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Fairness, Worthiness and Wellness with Isaac Prilleltensky

October 27, 2022 • Anna Lucas with Dr. Isaac Prillentensky • Season 1 • Episode 12

In this episode, I have the opportunity to sit down with my teacher, advisor, and someone I deeply respect: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky. Together we discuss a more holistic, ecological definition of what it means to be well as individuals, organizations and communities.

In this episode, Isaac and I cover a lot of ground as we explore together the subjective and objective factors that create wellbeing across multiple levels of our lives. Isaac shares from his career as a community psychologist, academic, and researcher, as well as from his personal experience of being born in Argentina, losing his parents at a young age, and living around the world in Israel, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Isaac has an incredible ability to weave his personal story into his professional knowledge and I hope you enjoy learning from him as much as I do.

Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is the inaugural holder of the Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami, where he also served as Dean of Education and Human Development and Vice Provost for Institutional Culture. He has published twelve books and over 130 articles and chapters dealing with community psychology and community well-being. His interests explore the connections between individual, organizational, and communal well-being and he is currently exploring relationships among wellness, fairness, and worthiness. Isaac is an experienced facilitator of group processes and has considerable expertise in partnering with community organizations to advance the common good. His latest book is How People Matter: Why it Affects, Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society.

He is the recipient of the 2014 “Lifetime Achievement Award in Prevention” by the Society for Counseling Psychology, Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. He is also the recipient of the 2011 "Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research Award" of the Community Psychology Division of APA. In addition, he received the ‘Seymour Sarason Award” and the “John Kalafat Award for the Practice of Community Psychology” from the same division of APA. Isaac is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the American Educational Research Association. In 2002 he was a visiting fellow of the British Psychological Society.

If you'd like to learn more about Isaac's work, please check out his website, subscribe to his blog, explore fun for wellness, or order his book.