Strengths to Flourish
for Positive Peace

The key positive results of this course include:

• Increased ability to recognize and deliberately grow positive peace related character strengths
• Develops sustainable wellbeing, health and performance
• Helps participants tap into work-related strengths
• Increase in job satisfaction (as judged by course participant) and in task performance (as assessed by their line manager)
• Solution-focus with positive and actionable reframing of challenging experiences and emotions
• Reduction in stress, anxiety, burn-out, and loneliness
• Increase in engagement, accomplishment, hope, and sense of meaning in life
• Substantial increase in positive emotions and relationships
• Increased self-awareness and ability to self-lead, be peace and promote peace
• Increased self-acceptance and environment mastery
• Increases the ability to reframe and manage conflicts and problems
• Develops all components of The Flourishing Circle positive peace construct

Strengths to Flourish for Positive Peace is for those who want to train in practical ways to lead peace actions with more clarity and freedom and less burn-out, depression, anxiety, and stress.

The core leadership and positive peace competences developed during this course are valuable for everyone, but particularly for team members, leaders, managers, social workers, activists, coaches, and educators involved in promoting peace.

No previous experience with mindfulness and character strengths work is required.

Bespoke courses for groups are available on request – please contact us to talk about your needs.

The Strengths to Flourish for Positive Peace course proposes an overall and progressive active learning environment and process that allows for experimenting and integrating the content and practices offered, including:

• Teachings on foundational character strengths practice, positive neuroplasticity, self-leadership, leadership, and positive peace
• Exploring, recognizing and exploring own and other’s character strengths
• Practicing guided somatic and breath-based mindfulness practices generating deep relaxation, happiness and inner peace
• Strengthening your ability to focus and to be a good guardian of your mind
• Practicing strategies for facing obstacles and reframing challenging situations with right mindset, positive outlook and agency
• Practical state-of-the-art sustainable positive peace coaching and feedback processes, balancing the use of inner and team resources to reach desired goals, develop resiliency and become anti-fragile
• Resources for maintaining your personal positive peace self-leadership and leadership practice with energy, generativity and aliveness
• Experiential sharing and conversational exercises, resulting in a collective positive upwards spiral process, strengthening and manifesting leadership and positive peace competences, and team bonding
• Quality time for journaling and integrating learnings with honesty, self-esteem and common humanity

This program brings together the latest science of positive peace, leadership, mindfulness and character strengths into an active learning experience over 8 sessions. Underpinned by cutting-edge research and practical, creative Zen practice, this is a space of exploration, wellbeing and clarity.

Strengths to Flourish for Positive Peace includes:

• 20 contact hours,
• Half-day integration retreat,
• Weekly resources and guided positive peace workbook exercises, and
• Post-course community gatherings to sustain your practice

This program offers the mindfulness and character strengths components of the Strengths to Flourish course, with additional content and practices specifically designed for developing and manifesting sustainable positive peace at all levels.

We believe the transition to an ethical, peaceful and socially connected world is only possible through a profound, fully conscious and engaged inner transformation of aspirations, beliefs and values, along with the competences and qualities required by individuals, teams, communities, and organizations playing a role in fulfilling sustainable positive peace goals.

Such whole flourishing comes hand in hand with thriving, collaborative, fair, and inclusive communities and organizations, made possible thanks to a creative, inclusive and harmonious teamwork, as well as compassionate and insightful leadership and diligent positive outlook of everyone at all levels.

Both ancient wisdom and modern positive peace and leadership science recognize that any sustainable inner transformation and competence development endeavor is based in a few foundational components:

• Insight on the wholeness of the human nature, universal values and character strengths,
• Integrative awareness and regulation of attention,
• Understanding of the primal role of views, mindset, beliefs, and intentions in determining experiences, and
• Positive outlook and diligent solution focus.

For The Flourishing Circle, cultivating sustainable positive peace leadership in individuals, teams, communities and organizations encompass many integrative dimensions:

• Engaged Universal Ethics: Creative positive peace leadership engagement, interdependence, and collective transformation in line with the UNESCO’s 2000 « Manifesto for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence ».
• Self-Leadership: Getting to know own strengths and competencies, aligning unconscious and conscious motives, purpose, values, and beliefs with self-congruence, engaging with balanced self-endorsed actions and self-actualization and transcendence.
• Leadership: Insightful and impactful influence with systems thinking, valid and appealing vision, mission, shared values, strategy, sustained energy, service orientation, and community concern. Demonstrating excellence with courageous self-management (vs. lead by imposing power and authority). Achieving results with effectiveness and decisiveness.
• Super-Leadership: Engaging in development relationships (coaching, mentoring, networking, social activism) and practical experience (assignments, new roles, teaching, volunteering) cultivating the leadership of others with empowerment.
• Embodied Emotional Intelligence: Lead from a selfless heart (vs. with ego) cultivating long term relationships (vs. accumulating transactional relationships) with integrative self-awareness, social and system awareness for gathering information, developing insight, and thereby facilitating well-being and adaptation. Strategic solution focus with self-regulation, positive actionable outlook.
• Team Bonding: Teamwork based in the appreciation of the strengths of others with self-confidence, self-esteem, calmness, openness, curiosity, trust, and gratefulness.
• Procedural Lifelong Learning: Resilience and anti-fragility through change, conflicts, risks, challenges, and failures, with feedback, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Communities of Practice: Engagement in peace activism and social leadership practice is the fundamental process by which we learn to lead and so become the leaders we are. Practical and informal learning accounts for 90% of the total learning of a peace activist leader.

We propose regular thematic taster sessions to introduce our programs. Check the Calendar page to register to our events.

Strengths to Flourish for Sustainable Positive Peace courses for teams, organizations and communities are organized on demand. If you would like to discuss your specific needs, please contact us to arrange a call.