughter. It's like dualism but for clowns.
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The Laughing Guides ~ to a Better Life, Change and Well-BeingThe Laughing Guides (a trilogy) by Isaac Prilleltensky
* The Laughing Guide to Well-Being: Using Humor and Science to Become Happier and Healthier
* The Laughing Guide to a Better Life: Using Humor and Science to Improve Yourself, Your Relationships, and Your Surroundings
* The Laughing Guide to Change: Using Humor and Science to Master Your Behaviors, Emotions, and Thoughts
Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is the former dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, where he currently serves as vice provost for institutional culture. He was born in Argentina and has lived and worked also in Israel, C...2019-04-1247 min
BITEradio.meThe Laughing Guides ~ to a Better Life, Change and Well-BeingThe Laughing Guides (a trilogy) by Isaac Prilleltensky * The Laughing Guide to Well-Being: Using Humor and Science to Become Happier and Healthier * The Laughing Guide to a Better Life: Using Humor and Science to Improve Yourself, Your Relationships, and Your Surroundings * The Laughing Guide to Change: Using Humor and Science to Master Your Behaviors, Emotions, and Thoughts Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is the former dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, where he currently serves as vice provost for institutional culture. He was born in Argentina and has lived and worked also in Israel, C...2019-04-1246 min
Ongekend Talent PodcastDr. Isaac Prileltensky (Talent 12) "Mattering means being who you are and contributing to society."Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is Professorof Psychology and Educational and Psychological Studies, Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being and Vice Provost for Institutional Culture at the University of Miami.
But to become the man he is today he had to overcome many difficult and dangerous challenges. In this podcast you will hear his story.
Dr. Isaac was born in Córdoba Argentina. As a young boy, aged 8th, he lost both his parent in a car accident. His aunt raised him as her own. They didn’t have a lot of money, but that was compensated by a lot of love and aff...2018-08-2226 min
The Autoimmune HourIs Finding Your ‘Funny Bone’ A Secret To Healing?There’s an old saying about “you could die laughing,” but this week’s guest says “Not so fast! Laughing (and humor) promotes your well-being!” Humor, laughing and well-being expert, Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami and author of eight books and over 120 articles and chapters shares with us insights from his latest book, “The Laughing Guide to Well-Being: Using Humor and Science to become Happier and Healthier.” Dr. Prilleltensky shares:The different types of humor and how you too can nurture your sense of humor regardless of your diagnosis. How lau...2017-03-1849 min