Paul Atkins
Dr. Paul Atkins is an endorsed Organisational Psychologist with a PhD in Psychology from Cambridge University. His research focuses upon the impacts of compassion, mindfulness and values-based living on daily life. He has a particular interest in the effects of mindfulness training and personal awareness upon identity and relationships. Paul has extensive experience teaching and researching mindfulness based treatments such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). His work draws primarily upon contextual-behavioural thinking such as Relational Frame Theory and he is President Elect of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Contextual Behavioural Science – the peak body for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Paul also has a long practical career working as a psychologist in organisations. He has worked with thousands of managers and staff doing training or one-on-one executive coaching, mainly focused on improving wellbeing, resilience, stress management, conflict management and teamwork. He has delivered hundreds of workshops to clients from private, public and volunteer organisations. He is a member of the international design team implementing PROSOCIAL, an approach for enhancing cooperation in teams using principles derived from social psychology, evolutionary theory and economics. He is also using PROSOCIAL to enhance cooperation and teamwork in school, business and public groups (see www.prosocialgroups.org).
Supervisors: Alan Baddeley, Max Coltheart, and Jaap Murre
Phone: +61297014741
Address: Institute for Positive Psychology and Education
Australian Catholic University
25a Barker Rd, Strathfield, NSW, 2135
Australia
Paul also has a long practical career working as a psychologist in organisations. He has worked with thousands of managers and staff doing training or one-on-one executive coaching, mainly focused on improving wellbeing, resilience, stress management, conflict management and teamwork. He has delivered hundreds of workshops to clients from private, public and volunteer organisations. He is a member of the international design team implementing PROSOCIAL, an approach for enhancing cooperation in teams using principles derived from social psychology, evolutionary theory and economics. He is also using PROSOCIAL to enhance cooperation and teamwork in school, business and public groups (see www.prosocialgroups.org).
Supervisors: Alan Baddeley, Max Coltheart, and Jaap Murre
Phone: +61297014741
Address: Institute for Positive Psychology and Education
Australian Catholic University
25a Barker Rd, Strathfield, NSW, 2135
Australia
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