APPROACH
MISSION
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
BACKGROUND
SELF-ESTEEM
SEMINARS
WORKBOOK SEMINAR
This is the most comprehensive and detailed approach to discovering your strengths, passions, life mission, and more. This 7-week seminar is highly effective in educational settings, where students have the time and frame of mind to immerse themselves in the world of growth. In each weekly 90-minute session, the student is walked through a sophisticated, rigorous, and inspiring process of discovering his natural strengths, and he learns how to use his strengths to direct all major and minor future life decisions.
WORKBOOK WEBINAR
The webinar takes the the Workbook Seminar and brings it to the comforts of your own home, using the most advanced and up-to-date webinar technology (Zoom). It is taught over the course of seven, 60-minute sessions, on Sundays. The seven weeks of sessions include completing the assigned workbook and a variety of educational and instructional videos and readings. This webinar is ideal for college students or young professionals who do not have the time or convenience to attend the Workbook Seminar in person.
MARRIAGE SEMINAR
This seminar takes a revolutionary approach to dramatically improving and re-shaping marital life. The interactive seminar focuses on how to boost marital happiness by helping couples identify and build on the areas of where things are going right in their marriage.
POSITIVE EDUCATION SEMINAR
This seminar is designed specifically for teachers in schools. The overall focus is to give teachers a clear understanding of the most powerful and important educational tool in the classroom (for their students and themselves): using our natural strengths!
COMPARTMENTALIZATION SEMINAR
We live in a world today where it is too easy to become overwhelmed with the hundreds of things that we are trying to balance--and all at once! At any given moment, we are forced to attempt to juggle life’s inevitable tasks and challenges. The goal of this seminar is to give you practical tools and techniques to help you not only balance all of the different things in your life at once, but to be able to give each thing the time and effort that it deserves.
YOSEF LYNN
A native of Palm Beach, Florida, Rabbi Dr. Yosef Lynn, graduated from the University of Colorado (Boulder), College of Architecture, as valedictorian and Phi Beta Kappa. In the year 2000, he moved on from the study of the construction of brick and mortar edifices in order to focus his efforts on learning how to build human beings. At the age of 25, he accepted the prestigious position of Dean of Students at Machon Yaakov - The Dr. David Robinson Institute of Jewish Heritage, in Jerusalem. Machon Yaakov accepts promising students with little formal Jewish background and seeks to create an environment that maximizes their spiritual, intellectual, and character development. In addition to his role as Dean of Students, he is a Senior Lecturer, counselor, and personal advisor.
In 2005, he developed and tested a unique approach to self-development, known as the Workbook Seminar, which became the platform for a variety of different seminars, known today as Greatness Within Seminars.
Beyond Machon Yaakov, he is a Career Discovery Coach, an author, a college professor, and a key program director for MEOR.
He holds a PsyD in Human and Organizational Psychology from Touro, a Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania (where he learned under the founder of the field of Positive Psychology, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman), he is the Israel representative for SIPPA, the Students of the International Positive Psychology Association, and he is a representative for the International Positive Education Network.
He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children.
