Why CliftonStrengths® x Flourishing matters for flourishing: Close social relationships are one of the six domains of flourishing the Global Flourishing Study measures. These strengths are the infrastructure of human thriving.

The Nine Relationship Building Themes & Flourishing: Read each definition to Name it. Highlight the words or phrases that stand out to you to Claim it. Then answer the question for the strengths you lead with in your daily life to AIM it.

• Adaptability®: Lives in the present and stays genuinely at peace with change. Flourishing: Models resilient, present-focused engagement that sustains wellbeing through uncertainty. Where can your calm in the chaos give someone else permission to keep going
• Connectedness®: A quiet certainty that people, events, and ideas are linked. Flourishing: Builds bridges across divisions and a shared sense of common purpose. What bridge, if you built it, would bring two people or groups closer together?
• Developer®: Sees potential in people before they see it in themselves. Flourishing: Investing in another person’s growth builds close relationships and helps others flourish. Who could you invest in so intentionally that they see their potential differently?
• Empathy®: Senses what others feel and makes them feel genuinely understood. Flourishing: Makes people feel seen and less alone. Empathy is an antidote to loneliness. Who is carrying something heavy right now, and how can you help them feel less alone?
• Harmony®: Looks for consensus and the practical common ground that moves things forward. Flourishing: Reduces destructive conflict and creates the conditions where flourishing can take root. Where is conflict blocking something good, and what agreement can you help find?
• Includer®: Notices who’s missing from the table and moves to bring them in. Flourishing: Expands who gets to belong, one of the most basic conditions for a flourishing life. Who is outside the circle that belongs inside it?
• Individualization®: Sees each person as a category of one and brings out their best. Flourishing: Honors the dignity and uniqueness of each person, a powerful driver of individual flourishing. Who needs you to see them, not their role, this week?
• Positivity®: Genuine, contagious enthusiasm that lightens any room. Flourishing: Generates hope, which supports life satisfaction and mental health. Where is hope running low, and how can your presence refill it?
• Relator®: Builds deep, real relationships instead of collecting contacts. Flourishing: Builds the deep, trusting bonds at the heart of the close social relationships domain. What relationship is worth investing more of yourself in this week?

Review up to three Relationship Building themes. For each one, connect it to a flourishing domain, then aim it. Which theme? Which flourishing domain does it cultivate in your life & context?

Get the FREE Relationship Building × Flourishing Guide: A two-page guide with every theme’s flourishing connection and a worksheet. (Get Your Guide, TODAY!). New to these themes? Start with the CliftonStrengths® definitions. (Learn More About CliftonStrengths®)