Character Strengths for Flourishing in Personal Recovery
Topic outline
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“Knowing and using your strengths can help bring out your potential and encourage you to be the best version of yourself.
And yet, most of us are unaware of our strengths or those of others. Our challenge is to know what they are and resolve to use them.”
Check out this resource for inspiration on how we can create opportunities to use our strengths in new ways.
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“The VIA Survey of Character Strengths is a free self-assessment that takes less than 15 minutes and provides a wealth of information to help you understand your best qualities.” - Via
It is completely free to take the test and can even contribute to further strength research.
Find out what your top strengths are and how you can use these to increase wellbeing in your life and promote flourishing in personal recovery.
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“The VIA Survey of Character Strengths is a free self-assessment that takes less than 15 minutes and provides a wealth of information to help you understand your best qualities.” - Via
It is completely free to take the test and can even contribute to further strength research.
Find out what your top strengths are and how you can use these to increase wellbeing in your life and promote flourishing in personal recovery.
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This webpage explains in detail some of the theory and research behind character strengths as identified by the VIA.
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This webpage explains in detail some of the theory and research behind character strengths as identified by the VIA.
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Check out this article about ways to identify characters strengths... even if we can’t always see these at first!
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Check out this article, “for a selection of the best TED talks on character strengths and virtues presented by speakers with a wealth of professional and personal experience on the subject.”
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"A strengths approach is used to guide individuals in recognizing their inherent strengths and focus on developing them. There is a tactile benefit to having the cards right in front of you. By looking at personal strengths, it makes the individual more powerful when tackling everyday challenges. Rather than focusing on deficits or difficulties, a strengths-based approach aims to make the individual’s abilities the primary focus"...
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- This exercise offers an open-ended, reflective activity where individuals examine their strengths in specific situations or events, be they hobbies and interests or the workplace.
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Exploring Character Strengths can be used to help you recognize your personal character strengths. Your strengths are your positive traits and characteristics. They lead you to act, want, and feel ways that benefit both you and others.
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This worksheet offers you open-ended statements to help brainstorm positive qualities about yourself s in different contexts (e.g., family, friends, and in the workplace).
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"The aim of the My Positive Qualities exercise is to create an inventory of your positive qualities by working through a list of statements and filling in the strengths that apply to you".
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The Things I Like About Me worksheet provides prompts to writing five things you like about yourself using a more open-ended model.
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The Children’s Strength Cards serve as a way of reminding children that we all have strengths and that it is important to focus on what we are good at, rather than what we struggle with.
When using strength cards in a strengths-based approach for children, the aim is to increase self-awareness, self-esteem, and resilience to assist in problem solving (Fenton, 2008).
You don't have to use these cards with children, but may find them helpful to use on yourself to problem solve.
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This is the PowerPoint presentation to accompany the webinar.
There is loads of info on here and activities to try as well as references to lots of research around the topic of character strengths in Positive Psychology.
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