Be Happy

Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 8/7/2025 9:00 AM EDT

11/4/2025-11/18/2025
2:00 PM-3:30 PM EDT on Tue

Be Happy

Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 8/7/2025 9:00 AM EDT

A short but hopefully thought provoking seminar series exploring the Positive Psychology research surrounding Happiness.  Questions to be addressed may include:  Why do some people seem so much happier than others?  Are we born either happy or unhappy?  What makes us happy?  Is happily ever after really possible?  And are there things we can do to cultivate more sustainable happiness in our lives?

Michele Reiss

Dr. Michele A. Reiss is an experienced medical educator, psychotherapist and author.  Before retiring, Dr. Reiss was the Assistant Program Director and Director of Behavioral Medicine for the Family Medicine Residency Program at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital.  As such she spent over twenty years educating physicians, medical students and other health care professionals in palliative care and behavioral medicine.  As a psychotherapist, Dr. Reiss continues to specialize in helping clients cope with life threatening medical illnesses and/or grief. Dr. Reiss book, Lessons In Loss and Livingis a collection of true stories about the many heroes she has been privileged to work with and learn from.