Abstract
Changes in the external world need open, dynamic, and malleable minds in order to be managed successfully. Hence, cognitive flexibility appears to be a crucial ability which enables individuals both to adapt to new situations as well as to transform their environment and themselves. The highlight will be put on the features of cognitive flexibility, meant as a mix of divergent/creative convergent/analytic processes. Reported will be some examples, stressing out the role of cognitive flexibility in facing the challenges associated with the COVID pandemic. Finally, described will be the ways to enhance cognitive flexibility, both in children and elderly people.

Giovanni A. Travaglino is Professor of Social Psychology and Criminology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Previously, he held faculty positions in Applied Psychology (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, SZ) and Social Psychology (University of Kent). He is currently the Director of the Institute for the Study of Power, Crime, and Society and the Principal Investigator for the 2021 European Research Council (ERC) StG project “Secret Power”. The ERC project uses cutting-edge quantitative methods to investigate how criminal groups may express political power and control territories in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Japan. His interdisciplinary research interests span topics such as communities’ appraisals of criminal governance, political violence, collective action and the psychological bases of group deviance. Professor Travaglino is the chief editor of Contention with Dr Benjamin Abrams.

Abstract
The modern way of working and living has changed our understanding and experience of the work-life interface. Nowadays, technology enables people to work from everywhere and to be constantly busy with work through their smartphone, making the link between recovery and work-life interface imperative. Individuals are triggered to engage in and proactively arrange for themselves meaningful activities, decide upon where and how to execute them such that they reach their goals, and perform in different life domains, including personal life. Therefore, characteristics of and performance in work, family, and personal life are closely related phenomena. This became even more prevalent during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The measures of COVID-19 have led to collective remote working which challenges employees to self-manage their work and nonwork life. But how can we help them improve their self-management strategies when they work from home? Departing from self-regulation theory and the job-demands resources theory, it is suggested that strategies of recognition (i.e., emotional intelligence) and regulation of external and internal demands and resources (i.e., job crafting, recovery, and work-life management) would improve employee well-being and performance during remote work. During the presentation evidence on effective strategies to remote work will be discussed as well as ways to promote these strategies.

Dr. Evangelia Demerouti is Full Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Since 2015 she is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and since 2017 she is the Chief Diversity Officer at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the processes enabling performance, including the effects of work characteristics, individual job strategies (including job crafting and decision-making), occupational well-being, and work-life balance. She has published over 250 national and international papers and book chapters on these topics. In 2021 she was ranked number 573 of the most cited researchers internationally and across disciplines (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3) as well as among the top 50 (ranked 32) most impactful researchers worldwide in Management & Business (https://harzing.com/blog/2021/11/top-50-academics-in-business-management-worldwide-new-2021-ranking). She is often invited as keynote speaker in European and international congresses and the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology awarded her a lifetime fellowship. Currently, she is the associate editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and a member of the editorial board of several high-impact journals in her discipline.

Abstract
Global problems, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, earthquakes, weather disasters, and political and economic crises cause intensive negative emotions that many individuals find difficult to cope with. In times of crisis, research is mainly focused on the negative consequences for both individuals and institutions, and little research is done on the potential of such situations for positive growth. The second wave of positive psychology (PP) indicates that negative states and emotions can lead to positive transformation in both individuals and groups, but it will not happen by itself.

At the individual level, such a transformation can be achieved by various positive interventions developed within PP, which not only reduce stress, but also enable people to experience positive change and post-traumatic growth. The probability of a positive transformation is higher with institutional positive interventions that are focused on the families, schools and work organizations. Such interventions build collective well-being and collective post-traumatic growth. Recently, the concept of collaborative positive psychology has also emerged, which investigates the mechanisms that lead from the recognition of collective problems in a crisis to sustainable well-being. Key principles of collaborative PP include solidarity, empowerment and teamwork.

Key words: well-being, crisis, positive psychology, positive interventions, post-traumatic growth

Majda Rijavec is a psychologist, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb. Her field of scientific research is educational and positive psychology. She (co)authored 50 books, 14 book chapters, 100 scientific papers, and about 400 popular and professional articles. She held more than 200 invited lectures, seminars and workshops, and participated in numerous radio and TV shows.

She is the winner of the “Ramiro Bujas” award of the Croatian Psychological Society for achievements in the popularization of psychological science, the Annual State Science Award for the popularization and promotion of science in the field of social sciences, and the “Zoran Bujas” award for the psychology book of the year.

She is one of the founders and president of the Croatian Network of Positive Psychology and the representative of Croatia in the European Network of Positive Psychology.