ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a unique conversation between Barbara L. Fredrickson and Daniel J. Siegel to explore their different backgrounds in micro-moment and micro-interactional patterns with interpersonal neurobiology. Interpersonal Neurobiology provides ways for thinking about compassion as a process of connectedness and coming together in the context of suffering rather than avoidance or moving away from each other. From a positive psychology perspective, the resonance around a negative emotion might lead to the positive emotional experience of being cared for by another, and caring for another, so that each individual would feel a positivity to the resonance, even though they became connected through a negative emotional state initially. Even mild positive emotions broaden our awareness, and such experiences, when recurrent, accumulate and compound to build people's enduring resources. Moments of positivity resonance have the signature of positive emotions from the "broaden and build" perspective.
