Self-Awareness: Understand Yourself & Strengthen Your Effectiveness

Self-awareness involves developing a deeper understanding of your emotions and feelings, as well as your physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual self. Improving Self-Awareness provides participants with practical ways to recognize and understand these different aspects of themselves. The course begins by exploring the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual self. Participants then examine awareness of the physical self through scanning, progressive relaxation, understanding physical stressors, and exercise. Time management is explored through organization, goal management, priorities, and procrastination. Participants will also examine the emotional self, including the validity and usefulness of emotions, arousal, and valence. Mood management introduces emotional intelligence, categories of emotions, and approaches for increasing or decreasing arousal. The psychological self focuses on thinking style, learning style, personality style, and distorted thinking. The course also develops interpersonal awareness through understanding different thinking and learning styles, active listening, body language, and Transactional Analysis. Participants will explore mindfulness, meditation, positivity, and gratitude as part of the spiritual self. Finally, the course addresses the limitations of self-awareness, including excessive self-discipline and the importance of humility and empathy. Participants will explore independence versus interdependence, systems theory, and team building.