Coaching practices for Via Character Strengths with Friends
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
- With the person closest to me I’ve fallen into playing a role, and the most real parts of me stay tucked away
- I’ve got a list of my strengths but it reads like a flat personality quiz
- I catch myself scanning everyone around me for what’s wrong with them, and I want to flip that lens
- I have plenty of people I grab drinks with or who are useful to know, but I’m realizing almost none of them are the kind of friend who actually knows my character and could call me on it
Practices that may help
- VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
Peterson and Seligman’s VIA Classification identifies 24 character strengths organized under six virtues, and multiple randomized trials find that using your top "signature strengths" in new ways reliably increases well-being and decreases depressive symptoms. The effect is most robust when strengths are deployed in engaged, relational ways — not just recognized but actively applied. - 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 - Apply strengths consciously in your most important relationships
Identify how your signature strengths are showing up — or failing to show up — in the relationships that matter most.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - 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 - Spot and name character strengths in others
Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Cultivating friendships of virtue over pleasure or utility
Invest most deeply in friendships where mutual character development — not just enjoyment or usefulness — is the bond.
Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue - Map how your strengths distort under stress
Identify the "overuse" and "underuse" of each signature strength — how they show up when you’re at your worst.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Use your signature strengths in a new way
Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - Cultivating a community of mutual virtue
Choose your regular social environments with the question: "Does this community draw out my better self?"
Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach
Related concerns
- Character Strengths Inventory
Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
- Signature Strengths Exercise
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
- Via Character Strengths
Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
- Via Character Strengths At Work
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- Via Character Strengths Before Bed
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- Via Character Strengths During A Big Change
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
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