Coaching practices for Strengths From Life Story

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I want to know what my real strengths actually are
• There are a handful of moments where my whole life pivoted, and I’ve quietly decided what each one means
• I can think of a few times in my life when I felt genuinely, fully alive, and I want to study what those moments had in common
• There’s a story I tell about my past
• I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by

Practices that may help

1. Identify your core strengths through your own history
   Find the recurring threads in your best moments to name the strengths that are actually yours.
   Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy
2. Identifying the turning points that shaped you
   Single out the three to five moments where your trajectory genuinely changed — and examine what you made of them.
   The Life Line Exercise
3. Peak experience analysis
   Study your life-line high points for the values and conditions they share — they reveal what fully alive looks like for you.
   The Life Line Exercise
4. Revise your life narrative when it limits you
   Identify and reauthor the story you tell about your past that constrains what you believe is possible.
   The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self
5. Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
   Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
   The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self
6. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
   Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
7. Write a brief narrative of your season to make it coherent
   People who can tell a coherent story about their life stage navigate it more effectively than those who cannot.
   Seasons of Life
8. Balance agency and communion themes in your story
   Check whether your life narrative is weighted toward self-expansion (agency) or connection (communion).
   Narrative Identity, Made Practical
9. Write a structured autobiography by life chapter
   Divide your life into chapters and write the story of each — what happened, what you felt, what it meant.
   Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy
10. Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
    Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical

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