Strengths

We’re not very good at articulating strengths in the UK. We start by examining different words we use for strengths and introduce and signpost the VIA psychometric by Seligman and Peterson, breaking down strengths into the six domains of Wisdom &Knowledge, Humanity, Justice, Temperance, Transcendence and Courage.

We then implement some of this new knowledge in some strength spotting.

We bring it back to Aristotle to talk about the golden mean and how when a strength is overplayed it becomes inherently negative and can be common sign of an individual in a stress reaction. We start to examine the role of the subconscious in relation to strengths and how our perspective differs when we are at the limit of our resilience.