Confidence Building The Beginnings

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Confidence BuildingThe Beginnings

• Presenters Lin and Celia
• Session Plan
• Introductions
• Ice Breaker
• Aspects of Confidence
• Various Activities
• Boosting Confidence
• A Few Tips
• Conclusion

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IntroductionsIce Breaker

• Activity - In pairs
• Chat to your partner so as to learn a few things
  about them.
• What things?
• Name, Age, Interests, Family, What theyd like to
  get from these sessions?????
• Using what you learnt about your partner
  introduce them to the group.

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Aspects of Confidence

• Activity (In Pairs)
• What is CONFIDENCE?
• Can you come up with a definition?
• What does the word confidence mean to you?

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Confidence Is?

• A state of mind
• Comes from feelings of well being
• Links to our
• Acceptance of self
• Self Esteem
• Feelings about self
• Impacts on what we think we can do
• What actions we take in life

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Confidence and You ( Me)

• Activity
• Think about yourself for a minute or two
• Give yourself a confidence rating of 1-10
• 1 means totally under
• 10 means totally over
• What do you think my rating is?
• Keep these to yourself for now

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Confidence Building

• Confidence is all about how you see yourself, how
  you behave and how others see you.
• Lets look at 3 aspects of confidence
• Under Comfortably Over
• Confident Confident Confident

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Confidence Building

• Activity
• In pairs - Make a list, under each heading, of
  the attributes of someone displaying that level
  of confidence
• For example Under Confident
• Afraid to take on new challenges
• Try to identify at least 3 things under each
  heading

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Under Confident???

• Feel you cant do things
• Feel uncomfortable
• Intimidated by others
• Have difficulty communicating
• Dont like stating views
• Dont feel good enough
• Put off doing things
• Give up easily
• Dont actually appreciate what you can do

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Comfortably Confident???

• Get on with things
• Overcome difficulties
• Communicate well with others
• Happy to face new challenges
• Often look good

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Over Confident

• Un-realistic view of self or situations
• Undertakes things that cant actually do
• Big headed and arrogant
• Often annoy others

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Confidence Isnt Static

• It changes with respect to
• Situations
• People
• Personal strengths / weaknesses
• Sources of help
• Describe a situation where you were comfortably
  confident and why?
• Now describe the opposite

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Boosting Levels of Confidence

• Activity (Alone or in Pairs)
• If you were asked to produce a self help guide to
  confidence building what SIMPLE tips might you
  suggest?
• A simple tip is something that you can do without
  anyone else being involved.
• For example wear something you like

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Possibilities Confidence Tips

• Do at least one thing you enjoy every day
• Get involved in something
• Set yourself a challenge
• Do something youve been putting off
• Dont compare yourself with others
• Dont worry about making mistakes
• Compliment yourself

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..Tips continued

• Compliment others
• Spend time with friends
• Keep fit
• Help someone else
• Think positively about yourself

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Thinking Back

• What was your initial confidence rating?
• What is it now?
• Has it improved?
• Why? OR Why Not?
• What do you think my rating was?
• Why?

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Thinking Forward

• Think positively
• I can do it, I will do it
• Be active
• Nothing happens if you do nothing
• Think about your strengths
• We all have something offer

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Concluding - Final Activity

• Will you?
• Identify one positive thing that you will do
  between now and next week to boost your
  confidence.
• And of course DO IT!!!!!!!