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Strengths spotting<br />

Journal any times I see myself or<br />

others using this week’s strength<br />

and the actions<br />

I or they take.<br />

strengths and emotions<br />

WHY STRENGTHS’ boosters? – building my Strengths and Emotions through practising using my strengths regularly.<br />

Just knowing what your top strengths are makes no difference to your wellbeing unless you use them. Becoming<br />

your best possible self comes from doing more difficult things which challenge your current very best. Making the<br />

choice to stretch your very best to new levels, will mean you will make mistakes, which you may not like. You can<br />

then use your strengths to push through these challenging situations to learn new things to fix your mistakes. The<br />

Strengths Boosters, which you do every second week, give you opportunities to use your strengths in different<br />

ways to build your wellbeing.<br />

Learning strengths<br />

Journal three strengths I could use<br />

to accept mistakes and correct<br />

them to grow personally and<br />

academically.<br />

Activity one strengths<br />

Journal<br />

five activities<br />

I really enjoy<br />

doing and the<br />

two main strengths<br />

I use when doing<br />

each of them.<br />

Strengths thinking<br />

Every day for two of my strengths,<br />

I will choose the best Habits of<br />

Mind ways to think when using<br />

them.<br />

Media search<br />

Every day I will select one of my<br />

strengths to look for people using<br />

those strengths<br />

on the news, in<br />

newspaper and<br />

in magazine<br />

stories.<br />

Family strengths<br />

I will ask my family to do the<br />

VIA strengths survey, put their<br />

strengths wheels on the fridge<br />

and talk about how each of us<br />

use our strengths.<br />

Self-acceptance<br />

strengths<br />

I will select a strength every day<br />

that I want to build to become<br />

my best possible self and why I<br />

chose it.<br />

Relationship strengths<br />

I will select five strengths I believe<br />

people could use to value others<br />

and build relationships and why I<br />

think so.<br />

Hero strengths<br />

I will study a person in history I<br />

admire for what they<br />

have achieved<br />

and write down<br />

strengths I<br />

think they<br />

used and<br />

why.<br />

Struggle strengths<br />

I will look for stories where people<br />

have had to dig deep to overcome<br />

setbacks and challenges and write<br />

down strengths they used.<br />

Friends’ strengths<br />

With a group of friends share your<br />

strength’s YOUR wheels, CHARACTER identify which<br />

you have STRENGTHS in common WHEEL and what<br />

you do to use them.<br />

STRENGTH 8<br />

STRENGTH 1<br />

Movie strengths<br />

I will watch a movie and journal<br />

what I think three of the strengths<br />

of each of the characters in the<br />

story are and how they<br />

used them.<br />

STRENGTH 7<br />

STRENGTH 2<br />

STRENGTH 6<br />

“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does; that makes you a winner right there.” Venus Williams<br />

STRENGTH 3<br />

6<br />

STRENGTH 5<br />

STRENGTH 4<br />

MY WJ_9&10.indd 6<br />

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