Kickstart your summer wellness and join us on July 6th from 12-1pm to hear from Dr. Richard Koestner on motivational psychology and tips to create effective goals for the summer. Afterwards, learn about our upcoming summer programming made up of offerings of live and recorded classes, and how to access our new weekly series of watch parties in which participants can join one another to watch classes on Youtube in real time.

Speakers

Dr. Richard Koestner

Dr. Richard Koestner is a professor of Psychology at McGill University.  He did his PhD at the University of Rochester, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard. He has dedicated more than 30 years of research to studying personality and human motivation.  He is the Founder and Director of the McGill Human Motivation Lab, and he has published over 200 scientific articles. Dr. Koestner recently won the Canadian Psychology Association’s Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science (2021). In 2007, Dr. Koestner received the Canadian Psychological Association award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2008, he won the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching at McGill. Dr. Koestner is one of the world leading proponents of Self-Determination theory and his recent work focuses on how to effectively set and pursue personal goals.