Self Confidence: Psychology & Approaches OfCourse
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  • Duration: Flexible

Course details

3 hours of video guidance, and many thought activities to help you develop self confidence and thrive!
  • Advice that is scientifically proven to reduce thinking errors, dispel anxiety and boost confidence.
  • Learn how to create a detailed action plan with small, gradual steps to confidence!
  • Find out how your social network and new people can help you along your way.… 

Find out how to boost your Self Confidence, using scientifically proven methods from the field of Positive Psychology! Discover techniques to overcome self-doubt, and learn how to reinterpret your anxieties. You can then use your new found self confidence to become more successful in your personal and professional life!

Manuel Kraus is the founder of Good Life Foundation and his mission is to empower people to experience the best version of their lives! He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology, so is an expert in using scientific research to help others improve their outlook on life and make positive changes to their behaviour.

In this course, you’ll discover psychological tricks to accepting and managing your anxiety, as well as using positive emotions to overcome negativity. You will also find out how to use power poses to boost your self confidence, and learn the benefits of role models. By learning all of these amazing techniques and more, you will become a whole new, more confident person!

Welcome
  • Intro
  • Say hi to your fellow students!
  • Share your new course with your friends!
  • Introduction
  • Overview: Ways to Build Self-Confidence
Introduction to Self-Confidence
  • What Self-Confidence Means
  • Self-Confidence: Low versus High
  • Self-Confidence: Global versus Specific
  • Activity: Which areas in your life are you already confident in?
  • Activity: Where do you lack self-confidence?
Introduction to Developing Confidence
  • What Confidence Is Not
  • Activity: Where do you want to build confidence?
  • How Confidence Develops
  • How Confidence Can Be Learned
Thoughts and Beliefs - Mindsets and Self-Doubt
  • How Beliefs Become Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  • How Mindsets Shape Our Confidence
  • Fixed versus Growth Mindset
  • Activity: Identifying Fixed Mindsets
  • How Self-Doubts Shape our Confidence
  • Challenging our Self-Doubt
  • Activity: When in the past were you successful?
Thoughts and Beliefs - Changing Thinking Patterns
  • Introduction to Changing Thinking Patterns
  • How our Beliefs Shape our Reality: The ABC Model
  • Activity: Recording ABC Sequences
  • How Cognitive Distortions Shape our Self-Confidence
  • Handout - Cognitive Distortions Overview
  • Activity: Dealing with Cognitive Distortions 1
  • Activity: Dealing with Cognitive Distortions 2
Feelings - Introducing Anxiety
  • Introduction - Feelings and Self-Confidence
  • Causes and Purpose of Anxiety
  • Negativity Bias
Feelings - Managing Anxiety
  • Deep Diaphragmatic Breathing
  • Activity: Diaphragmatic Breathing
  • Self-Talk
  • Activity: Counter Negative Self-Talk
  • Reinterpreting Anxiety
  • Activity: Reinterpreting Anxiety
  • Other Stress Management Techniques
Feelings - Accepting Anxiety
  • Understanding Acceptance
  • The Role of Avoidance
  • Learning to Accept Anxiety
  • Activity: Body Scan Meditation
Feelings - Using Positive Emotions
  • Introduction to Using Positive Emotions
  • Feeling Good: A Confidence Boost
  • The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions
  • Activity: Positive Emotions as a Confidence Boost
  • Handout - List of Uplifting Videos
Behaviour - Start Small
  • Introduction to Starting Small
  • Self-Perception Theory
  • Self-Perception Theory: The Paradox
  • Activity: Confidence Challenge Hierarchy
  • The Psychology of the ‘Comfort Zone’
  • Small Daily Habits for Long-Term Change
  • Activity: Confidence Challenge
  • Visualization
  • Activity: Visualization
Behaviour - Fake It 'Til You Make It
  • Just Do It
  • Activity: Just Do It
  • The Anxiety Curve
  • Willingness
  • Activity - Willingness I
  • Activity - Willingness II
  • Dealing With Failure
  • Power Poses
Behaviour - Long-Term Strategies
  • Confidence Boost: Physical Activity
  • Setting Goals for Confidence
  • Activity: Planning Behaviour and Setting Goals
  • Raising Competence
  • Activity: Raising Competence
Social Context
  • The Social Context of Self-Confidence
  • Modelling Behaviour
  • Activity: Finding Role-Models
  • Building a Support Network
  • Activity: Board of Success
  • Activity: Who can help me with this?
  • Social Comparison
  • Activity: Stop Negative Social Comparison
Conclusion
  • Combining the Lessons Learned
  • Activity: Make your Self-Confidence Plan
  • References
Quiz
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
  • Part 8
  • Part 9
  • Part 10
Updated on 14 October, 2018

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