If you were asked: "What are your strengths?" What would you say - Creativity? Curiosity? Humor? Kindness?
These are just four out of 24 of the character strengths defined by the VIA Institute (a research centre, prominent in the field of positive psychology).
"Character Strengths" refers to "the positive parts of your personality that impact how you think, feel and behave" (VIA Institute, 2021).
Benefits of knowing, understanding and using our character strengths include:
- Improved your relationships
- Enhanced health and wellbeing
- Tools to manage and overcome challenges (VIA Institute, 2021).
This online Moodle course will provide you with an overview of strengths based research in positive psychology, along with exercises and activities to enable you to discover your character strengths, to promote flourishing in personal recovery.
We will be keeping a reflective log for this course, so make sure you have a notebook/journal or similar to hand.
