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A Strengths Story: Utilizing StrengthsQuest in Your Course Foundation Presented by: Debora Finch, M.Ed. & Meaghan Mundy, Ph.D. Belmont University A Strengths Story Introduction: Becoming More of Who We Are Meant to Be Chapter 1:
Presented by: Debora Finch, M.Ed. & Meaghan Mundy, Ph.D. Belmont University
❖ Introduction: Becoming More of
Who We Are Meant to Be
❖ Chapter 1: Unpacking the
Strengths Backpack
❖ Chapter 2: Intellectual Growth &
Inquiry
Your Story
❖ What is the difference between a talent and a strength? ❖ How does positive psychology define “weakness”? ❖ What is the myth of well-roundedness? ❖ What is meant by the term “strength-colored” glasses?
“Discovery, development, and application” (SQ, page 11).
➢ What ideas, images, colors and words speak to you? ➢ How do they capture your present understanding of what you value most? ➢ How will they add to the vision of your future?
✓ Identify and critically evaluate how individual strengths and weaknesses will impact academic performance in this and other courses.
Through the course, Strengthsfinder assessment is centralized to help students integrate:
Worry is the advance price you pay for trouble that may never come.
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be more who you were meant to be in the first place.