Positive emotion: increasing feelings of happiness and contentment
- Gratitude journaling
- Savouring
Engagement: in activities that utilise your strengths, often leading to a state of flow
- Flow activities
- Use of strengths
Relationships: Strong, supportive social connections are crucial to emotional well-being
- Active constructive responding
- Social connection
Meaning: finding a sense of purpose in something greater than oneself
- Exercises identifying your purpose, and goals
- Altruism – finding greater meaning in helping others
Achievement: Setting and achieving goals, providing a sense of self-efficacy
- Goalsetting
- Self-reflection on past achievements

PERMA may be applied to:

Ignores, sociodemographic, factors, places, responsibility on the person instead