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

Values in Action: A Deep Dive into Discovering Core Strengths

Values in Action: A Deep Dive into Discovering Core Strengths

Understanding your core values is essential for leading a fulfilling life. These values guide our decisions, shape our behaviours, and help us connect with others. By discovering and applying these...
Team Building Cards: Fostering Unity and Engagement in Every Session

Team Building Cards: Fostering Unity and Engagement in Every Session

Team building cards are innovative tools designed to foster camaraderie and engagement among team members. These cards can be used in various settings to promote communication, collaboration, and understanding, making...
Attracting Emotional Awareness: How Emotions Magnets Can Enhance Self-Reflection and Communication

Attracting Emotional Awareness: How Emotions Magnets Can Enhance Self-Reflection and Communication

In today's fast-paced world, emotional awareness is more important than ever. Emotions Magnets are tools designed to enhance our understanding of feelings, helping us reflect on our emotions and communicate...
Psychological Safety Workshop Activities to Build Trust and Openness

Psychological Safety Workshop Activities to Build Trust and Openness

An extensive guide to activities to promote psychological safety amongst teams
Winning attitude cards

Coaching for Goal Achievement

    Impact:  Greater confidence in approaching goal attainment Materials Needed: One pack of Winning Attitude Cards Remember, should you decide to buy one or more packs of cards, you can...
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. 

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

A collection of colourful storytelling cards on a table.

The Best Storytelling Cards for Coaches and Personal Development

Storytelling cards are powerful tools that help individuals and groups share their experiences, reflect on their emotions, and foster deeper connections. They can be particularly beneficial in coaching, therapy, and...
Unlocking Mindfulness: How to Use Mindfulness Cards for Daily Calm and Clarity

Unlocking Mindfulness: How to Use Mindfulness Cards for Daily Calm and Clarity

In today's fast-paced world, finding moments of calm can be a challenge. Mindfulness cards offer a simple yet effective way to cultivate peace and clarity in our daily lives. These...
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.