Positive Psychology: Control Your Inner Critic

Course details

• Understand what the inner critic is and what effect it has on people
• Learn 3 definitive strategies for dealing with the inner critic
• Feel more confident, knowledgeable, and be more proactive with your inner critic
• This course is designed for anybody who struggles with their inner critic or simply wishes to understand it more.

This course is a comprehensive guide to controlling your inner critic. You will learn about the psychological processes associated with with low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and a range of other distressing problems (also known as the inner critic) and understand how you can manipulate this to have a positive & supportive effect on your life.

This course is led by Nathan Beel, a clinical supervisor and counsellor with 20 years of experience. Nathan has taught and presented on a wide range of counselling related topics and seeks to use all of his expertise and experience to help you to control your inner critic.

This course is ideal for anyone that struggles with low self-esteem, depression, perfectionism, or negative self-talk and seeks a more positive outlook on life.

• Instructor Intro
• Say hi to your fellow students
• Share your new course with family & friends

• What is the inner critic?
• Healthy and unhealthy criticism
• Qualities and formation of the critic
• Purpose of the inner critic

• Psychological theories relating to the inner critic
• Exercise 1 - Develop a list of key inner critic phrases to defuse
• Creating a safe distance from the critic

• Strategies 1: General responses and ideas
• Activity: Analysing your critic's commands
• Strategies 2: Cognitive approaches
• Activity: Test the cognitive strategy with your critic
• Activity: Test the rights approach with your critic
• Strategies 3: Mindfulness-based strategies
• Mindfulness exercise
• Experiential approaches
• Activity: An experiential strategy with your critic

• Prevention Approaches

• Closing thoughts

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