1. Strength and Virtue

2.  Spiritual Gifts Part II
 Human “Nature
 Character
◦ Bad
◦ Good (“angelic)

3. Classification of the “sanities”

4.  Wisdom & Knowledge
 Courage
 Love & Humanity
 Justice
 Temperance
 Spirituality & Transcendence

5.  The route to the virtues
 Signature Strengths
◦ Moral Traits (not like talents)
◦ You can build strengths
◦ Choice to use and to build
◦ Can be acquired by almost any
ordinary person
◦ Measureable and acquirable

6.  A strength is a trait
 Valued in its own right
 Does not diminish others
 Produces authentic positive emotions
◦ Win-Win
 Culture supports:
institutions, rituals, role
models, parables, maxims, children’s
stories
 Ubiquitous

7.  Your Signature Strengths
 Full
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8.  A sense of ownership and authenticity (“This is the real me”)
 A feeling of excitement while displaying it, particularly at
first
 A rapid learning of new ways to enact the strength
 Continuous learning of new ways to enact the strength
 A sense of yearning to find ways to use it
 A feeling of inevitability in using the strength (“Try and stop
me”)
 Invigoration rather than exhaustion while using the strength
 The creation and pursuit of personal projects that revolve
around it
 Joy, zest, enthusiasm, even ecstasy while using it

9.  Usingyour signature
strengths every day in the
main realms of your life to
bring abundant gratification
and authentic happiness.

10.  1. What are they?
 2. Where have you been using them?
 3. Where do you intend to use them
in the future?
 4. What will it take to fully develop
and use your gifts and strengths?
(training? Support? Recognition?)
 5. What is your next step in
discovering, claiming and using your
gifts and strengths.