Our character strengths are a core part of our Positive Education programme. Each of us have all of these strengths that we can dial up to help us navigate our lives. We can also over-use a strength which can have less than ideal outcomes. If we overuse Humour, we might make light of something that requires a more serious approach or if we overuse Bravery, we might take a risk that could be unsafe.
One of the ways that we introduce some of these strengths is through quality picture books. By exploring the characters in the story we can start to spot which strengths they are using and how they are using them.
Melu is a story about a Mule who decides not to follow the herd through the dry hills any more and wants to travel to the lush green grass next to the glittering green sea. Over the course of the journey, Melu encounters obstacles that he needs to use his own strengths and the strengths of his new freinds Goat and Bull to overcome.
After exploring the story we unpacked the strengths that the characters used.
And did some strength spotting oursleves.
Stories are such a rich source of strengths that can be showcased and talked about. Often it can be hard to describe some of the more abstarct strengths but when you see it in a story it can become a little easier to understand.
What books do you know that showcase some character strengths? Please let us know so that we can add to our growing library of stories!
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