The Positive Blog

Hello and welcome to The Positive Blog!

Our articles are all about how to use positive psychology tools, which ones are best for you and the impact they can have. You will see they are organised below into 3 categories:

1. Creative Workshop Exercises: Easy and Engaging Exercises for Change

2. Choosing your product guidance

3. Webinars and podcasts

Enjoy!

Making Changes: Easy and Engaging Exercises for Change

Coaching for Wellbeing with the Squiggly Life Mindfulness Toolkit

Coaching for Wellbeing with the Squiggly Life Mindfulness Toolkit

This exercise is designed to help boost the mental wellbeing of someone reporting low mood, feelings of inadequacy, lack of self-confidence or similar
Leadership Development with the Work Up Card Set

Leadership Development with the Work Up Card Set

This exercise is great for action learning sets, leadership development activities, general organisational problem solving at many different levels. The resource itself is amazing, jam packed with tried and tested ways to implement positive psychology activities to address common organisational challenges.
Bring Two Teams into One, using the River Cards

Bring Two Teams into One, using the River Cards

The exercise is designed to help the teams bring their stories of the past together in a way that recognises the best of what they bring to the future. It is also designed to help them co-create stories of future strength and success and to talk constructive about the challenges of the period of transition. 
positran positive transformation cards

Releasing the HERO within to achieve your goals

This exercise will help you work with your clients who are uncertain, lacking confidence or confused about how to approach or achieve their goals become more aware of the beliefs and emotional factors that are swirling around the particular goal under discussion.
Positran Mindfulness Cards

Coaching for Wellbeing through Mindfulness

This exercise is for life, executive or other coaches, therapists and counsellors who want to help their clients experience the wellbeing benefits of greater mindfulness.
BeTalent Strengths Cards

Identifying Team Strengths with one pack of Strengths Cards

This exercise is for facilitators, team leaders, trainers and others who want to help a team show appreciation to each other and understand the overview of the perceived strengths of the team.
BeTalent Team Cards

Increase Team Productivity by working with Team Role Preferences

Once the team understand everyone's team role preferences, they can better organise the work to play to those preferences. When people can work in the way they like best, they are likely to be more energised and motivated. 

Tell your story cards

Explore the Leadership Development Journey with Tell Your Story Cards

This exercise is for anyone assisting others to understand and tell the story of their development as a leader. Using the cards makes the task of tracking and exploring the leadership journey so far more tactile, visual and easier to share. The conversation can then spring-board to exploring possibilities for the continuing leadership development journey.

Langley value cards

Bring Workplace Values Alive with Langley Values Cards

This exercise will be useful for workshop leaders, team leaders and managers, organisational development practitioners and others who work with groups to help them identify or create a sense of their core values or a values statement.
Boosting Happiness at Work with Positive Emotion Cards

Boosting Happiness at Work with Positive Emotion Cards

This exercise is designed to help people identify and focus on the opportunities at work to experience positive emotions. It will be useful for wellbeing consultants and other workshop leaders, as well as team leaders and managers. It can be particularly useful in difficult and challenging workplaces where opportunities to notice, experience and savour moments of happiness or good feeling can be overlooked.
Coaching for Positive Wellbeing with Positive Action Cards

Coaching for Positive Wellbeing with Positive Action Cards

This exercise will be useful for coaches and therapists working with clients who are looking to positively affect their emotions or emotional state, psychological well-being, depression, anxiety, health, relationships, happiness, self-esteem, or beliefs. All sixty-four actions suggested by the pack are scientifically proven
HEX Cards

Enhance Group Connection and Communication with HEX Cards

This exercise will help workshop facilitators, trainers and others who run group events and who are looking for an engaging, fun, joint exercise that helps the group create a joined-up account or narrative about some aspect of group life, activity or thinking. The exercise can focus on any question meaningful to the group, for example learning from a session, aspirations for the future, personal values – team values, memorable moments, significant life events.

Webinars and podcasts

Emotional Intelligence: understand & improve your EI

Emotional Intelligence: understand & improve your EI

In this conversation about emotional intelligence we discuss
  • Having courageous conversations
  • Why is it important for managers to understand their own and other people's emotions
  • How understanding emotions helps young children with resilience
  • How and why it can sometimes be difficult to put feelings into words and out into the world
  • The importance of being able to recognise our own emotions
And introduce two tools to help adults and children
Coaching Cubes

Using Coaching Cubes and Story Cards To Stimulate Story Telling and Sense Making

In this podcast discussion with Dr Olena Berezovska we talk about the importance of the stories we tell each other and how they influence the sense we make of the world and our place in it. 
Using Strengths Cards and Positive Emotions Cards in discussion with Dr Berezovska

Using Strengths Cards and Positive Emotions Cards in discussion with Dr Berezovska

In this Youtube pod cast we explore how using Positive Emotions Cards and Strengths cards can help with wellbeing and personal development. We investigate some of the coaching questions and action suggestions in the card packs and how exploring these aspects of positive psychology - positive emotions and positive strengths, can make a real in-the-moment difference.

Choosing Your Product Guidance

How to choose among our emotions cards

How to choose among our emotions cards

It is increasingly recognised how important our emotional state is to our wellbeing and our productivity. Our selection of adult emotion cards and tools offer a range of contents. Selecting the right tool for the particular challenge you face, or work you undertake can be a challenge. Here we look at four different tools for exploring emotions with teams or clients

How to choose between Sarah's books

How to choose between Sarah's books

When I’m running a stand at a trade show people frequent ask which of my books they should buy. Of course, the answer depends on what they’re looking for! This blog gives an idea of the contents and style of each, and an idea of who might benefit from them,  to help you find one that meets your needs.

strengths cards

How to select from amongst our workplace strengths card collection for your need

But which pack of strengths cards to use?

We stock four different sets of workplace strengths cards, each have different features and are suitable to different challenges, opportunities and client groups. See an explanation of their differences and best uses.