COMPOSE is a personal and professional development workshop where participants aim to establish a personal practice framed around the concepts of learned optimism, resilience and meaning-making. COMPOSE’s ultimate goal is generating well-being pedagogies for across the institute and contributing to a radical improvement of student flourishing across the Pratt campus. The course runs for 8 weeks over zoom.
COMPOSE is a collaboration between Pratt’s CTL and Student Affairs. It is based on best practices established by the Pratt Meditation Incubator and research based on UPenn’s Positive Psychology Center.
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COMPOSE Data
We have been implementing this 8-week COMPOSE series since Fall 2019, both in person through fully online formats.
Over these three semesters, we have collected Pre and Post surveys from participants, using 1. The Diener Flourishing Scale 2. the PERMA Profiler and 3. the PANAS – positive/negative affect schedule questionnaire.
Overall the data shows that COMPOSE participants as a group are flourishing more and have a higher sense of well-being at the conclusion of the series compared to the start of the series.
Please review our data below.