You will be equipped with the following tools:
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Awe Walking to Cultivate Hope
Help clients cultivate a sense of wonder, shift their perspective, and expand their sense of possibility by savouring the awe-inspiring aspects of the world around them.
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Be The Exception Mindset
Help clients identify and challenge hope-removing thoughts by recognizing exceptions to negativity bias, broadening perspective, and taking small, meaningful actions.
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Cultivating Hope Through Reciprocity
Help clients build a reciprocity mindset by recognizing and practicing giving and receiving as natural, abundant, and trust-building in both personal and professional life.
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Design Your Media Environment
Encourage clients to reduce stress-inducing media and design a supportive media environment by tracking its impact and choosing content that uplifts, informs, and aligns with their values.
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Finding Glimmers
Encourage clients to notice and reflect on brief positive “glimmers” to build habits that boost hope, connection, and overall wellbeing.
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From Eco-Anxiety to Eco-Hope
Support clients in transforming eco-anxiety into eco-hope by validating their emotions, clarifying values, and identifying empowering, value-based actions.
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Holding Space for Hopelessness
This tool aims to guide practitioners in holding space for clients experiencing hopelessness by prioritizing validation and compassionate presence.
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Hope Circle
Help clients create a Hope Circle to foster resilience, strengthen relationships, and build optimism by holding consistent space for hope and possibility.
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Hope in Motion
Help clients shift from feeling powerless to taking intentional action by identifying one micro-action they can take toward a personal or societal challenge.
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Hope Resume
Help clients identify past successes and strengths to boost belief in their resilience and foster hope for navigating current and future challenges.
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Hopeful Adaptation
Help clients strengthen pathways thinking by identifying alternative routes, adapting goals, and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
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Hopeful Conversations
Help clients engage in constructive conversations by cultivating hope, empathy, and mutual understanding, especially when navigating disagreement.
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Seeing Through Their Eyes
Guide clients to reduce “us vs. them” thinking through perspective-taking that fosters empathy, compassion, and a more hopeful view of others.
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Strengths Journaling for Hope
Support clients in building a hopeful mindset by focusing on strengths and past successes through journaling, reinforcing their confidence to face challenges and create a positive future.
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The Trust Experiment
Help clients cultivate hope through small acts of trust that challenge fear, foster connection, and reinforce optimism about relationships and the future.
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The “What Else?” Game
Help clients improve cognitive flexibility by rapidly generating alternative solutions, fostering creative, adaptive, and more hopeful thinking in pursuit of their goals.
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Transforming Cynicism
Help clients reframe cynicism as healthy skepticism open to possibility, using reality-testing to challenge negative assumptions and build evidence-based optimism.
Vince Hooker –
The 17 Cultivating Hope Exercises is an excellent resource for psychologists and coaches to help their clients become hopeful about their future. Like the other tools PositivePsychology.com provides, these exercises follow an excellent structure that makes them easy to understand and implement. The tools help me reflect more closely on concepts such as hope, awe, and compassion with my clients!
Ghida Hage Eid –
I found the Cultivating Hope Tools incredibly powerful and refreshingly unique. Throughout my coaching practice, I’ve drawn from multiple modalities to help clients overcome challenges and achieve meaningful outcomes, but I realised that hope was never an intentional part of my strategy. This resource shifted my perspective. It’s given me a new framework to work with! On a personal level, I’ve tried some of the exercises myself and noticed a real difference—I feel lighter, more optimistic, and genuinely hopeful about life again. This toolpack has added depth not only to my coaching but to my own mindset as well.
Kevin Gallagher MSc –
This is an impressive collection of tools which practitioners can add to their toolset and use as needed. Some tools are a reworking of standard therapeutic approaches (empathy, staying with discomfort, challenging negative thinking) while others are creatively new ideas and techniques such as the Hope Resumé and the What Else Game. I was most impressed by the initial explanation of the rationale for hope and the benefits of opening to this idea in a therapeutic practice in the first place. Overall, a very useful collection!
Esen Kılıç –
These tools not only strengthened my sense of hope but also deepened my mental resilience, inner clarity, and connection with others. One practice that particularly moved me was “Holding Space for Hopelessness.” It reminded me that the first step to cultivating hope is allowing space for hopelessness without judgment. The set is incredibly versatile—suitable for both personal use and group facilitation. Each exercise is grounded in science, yet offered through creative, emotionally resonant pathways. I highly recommend this toolkit for coaches, therapists, educators, and anyone working in the well-being space.
Kristin Sellke, LPC, NBC-HWC –
This is a great bundle! I love these activities, and I can easily do them with clients during sessions. These activities were tangible for the clients and helped them connect the concepts. The bonus pack of visuals is awesome! Again, it helps the clients retain concepts with more than auditory processing, adding visual processing, too.
Jessica Willis, M.Ed., LPC-S, TM-MS, TLHT-FL –
These tools exceeded my expectations! It’s packed with practical, insightful information that’s not only useful but also easy to apply. Absolutely worth every penny – highly recommend!