Should PERMA(V) become REVAMP?

I see parallels between Hintsa's approach to performance and a modified approach to post-traumatic growth.

This July, my wife graduated from the MAPP program at the University of Pennsylvania, so we've been talking a lot about the PERMA framework over the past year. In her capstone project on child loss, my wife proposed reordering PERMA into REMAP, placing relationships first and suspending the positive¹ until it becomes appropriate and possible.

In September, I started a training program with Hintsa Performance. It introduced me to two related ideas, one similar and one new: starting with relationships and engagement in the coaching process; and including vitality (V) as a PERMA component.

The combination of the two approaches triggered the idea of REVAMP. Relationships (R), engagement (E), and vitality (V) all have immediate benefits—regardless of the context of the client—while achievement (A), meaning (M), and positive emotion (P) often take longer, especially in trying times.

1. The idea of "suspending the positive" is from the work of Abimbola Tschetter, my wife's capstone advisor at Penn. In her own work on post-traumatic growth, Tschetter proposed ERMAP as a more realistic approach than PERMA.