Wendy Treynor

Happiness Expert, Age 37, Ph.D. Psychologist, Teacher of Self-Love, was depressed, jobless, divorced, a cancer survivor, & now she's HAPPY with a revolutionary, new theory on HAPPINESS

With warmth and humor, as both storyteller and scholar, Dr. Wendy inspires us to overcome perceived obstacles, live up to our true potential, and access the joy that is ours.

Dr. Wendy Treynor, teacher of self-love and happiness expert, is a young, passionate woman with a peaceful, loving presence, trained as a scientist with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (the #1-ranked program in the nation, US News & World Report, 2009), as well as being a cancer survivor, artist, writer, philosopher, and dreamer. Her insights into happiness build upon her life experience battling cancer, integrating what she learned from life from almost dying, as well as on the foundation of scientific research in the field of Social Psychology, representing a convergence of science and spirit.

People have described Wendy as a free spirit, creative, original, enthusiastic, animated, vibrant, vivacious, but also wise, courageous, empathetic, loving, and compassionate. In addition to being a published author in scientific journals, and enjoying people and public speaking, she has received recognition for her communication skills, and her research has afforded her the opportunity to speak to audiences around the globe. Wendy has given talks at universities including UC Berkeley, UCLA, the University of New South Wales in Australia, and Israel's Technion Institute of Technology.

Wendy is also a published author of scientific articles on emotion and depression, having trained with emotion and depression scholars (Dr. Phoebe Ellsworth, at Michigan, Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, author of "Positivity," now at UNC, and Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, author of "Women Who Think Too Much," now at Yale). Drawing on her life experience and scientific expertise, Wendy has just published her first book entitled "Towards a General Theory of Social Psychology" which has won rave reviews and describes how the peer pressure or socialization process may work. In it, Wendy proposes that a lack of self-love lies at the root of depression and self-love (genuine self-acceptance) is depression's exit route. Her next books will be the eagerly-awaited "The Gift of Cancer" and "I Can Heal" book series, which communicate the lessons of her research for a general audience through the telling of her true life story.

Wendy's honors and awards include: Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2005), Delta Epsilon Iota for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Dedication, Enthusiasm, and Initiative (2003), Hough Psychology & Ethics Scholarship for Promising Psychology and Ethics Research (2003), Pi Mu Epsilon for Outstanding Achievement in the Mathematical Sciences (1997), and Acceptance to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (1993) for dramatic study. Most recently she is a recipient of The Hay Foundation Grant (2008) and The Lloyd Symington Foundation Grant (2009), which have sponsored her programs.

A Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research at UCLA (Sept '09-'10), Wendy completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California before founding Healing Consulting in Los Angeles in 2007.  Through Healing Consulting, Wendy shares her vision of integrating scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom to enhance people's quality of life.

With the cancer, Wendy discovered that the lessons she learned from science converged with the spiritual lessons she learned about life from almost dying, providing a single map, a unified picture, a sole prescription to follow for achieving wholeness and happiness-a map she now lives by and seeks to share. Wendy shares this information with others, in a fresh and exciting way, through her keynotes, seminars, workshops, consultation, and writing so that others, too, may heal themselves, actualize their own potential, and find the freedom, peace, love, and happiness they seek.

I. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, TOUGH TIMES, STRESS, CANCER, WELLNESS| Wendy Treynor's I CAN HEAL™ presentation descriptions on HAPPINESS:

Although the focus of each presentation is different, the objective for all four is the same: To help us discover our joy by alleviating our emotional pain.

(1) A Treasure Map to Happiness

• focuses on the healing power of loving the self.

• following this presentation, participants should be able to:

... create a life worth living: cultivate a sense of joy, peace, freedom, and meaning in their lives even if everything they thought would be is not

(2) Don't Believe Everything You Think: Ten Illusions that Prevent Us from Finding True Happiness®

• focuses on the healing power of eliminating negative emotion.

• following this presentation, participants should be able to:

... alleviate negative emotion: The trick is not necessarily to rid ourselves of the circumstances that created it, but to rid our body and mind of the negative emotion, itself. From this talk, participants will learn 3 ways to rid themselves of negative emotion.

(3) Why People Can Be Happy Making You Unhappy & How You Can Be Happy®

• focuses on the root cause of social conflict and the healing power of navigating ourselves into an unconditionally loving social environment-and if we can't find one, how to become our own.

• following this presentation, participants should be able to:

... heal wounds from their past and find forgiveness: Learn why people can be happy making us unhappy--an insight which illuminates the relationship between identity, emotion, self-esteem, depression, culture, identity, and conflict, providing participants with healing self-insight.

(4) Everyday Sacred: Society, Spirituality, & The Self®

• focuses on the healing power of coming to know ourselves as we are.

• following this presentation, participants should be able to:

... create joy in their lives and experience themselves as unconditionally loveable beings. Spirituality is the process of coming to rediscover who we truly are. The socialization process, and its conditional love, has led to our forgetting. This presentation will teach us to remember.

II. ETHICS | Dr. Wendy Treynor's FINANCIAL CRISIS presentation description:

(5) A Social-Psychological Explanation of the Financial Crisis

Having worked in Finance herself in the 1990's, Dr. Wendy has ground-floor insight into workings that may have contributed to the financial crisis almost 20 years later. In this surprising presentation, she shares the bizarre details of her own story and the counter-intuitive and shocking insights from her own research, as a social psychologist, about how good people can turn into evil-doers under group pressure through her "identity shift effect" explanation of the peer pressure process. She also shares surprising findings her research revealed, which include that "the most mistrustful are the least trustworthy" and that cynics are (sadly) more accurate than the rest of us.

III. LEADERSHIP | Dr. Wendy Treynor's LEADERSHIP presentation description:

(6) Leadership through Self-Love

In this presentation, Wendy shares her humor, hilarious drawings, and counter-intuitive wisdom on leadership: According to Wendy, we lead best when we first know and love ourselves, because to know and love ourselves is to know and love ALL.

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