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MBSP

Practical approach for looking inwards and outwards with character strengths to increase both well-being and resilience to challenges and changes

What is MBSP

The core of Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice (MBSP) is self-insight and self-discovery. It combines two powerful and popular approaches in positive psychology: character strengths and mindfulness training. MBSP teaches you the basics of character strengths and attention, and offers advanced, practical ways to integrate these two.

It provides a unique angle to

• live your best life
• rediscover (work) joy
• increase self-confidence
• achieve goals
• strengthen positive relationships with yourself and others
• find deeper meaning and life commitment
• cope with everyday life with changes and challenges in a good way
  

Strength awareness and the development of your 24 universal strengths in the VIA classification, is an easy and effective way to learn more about yourself and others. Research shows that knowing and using our unique personal strengths profile increases our well-being and can have a positive effect on relationships, careers, personal growth, and quality of life. You exploit your potential and are better equipped to deal with change and challenges.

Awareness training is a proven method that increases mindfulness, focus, inner peace, and quality in everything you do. You are more present in what you do and achieve more.

The VIA classification of character strengths provides a good basis for understanding who we are - in good and bad times - and what it means to thrive. The VIA lens is believed to promote greater understanding of oneself and others.

• Become aware of, develop and apply your character strengths
• Strengthen your awareness and focus
  
• Reduce stress and increase your ability to cope with small and large challenges
• Learn simple recognized and research-based techniques that have immediate effect

Emphasis is placed on strength awareness and mindfulness training exercises that are discussed and practiced every week and that make you get to know your personal strengths, and train your attention muscle. MBSP is about gaining greater awareness of what is, as well as exploring what is possible for you. You will experience how your attention and your strengths have a positive impact on each other. Bringing them together in a harmonious way benefits coaches, coachees, managers, employees, students, organizations, customers and suppliers.

MBSP advantages for coaches

You strengthen yourself as a coach and practice ICF's new core competence 'Coaching mindset' which is open, curious, flexible and customer focused. ICF now also places more emphasis on presence in coaching which is about seeing the whole person (who), following the coachee (what), showing curiosity to learn more, and allowing for silence, pause or reflection. Presence can be practiced through awareness training or Mindfulness. Character strengths are part of the 'inner strengths' in logical levels and are proponents of all other types of strengths. They say something about how you think, feel, and act (what). They also reflect values, and your top strengths say something about who you are, your identity (who).

• Strengthen your presence
• Recognize strengths in oneself and others more easily
• Earn 16 ICF CCEUs in resource development when participating in group course

Your facilitator is Maria C. Hofman, ICF certified coach with specialization in positive psychology, especially VIA strengths. Maria is a Charter Certified MBSP practitioner & leader, trained at the VIA Institute on Character, and an instructor Attention Training (based on MBSR), educated at the Scandinavian Center for Awareness Training.

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