Online Module for UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Instructor: Cana , Marie Antoinette
Course Code: Per Dev
No. of Hours: 3 hours
Total Number : 54 hours
Course Description: This course intends to let the students be aware of who they are , discover their
strengths and weaknesses, assess their own personal identity, determine their values as they thrive their
journey in life.
Moreover, with the present life situation , students should be able to express how they see
change as the only permanent in this world , how they understand , adapt emotionally and what should
be the responses to the pressing changes.
TIME TOPICS
FRAME
1 INTRODUCTION TO MODULE : UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
How will I describe me?
2 Personal ID
3 My Personal Portrait
4 Values
5 Testimonies for Sucess
6 Basic Psychological Needs
7 Responding to Change
8 Life Change
9 Understanding Change
10 Resilience
11 Empathy and Sympathy
12 Important People and Experiences
LIFELINE
13 Personal Task
Finals
Pre Class Activity
EXPECTATION SETTING
Fill in first this chart for your expectations towards this course in terms of the following.
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AREAS EXPECTATION SETTING
SUBJECT
SELF
TEACHER
Module 1 How will I describe ME?
Objective”: 1. Explore how to see oneself through self-assessment.
Activity: Self-Checklist
Instruction: Check the words that describe you according to how you see yourself.
Attention Quiet Picky
Cooperative Balanced Shy
Realistic Complex Cautious
Confident Creative Thoughtful
Eccentric Energetic Clever
Calm Respectful Humble
Hard worker Compassionate Skillful
Intelligent Dependable Fearless
Processing:
1. Was it easy for you to choose a description for yourself? Why?
2. What factors facilitated you to choose such descriptions?
How to Be More Self-Aware
Source: liveaboutdotcom
Self-awareness is important in every area of life, but it's essential when
dealing with relationships. If you're aware of the things you say and do, you'll
be able to recognize when your actions bother or anger someone else. It
sounds straightforward, but it takes some adults years before they understand
what this concept means, and how to apply it to their life.
What Does It Mean to Be Self-Aware?
Self-awareness means that you have a solid understanding about who you
are and how you relate to the world. This means being mentally and
emotionally present in situations, and understanding how your actions affect
people. It also means that you're clued into to what you really enjoy and
dislike.
This concept is not as simple in practice, however. Many things in life can
change us, for good or bad, and these changes cloud self-awareness. Some
things that can wreak havoc on our awareness are:
• Our upbringing. We are taught to behave a certain way, and also that
some things are bad or good. This means that we may get stuck in a rut
or fail to try new things to see if we really like them.
• Media. We're bombarded with images and messages telling us how to
be, and many of these can change our perception of what we think we
should act like.
• Our friends. We choose friends that we think we should be like, or we
look for approval from them.
• Society. We understand what's acceptable in society, learn social
grace, and live by the golden rule. But unless we really have a grasp on
our self-awareness, any changes will be on the surface and not at the
emotional level where they need to be.
•
Being More Self-Aware
The first step to self-awareness is to look at past issues you've had with
people and be honest with yourself. Sometimes it's so hard to think that we
might have messed up that we don't allow ourselves to reflect on the actions
we took to help prolong or cause an argument.
Admitting you have a part in how people treat you is a hard concept to
embrace at first. The following thoughts can act as a warning sign for better
self-awareness. (liveaboutdotcom)
Module 2 INSTROSPECTION
Objective: 1. Identifying factors that could help in introspection.
Activity 1 Personal ID
Instruction: 1. Fill in the colored boxes with what is asked from you
PERSONAL CORE
Describe your Strength
ROLES
What responsibilities do you have?
LEARNINGS What do you want to learn
Open this link to read and understand Self-Introspection
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/psychologists/what-is-introspection-psychology-definition-and-
applications/
Module 3 A PICTURE OF MYSELF
Objective: 1. Identifying skills, talents, roles, values and personal core
Activity: Complete the sentence….
Instruction: 1. Continue the sentence with the first response that would come to your
mind.
2.Avoid using OR and IF.
3. Answer with all honesty
1. I am at best when…………….
2. I wish I could overcome the fear of……………….
3. I am aware of my talent of…………………..
4. I enjoy being with people who……………….
5. I like to……………………………
6. I feel productive when………..
7. I almost never………….
8. I am motivated by…………..
9. Work is fun when………….
10. The best advice I ever got………..
11. Important thing is…………….
12. My idea of a perfect life is……….
13. I always wanted to…….
14. The thing my friends like about me is…………….
15. If ever I win a prize it will be…..
What is Self-Concept?
A self-concept is an understanding you have of yourself
that’s based on your personal experiences, body image, your
thoughts, and how you tend to label yourself in various
situations.
Our self-concept is somewhat a collection of beliefs you have
about your own nature, qualities, and behavior. It’s about how
you think and evaluate yourself at any given moment in time.
Source: Lifetime AchieverAdam Sicinski
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have already done. – Henry Longfellow
What are my priorities?
Objective: 1. Identifying priorities that are important to the person.
Activity: Choice of Priorities
Instruction: Rank the following priorities according to what is important to you.
Once you’re done, look through the ordering and ask yourself “Am I happy with my list?”
1. Health ____
2. Money ____
3. Peace of Mind ____
4. Success ____
5. Environment ____
6. Spiritual ____
7. Family ____
8. Friends ____
9. Challenges ____
10. Work Satisfaction ____
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” ~ Stephen R
Covey
There is not much separating the people who are happy and fulfilled and those aren’t.
One is knowing your life purpose and what is it that you want out of life; to have a vision
and some aims in life. Most people stumble through their lives, too occupied in anxiety
about their day-to-day existence to think about the bigger picture. Do you know what’s
ultimately important to you? It’s been said that in life, nobody gets out of it alive. So the
question is this: Do you know what you want to get out of life?
The other thing (which is the topic of this post) is identifying and setting your life
priorities right. Let’s spend a little time thinking about what’s really important to you
in work and life, shall we? Having more awareness of them will aid you to achieve the
things that really matter. If you don’t know how much you want what you really want,
how can you strive for it? Source Coaching Journey
Module 4 My Success Story
Objective: 1. Discover other people life struggles and success through their testimonies.
2.Relate with other peoples disclosure about life
Activity: Success Stories
Instructions:
1. Open this link and watch how life change of this person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SN9Kj8SdgE.
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1. Was the success story inspiring for you?
2. Which part of the testimony made you realize of something relevant to be done in life?
Task to be done:
1. Make YOUR OWN video sharing your life testimonIes..
Module 5 BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
Objective; To have an awareness of the different basic psychological needs
BELONGINGNESS RECOGNITION
A sense that someone truly cares about you. A sense that you are acknowledging
That you are in a mutual and loving relationship
With another person for what you accomplished and who
you are
FREEDOM SELF-ESTEEM
The need to have choice The need to feel competent
In your life, to have a sense and confident
Of control over the decisions that direct behavior that you have achieve results
ACTIVITY
Choose at least 2 basic psychological needs which you think you need to fulfill. Pick at least 2
from the above items.
Open this link to understand more what is a Psychological need?
https://www.reference.com/world-view/psychological-needs-b1ef79d0eb1395b
Module 6 PICTURE ALBUM
Objective: 1. Recall important and less remembered important memories in life.
Activity: Recalling simple memories
Instructions: Place a picture or drawing to represent the following:
MY BELONGING MY EXPERIENCES
PLACES FUN
M odule 7 CH A N G E
Objective: 1. To define the word Change.
2.To be aware of how one respond to change
Activity: Responding to Change
Instruction: Think of our present NEW NORMAL
How do you feel about these changes?
1. O verw helm ed challenged
2. D iscouraged optim istic
3. D isinterested interested
4. Tired energized
5. A nx ious calm
6. D epressed enthusiastic
7. A nnoyed ex cited
8. B ad good
W ere you able to em brace the changes brought by CO V ID
1 9 pandem ic? H ow ?
Send your answ ers through G m ail or M essenger.
M odule 8 . CH A N G ES IN O U R LIV ES
O bjective 1 . U nderstand the different em otions and
reactions brought about by change.
A ctiviies Changes and Em otions
Instructions: A nsw er and send in through G m ail.
1.Describe “New Normal”.
2. What experiences happened to you as you are through
this change?
3. Recall your feelings before , during and after these
changes happened?
A ccept? W hy?
A djust? W hy?
D eny?
W as it easy to deal w ith this change?
Y es? W hy?
N o? W hy?
1 . To understand w hat em otions goes w ith changes,
open this link and m ake it a guide in answ ering the
questions inside the boxhttp://ronedmondson.com/2014/07/7-emotions-
of-change.html
Understanding Change
by Josh King, PsyD
Changing a habit is a difficult thing to do. Even with the best
of intentions, actually making behavior changes that last can be a slow and laborious
process. This process of change has been studied and broken down, and
understanding how people change can be helpful in your personal change process.
Change is rarely a straight line. The process of change is littered with ups and downs,
jumps forward and backwards, and motivational waxing and waning. Psychologists
James Prochaska and Carlo Di Clemente studied this process and have developed a
theory for how people change that is widely accepted. This process states that change
has 5 stages, from not even thinking about changing a behavior (which they call
Precontemplation), to making maintaining the changes you’ve made (which they call
Maintenance). In understanding these 5 stages, you can recognize where you (or a
loved one) are in the process and change, and can slowly work to help move through
the stages of change.
• Precontemplation: At this stage, you have no intention of changing your
behaviors and you do not really feel that you have a problem. If you are here in
treatment, it is often because there is some external pressure to be in treatment.
This may make it difficult for you to define what you want to work on in treatment,
which in turn often makes being in treatment in this stage a frustrating
experience.
• Contemplation: This is a stage where you are starting to consider the impact
your substance use has had on your life in a more serious way, while typically
also feeling quite ambivalent. You are aware a problem exists but you are not
sure you want to do anything to change the problem. You are beginning to add
up the positive and negative consequences of use in your daily life, but may feel
too overwhelmed to make real changes.
• Preparation: This is a stage where you are prepared to make changes based on
your evaluation of the impact of substance use in your life, but you have not fully
decided how to accomplish these changes, and what your goals are going to be.
For example, you may have decided to change by going to support group
meetings, but you haven’t decided which group is right for you, or for how long
you’d like to stop using.
• Action: In this stage, you are modifying your behaviors and are working at
changing your life. This often involves devoting a good deal of time and effort to
making changes, as well as an accompanying sense that you are on a path you
feel good about for yourself.
• Maintenance: This is the stage where people work to prevent a return to old
behaviors and to maintain the gains made during the action phase. This stage
still involves a good deal of effort and dedication of time and energy.
Over time, we all move through these five stages of change, sometimes moving forward
and sometimes slipping back (or a relapsing into old behaviors). How can you use this
information to best help you or a loved one move forward in the process of change?
Here are a few tips to keep in mind.
For Individuals Trying to Change:
The changes each person makes are part of a personal journey defined by many
factors. Most importantly, each person must go through these changes at his/her own
pace. Some stop using and never go back. Others change slowly over time, and though
they may want to stop completely, it might take several episodes of using before they
are able to do so. Some begin the long and difficult process of lifestyle change; others
stay focused on “just not using right now.”
It is important is to stay in tune with your own pace, and to establish a way of changing
that you can sustain. Try not to compare your pace and style of changing to other
people’s pace. That can be a setup to feel like you “should” be going faster than you
want or that you’re already doing so well that you can “let down your guard” some
(opening the door to a return to unwanted behaviors).
For Loved Ones Helping Someone Change:
As stated above, change is a very personal journey and there are a lot of factors that go
into it. It’s important to remember this and to respect that people need to change at their
own pace. That said, there are things you can be thinking about to help someone
through the change process. Remembering the following two tips can help you be a
more effective helper.
1. Remember the term Succesive Approximation: Changing a complex behavior
like substance us is just that . . . complex! If you can help break it down into
smaller, simpler changes that help encourage movement towards the larger goal,
which is much easier for people to do and be successful with. That process is call
Successive Approximation. For example, maybe the big goal is to stop drinking,
and a small goal can be going to the gym regularly. While this might feel miles
away from what you want to see, achieving that goal might bring your loved one
a step closer to having a healthier life, which would combat the idea of drinking
each night (and moving them towards making a change there). Picking and
rewarding a small step can help with the larger goals.
2. Tolerate Relapse: The process of change has the idea of relapse (a return to old
behaviors) built into it. Change isn’t a one-way street, and the more you can
tolerate that, the more you can help someone continue to move forward even
when they are struggling to themselves. For more information about how to
tolerate that, check out the 20 Minute Guide (www.the20minuteguide.com).
Understanding how change works can be very helpful to your own process of change or
helping a loved one change their behaviors. Changing substance use patterns is a
marathon. Keeping this process of change in mind can help keep you from trying to
make it into a sprint.
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Activity: What is your understanding of change?
Answer this based from your own personal view , send in through Gmail.
Module 9 RESILIENCE
Objective: 1. To understand what resilience means in simple terms
2.Identify behaviors that contributes in being resilient.
To know and understand resilience, open this link in YouTube channel.
https://ph.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-elm-001&hsimp=yhs-
001&hspart=elm&p=resilience#id=3&vid=dbbb37971ef7c41364115c2af882a031&action=click
Activity : Think and answer. Send your responses to Gmail.
1. Cite some examples of recent situations which you believe that resiliency
was manifested.
How Do I Re-Enter the COVID-19 World?
Liz Matheis Ph.D. on May 27, 2020 in Special Matters
2. What were your inspirations to hold on to a situation which is beyond your
control?
Module 10 Empathy
Objective: 1. To understand the meaning of empathy
Empathy
Empathy
Empathy is the ability to recognize, understand, and share the thoughts and
feelings of another person, animal, or fictional character. Developing empathy
is crucial for establishing relationships and behaving compassionately. It
involves experiencing another person’s point of view, rather than just one’s
own, and enables prosocial, or helping behaviors that come from within, rather
than being forced.
Some surveys indicate that empathy is on the decline in the United States and
elsewhere, findings that motivate parents, schools, and communities to
support programs that help people of all ages enhance and maintain their
ability to walk in each other’s shoes.
Developing Empathy
Empathy helps us cooperate with others, build friendships, make moral
decisions, and intervene when we see others being bullied. Humans begin to
show signs of empathy in infancy and the trait develops steadily
through childhood and adolescence. Still, most people are likely to feel greater
empathy for people like themselves and may feel less empathy for those
outside their family, community, ethnicity, or race.
Why is empathy important?
Empathy helps us connect and help others, but like other traits, it may have
evolved with a selfish motive: using others as a “social antenna” to help detect
danger. From an evolutionary perspective, creating a mental model of another
person's intent is critical: the arrival of an interloper, for example, could be
deadly, so developing sensitivity to the signals of others could be life-saving.
The Downside of Empathy
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes can be beneficial, but when it
becomes one’s default mode of relating to others, it can blind an individual to
their own needs and even make them vulnerable to those who would take
advantage of them.
Can you be too empathic, or not empathic enough?
Activity 11. Answer the following. Send in your answers through Gmail.
1.What’s the difference between empathy and sympathy?
2.How do I know whether I'm a highly empathic person?
Module 11 SYMPATHY
What is Sympathy?
See also: Types of Empathy
Sympathy is feeling bad for someone else because of something
that has happened to them.
We often talk about it and feel sympathetic when someone has
died, or something bad has happened, saying ‘Give them my
sympathy’, or ‘I really feel for them’.
Read more Causes of Sympathy
For people to experience sympathy towards someone else,
several elements are necessary:
• You must be paying attention to the other person.
Being distracted limits our ability to feel sympathy.
• The other person must seem in need in some way.
Our perceptions of the level of need will determine the level of sympathy. For example,
someone with a graze on their knee will get less sympathy than someone else with a
broken leg.
We are also much more likely to be sympathetic towards someone who appears to have
done nothing to ‘earn’ their misfortune.
The child who falls while running towards a parent will get more sympathy than the one
who was doing something that they had been specifically told not to do, and has fallen
as a result.
Read more
at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/sympathy.htmlat: https://www.skillsyoune
ed.com/ips/sympathy.html Sympathy is innate, but it is also
learned
Children as young as 12 months old have been observed to show sympathetic
behaviour, for example, giving their parents a toy without being prompted, or crying
when another baby cries. These are very basic sympathetic responses. Some children
are inherently more social and sympathetic.
However, as children learn and develop, their ability to feel sympathy also develops as
they learn from their parents and others around them. Given that adolescents are often
described as exhibiting selfish behaviour, it seems likely that ability to sympathise
continues to develop throughout childhood and adolescent, and probably into adulthood
as well.
This means that it is possible to develop your ability to feel and express
sympathy even as an adult.
Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/sympathy.html
MODULE 12 LIFELINE
Objective: To understand other representations to identify life path.
Activity:
Instructions: 1. Imagine that these are the palms of your hands.
2.Which among these lines represents the ups and downs of your life.
3. You may also extend the drawing of the lines as you wish.
Processing: 1. Which among the two the UP or DOWN was easy for you to identify?
Why? What were the things you plan to do with your DOWN( if there is) in life.
LECTURETTE
LIFELINE ……
a technique which can be used in a group situation or individually. Participants will draw
a continuous line which represents their life, bends in the line and upward trends will
define the presence of stressful events or a life event.
LIFELINE: "A line acts as a graphical representation of an individuals life and the
stressful events which have occurred during that time
PHILIPPINE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
FINALS FOR UNDERSTANDING SELF
Name____________________________Course and Year______
I.Identification. Give the correct answer for each item. Place your answer on the
blank provided.
___________1. Means that you are being mentally and emotional present in
situations.
___________2.Is an understanding you have for yourself that is based on your
personal experiences.
___________3.the need to feel competent and confident.
___________4. This process is littered with ups and downs, jumps forward and
backwards.
___________5.One of the psychologists who studied change.
___________6. Is a stage where you are starting to consider the impact .
___________7. It means to bounce back amidst the crisis.
___________8. Ability to recognize , understand and share the thought and
feelings of another person , animal or fictional character.
___________9. Is feeling bad for someone else because of something that has
happened to them.
__________10. A technique which can be used in a group situation or individually.
II. Multiple Choice. Choose the correct letter for your answer.
1. Self-Concept is somewhat a) collection of belief
b)collection of money
c)collection of memories
2. Belongingness means a) sense that someone truly cares about you
b) loving
c)hostility
3. Precontemplation a) a stage that you have no intention of changing
your behaviors
b) starting to consider the impact for substance
c) modified behaviors
4. Empathy helps us a) to be selfish
b) connect and help others
5. Lifeline is a) company
b) acts as a graphical representative
c) stressful events
III.Enumeration. List down your answers required.
1. 5 Stages of process of change.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
2. Tips that can help tp become a more effective helper in change process.
f.
g.
3. 4 Basic Psychological needs
h.
i.
j.
k.
4. 4 things that can wreak havoc on our awareness.
IV. A. Have a video showing that you are giving a 5 minute talk about What you
understood about Self-Awareness.
B. What is your LIFE PURPOSE? Express your answer through a DRAWING.
Send it through messenger.
