Self Esteem Management

Management Plan for Building Self Esteem

• Self-Esteem
Worksheets for Kids
in Primary School
• Self-Esteem Activities
for Teens in Middle
or High School
• Exercises for
Building Self-Esteem
in College Students
and Adults
Self-Esteem Worksheets for Kids in Primary School

• Something About Me: Self-Esteem

Sentence Completion
This “Something About Me” worksheet is
intended to help children identify their own
positive traits and characteristics and to
recognize their accomplishments. It’s a
simple worksheet with six sentence prompts
and space for a child to fill in the blanks.
• The sentence prompts are:
• My friends think I’m awesome because…
• My classmates say I’m great at…
• I feel very happy when I…
• Something that I’m really proud of is…
• I make my family happy when I…
• One unique thing about me is…
Things I Like About Me Worksheet
• This worksheet was created to help
young children learn how uniqueness
makes a person beautiful. This
worksheet should be completed with a
parent or other trusted adult to help
explain the distinction between inner
beauty and outer beauty. The worksheet
includes the following instructions:
• “You are beautiful because you are
unique, both on the inside and on the
outside. Look inside and outside at your
personality, what you can do, how you
treat others, and who you are and then
write down some things that you like
about you on this mirror.”
“I’m Great Because…” Worksheet
• This worksheet can be an excellent way for young children to explore what makes
them good and likable people and to help them build a foundation of healthy self-
esteem. The instructions are to fill it out and complete the statements
These prompts include the following:
• I like who I am because…
• I’m super at…
• I feel good about my…
• My friends think I have an awesome…
• Somewhere I feel happy is…
• I mean a lot to…
• Others reckon I’m a great…
• I think I’m a pretty good…
• Something I really enjoy is…
• I really admire myself for…
• My future goals are…
• I know I can achieve them because I’m…
• I’m naturally gifted at…
• Others often praise my…
Child can take help from adults in it and can use this sheet for future use too.
 Friendship Ingredients
• This is a great worksheet for helping children
learn about what makes them good friends
and what they should look for in a friend. It’s
a simple activity with only one short set of
instructions:
• “Making friends is like making a cake. List the
traits that are important for making friends”
Next, it provides spaces for the child to write
down five traits—or friendship “ingredients”—
and explain why they are important in a
friend. The simple nature of this worksheet
allows children to put their imagination to
good use.
Self-Esteem Journal For Kids
Keeping a self-esteem journal is a great way for
children to begin thinking about the good
things that they do and experience, setting
them up for a positive outlook on life. This
worksheet lists three sentence completion
prompts for each day of the week, starting
 Self-Esteem Activities for Teens in Middle or High School

Designing Affirmations Worksheet

• One of the most popular classroom activities to build self-esteem
to facilitate at all grade levels is the “I Am” activity. . It utilizes the
effective and positive affirmation technique. The idea is that by
writing down such positive thoughts, they are reinforced in the
students’ minds, and by thinking about themselves and their
attributes positively, their self-esteem is heightened. Students are
encouraged to think positively and with energy about what makes
them who they are. When one has a set of affirmations ready to
put to use, he can try these tips for using them:
• Use positive self-talk;
• Set big goals and stay mindful of his goals (write them down and
place them somewhere you can see them every day);
• Say and visualize your affirmations every day;
• Take time to see yourself accomplishing the goals you’ve set;
• Think about how good it will feel once you have accomplished
your goals.
Visualizing and planning for success makes it much more likely
that one will achieve his goals.
 We Are
To counteract peer pressure, this activity can be
used. Students find common ground among
themselves and complete a list which
demonstrates what makes them alike. For
example, a common answer will be “We are
humans,” Finding commonalities may result in
friendship, and like-minded people tend to raise
each other rather than putting one another down,
which also results in a boost of self-esteem.
• Listing Traits
Students simply make a list of their positive
character traits that make them a good friend, or
good sister/brother to their siblings. Ask them to
describe in detailed scenarios The idea is that by
writing down and/or sharing something that they
have done for others, students feel more
positively about themselves and their behaviours.
They might discover something inside of them
Flip
Students are to make a list of their mistakes,
failures, and obstacles in life, but after having
done so, they must “flip” them so that they are
positive. The idea is to allow students the
opportunity to self-evaluate, problem solve,
and improve themselves. For example, a
student might list “I failed a math quiz.” A
means of flipping this could be: “I will study
harder to pass the next quiz”
The Interview/Group tasks
“The Interview” is an activity which pairs up
students, who interview each other. They are
to ask questions with the intention of getting
to know the other person, such as “What is
your favourite colour?” The idea behind this
activity is to form bonds with one or more
classmates and boost their self esteem and
confidence.
 Self-Confidence Worksheet
The completed worksheet can be kept handy for the next time one is feeling low
self-esteem and need a boost. The worksheet is divided into three parts:
• Part A involves thinking of a situation in which one felt confident and
experienced a sense of self-worth, and answering these set of questions:
1. What is the situation?
2. What do you say to yourself about the situation (self-talk)? How do you feel
physically?
3. What sensations and feelings do you have in your body?
4. What do you do as a result of this?
• Part B involves thinking of a recent situation in which you felt lacking in self-
confidence and answering the same four questions listed above.
• In Part C, one is instructed to look at his answers to Parts A and B and then use
that information to answer these set of questions:
1. What positive statement could I say to myself to be reminded of my power?
2. What could I do that would help me feel differently? (For example, create a
visualization in which you remember how you felt in Part One.)
3. What could I do differently next time I am in this situation? What actions would
empower me?
Completing this worksheet will help adolescents explore their feelings in two very
You, At Your Best Worksheet
• The exercise aims to use narrative and
storytelling; clients are asked to identify their
unique strengths by writing a story about a past
experience where they were at their best. It
takes them through four stages.
My Wins
• This activity is especially great for kids and
younger teens who are crafty and creative,
although people of all ages and talents can take
part. The My Wins Worksheet is an artistic
prompt for you or your child to draw, paint, or
otherwise represent the things—their
achievements and qualities—about themselves
that are important to them. One may wish to
use a theme for this activity, For example, if
child is dealing with self-esteem issues, he or
she can use the theme “What Makes Me Great”
and focus on filling the frames with reasons
why he or she is a good friend, a good child, a
good student, and a good person in general.
 Before You Die
• . The point of this activity is to help clients identify meaningful goals that are
connected with their personal values. Striving toward and achieving one’s goals is an
important way to build self-esteem. The more individuals recognize their ability to
meet the goals they set for themselves, the more likely they are to feel confident and
worthy. This ‘Before You Die’ Bucketlist Worksheet provides more information on
the theory behind goal-setting, motivation and positive behavior change, as well as
an applied framework that will guide the client through the process.
• The first column of the table provided is for specifying the goal that your client would
like to accomplish ‘before they die’.
• In the second column, the client is encouraged to dig a bit deeper into the personal
motivations for this particular goal. Why is it important to them? How might it
enhance the meaning in their life?
• Use the final column to rate the meaningfulness of these items on a scale of zero to
ten,
Reframing Negative Judgments
• The instructions on this worksheet direct users to describe the situation that has had
an impact on their self-esteem. In the next column, they are asked to write down
their initial judgments. Next is the column in which they will write the emotions and
feelings this triggered. In the far right column, you or the user writes down a more
objective description of the scenario that is fact-based and less black-and-white. This
worksheet encourages the development of an extremely valuable skill: recognizing
Exercises for Building Self-Esteem in College Students and Adults

• Self-Esteem Sentence Stems Worksheet

This exercise includes prompts with space for you to complete the sentence
in the way that feels right to you. This exercise will help clients become
more comfortable sharing their thoughts and feelings with others,
making it easier to work through their self-esteem issues. Next, it
instructs users to set aside 5-10 minutes several times a week to complete
the worksheet. After two weeks of completing the worksheet, users can
review their responses.
Self-Esteem Journal Template
This exercise can not only help one find more things in his life to be
grateful for, but it can also give him the opportunity to reflect on his own
thoughts and feelings, leading to discovery and understanding of the self.
The worksheet begins with a short paragraph about the potential benefits
of journaling, including improved self-esteem and well-being. Next, there
are five tables set up with prompts and space to write.
Gratitude Worksheet and Journal Template

• Gratitude journaling is one of the best ways to inject more gratitude

into your daily life and it can be done in just a few minutes a day.
The gratitude journal worksheet opens with some tips to help you
journal effectively, including recording at least five things you are
grateful for each day, aiming for one new thing to be grateful for
each day, and reading through old entries to see how far you have
come since you began.
• Reframing Critical Self-Talk Worksheet
• This reframing worksheet opens with an explanation of negative self-
talk and how you can identify and confront it. Next, the tool is
described. It includes two main steps intended to help you
understand where your critical thoughts are coming from and what
they feel or sound like:
• Increasing your awareness of self-critical talk
• Taking action to soften your self-critical voice
• `This tried-and-true technique will help you or your client recognize
self-directed criticism and challenge it on the spot, leading to greater
 Identifying and Challenging Core Beliefs

• . This exercise will help you or your client

explore and define deeply held beliefs that
guide thoughts and behavior. The worksheet
begins with an explanation of what core
beliefs are. Next, it explains how core beliefs
can influence one’s thinking and emotions
through an example interaction.
• Assertive Communication Worksheet
• It can be difficult to share feelings with others
if you don’t feel your feelings have value, an
all-too-common symptom of low self-esteem.
Learning to communicate assertively will not
only help you form better relationships and
find new opportunities, but it can also
facilitate a shift in the way you think about
yourself. The worksheet provides space and
instructions to record three scenarios in
which you communicated assertively and list
the emotions you felt afterward.
 Take a 2 minute self-appreciation break.

Tips and techniques for improving low Self-Esteem

• Apart from these worksheets and activities, there are

some tips for building self-esteem and self-worth. Dr.
John M. Grohol (2011) offers these tips:
• Take a self-esteem inventory
• Take a 2 minute self-appreciation break.
• Set realistic expectations
• Stop being a perfectionist
• Explore yourself
• Be willing to adjust your self-image
• Stop comparing yourself to others
Strategies for teachers to boost students’ self-esteem in classroom
setting of all ages

• Praise and acknowledge

accomplishments
• Create realistic expectations
• Decision making & Sense of ownership
• Don’t compare one student to another
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