Dr. Pam King
COVID-19 has created a very difficult situation for education, from the standpoint of both parents and students, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still thrive through the school year.
On Tuesday, November 17, Dr. Pam King, a Peter L. Benson Associate Professor of Applied Developmental Science at the Thrive Center for Human Development in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, leads a “K-12 Parent Ed Session: Thriving Through COVID,” where she will unpack the idea of thriving as growing to become your best self with and for others.
“Although many are preoccupied with surviving the pending pandemic of the COVID-19, I see this as an opportunity for thriving. By no means do I take this virus, its casualties, and its consequences lightly,” Dr. King writes in a blog post on the Thrive Center’s website. “However, the worst of times has the potential to bring out the best or worst in people. I am hoping for the former.”
In the webinar, Dr. King will work with K-12 parents to help families focus on “keeping grounded in your body (physical body and emotions) and your deepest held values and convictions; keeping connected in meaningful ways to meaningful people, not just a general sense of belonging to a group, but also being known and loved and experiencing that you matter; and keeping directed towards your passions, short and long term goals, or purpose.”
Dr. King joined Fuller Theological Seminary as Assistant Professor of Marital and Family Studies in 2008, after serving at the School of Psychology for eight years as an adjunct and research professor. In 2014, she was named Peter L. Benson Associate Professor of Applied Developmental Science. She is the head faculty member at the Thrive Center for Human Development.
Dr. King’s primary academic interests are applied research at the intersection of human thriving and spiritual development. Her work combines psychology, theology, and community engagement to understand what personal strengths enable people to thrive in different settings. She is particularly interested in the role of spirituality in that process and has led in building an empirical field of study of religious and spiritual development within developmental psychology.
Dr. King is recognized in ecumenical settings for facilitating dialogue, scholarship, and empirical research leading to human transformation and thriving. Her work on “telos” is noted to provide an interdisciplinary framework for human thriving and flourishing from different philosophical, theological, and cultural perspectives, and to provide a structure for understanding practical concepts like purpose, vocation, and joy.
This parent ed session is from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
To RSVP for the event, visit this link and fill out and submit the online form.
To read more about Dr. Pamela King, visit www.thethrivecenter.org/about/
