Self Awareness and Values Development
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Self-awareness and Self-management
• Self-awareness is defined as an awareness of
ones's personality or individuality.
• The term self is often refers to yourself, myself,
himself/herself, oneself, and your ownself.
• This term refers to a person in a prime
condition, as entire person or individual.
• Awareness is defined as having or showing
realization, participation in, commitment to,
realization, and knowledge of the development
of one's values.
You as You
• Nosce te ipsum is Latin for “know thyself.” Begin
to know yourself, since the essential formula for
achievement is self-analysis.
• 1. Know the difference between your biological
or inherited traits and your environmental or
acquired traits
• 2. Self-awareness is an awareness of one's own
personality or individuality. (see fig.1)
• a. Self-oneself/himself/herself/myself
• Belonging to oneself
• a person in prime condition
• entire person as an individual
• B. Awareness -having or showing realization,
perception, or knowledge.
• Be youe own bestfriend and believe in yourself,
so that you can become the person you want to
be
• You are you and what you are what you think,
You are ubique in your own way, Only you can
control your destiny and make a difference in
your life
You as a Filipino
• 1. Being aware of and remaining constantly on
guard against the filipino tendency towards
negativism, you can eventually propel yourself
into positivism.
• 2. Use your lakas at tibay ng loob to move away
from the fatalistic gulong ng palad and bahala
na attitude
• 3. Begin by getting involved with your own life.
makisama ka, by first initiating a change in
yourself
• 4. Begin without expecting instant miracles. you
have got only one real friend and one worst
enemy and that is yourself
• 5. Believe in your abilities and work unyielding
to reach your objectives
You and Your Faith
• Filipino worship is directed towards God as a
father figure who takes care of all - Bahala na
ang Diyos - signifying that Divine Providence is
responsible for our destinies. Thus, whenever
problems confront us we tend to turn against
God and blame Him for all our misfortunes
You or you may not be aware of the “self-help” or self-
improvement teachings but if you want to be more
successdul, you should:
• Believe in yourself
• Keep your priorities straight
• Take responsibility for yourself
• Create your own futurre
• Focus on what you want
• Learn to visualize the outcome of your goal
• Be creative
• think big
• Control stress
• Be aggressive and assertive
• Think positively
• Set specific goals and review them often
• Be tolerant
• Do everything with love
• Don't hate
• Have courage
• Recognize that the most of what we believe
about life is an illusion
• Be honest
• Work hard
• Chart your own course
• etc.
Here are some examples of frequently used negative
self talk.
• I can't remember names
• It's going to be another one of those days!
• It's just no use!
 • I just know it won't work
• Nothing ever goes right for me
• That just my luck
• I' so clumsy!
• I don't have the talent
• I'm not creative
• Everything I eat goes right to my waist.
• I can't seem to get organized
• I already know I won't like it
• No matter what I do I can't seem to lose weigth.
• I never have enough time
• I just don't have the patience for that
• That really makes me mad
• Another blue monday
• when will I ever learn!
• I get sick just thinking about it
• Sometimes I just hate my self
• I'm to shy
• I'm just no good!
Self-management sequence
• Life is not a matter of luck or furtune. if we
leave our lives up to chance, chances are, we
will fail. success in self-management is always
the result of something else, somthiing that
leads up to it.
• most of what seems to happen to you, happen
because of you something you created,
directed, influenced, or allowed to happen
Five steps that control our success:
• Behavior - it means our actions
• Feelings - How we feel about something will
always determine or affect what we do and
how we do it.
• Attitudes - this are the perspective from which
we view in life
• Beliefs- What we believe about anything will
determine our attitudes about it, create our
feelings, direct our actions, and influence us to
do well or poorly, succeed or fail
• Programming - We believe that we are
programmed to believe
• Programming creates beliefs
• Beliefs creates attitudes
• attitudes creates feelings
• Feelings determine actions; and
• actions create results
Five Levels of Self-talk (Helmstetter, 2000)
Level 1: The level of Negative Acceptance ( “I can't”)
• it is the lowest, least beneficial, and the most
harmful level.
• It is a self-talk by which you say something bad
or negative about yourself, and you accept it.
• It is characterized by words, “I cant...” or “If
only I could”
• It is our way of telling ourselves to hesitate,
question our capabilities and accept less than
we know we could have done, had we only
given ourselves a chance
Level 2: The level of recognition and need to change
• This level is beguiling. on the surface it looks as
though it should work for us.
• But instead it works against us. At this level, we
are telling ourselves and others that we need to
change.
• It is characterized by words such as “I need to”
or “I ought to” or “I would”
Level 3: The level of Decision to change
• This is the first level of self-talk that works for
us instead against us,
• At this level, we recognize to change, but also
we make the decision to do something about it
and wwe state the decision in the “present
tense” as though the change has already taken
place.
• It is characterized by the words “I never” or “I
would”
Level 4: The level of the better you
• The most effective kind of self talk we can ever
use. This has been used the least, but it is
needed the most.
• It is the level that we are painting a completed
new picture of ourselves, the way we really
wanted to be, handing it to our subconscious,
and sying “This is the me I want to create!”
• It is characterized by the words, “I am” It is the
positive self talk.
 • It replaces helpless “cannot's” with vibrant “yes
I can's! it excites, demands, and pushes us
forward.
Level 5: The level of Universal affirmation
• This has been spoken for thousands of years. it
is as old as the ancient religions which inspired
it. It is the self-talk of “Oneness” with God.
• This level speaks unit of spirit.
Human Person and Values Development
The Human Person
• Is the subject of education: he/she is a human
person learning and being taught.
• The human person is also the object of
education: he/she is at the center of the
curriculum and the entire program
• He/ she is multidimensional: a distinction
between the person as self and the person
community.
Important realities of the Human Person
1. The Self-image
a. Self-image refers to a person's understanding of
himself/herself
b. it is responsible in influencing peoples way of living.
The formation of self-image is derived from two
sources: others and the experiences of the self
C. There are three kinds of self-image:
• Negative self image- delves on limitations and
differences rather than asses
• Overrated self-image - stresses the positive
traits
• Realistic self-image - based on the real self
2. The others
• These are persons or groups that one considers
as important and are thus given the right to
influence oneself
3. The Being
a. is the mainspring or motivating force in the human
person
b. is the wellspring, a fountainhead of one's identity,
ones essential course of action, and one's essential
bonds
C. Seven approachs to get in touch with the Being
• Approach by way of the self-image
• Approach by way of important choices
• Approach by way of action
• Approach by way of what is”natural” and
stressless
• Approach by way of people who had the
greatest impact on the person
• Approach to self through severe trials
• Approach by way of deep and not yet fufilled
aspirations
4. The “I”
• It has three different aspects
• The intellect, the freedom, and the will
5. The sensibility and the body
These are the important Realities of the human person
1. The Being
• This is the fundamentally positive reality which
can be sensed in the very depths of the human
person
2. The “I”- is the realtiy felt at the level of the head
3. The sensebiliy - it carries messages from the “I”, from
the being, and from the in-depth conscience
4. the Body - It is the biological reality and has its own
laws
5. In-depth Conscience - This reality is place where the
other four pivotal centers can be perceived in a
synthesis. This is the place of the person in the process
of growth, a place where what is good can be sensed
 • Behavior - it is the manner of conducting
oneself. it is the response of an individual,
group, or species to its environment. It is a
manner in which a person behaves.
• Attitude - It is a position assumed for a specific
purpose.
• State of readiness- It is an organismic to
respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus as
an object, concept, or situation.
• It affects much of human behavior which in turn
depends on the kind of environment he/she is
interacting with. Attitude can be readily
changed depending on the kind of
environmental stimulus, e.g. concept or
situations that will greatly affect the human
person
Ten Commandments of human relations
• Speak to people - There is nothing as nice as
cheerful word of greeting
• Smile to people - It takes 72 muscles to frown
and only 14 to smile
• Call people by name - The sweetest music to
anyone's ear is the sound of his/her name
• Be friendly and helpful - If you want friends,
you must be one
• Be cordial - speak and act as if everything you
do is a joy to you
• Be genuinely interested in people - you can like
most everybody if you try
• Be generous with praise and cautious with
criticism
• Be considerate with the feelings of others - it
will be appreciated
• Be toughtful of the opinion of others - There
are three sides to a controversy - yours, the
other fellow's and the right one
• Be alert to give service - What counts most in
life is what we do for others
Mission Possible Team (I can win)
• Successful people have a positive mental
attitude
• Successful people are couarageous people who
take risks
• successful people choose well
• Successful people persist
• Successful people adhere to the power of
prayer
• Successful people know how to pace
themselves and journey through life with
enthusiasm
• Successful people govern themselves with
discipline
• Successful people give the best to whatever
they do
• Successful people align their sense of purpose
witht he common good
Values Development
Value defined
1. Values is derived from the Latin word, “valere”
which means to be worth or to be strong. A
thing have value when it is perceived to be
intriniscally good and desireable. Thus, values
development is the act, process, or result of
developing values for human dignity.
2. Values are the bases of judging what attitudes
and behavior are correct and desirable and
what are not. It is therefore crucial that there
can be an appropriate framework as well as a
strategyor providing the context and
operational guidelines for implementing a
values education program.
Value System: Various Views
• The meaning of values:
1. Clyde Kluckhohon, “a Value is a conception,
explicit or implicit, disticntive of an individualor
characteristic of a group, of the desirable which
influences the selection from available modes,
means and ends of action.
2. Cornelius J. Van der Poel “value refers to the
understanding of a certain good for an individual or
society which is considered worthy of realization.
3. Brian Hall, Michael Kenny, and Maury Smith “Value is
something that is freely chosen from alternatives and is
acted upon, or that which the individual celebrates as
being part of the creative integration in development as
a person.”
Values education
• Values education is the process by which values
are formed in the learner under the guidance of
teachers and parents as the former interacts
with his/her environment.
1. Values as subject matter must have direct and
immediate relevance to the personal life of the
learner.
2. Values education must involve all the faculties
of the learners. The process is not merely
cognitive. It must appeal not only to the mind
but to the heart, recognizing the total human
person.
3. The teacher's and parent personal values play
important roles in values learning.
The Why, When, Where, Who, and How in Teaching • (b) the fact (even the law) that, the more it is
Values given to others, the more it will be returned by
others and recieved by others.
1. Why Teach Values?
1. Values of being
• Because our parents tried teach them to us
 Honesty
• Because they help develop a sense of
autonomy, independence and confidence.  Courage
• Because values make our society safe and  Peaceableness
workable
 Self-reliance and Potential
• Because they are the most significant and
effective thing to attain happiness  Self-discipline and Moderation

2. When? - Values should be taught to people of all  Fidelity and chastity

ages with differing agenda and changing emphasis
2. Values of Giving
depending on their maturity. Values should be
taught now and always.  Loyalty and dependability
3. Where? - Values are best taught athome, in  Respect
either positive or negative sense. They can be far
more influential than what is taught in school.  Love

4. Who? - Parents are the crucial examples and  Unselfishness ans Sensitivity
instructors of values. They are the general
 Kindness and Friendship
contractor. Teachers, institutions, and organizations
are considered as subcontractors serving as  Justice and Mercy
supplement, support, and backup of parents.
Value Formation
5. What? - Decide which values to teach. A teaching
system should be carefully selected. • The Christian value formation is a lifelong
process of growing which gets its strength from
6. How? - There are methods especially designed in Jesus' sermon on the mount.
teaching values to pre-schoolers, elementary pupils,
adolescents, and people in the community • Two factors Affecting Formation

Importance of teaching values 1. Influences - These depend on a person's

1. Values are extremely powerful - They guide
people and determine what behavior is
acceptable and what behavior is not.
2. Values have to do with being ang giving - It is
who we are and what w give rather than what
we have that make up our truest inner selves.
internal traits and characteristics such as
intellectual and emotional capabilities
2. Experience - like good influences, good
experiences are needed in value formation.
• Four Types of Experiences Affecting Value
Formation

3. The values of being (who we are) and honesty, 1. Liturgical experience

courage, peaceableness, self reliance, self 2. Bible experience
discipline, and fidelity. - These are given as they
are gained and practice on the “outer” self as 3. Learning experience
they are developed in the “inner” self. The
4. Human experience
values of giving (what we give) are respect,
love, loyalty, unselfishness, kindness, and Value clarification
mercy. These are gained and developed as they
are practiced. 1. Value Clarification is a difficult task

The Values of Being and Giving • There are three basic steps that are useful in
value clarification:
• A true and universally acceptable “value” is one
that produces behavior that is beneficial both to A. Choice
the practitioner and to those on whom it is B. Value
practices.
C. Action
• A Value is a quality distinguished by:
2. Values are better than rules
• (a) It is ability to multiply and increase in our
possession even it is given away. - A forward-thingking organization promotes values to
guide people. Ddoing this saves time because an
organization need not write rules, or refer to rule books
or organizational manuals
3. Values serve as outline goals
- an explicit set of values should form the foundation of
any organization because values endure
4. Values send message
- A good value teaches and guides the members of the
organization. A symbolic act affirms the value over and
over.
5. Value shape an organization
- A value manifests itself in various ways. It stimulates
members to produce good quality products. Values can
shape and animate an organization