Confidence Building The Beginnings

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

2. 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 they’d like to get from these sessions????? • Using what you learnt about your partner introduce them to the group.

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Confidence Building • Confidence is all about how you see yourself, how you behave and how others see you. • Let’s look at 3 aspects of confidence: Under Comfortably Over Confident Confident Confident

7. 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

8. Under Confident??? • Feel you can’t do things • Feel uncomfortable • Intimidated by others • Have difficulty communicating • Don’t like stating views • Don’t feel good enough • Put off doing things • Give up easily • Don’t actually appreciate what you can do

9. Comfortably Confident??? • Get on with things • Overcome difficulties • Communicate well with others • Happy to face new challenges • Often look good

10. Over Confident • Un-realistic view of self or situations • Undertakes things that can’t actually do • Big headed and arrogant • Often annoy others

11. Confidence Isn’t 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

12. 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

13. Possibilities – Confidence Tips • Do at least one thing you enjoy every day • Get involved in something • Set yourself a challenge • Do something you’ve been putting off • Don’t compare yourself with others • Don’t worry about making mistakes • Compliment yourself

14. …..Tips continued • Compliment others • Spend time with friends • Keep fit • Help someone else • Think positively about yourself

15. 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?

16. 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

17. 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!!!!!!!