Mindfulness & Flow
This practice involves bringing your attention to the present moment without judgment.
What is Mindfulness?
This popular daily practice involves listing three good things that happened today and why they occurred.
What is the Three Good Things exercise?
This core character strength involves being nice, generous, and doing favors or good deeds for other people without expecting anything in return.
What is kindness?
Coined by Carol Dweck, this is the belief that your basic qualities and intelligence can be developed through dedication and hard work.
What is a Growth Mindset?
How old am I
27
This term describes being completely immersed and focused in an activity where time seems to fly by.
What is Flow? (or being "In the zone")
a state of complete immersion and deep focus in an activity, where you become so absorbed that everything else—including time, self-consciousness, and distractions—seems to melt away.
This type of letter is written (and ideally read aloud) to someone who has made a massive positive difference in your life but whom you never properly thanked.
What is a Gratitude Visit (or Gratitude Letter)?
Research shows that focusing on developing your character strengths can significantly increase your overall life satisfaction and happiness. (T or F)
TRUE!!!
Research consistently shows that identifying and actively using your character strengths leads to higher life satisfaction, increased happiness, and lower rates of depression. When you use your signature strengths, especially in new ways, it boosts engagement, improves relationships, and helps you experience more positive emotions.
Angela Duckworth defined this four-letter word as the combination of long-term passion and perseverance for a singular, meaningful goal.
What is Grit?
What city did I grow up in?
Colorado Springs
This quick breathing technique uses a 4-second inhale, 4-second hold, 4-second exhale, and 4-second hold to reset the nervous system.
What is Box Breathing (or Square Breathing)?
This evolutionary brain bias causes us to notice, react to, and remember negative experiences much more intensely than positive ones.
What is the Negativity Bias?
This virtue category includes strengths like bravery, perseverance, honesty, and zest.
What is Courage?
Becoming stronger after going through a traumatic/stressful event in your life is...
What is resilience?
Do I have any pets?
Yes! I have one cat
This cognitive distortion happens when we focus entirely on the negative details of a situation while ignoring all the positive ones.
What is Mental Filtering (or a negativity bias)?
Negativity bias and mental filtering are psychological patterns where the brain overly focuses on negative details while ignoring the positive ones.
Think of your mind like a camera lens: instead of taking a picture of the whole landscape, it zooms in exclusively on one small piece of trash on the ground.
This cognitive practice involves deliberately stretching out and lingering on a positive experience to maximize its emotional impact.
What is Savoring?
This occurs when you use a strength too much, such as when honesty turns into bluntness or caution turns into anxiety.
What is Overusing a strength (Strength Excess)?
When faced with a crisis, this resilient mindset involves asking yourself, "What is within my control right now?" instead of focusing on what isn't.
What is Agency (or internal locus of control / cognitive reframing)?
Who is my favorite group member?
Trick question - it's ALL of you :)
Just like Monty Python’s song ("Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"), this stable, generalized tendency to expect good outcomes is known as....
What is optimism?
Research shows that practicing gratitude regularly can lower levels of this primary stress hormone in the human body.
What is Cortisol?
This specific strength involves a willingness to look at things from all sides and not jump to conclusions.
What is Open-Mindedness (or Judgment/Critical Thinking)?
What things help you get through stress, overwhelm and difficult moments?
Reaching out for support, externalizing your feelings and thoughts, having a healthy lifestyle, etc. (UMBRELLA)!
What is my favorite color?
Pink