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Based on Ryan Niemiec, Chief Science and Training Officer of the VIA Institute on Character, individuals who undertake a mindfulness follow typically don’t stick with it. This may occasionally resonate with you. In case you’re a practitioner, it’d sound like a consumer you already know. Mindfulness and Character Strengths: A Practitioner’s Information to MBSP, presents an built-in resolution to this drawback. By merging the practices of mindfulness and character strengths, Niemiec reveals how each practices might be enhanced.

Why Merge Mindfulness and Strengths?

The e book offers a primer on mindfulness, together with embracing imperfection, bringing extra of who you might be into your follow, discovering calmness beneath strain, discovering a private path to being aware, and discovering mindfulness versus the auto pilot expertise of life. Niemiec reveals how including character strengths to the follow of mindfulness will increase the attunement wanted for habits change activation. Importantly, strengths assist people use what comes naturally to them to interact in mindfulness.

Utilizing mindfulness may also enhance the power to replicate on and use strengths in new methods. Strengths are inherently optimistic. As a optimistic psychology practitioner myself, I discover it affirming that Niemiec recommends utilizing strengths language to assist purchasers reappraise their habits.  For instance, as an alternative of claiming somebody is procrastinating, they may replicate on underusing their strengths of perseverance or self-regulation.

How the Ebook is Organized

The e book is structured to facilitate a complete understanding of the MBSP program. It begins with insightful introductions to mindfulness and character strengths, providing a succinct and deep base for these unfamiliar with these ideas. Niemiec delves into the interaction and the potential synergy mindfulness and strengths maintain when successfully mixed. This foundational data units the stage for the extra utilized facets of this system which might be delivered to a person or in a gaggle setting.

Ryan Niemiec

Meticulously outlined, full with targets, actions, and discussions, Niemiec explains every idea and methods to use it, in addition to offering analysis proof for why it really works.  Themes within the eight-session evidence-based program on the core of Mindfulness and Character Strengths embrace:

• Mindfulness






• Signature Strengths and Strengths Recognizing






• Dealing with Obstacles






• Conscious Residing






• Relationships






• Mindfulness, Strengths, and Selection






• Authenticity






• Committing to Residing Deeply

Every session presents alternatives to deepen each mindfulness and power follow and to replicate deeply by means of guided actions which can be included within the e book. Niemiec options dialogues with purchasers to reveal each what you would possibly say to immediate a consumer, and the way they may reply, in order that as a practitioner you’ll be able to anticipate helpful purposes of this system. He alternates the educational textual content with inspiring quotations and real-life tales that may assist theoretical facets of the e book resonate in a extra private and reflective manner. This might have been a dry textual content, however as an alternative it’s each participating and accessible.

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What I Appreciated

Certainly one of my new favourite actions that I discovered from the e book is Strengths Subtraction, by which contributors think about what it could be prefer to now not have a selected power. What would they be unable to do? What power would possibly they need to name on as an alternative? When the exercise involves an finish, what new appreciation would possibly they’ve gained for one thing they might have been taking without any consideration?

Ryan Niemiec presents each a conceptual framework and a follow grounded in scientific analysis. He presents analysis in a understandable, sensible, however not oversimplified manner. Practitioners will know what to do but in addition why it really works. This steadiness is essential for professionals in psychology, schooling, teaching, and administration who search dependable strategies backed by empirical proof.

The e book can be lengthy, the font could be very small, and the exquisitely detailed content material may appear initially formidable to these new to both mindfulness or character strengths. Nonetheless, readers will discover thorough, clear explanations and a gradual build-up of ideas with loads of evaluation and reflection. All through the e book Niemiec thoughtfully contains:

• Useful charts that summarize content material
• Tip sheets that anticipate challenges
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  Sensible examples for utilizing and appreciating strengths and mindfulness
• Illustrative tales

For those who wish to go even deeper, Niemiec offers downloadable assets comparable to audio tracks and scripts. Mindfulness and Character Strengths: A Practitioner’s Information to MBSP is a flexible device for a spread of customers.

References

Niemiec, R. (2023). Mindfulness and Character Strengths: A Practitioner’s Information to MBSP.. 2nd Version. Hogrefe.

Niemiec, R. (2013). Mindfulness and Character Strengths. Hogrefe.

Picture Credit

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Ryan Niemiec from his web page on the VIA Institute of Character website.

Lotus Picture by Carlos de Miguel on Unsplash