Learning Objectives
After reading this lesson, you are expected to:
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1. Recognize the nature and important realities as an individual (self)and as member of
community;
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2. Enumerate and explain the good citizenship core values;
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3. Explain self-awareness though the Johari window;
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4. Define self-awareness and self-management; and
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5. Discuss how values are formed
Self-awareness and Values Development
Stay true to yourself Be true to yourself

What is self-awareness?

# Self-awareness is the ability to tune in to your feelings, thoughts, and actions.

# Being self-aware also means being able to recognize how other people see you.

# People who are self-aware recognize their strengths and their challenges

# Self-awareness means the habit of paying attention to the way you think, feel, and behave.
More specifically:

It means looking for patterns in the way we tend to think about and perceive what happens to,
how we explain things to ourselves and make sense of the world around us.
It means understanding our own emotions and moods. Instead of trying to avoid or “fix” how we
feel, we observe and stay curious about our feelings, even the difficult, uncomfortable ones.
It means paying attention to how we tend to act and behave in certain situations. What are our
default responses to things? What are our habits and tendencies?
In short, self-awareness means paying attention to and trying to learn about our own psychology.

• Self-awareness doesn’t develop all at once. The process begins in childhood, as kids start being
able to recognize and name their emotions, strengths and challenges, and likes and dislikes. And
it keeps developing over time.
Importance of Self-Awareness
1.Man in the mirror - self-reflection and the inner struggle of one individual to become better.
2.Admission-ability to admit that you are wrong.
3.Empathy-ability to imagine oneself in other people’s situations -put ourselves in the shoes
other person .
4.Humility-Quality/state of being humble -You will know that in this world, you are just a small
dot.
5.Tolerance-Precocity to endure pain/hardship
6.Likability-No one would ever want people who are selfish etc .

There are two types of self-awareness: private and public.

- Private self-awareness is when people are aware of something about themselves that others
might not be — like being anxious about reading out loud.

-Public self-awareness is when people are aware of how others see them. That doesn’t start
happening until the age of 5. Before then, most kids don’t realize that other people aren’t always
thinking and feeling the same way they are.

• Having self-awareness makes it easier to build self-esteem.

People with strong self-awareness skills can:

- Recognize their strengths and challenges.

- Understand and talk about their needs and feelings.

- Recognize other people’s needs and feelings.

- See how their behavior affects others

- Develop a growth mindset and learn from their mistakes.

• How to help develop self-awareness,

Gaining self-awareness can start in small ways, like recognizing strengths. People often focus on
what needs improvement. But they don’t always consider what they do well.
Recognizing those abilities helps build self-esteem. It also allows people to use their strengths to
work on challenges.

10 examples of how to increase self-awareness

1. Pay attention to what bothers you about other people
2.Meditate on your mind
3.Read high-quality fiction or any manuscript
4.Identify your emotional kryptonite
5.Draw a timeline of your life
6.Ask for feedback (and take it well)
7.Do some micro-travel
8.Learn a new skill
9.Identify cognitive distortions
10.Make time to clarify your values

What are the benefits of self-awareness?

It’s hard to overstate the benefits of self-awareness, so I’ll just list a few of the most common
positives that come from increasing our self-awareness:

• Better relationships. It’s difficult to ask for what we want and need in a relationship when
we’re not very clear about those things ourselves. What’s more, the less self-awareness we have,
the easier it is to get defensive in our interactions with people, which is a recipe for disaster in
any type of relationship. If you want to improve your relationships, start by trying to become
more self-aware.
• Improved moods. Our mood and how we tend to feel hour-to-hour is largely dependent on how
we choose to think and behave. When we improve our awareness of the relationship between
thoughts, behavior, and emotion, it becomes easier to regulate our feelings and moods.
• Clearer thinking and better decision-making. Poor decision-making often comes from muddled
thinking and strong emotional reactions. When we become more aware of our habits of thought
and feeling, we can more easily distinguish between short-term impulses or desires and long-
term values and goals.
• More effective communication. Achieving a clearer sense of what you believe and what you
really want makes it far easier to communicate in any aspect of life, whether it’s with a spouse,
manager at work, or best friend. The better we know ourselves, the easier it is to communicate
assertively, to be honest about what we would like and respectful of the wishes of others.
Increased productivity. The most common cause of procrastination and poor productivity isn’t a
lack of effort or commitment, it’s interference from ourselves. When we struggle to get to work,
it’s usually because on some level our own thoughts, emotions, or habits are getting in the way.
Improving self-awareness can help eliminate many of these hidden obstacles to productivity

T H E H U M A N P E R S O N
( L E E , 2 0 0 7 )
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Human person is the subject of education: he is a human person learning
and being taught. The human person is also the object of education: the
human person is at the center of the curriculum and the entire program.
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The human person is multidimensional: a distinction between the person as self and
the person in community. The human person is an individual, a self-conscious being
of incalculable value in himself. His physical, intellectual, moral,
spiritual, socioeconomic, and political well-being is recognized by the state.

IMPORTANT REALITIES OF THE HUMANPERSON

1. The Self-Image

a. Self image - refers to a person’s understanding of himself/herself.

b. It is responsible in influencing people’s way of living. The formation of self

-image is derived from two sources: others and the experiences of the self.
c. There are three kinds of Self-Image:
1.) Negative Self-Image - delves on limitations and differences rather than assets

2.) Overrated Self-Image- stresses on the positive traits

3.) Realistic Self-Image - based on the real self

2. The Others
These are the person of groups that one consider as

important and thus are given the right to influence one’s

self.

3.The Being
a. It is the mainspring or a motivating force in the human person.

b. It is the wellspring, a fountainhead of one’s identity, one’s essential course ofaction, and one’s
essential bonds.
c. There are seven approaches to get in touch with the Being.
1.) Approach by way of the self-image
2.) Approach by way of important choices
3.) Approach by way of action

4.) Approach by way of what is “natural” and stress less

5.) Approach by way of people who had the greatest impact on you
6.) Approach to self through severe trials
7.) Approach by way of deep and not yet fulfilled aspirations.

4. The “I”

The “I” has three (3) different aspects: These are the

 Intellect
 the freedom
 the will.

5. The Sensibility and the Body

These are the important realities of the human person

GOOD CITIZENSHIP CORE VALUES

The good citizenship core values are reflected in the Preamble of the 1987 Philippine
Constitution

PREAMBLE OF THE 1987 PHILIPPINECONSTITUTION

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We the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and
humane society and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations,
promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our
posterity the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of
truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.

THE GOOD CITIZENSHIP VALUES(BASED ON THE 1987 PHILIPPINECONSTITUTION

A.PAGKAMAKA-DIYOS
(SPIRITUALITY)

•Faith (Paniniwala)

•Respect for Life (Paggalang)

•Order (Pagsunod sa mga alituntunin)

•Work (Paggawa ng Marangal)

•Concern for Family and Future Generation (Pagkalinga)

B. PAGKAMAKA-TAO

• Love

 Freedom

• Peace

•. Truth

•. Justice
C..PAGKAMAKA-BAYAN
(LOVE OF COUNTRY)

•Unity in Diversity (Katipunan)

•Equality / Justice (Katarungan)

•Respect of Law and Government (Kagalanggalang)

•Patriotism (Kabayanihan)

•Promotion of Common Good (Kabutihan)

D.PAGKAMAKA-KALIKASAN
(LOVE OFENVIRONMENT)

•Concern of EnvironmentL

– Green the Land

– Clean the Air

– Freshen the Water

SELF-AWARENESS VALUES DEVELOPMENTAND SERVANT LEADERSHIP

•Your image of who you are is called self-concept. As cited by Chauhan (2002), it is composed
of your feelings and thoughts about your strengths and weaknesses, your abilities and limitations.
Your self-concept develops from three

sources: 1.Other’s images;

2. Social comparisons;

3. One’s interpretations and evaluations

as depicted in the illustration below :

THE CONCEPT OF SELF-AWARENESS

The Johari window explains that there are four selves that represent a person, to wit:

1.The Open Self - These represent all the information, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires,
motivations, ideas and so on, that you know about yourself and that others know about you.

2.The Blind Self -This represents information about yourself that others know but you do not.
3.The Unknown Self - This represents those parts of yourself about which neither you nor others
know.
4.The Hidden Self - This contains all that you know of yourself but keep hidden from
5.
KNOW TO SELF

NOT KNOW TO SELF

Know to Other

Open Self

Blind Self

Not Know to Others

Hidden Self

Unknown Self

5.
Self-awareness opens doors to spiritual and personal growth. We have all the answers to the
question about our lives and what we have to do is to learn how we can have an access to our
wisdom. It begins with self-awareness by paying attention to our many senses, thoughts, feelings
and intuition. We should go deep into our emotions to tap their sources. We should see our
thinking and how it creates our reality. The we candiscover our deepest essence.

WHAT IS SELF-AWARENESS?
•According to Goleman, perhaps the most important emotional competence is self-awareness-
knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuitions.

•Another psychotherapist puts it as “bringing to the conscious mind our understanding of the
compulsion that pushes us around”

•Marilyn vs. Savant, simply calls it, “the art of waking up”, or realizing
what you really are and why you do the things you do, in the way you do them.

Qoutes of poem

Human beings are complex and diverse. To become self-aware, we should develop an
understanding of ourselves in many areas which includes the following:

1.Personality.
An understanding of our personality can help us find situations in which we will thrive/survive,
and help us avoid situations in which we will experience too much stress.

2.Values.
Values are qualities that we cherish as reference for our action sand behaviors in particular
situations.

3.Habits
. These are the behaviors that we repeat routinely and often do automatically. Although we
would like to use them to help us interact effectively with and manage others, we can probably
identify at least one of our habitats that decrease our effectiveness.
4.Needs.

(Connect Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and other psychologists’ psychological needs) Needs
cause motivation, and when needs aren’t satisfied, they can cause frustration, conflict and
stress. One of the advantages of knowing which needs exert the strongest influence in our own
behaviors is the ability to understand how they affect our interpersonal relationships.

5.Emotions
. Understanding our own feelings, what cause them, and how they make an impact on our
thoughts and actions are indications of emotional self-awareness.

HOW DOES SELF-AWARENESS MAKE ANINDIVIDUAL MORE EFFECTIVE?

Self-awareness helps individuals identify gaps that promote skills development. Identifying these
gaps, the following can be improved and enhanced:

1. Skills development;

2. Knowing one’s strengths and weakness;

3. Developing intuitive decision-making skills;
4. Stress management-our coping with stress effectively;
5. Self-motivation; and
6. Leadership

We can become more self-aware by using or applying the following means:

1. Seeking feedback from the people who know us;
2. Completing self-assessment surveys like questionnaires; and
3. Hiring an expert like professional counselor or executive coach.
WHAT ARE HUMAN VALUES?

 Human values give worthiness and respect to life. The five human values are
righteousness, peace, love, truth and non-violence. These elevate the individual as well as
the society of which one is a part.

UNDERSTANDING FILIPINO

VALUES

Values are often associated with what an individual believes that he had acquired and nurtured in
life.
Horacio de la Costa S. J. (in Bonoan, 1971), a historian, wrote on the principles and values
embodied in the Filipino national tradition which we refashioned by Filipinos who viewed the
culture and society from within and not from without. This Filipino national tradition is
composed if .
1.Pagsasarili or the principle of self-reliance which means to be oneself, to be aperson in his own
right, to be able to make up his mind, and to do his thing.

2.Pakikisama or sharing with one’s fellow both the burdens as well as the rewards of an activity.
3.Pagkakaisa or national unity.

4.Pagkabayani
. The essence is patriotism or the total dedication to the nation and the readiness to put the
common good of the nation above the private interest, whether in the family or local community
organization.

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5.Pakikipagkapwa-tao or human solidarity. This refers to the dedication to one’s own nation, so
as to enable one to participateon free and equal terms.

OTHER INTERMEDIATE VALUES RELATEDTO SOCIALIZATION

1.Smooth Interpersonal Relation (SIR)

. Smooth interpersonal relations or SIR, in short, connotes the facility of getting along with
others so as to avoid outward signs of conflicts, even under difficult circumstances
(Lynch1970:10)

a. Pakikisama
is the mechanism used to maintain SIR, the use of the go-between, and euphemism.
b.Reciprocity orUtang na Loob which is another aspect of SIR is universal form of behavior.
2 .Looseness and Security in the Family
.A much vaunted trait in the Filipino society is the so-called close family ties or family solidarity.
3. Respect for Elders
. A value inculcated early in the socialization process.

4.Personalism.
In personalism, major importance is attached to the personal factor, which ensures intimacy,
warmth and friendship in getting things done.
5.Hospitality
. Foreigner who come to our country often remark about Filipino hospitality. This is shown in
oue generosity and kindness in treating our visitors.
6.Patient Suffering or Pagtitiis
. It is shown in the attitude that certain frustrating forces whether poverty, injustice, sickness, or
anything else or too powerful to be overcome (Bulatao, 1962:78)
7.Panindigan
. With the emphasis on Filipino indigenousness ,Enriquez (1977:3) initiated a new way of
looking at Filipino values, which truly represent the Filipino culture. Commitment and
conviction approximate it.

VALUE FORMATION
The Christian Value formation is a lifelong process of growing which gets its strength from
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The following factors affect one’s value formation
1.Two (2) Factors Affecting Value Formation

•Influences these depend on a person’s influences such as intellectual and emotional capabilities.

•Experience Factor

– like good influences, good experiences are needed in value formation

affect the formation of values.
# There are 4 types of experiences that will influence and affect the formation of values

•Liturgical experience

•Bible experience

•Learning experience

•Human experience

VALUE CLARIFICATION

1. Value Clarification is a difficult task

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There are three basic steps that are useful in Value Clarification
•Choice

•Value

•Action

2. Values are better than Rules

•Forward-thinking – the organization promotes values to guide people. Doing this saves time
because organizations need not write rules, and need not refer to the rule books or organization
manual.
3. Values serve as outline goals.
 An explicit set of values shall form the foundation of any organizations because they
endure.
4. Values send a message
•A good value teaches and guides the members of the organization. A symbolic act affirms the
value over and over.
5. Values shape an organization
 Values manifest itself in various ways. It thrusts members to produce quality good
products. Values can shape and animate an organization.