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PCB Conference : April 2019
DOES YOUR STRENGTHS-BASED PRACTICE HAVE LEGS?
Aware:
VIA Character Strengths and core concepts.
Science and benefits behind approach.
Mindsets
Explore:
Character strengths matter.
Your character strengths.
Tailor interventions to each client
Apply:
Character strengths interventions.
Implementation examples.
Personal strengths practice.
Professional strengths practice.
OBJECTIVES
AGENDA
AWARE
What & Why
Video: “Science of Character”
Exercise: “1 Minute Strengths / Strengths Spotting”
- break -
EXPLORE
Aware / Explore / Apply Model
Strength Paradox
VIA Survey
Make it Personal
Signature Strengths
Strength Blindness
Video: “6:58 Poem”
Exercise: “Signature Strengths in New Ways”
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APPLY
Being / Doing
Character Strength Interventions
Implementation Examples – Spirit Life Rehab
Video: “Rodney”
Personal and Professional Strengths Practice
Exercise: Apply Strengths to Life Challenges”
INTRODUCTION TO CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Utilized in many industries:
Education; Business; Coaching; Health Care; Personal Development
Remain untapped resource in SUD/Recovery.
Roots in Positive Psychology
Work from what people are good at.
Harness the power of the Paradigm Shift.
Character Strengths Matter!
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
VIA Institute VIA Classification VIA Survey
Advancing Science
and Practice
Founded: 2000
3 Years, 55 Scientists
2600 Years of “Goodness”
Over 500 scientific
Publications
Evidence-based practices
Every
15 Seconds
Since 2004
Over 7,000,000
All countries
STRENGTH-BASED CHECKLIST
Niemiec, Ryan M. (2018). Character Strengths Interventions - A Field Guide for Practitioners. Boston, MA : Hogrefe.
What are Character Strengths?
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Talents ResourcesSkills Interests
CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Who are you at your core?
What are you
good at?
What are your
know hows?
What are your
passions and hobbies?
What are your
supports?
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
• What is best in you.
• Most positive human qualities.
• Basic elements of your identify.
• Who you are at your core; the authentic you.
• Personality traits others tend to admire and respect.
• Wellsprings for a life well-lived.
• Pathways to happiness and wellbeing.
• Capacities for shaping thinking, feeling and behavior.
“ Positive traits or capacities that are personally fulfilling, do not diminish others,
ubiquitous and valued across cultures and aligned with numerous positive
outcomes for self and others.”
Character Strengths
– Niemiec 2017
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Science of character video – 8 minutes
Fixed/Growth Mindset:
You can determine your character; CS can be developed
You can develop happy, successful life and experience well-
being and produce positive outcomes for self and others
Each person has unique combo of strengths and everyone
has every strength, maybe to different degrees, frequencies of
occurrence, intensities and vary in different environments
Not good or bad, and occur in combinations
Video: https://youtu.be/BdQRECe37K0
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
• Neuroplasticity.
• Fixed/Growth Mindset.
• All Character Strengths Matter
• Character Strengths can be developed.
• Each person has unique combo of strengths.
• Everyone has every strength to different degrees.
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Common Language / Classification
“What’s Wrong?” “What’s Right?”
AWARE - WHAT ARE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
EXERCISE
“1 Minute Strengths”
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Why Character Strengths?
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Negativity bias in brain and body. Baumeister et al. (2001); Rozin & Royzman (2001) Bad is stronger than good
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Negative is sticky and contagious!
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Auto-Pilot
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Benefits associated with using strengths:Happier
Work Satisfaction
Self-Esteem & Self-Efficacy
Confidence
Vitality
Greater Life Fulfillment
Improves Relationships
Buffer, Manage, Overcome Problems
Manage Stress
Resilience
Health and Wellbeing
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
From: Seligman, M. E. P. (2011). Flourish, New York, NY : Free Press
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Identity
Collective
Good
Positive
Outcomes
Counterbalance
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Not Happyology
Focusing on positives does not mean ignoring negatives.
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
So why character strengths?
Counterbalance brain’s negative bias.
Intentionally positive.
Balance perspectives. (+ AND -)
Integrate with models of how people change.
Authentic best self.
Enjoyable approach.
Well-being boost.
Change your life towards what is good.
Bring benefits to others.
Transform clinical practice.
AWARE - WHY CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
Which character strengths?
AWARE - CHARACTER STRENGTHS
EXERCISE
“Strengths Spotting”
Q: What went well this week?
Label the strength Note behavior / rational Express appreciation
Explore Character Strengths.
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Aware:From auto-pilot to awareness.
Explore:From general awareness to deeper insight.
Apply:From insight to positive action.
Strength-Based Model
Niemiec, Ryan M. (2013). Mindfulness and Character Strengths. A Practical Guide to Flourishing. Boston, MA : Hogrefe.
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Strengths Paradox
High potential for benefit, yet unware
TO SOLVE:
Celebrating
Challenging
Express
Endorsing
Exploring
Take the VIA
Feeling the Positive
Discussing/Appreciating
Preconscious
Conscious
Subconscious
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
1: Creativity
2: Curiosity
3: Humor
4: Love
5: Perspective
6: Honesty
7: Appreciation of
Beauty & Excellence
8: Fairness
9: Judgment
10: Kindness
11: Humility
12: Gratitude
EXXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS?
13: Hope
14: Social intelligence
15: Bravery
16: Leadership
17: Love of learning
18: Zest
19: Prudence
20: Forgiveness
21: Spirituality
22: Teamwork
23: Perseverance
24: Self-Regulation
TOP
5
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Character Strengths Subsets
Signature Strengths
Middle Strengths
Lesser Strengths
Phasic Strengths
Strengths Synergies
Supportive Strengths
Happiness Strengths
Overused / Underused Strengths
Eroded Strengths
Lost or Forgotten Strengths
Unappreciated Strengths
Strengths Collisions
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Your Client Says,
“I took the VIA Survey… Now what?”
Ask questions and listen carefully.
Get to know person through strengths-based lens.
Explore and validate who person is in strengths context.
Do not interpret or conclude.
Discuss feelings and normalize reactions.
Educate about VIA survey and what it reveals in context
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Correct Misconceptions:
Lower strengths are weaknesses.
Some strengths are better than others.
“I don’t have any strengths.”
“My strengths are not important or unique.”
Negative hyper-focus on several VIA questions.
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Collaborate with client to connect to CS:
Connect to client’s CS.
Client connects CS to his/her world.
The reason for coming to see you.
Pathways to reach goals.
Other domains of client’s life.
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Make it personal.
Remember what you said you wanted?
You said you wanted ___________.
It is very common for people to _________.
There are ways to __________ by using CS.
I want to share some pathways to help you _________,
and this is where CS will fit in.
CS are ingredients of _____________.
SS and other CS can be used to help you _________.
CS are the ingredients of good ______________.
So to tap into your CS will have positive impact on ___________.
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Niemiec, Ryan M. (2018). Character Strengths Interventions - A Field Guide for Practitioners. Boston, MA : Hogrefe.
Modalities:
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Signature Strengths
Essential • Energizing • Easy
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Signature Strengths
Essential to who person is.
Energizing versus exhausting.
Easy versus difficult to develop and use.
Naturally emerge across life domains.
Usually in top of person’s VIA profile.
Over 5.1 million possible SS combinations
Linked with: Your Authentic Self. Unique You!
explore CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Levels of Strengths Blindness
1. Lack of general introspection.
2. Can articulate strengths, but external and not substantive.
3. Some awareness of CS but takes for granted or dismisses.
EXPLORE CHARACTER STRENGTHS
EXERCISE
“Apply Signature Strengths to Challenging Situation”
Apply Character Strengths
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Being Doing
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Video: “Re-building a Life Through Character Strengths” https://youtu.be/sZJG3atoc6Q
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS PRACTICE
Review CSI Exercises*
CSI Handouts*
Facility Implementation
*Niemiec, Ryan M. (2018). Character Strengths Interventions - A Field Guide for Practitioners. Boston, MA : Hogrefe.
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Practices to develop your personal strengths.
Recognizing
and
Appreciating
in others
Exploring
and Using
Your SS
Applying Your
SS to Life
Challenges
Developing
Strengths
Habit.
Niemiec, Ryan M. and McGrath, Robert E. (2019). The Power of Character Strengths. Appreciate and Ignite your Positive Personality.
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Set a Goal.
Review Set a Plan
What action will
you take?
Obstacles and
Opportunities.
Take ActionReady, Set, Go!
Practices to develop your professional strengths.
Niemiec, Ryan M. and McGrath, Robert E. (2019). The Power of Character Strengths. Appreciate and Ignite your Positive Personality.
APPLY CHARACTER STRENGTHS
EXERCISE
“How Might You Use What You Have Learned In Your Setting?”
Thank You!
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