This New Year, set the intention to see through the lens of strengths! Shift your focus from what’s wrong to what’s strong. This mindset shift allows greater capacity to navigate challenges and recognize goodness through awareness and authenticity.
Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice is an interactive program which focuses the power of mindfulness on personal character strengths. The purpose is to train participants on both mindfulness and character strengths practices and to learn how each enhances the other. This synergy can then be used to create one’s best life and to better navigate challenges. Learn what your unique strengths are and how best to use them mindfully at work and at home, with colleagues, friends, and family. Discover how to shift your focus from what’s wrong to what’s strong, and how to apply what’s strong to what’s wrong for better resilience and well-being.
Each one-hour session of this 8-week series consists of mindfulness practices, including brief meditation, written character strengths exercises, group discussion, and presents new content from week to week. Being able to attend all sessions and participate as best as possible is important for an optimal experience. This is not intended to be a passive lecture-style program. Your presence and participation matter - you matter! :-)
In this series participants will explore:
- Shifting from autopilot to mindfulness
- Their unique constellation of strengths
- The powerful integration of mindfulness and strengths
- Ways to deepen and value relationships
- Overuse and underuse strengths
- Practices for enhancing engagement with life
This series is led by Danielle Casioppo, MS, NBC-HWC, Education Specialist with Being Well at Yale and Charter-certified MBSP instructor and instructor and faculty member with the VIA Institute on Character.
Series schedule: 12:00 - 1:00 PM, Fridays, January 9 - February 27, 2026.
Open to Yale employees (a yale.edu email address required to register).
Registration closes January 8, 2026.