... interviews with 17 participants, using an adapted feedforward interview technique (FFI) rooted in positive psychology (PP), to investigate individuals' strengths and successful career experiences. Findings Narrative thematic analysis of the transcripts identified two core themes: “the paradoxical nature...

... (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990), positive emotions and constructs of positive psychology to assist participants to gain insight (Harn and Hsiao, 2018) using LEGO® bricks to support storytelling and metaphors to explore the intrinsic meanings that participants are attempting to convey (Bab and Boniwell, 2017 ; Harn...

... in ways which are meaningful to a localised context. Work-based learning Emotion Positive psychology Positive emotion Appreciative inquiry However, others criticise appreciative inquiry for its perceived inability to transform deeper structures and claim that practitioners have a preoccupation...