Flourishing
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive - Howard Thurman
Each of us has the life-enhancing capacity to develop our character strengths as a path to reaching our full potential and developing purpose through considering and supporting others. A simple practice which can powerfully nourish our character strengths is empathic dialogue.
This slide deck explores the three stages and character strengths we aim to co-create in our dialogues.
Developing Character Strengths:
Below is a brief overview of the three virtues and linked character strengths we develop in our three dialogue stages.
Humanity
In the first stage we focus on the virtue of humanity and the character strengths of:
Wisdom
In the second stage we focus on the virtue of wisdom and the character strengths of:
Courage
In the third stage we focus on the virtue of courage and the character strengths of:
Our approach builds on the decades of research on character strengths by the VIA Institute on Character