Cultivating Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is often the critical skill underlying many of our interpersonal skills. Before you can manage your interactions with others, you must first understand your own thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions. By understanding your strengths and weaknesses, how you cope with stress, or how you speak to others, you will be better able to tailor your actions to the people you’re with. You will also be better able to understand your thresholds for stress thus making you better able to cope and bounce back in the face of difficulties. Life experiences shape our reactions, and some responses contribute to stalling out a career. Gain visibility into personal and professional behaviors and learn how to modify and emphasize positive behaviors for greater success in all aspects of your life.

Objectives:

• Introduce the concept of self-awareness and its impact on personal life and professional career
• Explore your “life map” to explore how your life experiences have shaped you as a person
• Introduce the concept of reflection and provide a personalized learning journal
• Introduce free form writing as a tool for self-discovery

Benefits

• Communicate and build stronger relationships with others
• Feel more self-assured in your thoughts and feeling
• Better able to anticipate and persist through stressful situations
• More in control of your unconscious mind
• Leverage your strengths more effectively
• More decisive