High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) is described as a social emotional strategy that instills greatness and transforms negative behaviors into positive behaviors, increases interrelatedness and connectivity among family members, couples, teachers and students and builds “inner wealth” more commonly known as character strengths and virtues. The NHA was created and developed by Howard Glasser who was discouraged by the lack of positive results when applying the techniques he had learned in graduate school. Glasser intuitively created this approach by specifically attending to the energy in relationships noticing that more energy and attention went to negative behavior rather than to positive behavior. Howard Glasser continues to expound on his findings for the last two decades resulting in the first Global Summit with topics in research, policy, foster care, mental health organizations, workplace, education, diverse cultures and religious...