The #1 mindfulness-based program combining mindfulness and character strengths * Detailed primer on combining mindfulness with character strengths * Step-by-step guidance through the 8-session program * Full of inspiring quotes and stories This new, fully revised, and expanded second edition of the handbook for the groundbreaking, evidence-based Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice MBSP program is the guide you need. Developed by author Dr. Ryan M. Niemiec, scientist, educator, practitioner, and a global leader in mindfulness and character strengths, the MBSP approach is about the discovery, deepening awareness, exploration, and application of character strengths. It is about understanding and improving how we pay attention in life - the quality by which we eat, walk, work, listen, and experience joy and peace. And it is about seeing our potential - which is ignited by our strengths of perseverance, bravery, curiosity, hope, kindness, fairness, and leadership. MBSP is not only about our own and our clients' happiness, it is about the happiness of others too. It is an evolving, evidence-based program that can help people to relieve their suffering by using mindfulness and character strengths to cope with, overcome, or transcend problems, stressors, and conflicts. Counselors, coaches, psychologists, researchers, educators, and managers will discover the "how-to" delivery of mindfulness and character strengths. Following primers on the two strands of MBSP and deeper discussions about their integration, practitioners are then led step-by-step through the sessions of the popular MBSP program. The session structure, scripts, tips, lecture material, processes, examples, and audio files are all there ready for use. This time-tested manual can bring beginners up-to-date on these topics while serving to stimulate, inform, and provide valuable tools to the intermediate and most advanced students of mindfulness and/or character strengths. Audio tracks and accompanying scripts as well as appendices on MBSP are available for download and clinical use.

About the Author
Ryan M. Niemiec, PsyD, Chief Science and Education Officer of the VIA Institute on Character, a global, nonprofit organization that advances the latest science of character strengths. Ryan is a leading figure in the education, research, and practice of character strengths. He is the author of 9 books and over 80 scholarly articles and he has given more than 700 workshops, keynotes, and webinars on positive psychology topics across the globe. Ryan is an award-winning psychologist, annual instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at Xavier University. He received a "distinguished early career award" from the American Psychological Association in 2011, and was granted Fellow status of IPPA in 2017.

Reviews
Outstanding...insightful...path breaking.; reviewed by James O. Pawelski, Director of Education and Senior Scholar at the Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,from the Foreword of the first edition;Ryan Niemiec shows how merging the awareness of character strengths with intentional mindfulness can enhance both practices.The book is structured to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the MBSP (mindfulness-based strengths practice) program. Meticulously outlined, complete with objectives, activities, and discussions, Niemiec explains each concept and how to use it, as well as providing research evidence for why it works. This could have been a dry text, but instead it is both engaging and accessible, with inspiring quotations and real-life stories that can help theoretical aspects of the book resonate.Practitioners will know what to do but also why it works. This balance is crucial for professionals in psychology, education, coaching, and management who seek reliable methods backed by empirical evidence.Reviewed by Sherri Fisher, MEd, MAPP, Washington, DC, in Positive Psychology News (Jan. 2024);



Book Information
ISBN 9780889375901
Author Ryan M. Niemiec
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Hogrefe Publishing
Publisher Hogrefe Publishing
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 177mm * 22mm