“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

The Brisbane Institute of Strengths Based Practice (Inc) was founded in 2006

to support approaches that promote resilience as opposed to dealing with deficits.

We are a group of people from a range of professional backgrounds such as 

social work, psychology, education and management that believe, work with

and advocate strengths based practices.  We recognise that the strength based

movement is gaining impetus globally, with people from diverse backgrounds

attracted to this inward looking practice, whether it be teachers utilising such

strategies with their students, helping professionals engaging with clients to fulfil

their potential, or employers and HRD Managers utilising strength based

performance appraisals with their employers.