Join Louisa and Marjie Longshore at their kitchen table as they talk about an essential aspect of encouragement: finding strengths. They explore a powerful, and surprisingly simple, strategy for turning interpersonal challenges into shared successes, fostering more connection, fun, and engagement. Louisa shares how she built a habit of strength-finding in others (and herself) and grew a stronger team at work as a result.

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Hosts

Marjie Longshore, Founder of Family Leadership Center

Louisa Longshore, Sailor, Camp Counselor, Student

Special thanks to our editor Max Cotter, and our team Marike Pienaar and Wendy Tracy. You make a valuable difference.

Resources

💪🏽To focus on strengths check out Episode 011 for a refresher on Noticing What’s Right

💓Read Paige’s Blog on Encouragement

🔬More science based tips on how amplifying strengths in parenting can help your kids.

📖 The CircleIN podcast from Family Leadership Center is based on Adlerian philosophy, including the work of Dr. Alfred Adler. Dr. Adler's core needs were translated into The Four Crucial Cs by Drs. Amy Lew and Betty Lou Bettner. The Cs are: Connect (belonging), Capable (movement, progress), Count (significance, mattering), Courage (encouragement).

• Ansbacher, H. L., & Ansbacher, R. R. 1956. The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, Basic Books. New York.

• Bettner, B.L. & Lew, A. 1989. Raising Kids Who Can. Connexions Press. MA. (available for sale at familyleadershipcenter.org)

• Dreikurs, R. & Soltz, V. 1964. Children: The Challenge. Hawthorn Books. New York.

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