Since antient times philosophers and scholars worldwide were continuously preoccupied with understanding what the beauty is and how the mind responds when encountered with stimuli perceived as beautiful. Nowadays, particular attention has been drawn to aesthetic emotions as subjective feelings and affective responses to beauty, and this subject seems to crossover the borders of many scientific domains, oriented towards enhancing people resilience and wellbeing. We encounter beauty in much wider contexts than thought traditionally as occurring exclusively when interacting with objects of art. People experience beauty while walking in nature or being in a mid of a build environment. The recently grown interest to aesthetic emotions is partly explained by their high complexity and significant impact produced on people wellbeing, as well as by their restorative and creative potential for the personality development.In this paper we present some data about a number of thematic workshops, conducted as an initiating phase in exploring the aesthetic emotions and their potential to enhancing people resilience and wellbeing. Participants were asked to complete the Aesthetic Emotions Scale (AESTHEMOS) while viewing images of famous paintings as aesthetic stimuli. Results reveal the controversy and complexity of aesthetic emotions, as well as the significant role cognitions and education in arts plays in the evaluation of aesthetic virtues of a particular stimulus and the aesthetic preferences.