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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 />
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