Dear Friends “Unleash my strengths!” sounds like a command we may use to summon our superhero alter ego. But maybe that’s why it attracted 12 children to attend a 6-activity programme designed by Jia Jia, a 19-year-old intern studying psychology at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. She felt that we often associate strengths with the competencies that bring success, and seldom do we celebrate other qualities of a person. True enough, when asked to list their strengths at the first session, the children mainly put down football, cycling and art in their scrap book. However, by the end of the second activity, …
