Self Confidence: Psychology & Approaches

Course details

• 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!

• Intro
• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!
• Introduction
• Overview: Ways to Build 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?

• What Confidence Is Not
• Activity: Where do you want to build confidence?
• How Confidence Develops
• How Confidence Can Be Learned

• 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?

• 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

• Introduction - Feelings and Self-Confidence
• Causes and Purpose of Anxiety
• Negativity Bias

• Deep Diaphragmatic Breathing
• Activity: Diaphragmatic Breathing
• Self-Talk
• Activity: Counter Negative Self-Talk
• Reinterpreting Anxiety
• Activity: Reinterpreting Anxiety
• Other Stress Management Techniques

• Understanding Acceptance
• The Role of Avoidance
• Learning to Accept Anxiety
• Activity: Body Scan Meditation

• 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

• 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

• Just Do It
• Activity: Just Do It
• The Anxiety Curve
• Willingness
• Activity - Willingness I
• Activity - Willingness II
• Dealing With Failure
• Power Poses

• Confidence Boost: Physical Activity
• Setting Goals for Confidence
• Activity: Planning Behaviour and Setting Goals
• Raising Competence
• Activity: Raising Competence

• 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

• Combining the Lessons Learned
• Activity: Make your Self-Confidence Plan
• References

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10