This full-day, in-person training forms part of UCT Flourish, the flagship co-curricular wellbeing initiative of the Centre for Wellbeing and Flourishing at the University of Cape Town. The programme is designed for UCT Flourish Tutors and Mentors, who play a critical peer-support role in promoting academic and social wellbeing across the student experience. Grounded in evidence from positive psychology, the training introduces participants to the VIA Character Strengths framework, with a particular focus on the six core virtues: Courage, Wisdom and Knowledge, Humanity, Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence—and their practical application in tutoring and mentoring contexts. Rather than positioning strengths as traits to be simply encouraged, the training emphasises the calibrated use of character strengths, recognising that strengths may be underused, optimally used, or overused depending on context. Through structured inputs, guided reflection, and applied questioning, participants develop a shared language for strengths-based support while maintaining appropriate role boundaries. The programme situates peer support within a reflective, non-therapeutic framework, enabling tutors and mentors to support students’ sense-making, engagement, and sustainable growth without assuming counselling or problem-solving roles. The training contributes to institutional efforts to embed wellbeing as a core dimension of the student experience, aligning character strengths development with academic engagement, belonging, resilience, and flourishing within higher education contexts. Learning Outcomes By the end of this training, participants will be able to: Explain the VIA Character Strengths framework, including the six core virtues and their associated strengths. Describe how character strengths support academic wellbeing, social wellbeing, engagement, resilience, and achievement in university contexts. Distinguish between the underuse, optimal use, and overuse of character strengths, and recognise the implications of each for student support. Apply strengths-based thinking in tutoring and mentoring conversations in a way that is reflective, intentional, and context-sensitive. Use reflective questioning techniques to support students’ self-awareness, sense-making, and constructive next steps. Maintain appropriate role boundaries, offering meaningful peer support without engaging in counselling, therapy, or problem-fixing. Integrate character strengths into peer-support practice in ways that are sustainable, ethical, and aligned with the aims of UCT Flourish.