VIA PRO Free Resources

VIA PRO includes numerous resources for professionals interested in either learning more about character strengths or looking for material to use or share with their clients.  Below is a collection of these resources, all available for free.  If you know of others, please share them with us by sending an email to info@viacharacter.org.

• One-line descriptions of evidence based work in character strengths -Dr. Ryan Niemiec, VIA Institute on Character's Education Director, has summarized the latest research on character strengths into "one liners" that practitioners find helpful as they negotiate the growing body of knowledge about how character strengths operate in the human experience.
  

• Signature Strengths
• VIA Character Strengths in the Workplace
• VIA Character Strengths in Positive Education (and Children/Youth)
• Specific Populations
• Character Strengths - Universality, Prevalence and Other Findings
• Character Strengths & Life Satisfaction
• Character Strengths & Health and Wellness
• Character Strengths & Achievement
• Character Strengths & Mental Illness, Problems and Trauma Recovery
  
• Character Strengths & Mindfulness 
• Specific Character Strengths

• VIA Ambassadors
  

• VIA Pioneer Speaker Series

• VIA PRO Stories

• VIA PRO Videos
  

• VIA PRO Best Practices

• VIA PRO Articles on applying VIA Character Strengths in your work and your life
• VIA PRO Blog
  

• VIA PRO Top 10 Books on Character Strengths

• VIA PRO Resources for using movies to explore VIA Character Strengths
  • A Movie For Each Character Strength
    
  • VIA PROS's Top 10 Movies 
  • Discussion Questions for Therapists, Teachers, and Movie Discussion Leaders
    

• Guidelines for Use and Interpretation of Results of VIA Inventory of Strengths Survey

• Psychometric Data for VIA Inventory of Strengths Survey

• VIA Classification of Strengths

• Links