Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland Interactive Resources

This interactive page gives further helpful resources to support the discussion process Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland.

Corey Keyes Podcast

In this podcast Dr Corey Keyes (Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Emroy University in Atlanta, USA) gives a talk on - How Scotland can Flourish: Improving the Mental Wellbeing of People Living in Scotland. This was recorded live in Edinburgh during Mental Health Week in October 2007. Dr Keyes talks about viewing mental health as something positive and taking this as seriously as mental illness. The podcast is 50 minutes long.

About Dr Corey Keyes

Dr Corey Keyes is Professor of Public Health at Emroy University in Atlanta. He contributes to the World Health Organisation's publication Mental Health Promotion Worldwide and consults with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Public Health Canada. He is also a core member of the 'Persuit of Happiness' a five year project funded by the Templeton Foundation, author of five books, and in June was a keynote speaker along with His Holiness, the Dali Lama at 'Happiness and Its Causes', a conference organised by the Vajrayana Institute in Sydney, Australia.

Accompanying the podcast is Dr Keyes' PowerPoint presentation which can be downloaded below.

Listen to the podcast within this page by using the play controls below.

Alternatively, download the file to listen on your computer or on your MP3 player: mental-health-podcast.mp3 [17.23 MB]

Introductory Film to Consultation

Gregor Henderson features in a short 20 minute film introducing the discussion – Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland: The Future of Mental Health Improvement in Scotland 2008-2011. The talk covers three main areas which are: