VIA Institute on Character and Character Strengths

The strengths movement in psychology, education, business, coaching, and related fields offers a welcomed shift from traditional approaches that focus on weaknesses and deficits. But, do you ever get confused about the differences between the strengths surveys that are out there? The VIA Survey (VIA Institute on Character) and the StrengthsFinder tool (Gallup Organization) are …

Discover your character strengths in 10 minutes with the free, scientifically validated VIA Survey. Learn to use your character strengths to live your best life.

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Thank you to Lisa Sansom, chief positive interventionist at LVS Consulting. So you have taken your VIA Survey. You have found your top Signature Strengths, and you are working with them – enhancing some, dialing down others, and generally having fun. Now what? Did you know that your strengths are not only good for …

Life is what happens between monotony and miracles, as one sage put it. Indeed, our lives are a collection of moments in time – some mundane and routine, some extraordinary, and many others. I’m not sure that we are shaped by every moment and every event of our lives, but certainly there is potential in …

Today as I was reading the news, I figured I’d be able to find an example of a VIA strength somewhere around the globe. It isn’t that difficult to spot a VIA strength actually because those virtues are within all of us. Whether we realize it or not, they guide our decisions and our actions …

Today as I was reading the news, I figured I’d be able to find an example of a VIA strength somewhere around the globe. It isn’t that difficult to spot a VIA strength actually because those virtues are within all of us. Whether we realize it or not, they guide our decisions and our actions …

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From my television set this past Sunday, I witnessed an on court battle between two opponents and two friends. There on the center court of the U.S. Open, I saw the hard fought battle of two champions in their sport. Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka were champions because of their VIA strength of perseverance, their …

What are your strengths? What is best about you? What qualities make up who you are? Too many times in my work as a clinical psychologist these questions would be met by blank stares from the person in front of me. And, when the question was answered at all, the response was something vague like …

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Our thanks to Mary Beth Schappe, ACC, founder of The Appreciative Lens, LLC, for submitting this post. The power of VIA Character Strengths combined with Appreciative Coaching was extremely effective with the work I did for a recent organizational team. Initially, the team participated in a strength-based team building workshop that utilized both the …

Our thanks to Mary Beth Schappe, ACC, founder of The Appreciative Lens, LLC, for submitting this post. The power of VIA Character Strengths combined with Appreciative Coaching was extremely effective with the work I did for a recent organizational team. Initially, the team participated in a strength-based team building workshop that utilized both the …