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In response to Ryan Niemiec, Chief Science and Schooling Officer of the VIA Institute on Character, individuals who undertake a mindfulness follow usually don’t stick with it. This may increasingly resonate with you. For those who’re a practitioner, it would sound like a shopper you already know. Mindfulness and Character Strengths: A Practitioner’s Information to MBSP, presents an built-in resolution to this downside. 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 gives a primer on mindfulness, together with embracing imperfection, bringing extra of who you’re into your follow, discovering calmness below stress, discovering a private path to being conscious, 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 have interaction in mindfulness.

Utilizing mindfulness also can 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 could replicate on underusing their strengths of perseverance or self-regulation.

How the E book 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 information units the stage for the extra utilized elements of this system which might be delivered to a person or in a bunch setting.

Ryan Niemiec

Meticulously outlined, full with targets, actions, and discussions, Niemiec explains every idea and the right way 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 embody:

• 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 via guided actions which might be included within the e-book. Niemiec options dialogues with purchasers to reveal each what you may say to immediate a shopper, and the way they could reply, in order that as a practitioner you possibly can anticipate helpful functions of this system. He alternates the academic textual content with inspiring quotations and real-life tales that may assist theoretical elements of the e-book resonate in a extra private and reflective method. This might have been a dry textual content, however as an alternative it’s each partaking and accessible.

Lotus, image of honesty, goodness, magnificence, and purity

What I Preferred

One in all my new favourite actions that I realized from the e-book is Strengths Subtraction, wherein individuals think about what it might be wish to not have a specific power. What would they be unable to do? What power may they need to name on as an alternative? When the exercise involves an finish, what new appreciation may they’ve gained for one thing they could 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 method. Practitioners will know what to do but additionally why it really works. This stability is essential for professionals in psychology, training, teaching, and administration who search dependable strategies backed by empirical proof.

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

• 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 gives downloadable assets akin 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

Autumn leaf, picture from the quilt of Mindfulness and Character Strengths: A Practitioner’s Information to MBSP

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

Lotus Picture by Carlos de Miguel on Unsplash