Knowing Oneself

• SELF AWARENESS

  • It empowers you to make personal improvements by building on your areas of strength and ascertaining aspects where you would like to make progress.
  • Understanding your own habits, needs, desires etc.
• SELF CONCEPT

  • refers to your awareness of yourself.
• Ideal Self

  • the self that you aspire to be. It is an idealized image that we have developed over time.
• Actual Self

  • the one that you actually see. It is built on self-knowledge.
• Adolescence

  • came from the Latin term adolescere which means ‘grow.’
  • Stage of extreme transformation and growth
• Adolescence

  • also characterized by teenager’s conflict with parents, mood disruptions and engagement in risky behavior.
• Johari Window

  • A model for self-awareness, personal development, group development, and understanding relationship.
  • also referred to as a 'disclosure/feedback model of self awareness' and an 'information processing tool'
• Known Self

  • Things we know about ourselves and other know about us
• Blind Self

  • Things others know about us that we do not know.
• Hidden Self

  • Things we know about ourselves that others do not know
• Unknown Self

  • Things neither we nor other know about us.
•  Erik Erikson

  • “The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others”
• Stages of Adolescence

  1. Early adolescence (11-14)
  2. Middle Adolescence (15-17)
  3. Late Adolescence (18-21)
• People undergo different changes such as physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual development.