SESSION ONE: AWARE
- Before session, participants took all surveys
- Introductions and sociometric activities
- Awareness of the Character Strengths; a brief background
- Learning the language of the Character Strengths
- VIA Survey results and Character Strength Walk Through of each participant’s top 3
- Discussion of overuse/underuse
- Written feedback from session and directed to write in Journal One: Aware
SESSION TWO: EXPLORE
- Group check-in and tell a story of a strength that showed up since the last session with two appointed ‘strength-spotters’
- ‘Best self’ stories in dyads taking turns listening and strength spotting using Character Strengths cards
- Psychodrama Vignette leveraging our Character Strengths for something that was recently challenging for a chosen protagonist
- Directed to write in Journal Two: Explore
- CLICK HERE to see an article on 'Best Possible Self'
SESSION THREE (ONLINE): CHARACTER STRENGTHS & PERFORMANCE
SESSION FOUR: APPLY
THIRD INTERVENTION WRITE UP: APPLY
- Check in through CS over Thanksgiving Break using a prop in the first person
- Dyads- Best Performing Self Story
- Write a Three Sentence Story
- Psychodramatic Sculpture of Three Sentence Story
- Closing and Summary of Take Aways & further instructions