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  • Psychology
  • Well-being Studies
  • Personal Development Research

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  • Personal development workshops are gaining popularity.
  • Understanding their impact on well-being and interconnectedness is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the relationships between well-being, interconnectedness, and extended perception.
  • To identify workshop characteristics and individual traits predicting changes in these outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Prospective, within-participant design with pre- and post-workshop assessments.
  • Utilized Spearman correlations, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and multivariate nonparametric regression.
  • Collected data on well-being, interconnectedness, extended perception, and predictor variables including demographics and history.

Main Results:

  • Interconnectedness positively correlated with well-being, positive affect, and compassion; negatively with sleep disturbance and pain.
  • Workshops improved subjective interconnectedness, well-being, positive emotion, and compassion, while reducing negative emotion, pain, and sleep disturbances.
  • Meditation content and formats like small groups, pairs, and discussion significantly predicted well-being outcomes. Conscientiousness was a significant individual predictor.

Conclusions:

  • Preliminary evidence supports a positive link between interconnectedness and well-being.
  • Certain personal development workshops demonstrate beneficial effects on psychological outcomes.
  • Meditation-based workshops and specific interactive formats appear most effective for enhancing well-being.