Building a Positive Self-Esteem

Overview

The Building a Positive Self-Esteem course gives you a framework and practical structure to gain a deeper understanding of your self-esteem.

In this 6-week short course, you will explore the concept and theories of self-esteem. Investigate factors impacting self-esteem both theoretically and practically through personal reflection.

Determine which methods and strategies you can employ to enhance your self-esteem and that of those around you. Your thoughts, life experiences, emotions and self-concept play a great role in how self-esteem manifests and influences your choices and behaviours. This means you are shaping your life with every action you take.

This course will guide you on a journey of critical thinking and self-reflection where you can explore the context of your self-esteem and consider various strategies to enhance it.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify key concepts and terminology related to self-esteem.
• Explain how self-esteem is developed.
• Describe the effects that self-esteem has on an individual.
• Analyse where your self-esteem is now.
• Recognise the factors that impact one’s self-esteem.
• Investigate the role of parental support, involvement, and parenting style on early self-esteem development and how it directly influences self-esteem in adult relationships
• Evaluate the implications of low, medium, and high self-esteem.
• Identify how social influence, relationships, gender, culture, and stage of development affect self-esteem.
• Engage in a process of critical reflection around your own levels of self-esteem, considering the factors that impacted them.
• Discover the nature of our internal dialogue.
• Investigate the impact of the internal versus the external critic’s role on one’s self-esteem.
• Identify strategies for working with the inner voice, disarming the inner-and-external critic in protecting one’s self-esteem.
• Describe the impact of cognitive distortions on self-concept.
• Identify strategies that can be used to transform these distortions.
• Explain the role of self-compassion in relation to one’s self-concept.
• Recognise the significant role of thoughts in one’s level of self-esteem.
• Differentiate between the prominent theoretical perspectives on self-esteem.
• Examine the strategies and techniques that could be used to enhance self-esteem.

There are practical and self-reflective activities throughout the course to help you on the journey of self-discovery.

Each activity is carefully designed to enhance your learning and understanding of the content. This course is not purely academic, it has been designed to enhance your introspective journey and understanding of self.

During the course, you will create a portfolio of evidence, which you can use to demonstrate your knowledge of understanding of self-esteem and how to enhance it.