Rob is the publisher of positivepsychology.net and has been involved with Positive Psychology since the early 1980's at least as early as 1981. He gave his first presentation at a national professional meeting in 1985, and offered workshops, talks, panels and presentations at multiple professional venues, often using titles like: Positivity Training, Positive Emotional Self Regulation Training, though participants would often end up calling them smile workshops and talks because they always included pumping smile iron exercises going through a kind of progressive smile activation.