Strengths for Student Organizations

All 34 Strengths Training

Students 90 minutes

This 90-minute training digs deeper into all 34 strengths. Learning more in-depth about all 34 strengths can help you build better partnerships with teammates and understand different communication and conflict-resolution perspectives.

Authentic Personal Branding for Students

Students 60 minutes

Discover your WHY and values utilizing your CliftonStrengths®. Get a deeper understanding of creating intentional personal branding and a personal statement to use on linked in, networking, or in job/internship interviews.

Building the “Fun” Habit Workshop

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Evaluate how much time you spend pleasing, living, yielding, and agonizing. Brainstorm how to bring more fun into our life, and discuss the science behind why we are focusing on fun versus happiness.

Career Pods

Students 60 minutes

Open to any undergraduate, graduate, or professional student from any major. Students are required to attend all three sessions as well as complete a 1:1 Coaching Session with a Career Service’s Specialist or a Purpose Center staff member.

Creating Glimmers: How Full Is Your Bucket

Students 60 minutes

Discover how to create glimmers—tiny moments of goodness and joy for yourself and others—and learn how these glimmers in combination with Don Clifton’s theory of “Bucket Filling” can positively impact your productivity, health, and longevity.

Deep Kindness

Students 60 minutes

This workshop encourages participants to leverage common kindness to grow resilience, build on their emotional intelligence skillset and practice deep kindness both to themselves and others. We will explore not only how to practice deep kindness, but how to accept deep kindness from others and how to navigate when our deep kindness is rejected. In addition to helping build essential skills, this workshop looks at wellbeing through the lens of selfless gratitude and encouragement.

Exploring Resilience: Building Self-Efficacy

Students 60 minutes

Explore the concept of resilience by evaluating your current level of resilience, exploring your thinking style, and building self-efficacy strategies.

Identifying Your Values For Students

Students 60 minutes

Identify your core values, define what they mean to you, and think about how you can live those values in your everyday life to start working toward your purpose.

Leadership Pod

Students 90 minutes

Learn your top 5 CliftonStrengths® and how to leverage them to become a stronger, more effective leader. Learn about: Your own leadership styles and the effectiveness of each style, needs of your followers, and how to provide strengths-based feedback.

Leveraging Failure: Leading Yourself Through Challenges

Students 60 minutes

Establish your perspective on success and failure, and explore four ways resilient people navigate challenges and create strategies for working them into their daily lives.

Life Mapping for Students

Students 60 minutes

Draw connections between what seem to be random events or interests in your life to a purpose, then apply those insights as well as your top five CliftonStrengths® to create a personal statement for networking, mentorship and during interviews.

Power of Positive Thinking

Students 60 minutes

Identify negative thinking, explore the health and wellbeing benefits of positive thinking, and reframe negative self-talk into positive thoughts and behaviors to increase wellbeing and success.

Purpose Pods for Students

For those looking to do more self-exploration. Start with self-discovery and end with a project that helps you set goals to pursue the things they’re passionate about.

Purpose Vision Board Workshop

Students 60 minutes

Create a purpose vision board as a visual representation of your goals, dreams, purpose and values to help you reinforce daily the things that you value, and help you maintain focus on your goals.

Seeking Joy in the Everyday

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Focus on how you can seek to more fully experience joy from everyday occurrences, improve your moods and have a more positive mindset. Discuss how to use the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, more purposeful lives that are truly joyful!

Self-Leadership Strategies

Students 60 minutes

Understand how to reduce negative cues, increase positive cues and be more mindful of the ways you can increase confidence and holistic success.

Stories of Impact

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Define your values, identify where you have seen changes in your values over time, identify how your values show up in your personal story, and effectively communicate your values and how they helped shape your experiences.

Strengths 101

Students 60 minutes

Learn some quick history and facts and then dive into some reflection and practical application for your top five strengths. We recommend this workshop ahead of attending others.

Strengths 102: Theme Dynamics

Students 60 minutes

Explore your top five strengths and how they interact with each other to help you be successful. Look at how your top five strengths interact with strengths both similar and different from your own to help you build stronger partnerships.

Strengths to Combat Imposter Syndrome

Students 60 minutes

Dig into how Imposter Syndrome shows up for you and how you can use strengths-based strategies to fight back against those feelings of inadequacy!

Strengths to Minimize Overwhelm

Students 60 minutes

In this one-hour CliftonStrengths® workshop, we will dig into what motivates us to overcommit while learning techniques for aligning commitments with values and calendars. We will wrap up by learning strategies to set boundaries and say no.

Strengths-Based Careers and Goal Setting for the Job/Internship Search

Students 60 minutes

Open with a Strengths refresher to become familiar with your strengths. Receive a personal insight report and reflect on how your personal insights influence your career choices and challenges. Set intentional career-based goals.

Strengths-Based Communication: Brings/Needs and Barrier Labels

Students 60 minutes

Learn how to talk about what you bring to a team with your strengths, needs based on your strengths and how to put boundaries in place so the barrier labels of your strengths don’t pop up, or when they do, how to manage them for better wellbeing.

Strengths-Based Feedback

Students 60 minutes

In this session you’ll learn how to more frequently give both positive and constructive feedback and how to incorporate strengths into daily performance and recognition.

Strengths-Based Interviewing

Students 90 minutes

Learn interviewing tactics and practice answering interview questions. Learn to tailor your answers to the job and how to incorporate your CliftonStrengths® into your interview answers.

Strengths-Based Job/Internship Search and Resumes

Students 60 minutes

Explore job/internship resources and how to create an effective search plan based on your dominant strengths domain. Learn how to incorporate your Strengths into your resume and have your resume reviewed.

Strengths-Based Leadership

Students 60 minutes

Review your top five strengths and how they help you be successful as a leader. Adventure WV will facilitate an activity with reflection to identify how your strengths help you and where they maybe got in your way during the activity.

Strengths-Based Leadership Style and Effectiveness

Students 60 minutes

Learn more about different leadership styles, how your natural talents and abilities might lend themselves to certain leadership styles, and reflect through an activity hosted by Adventure WV on how you can continue to craft your unique leadership style.

Strengths-Based Salary Negotiation

Students 60 minutes

In the final session, we will talk about how to leverage your strengths in the salary negotiation process and practice to build confidence.

Understanding the Strengths of Others: Needs of Followers

Students 60 minutes

In this session, we’ll learn about the research behind the four needs of followers, how you can better understand those you lead, and how you can better understand the strengths of those you lead.

Week of Purpose- Identifying Strengths in Others

Students 90 minutes minutes

Join us for the ultimate pop culture Strengths showdown! Get ready to unleash your inner CliftonStrengths master as we roll out pictures of pop stars and well known characters. In this game show-style event, you'll team up to identify and justify the CliftonStrengths of each legendary figure. It's all about spotting those superpowers and making your case—so bring your A-game, unleash your creativity, and let the fun and laughter begin! Free pizza will be provided!

Week of Purpose: Purpose-Focused Yoga

Students 60 minutes

Wind down Week of Purpose with a free, relaxing, purpose-focused yoga session in the heart of the downtown campus! Certified Yoga Instructor and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, Julie Gruber, will lead this session in Woodburn Circle while also using purpose-based guided meditations to help you envision the impact you want to make on the world. The WVU Rec Center has yoga mats that can be provided, if needed.

Week of Purpose: Strengths Jeopardy

Students 60 minutes

Join us and test your CliftonStrengths knowledge in this fun Jeopardy-style event. Students will compete in teams for Purpose Center prizes. Free pizza will be provided.

Wellbeing Pods

Students 90 minutes

A collaboration with the WVU Carruth Center and help students focus on creating better wellbeing habits throughout the semester based on the things they’re naturally good at. Students are required to attend all three sessions.