Lesson 2

• Self-Awareness is the ability to accurately perceive the level of skill, knowledge, value and responsibility we use when it comes to our emotions.
• Self-esteem is rooted in awareness.
• Awareness is defined as having/showing a realization, perception or knowledge of a concept, situation, circumstance or person.
• Cognition is a part of the cognitive process.
• Areas of self-awareness: personality, values, habits, needs, and emotions.
• Personality: Understanding our personality can help us find situations in which to thrive or adapt.
• Areas of Self-awareness: Values are convictions about what we feel.
• Areas of Self-Awareness: Habits are behaviors we repeat routinely.
• Areas of Self-awareness: Needs drive us to do things.
• Areas of Self-awareness: Emotions are our combined feelings, one of five facets of EQ.
• Emotionally aware people know which feelings they are feeling and why, and they link what they feel with what they do, say, think. Daniel Goleman
• Techniques to become self-aware include journaling, bibliotherapy, art therapy & sand trays, mindfulness-based stress reduction, meditation classes, and group therapies.
• Self-regulation is a stage where awareness of certain behavior leads to self-policing actions. Control of oneself by oneself.
• Social Learning Theory is learning that occurs within a social context.
• Alex Bandura identified 4 conditions for effective modelling: Attention, Retention, Motor Replication, Motivation.
• Effective Modelling: Attention means the observer should pay attention to the model.
• Effective Modelling: Retention means the observer must remember observable behaviors.
• Effective Modelling: Motor Replication in effective modelling means the ability to replicate behavior.
• Effective Modelling: Motivation in effective modelling means the observer should be motivated to replicate the behavior.
• Behavioral Self-Regulation is about changing how you behave in contrary to what you feel.
• Emotional Self-Regulation involves control of/influence over your emotions.
• TWO TYPES OF PRESSURE: Good Pressure and Bad Pressure.
• Types of Pressure: Bad Pressure is when we fail to self-regulate.
• Types of Pressure: Good Pressure is a healthy type of pressure that results from creating an assertive yet non-critical and non-harmful atmosphere.
• Techniques to become self-aware: GROUP THERAPIES

  One’s self-awareness is enhanced by feedback from others
• Techniques to become self-aware :MEDITATION CLASSES

  ·       Mindfulness meditation
• Techniques to become self-aware: MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR)

  ·       Helps people mange physical & emotional Pain
• Techniques to become self-aware: ART THERAPIES & SAND TRAYS

  ·       One creates images/figures & objects
• Techniques to become self-aware: BIBLIOTHERAPY

  ·       Self-help books
• Techniques to become self-aware: JOURNALING

  ·       One reflects on one’s experience by writing
• Awares is being aware EXTERNALLY and Self-awareness is being aware EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY
• Functions of Self-regulation

  • Self-Determination theory
  • Social Learning Theory
• Areas of Self-awareness: Personality

  Understanding it can help us find situations in which to thrive/adapt.
• (5) Areas of Self-awareness

  • Values
  • Personality
  • Habits
  • Emotions
  • Needs
• Areas of Self-awareness: V P H E N
• Conditions for Effective Modelling: R A M M
• Alex Bandura/4 Conditions for Effective Modelling

  • Retention
  • Attention
  • Motor Replication
  • Motivation
• Self-awareness is also called self-knowledge / i ntrospection