Session 4

“Building
Myself: Braver,
Beaming, Better”
AT THE END OF THE SESSION,
I SHOULD HAVE:

1. Identified and expressed my unique

characteristics, strengths,
abilities, weaknesses and
limitations;
2. Appreciated the importance of self
awareness.
3. Assessed my own strengths which
will help me nurture my
self-esteem and confidence.
4. Evaluated techniques learned in
order to increase my self-esteem
and confidence level.
5. Demonstrated the ability to make
decisions using my knowledge of
my interests, skills, values, and
strengths.
 Things to Accompplish
✔ Activity 1: Class engagement (c/o live lecture)
✔ Activity 2: Watch: 2.1 Self Awareness
                                   2. 2 Self-esteem AVP
✔ Topic Evaluation
✔ Assignment 1: Self Reflective Questions
✔ Assignment 2: Sentence Completion
✔ Assignment 3: My Personal Shield
✔ Reminder: check email for DASS21 result

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INTRODUCTION

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“Knowing yourself is the beginningof all wisdom” – Aristotle
 

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 “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others.

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Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval.
Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

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Adolescence is the time when young people start to ask questions about
themselves, about their future, and even about their religious and political beliefs.
During the adolescent stage of development, the young person grapples with his or
her identity. This may seem veer philosophical to some, but to know oneself is the
first step in personal development.
 
This topic will let you appreciate yourself more, your weaknesses and your
strengths, and how it will complete you, like a puzzle piece that can’t be complete if
one trait or piece is missing. Self-awareness is indeed an important issue to tackle
since it will foster acceptance of who you really are, and by accepting and embracing
your flaws and strengths, it can be a living testament that you can help yourself and
others, and foresee that the best is yet to come.
 “WHEN WE FOCUS OUR Importance of
ATTENTION ON
OURSELVES, WE Self Awareness
EVALUATE AND
COMPARE OUR CURRENT 1. For Self-improvement
BEHAVIOR TO OUR
INTERNAL STANDARDS 2. For establishment of your
AND VALUES. WE BECOME
SELF-CONSCIOUS AS identity and individuality
OBJECTIVE EVALUATORS
OF OURSELVES.” 3. For goal setting
(Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund,1972)

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 SELF-ESTEEM
"Esteem" is derived
from the Latin
aestimare, meaning "to
appraise, value, rate,
weigh, estimate"
Self-esteem is our
cognitive and, above
all, emotional
appraisal of our own
worth. More than that,
it is how we think, feel,
and act, and reflects
CONFIDENCE
"Confidence" comes from
the Latin fidere, "to
trust."
Self-confidence is
trusting oneself, and, in
particular, in one’s ability
to engage successfully or
at least adequately with
the world. A self-
confident person is ready
to rise to new challenges,
seize opportunities, deal

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begins with the most image of God He created him; male and
female He created them."
important ideas Genesis 1:27
that:

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Psalm 139:14
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Identifying areas you
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Continually bear
that you are special and unique.
in mind that:

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