Personal Development Ways on how you can develop Self-Awareness:

● Identify your emotions.

Personal
-being able to recognize your feelings is
- belonging or relating to a particular person.
essential.
- relating to a person's private feelings, thoughts,
-realizing the connections between your
problems, etc.
thoughts, feelings, and behavior allows you to
- relating to a particular person's character,
deal with them and respond effectively when
appearance, opinions, etc., in a way that is
they arise.
offensive or hurtful.

Personality ● Recognize your strengths and weaknesses.

- Set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving etc. -being able to admit your flaws while embracing
that makes a person different from other your strengths is a fantastic strategy to improve
people. your personality.
- Attractive qualities that make a person -does not make you any less of a person to
interesting or pleasant to be with. admit when you are wrong, or you do not
- Attracted qualities that make something understand something.
unusual or interesting.
- A person of importance, prominence, renown
or notoriety. ● Keeping a journal or diary.
-track what is happening in your life on a daily
Development basis.
- Act or process of growing or causing something -recording what made you feel those emotions.
to grow or become larger or more advances.
- Process of creating something over a period of
● Practice mindfulness.
time.
- State of being created or made more advances. -technique to improve self-awareness.
-Ex. Yoga, meditation, and listening to soothing
Personal Development music.
- Process in which persons reflect upon -MINDFULNESS- being able to be fully present
themselves, understand who they are, accept and aware of what you are doing and where
what they discover about themselves and learn you are at a particular moment, but without
new sets of values, attitudes, behavior, and reacting too much or being overwhelmed by the
thinking skills. experience or your surroundings.

Module 1: Knowing Oneself

SELF-CONCEPT
SELF-AWARENESS - A perception of yourself.
- To be aware and discover things about yourself.
- One’s idea about himself, or herself, particularly
- How an individual consciously know and
toward his or her unique personality and own
understand his or her own character, feelings,
perception about his or her set of values, point
motives and desires.
of views, and behavior.
- When you see yourself clearly, you are more
- Responding to the question, “Who am I?” = how
confident and creative.
you see yourself.
- The more you get to know yourself, the better
you understand your strengths and weaknesses Two Categories of Self-Concept:
that can help you to maximize your potentials in
reaching your goals in life. ● Ideal Self
-the person that you would like to be.
 -self that we aspire to be. WEAKNESS
-idealized image you have developed over time.
- Particular thing or activity that you do not like
-could come from experiences, environment,
doing or you find hard to master.
learning from your parents, and characteristics
- Limitation that you can still improve.
of your role model.
-your ideal self might be someone who has
talent in music, excels in academics, does well
in public speaking, and is a consistent honor Embracing Adolescence
student. ADOLESCENCE

- The period of transition between childhood and

● Actual Self adulthood.
-who you really are. - It includes some big changes in the physical,
-present self that you see everyday cognitive, social, and emotional aspects.
-how we think, look, feel and act. - May include changes on how you look, how you
-you actually see take responsibility, how you decide on your
-characteristics that you nurtured or, in some own, and how you view yourself.
cases, born to have. - Experiences since childhood shape your unique
characteristics and habits that define who you
are.
SELF-ESTEEM ● Characteristics
- A feeling of value or worth that you have about -something about you that sets you apart from
yourself. others.
- It is easy to feel good about yourself when you
● Habit
have a healthy sense of self-worth.
-you do on a regular basis.
LOW SELF-ESTEEM -hobbies (you do it on your own)
- In some ways, you compare yourself to others, ● Experience
similar to what some adolescents are doing to -something you have learned from doing things
themselves. before.
- Comparing yourself to others can lead to not
embracing your own qualities and missing your Bo Sanchez
own strengths in favor of focusing on your flaws
- “Kinds of People”
or limitations.
- It is a challenge to love yourself for who you >Moviegoer (admires some parts and criticize
are. others)
- Keep striving to be the best version of yourself.
>Actor (actually realizes she’s the author
- can control a big part of her life.) (Can actually
Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses make or break a movie.)

- Every person has his or her own strengths and >Scriptwriter (actually creates the entire movie
weaknesses. from her mind.) (What she will say, what she
- They are part of knowing who you really are as will do.)
a person.
Recap:
STRENGTH

- An activity that makes you feel strong or

something you are good at.
 ❖ Adolescence is generally referred to be a
challenging in life because of the many changes Module 2: Developing the Whole Person
and difficulties it brings.
Human Development
❖ To become mature individuals, adolescents
- A process where people change and grow
must go through this transition, learn to accept
throughout their lives.
their strengths and limitations and use these to
become a better person. People go through a wide range of stages of
development.
❖ When you know yourself better, you are more
confident and creative, and you can maximize Unbalanced Holistic Development = impact on your
your potentials to reach your goals. thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
❖ Improve your weaknesses and turn them into
strengths as they can help you maximize your PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
potentials and appreciate your uniqueness.
- Changes in the physical and physiological
❖ Our self-observation and feedback from others,
maturation of boys and girls start during
as well as our environment and experiences, puberty stage. (during ADOLESCENCE)
contribute to the formation of our self-concept. - Becoming more self-conscious and want to look
Big Idea: good all the time.
- Girls begin having more fats, whereas boys
✔ When you know yourself better, you are more begin to gain muscle weight.
- When the ovaries develop and girls begin to
confident and creative, and you can maximize
release eggs or ova, which represents the onset
your potentials to reach your goals.
of menstruation.
✔ Aside from accepting yourself, knowing who - Breasts and pubic hair grow during this stage.
you are helps you distinguish right from wrong - Boys produces and release sperm and their
that leads to good decision making. facial, body, and public hair grows, while the
size of their genital also increases.
✔ Emotional maturity, increased self-confidence,
- Physiological development includes physical
and improved social relationships are some of health.
the positive changes that can occur in your
adolescent life. To promote healthy physiological development:

✔ The congruency between the ideal self and the

● Build healthy eating habits by having balanced
actual self leads to a greater sense of self worth
meals and eating fruits, vegetables, and other
and a healthy, productive life.
healthy foods.
✔ Your strengths, weaknesses, successes, and
● Get some exercise every day. Take plenty of
even failures determine the real you. So learn to
vitamins to reduce the risk of having disease.
accept and appreciate what you can and cannot
do. ● Get plenty of rest. Set time limits for using

✔ Improve your weaknesses and turn them into phone, computer, and TV. Learn to disconnect
from gadgets for a while.
strengths. Doing so will help you maximize your
potentials and appreciate your whole self. ● Be open to your parents if you have concerns

✔ Use your strengths to find hope, courage, and about your physical development.

gratitude, for the essence that you are still here

and not giving up in the face of adversity.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
 - A person’s ability to think and reason out. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Doing more complex thinking as described by
- Adolescents strive for greater independence
Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive
and autonomy, which leads to spending more
development.
time with friends and less time with their family.
- Being able to think in abstract terms and to
- Choice of friends becomes more crucial and
reason out based on well-established
important during this time.
foundations.
- Adolescents who are subjected to negative peer
- Begin to come up with new questions or ideas
pressure 🡪 participate in risky or harmful
on your own.
behaviors such as drinking alcohol, using drugs,
- Time when adolescents consider a variety of
and engaging in sex, committing crimes, and
viewpoints and question and analyze ideas.
others.
To maximize your cognitive ability: - Peers and friends can have positive effects if
their influence is beneficial.
● Engage in learning and studies.
To develop your social skills:
● Share ideas and thoughts with other people.
● Engage with others.
● Participate in discussions on a wide range of
subjects, issues, and current events. ● Develop your ability to pay attention.

● Reflect on how you came up with answers or ● Encourage others to talk about themselves.
conclusions. ● Do not let fear hold you back.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OR EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
- Adolescence may feel like a tornado of rapidly
shifting emotions. - Your interests in life’s deeper meanings,
- Experiencing a wide range of emotions. spiritually, faith and religion grow as you
- Having emotional adjustments, which can lead progress in your spiritual development.
to poor academic performance, use of alcohol - Adolescence spur a deeper journey into oneself
or drugs, and others. where you ponder your identity and the
- Plays a crucial role among adolescents. meaning of your life.
- Emotionally healthy people can deal with life’s - Your sense of justice and fairness deepens as
difficulties and are in control of their emotions, well as your values in life.
thoughts, and actions. To boost your spiritual development:
To improve your psychological or emotional well-being:
● Explore your values.
● Be humble and learn to apologize when you ● Take time to meditate.
have done something wrong.
● Practice self-awareness.
● Assume responsibility for your actions.
● Strengthen connection with God.
● Learn to manage the stress. Remember that
stress is a normal part of life and there will
always be ways to manage it.
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSON
● Practice gratitude. Focus on blessings rather
- Personality – a product of different factors such
than problems.
as genes, environment, culture, or child rearing
practices.
 - Traits, capacities, and limitations are inherited
✔ Middle Age
from your parents and environment where you
live. > GENERATIVITY VS. STAGNATION
- This environment influences your culture and > 30-64 years
habits as well as the way you interact with other > CARE
people.
✔ Old Age
Erik Erikson
> INTEGRITY VS. DESPAIR
- Theory of Psychological Development > 65-onward years
- Asserts that people develop personal values as > WISDOM
they progress through life’s stages.
- He explained how personality develops over the
course of one’s life as a result of your social Your personality is a product of different factors such as
experiences and relationships. genes, environment, culture, or child-rearing practices.
- Psychosocial Stages:
✔ Infancy
Connection between Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
> TRUST VS. MISTRUST
> 0-1 year Evaluating one’s thoughts is equivalent to assessing
> HOPE one’s feelings and behaviors.

⮚ Thoughts
✔ Early Childhood
-are ideas or perception about things.
> AUTONOMY VS. SHAME/DOUBT
> 1-3 years ⮚ Feelings
> WILL -are emotional state or reaction such as joy,
✔ Play Age sadness, anger, frustration, and surprise.
-can be felt to varying degrees of intensity.
> INITIATIVE VS. GUILT
> 3-6 years ⮚ Behaviors
> PURPOSE -are actions we exhibit.
-we choose how we will act, appropriate or not.
✔ School Age
> INDUSTRY VS. INFERIORITY
> 7-11 years ● Your thoughts may trigger your feelings, while
> COMPETENCE your feelings oftentimes drive your behavior.
● When situation arise, you generate thoughts,
✔ Adolescence Age which can lead to feelings and behavior.
> IDENTITY VS. CONFUSION
● Most of the negative feelings and behaviors are
> 12-18 years
> FIDELITY triggered by your negative thoughts.
● Situations in life at times cannot be changed,
✔ Early Adulthood but you can change your perception about
them.
> INTIMACY VS. ISOLATION
> 19-29 years ● Self-evaluation – give you a power to discipline
> LOVE your thoughts, control your emotions, and
become responsible in your actions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

- First applied by American Psychiatrist Dr. Aaron

Beck
- Type of talking therapy, focusing on the
relationship between thoughts, feelings and
behaviors.
- “cognitions”- our thoughts
- “behaviors”- what we do
- A therapeutic approach where individuals are
thought to recognize and change harmful
thought patterns that influence emotions and
behavior.
- Try to think more objectively and factually.
- Changing your thoughts will likely influence
your feelings, and eventually, your behavior will
be appropriate and healthy.
- Keeping a journal of your thoughts, feelings and
actions might be beneficial at times.