Why We Do What We Do:

1. Knowing our strengths — the positive ways that we think, feel, behave, and contribute — gives us the strength that we need to take on challenges, both as individuals and as a team or community.

2. Many of us have never had the support to discover our own unique combination of character strengths. And even when we do know about our strengths, left completely to our own devices, we often fail to think about them or to know how to apply them to assist in our current circumstances. Therefore Strengthskeeping, the practice of helping people to recognize, remember, and make good use of the strengths within themselves and one another, is vitally important. Because using our strengths plays a key factor in our well-being, motivation, energy, resilience, sense of meaning, and ability to accomplish our goals, awareness of our strengths is too impactful and consequential to be left to chance.

3. In order to work together more effectively for positive change and to help cultivate and increase our personal and collective well-being, we need to belong to communities, environments, and teams that encourage and nurture our individual strengths – places where Strengthskeeping is practiced routinely, intentionally, and strategically.

4. Showing people how to be Strengthskeepers for one another and helping groups and communities to formalize and sustain the practice of Strengthskeeping are two critical practices for helping people work together effectively to create positive change. Knowing our strengths gives us the strength to take on challenges.

What We Do:

Inspire and train people to act as Strengthskeepers in their homes, schools, organizations and communities. Strengthskeepers help us recognize, remember and make good use of the strengths within ourselves and one another.

Help cultivate engaging and energizing Strengthskeeping cultures and environments in which each person can: experience connection and belonging, develop meaningful relationships, recognize the good within ourselves and one another, and use our strengths to make a fulfilling contribution and help create positive change.

Support people in learning how to use their strengths and Strengthskeeping to achieve meaningful personal and collective goals and to address the systemic challenges that weaken and threaten our communities.