Reality Psychology

Stephen McKenzie, PhD, is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Melbourne. He is contributing to its online education expansion, including by planning, developing and teaching online courses that help give their students personal and professional success as well as academic success – via improved wellbeing, mindfulness and connection. Stephen is an expert on key components of what he sees as a valuable new psychological paradigm - reality psychology - including mindfulness, wellbeing and connection, and has conducted research, written books and produced courses in these and other reality psychology relevant areas. Stephen has been a pioneer in many new areas of valuable human knowledge including by co-writing an early mindfulness manual, writing an early mindfulness at work book, an introduction to statistical literacy and its value in an increasingly information overcrowded age, a possible next generation of mindfulness – heartfulness, and lead-editing books on online education. Stephen co-developed a large new fully online fourth year psychology course at Monash University and an international online education research program with King’s College, London, developed an online research portal, and received a Dean’s Award for Education Innovation from Monash University in 2019.

• Introduction – from Positive Psychology to Reality Psychology.- Real Life Meaning.- Real Self-Knowledge.- Real Wellbeing.- Real Mindfulness.- Real Resilience.- Real Behaviour Change.- Real Connection.- Reality Psychology in Practice.- Reality Psychology in Research.- Reality Psychology in Education.- What Next? Real Opportunities.