![]() We use the strength cards in a sorting fashion. Just like values work, strengths are verbs, not nouns. The more labels we attach on our self, the greater the chance that self criticisms will pop up whenever we don’t live up to the tag line. Our alternative is to focus on holding labels and concepts lightly, so we use strengths as behaviours that people engage in that help them with value. We see this as problematic because of the way humans use language – if we give people more “I am” labels, they’ll also derive more “I am not” labels. By way of contrast, other approaches use them as self attributes (e.g. We use strengths to refer to behaviours that help us engage in valued activities. ![]() Strengths are behaviours we use all the time, our purpose is to help people use them to build valued living. This strength work fits inside our DNA-V model, but can be applied equally across all mindfulness approaches. Lets take a look at how you can use strengths consistently with mindfulness work for young and adult clients. We have been testing out strengths work for the last few years in the clinic, schools and workshops. We’ve now created a beautiful set of cards to help with identifying strengths and are offering the cards free for download. ![]() Identifying our strengths can be helpful, especially if this helps us to flexibly achieve our valued goals. Strength building is a common approach used across education and the workplace.
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