explore these free resources. today.

Open your mind.

  • Who are you at your best? Take the VIA Character Strength Survey to find out your unique constellation of positive traits. Together, we can help you apply them to increase your confidence, happiness, positive relationships while reducing your stress and anxiety.

  • What are your patterns? Take the Big Five Personality Type Survey to discover your long-term cognitive, emotional, and behavioral tendencies. Together, we can chart a path forward that honors your authenticity while also challenging you to become your best self.

  • Can your intelligence be developed through effort and practice? Take this Growth Mindset Survey to find out your underlying beliefs about your natural abilities. Together, we can upgrade your relationship to feedback and failure to improve future results.

  • How do you explain your past successes and failures? Take this Learned Optimism Survey to determine how your relationship to the past impacts your future. Together, we can explore how to explain your past skillfully with an eye toward a brighter tomorrow.

  • Is stress actually your friend? Watch Dr. Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk to learn that not all stress is bad. Together, we can explore how to reframe your relationship to stress in real time and navigate adversity with greater success.

Open your heart.

  • Do you stop and smell the roses? Try Dr. Rick Hanson’s One Good Solution and practice savoring on purpose. Together, we can hack your brain’s penchant for adaptation and help you boost your mood on demand.

  • Do you ever wonder why you focus almost entirely on the lowest grade on your report card rather than the 4 or 5 good ones? It’s called negativity bias, and every human is born with it. Take UPenn’s PANAS Survey and explore how you brain balances positive/negative emotions. Together, we can learn to strength spot and help you help your naturally-biased brain.

  • How thankful are you for your life each day? Take UPenn’s Gratitude Survey to gage your appreciation for life’s gifts large and small. Together, we can learn how even small expressions of gratitude can have big impacts on your physical and mental health.

  • Is it possible to exist in the present moment without thinking? Try a body-scan meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn and find out how nonjudgmental thinking is as much as a skill as all that critical thinking you have been learning in school. Together, we can explore how being in the present will help you become who you most want to be in the future.

  • Isn’t it weird that you take classes at school about chemistry but not about making friends? About how to speak in another language but not how to make effective decisions? Explore CASEL’s Social-Emotional Learning Graphic and learn how you can prioritize your non-cognitive skills. Together, we can learn how you can get an A in chemistry as well as from your chem lab partner.

Open your hands.

  • What are you naturally called to do? Try using Dr. Ed Deci and Dr. Richard Ryan’s Intrinsic Motivation Inventory after engaging in different activities to assess how outwardly pushed or inwardly pulled you felt. Together, we can explore how your deep yearnings will help you identify how you want to impact the world.

  • Aren’t there lots of different ways to be an effective leader? Yes. In fact, there seem to be 4 broad domains and 34 specific traits that help leaders lead. Read Tom Rath’s summary of Strength Based Leadership, and identify your unique leadership style. Together, we can explore how you are ready to authentically lead today.

  • How do you persist and bounce back when times are tough? Take Dr. Al Seibert’s Resilience Survey to see how you tend to respond to adversity. Together, we can grow the psychological skills needed to boost your overall resilience for better internal and external results in the future.

  • Is passion important? Very. Take Dr. Angela Duckworth’s Grit Scale, and begin to explore how your effort and interest towards you long-term goals is the best predictor’s of your future success. Together, we can identify your passions and help you persevere into your future.

  • What is your dream job? Take the Princeton Review’s Career Quiz, and begin to identify what fields, causes, workplaces, tasks, and skills are most aligned with the real you. Together, we can begin to merge your inner interests with the our world’s outer needs.

Open your humanity.

  • Is the world getting better or worse? The answer may shock you. Watch Dr. Steven Pinker’s TED Talk and take a look at what the data says about humanity’s progress in the categories of peace, freedom, equality, safety, literacy, sustainability, sanitation, food security, infant mortality, and overall life expectancy. Together, we can find your place in our imperfect and improving world.

  • How meaningful does your life feel right now? How excited are you to find your life’s purpose? Take UPenn’s Meaning in Life Survey and begin to asses these questions. Together, we can ask these deep questions and unpack how you want to positively impact the world.

  • How do you relate to others? Take UPenn’s Close Relationship Questionnaire to asses your attachment style. Together, we can move towards healthy, stable, secure relationships where your needs can be expressed authentically.

  • How do you respond to others when they share good news with you? How do they respond when you share your good news with them? Watch the US Army’s Active Constructive Responding Training, and assess your communication patterns. Together, we can help you brain capitalize on your good news as well as the good news of your friends and family.

  • Can a positive interaction with a stranger matter? Yes, and they can matter a great deal! Watch Dr. Jane Dutton’s High Quality Connections, and see how it feels inside you when you deliberately engage other people with respect. Together, we can form a habit of briefly yet positively connecting with others to boost your mood on demand.