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Self Esteem
1. Self-Esteem Group Activities
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Executive Director, AllCEUs
Host: Counselor Toolbox Podcast
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2. Objectives
The Nature of Self-Esteem
Identifying and Disarming the Critic
Creating an Accurate Self Assessment
Identifying Cognitive Distortions
Developing Compassion
Shaking the Shoulds
Handling Mistakes
Responding to Criticism
Goal Setting
Core Beliefs
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3. The Nature of Self-Esteem
How you feel about yourself in contrast to who
you think you “should” be
The more rejecting we are of ourselves, the more
Distress we experience
We seek external validation
In order to develop healthy relationships people
need to feel good about themselves
Self esteem is like good soil.
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4. Benefits of Strong Self Esteem
Stable moods
Ability to set healthy boundaries
Stronger sense of self-confidence
Improved relationships
Less stress and feelings of emptiness
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5. Where Does It Come From
Positive Regard (Flip charts or breakout groups)
Direct—About you
Indirect—In general
Conditional—You are only okay if…
Unconditional---You’re okay.
What makes people lovable? (group brainstorming
activity)
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6. What You Do vs Who You Are
Who you are cannot be taken away. Think of it as
your heart and spirit.
What are some of these things? (Hopeful, caring,
creative, humble, patient, inquisitive…(virtues))
What you DO can change.
What are some of these things? (rich, powerful,
beautiful, skinny, intelligent, honest… what else??)
Card sorting activity
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7. What Do I Value
5 Admirable People
Identify 5 people you admire.
What qualities do you admire about them
For each quality, explain why it is admirable
What do you wish was different about them?
Are they lovable?
Alternate activity: Post pictures of 5 people who are
currently admired in popular culture
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8. Ask clients in what
ways their internal
critic bullies them.
What would they do
if these behaviors
were from another
person?
What would they
tell a child who
was experiencing
this at school?
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9. The Pathological Critic (Inner Bully)
Arsenal of shoulds
Origin of the Critic: Conditions of Worth
Catching your critic
Talking back
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10. Accurate Self-Assessment
Self-Concept inventory
Listing your strengths and weaknesses
Developing a new self-description and celebrating
your strengths
Envelope activity
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11. Miracle Question -- Activity
Based on your (revised) ideal self (Group
discussion)
If you woke up tomorrow with a strong self esteem,
what would it be like? What would be different? The
same?
In your relationships
In how you handle stress
In your mood
In your job, etc.
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12. Cognitive Distortions
The Distortions and Combating Them
Magnification/Exaggeration
What are the facts
What is the probability
Minimization of the good---Own it!
All or Nothing– Find the exceptions
Availability Phenomenon
What are the facts
What is the probability
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13. Cognitive Distortions
The Distortions and Combating Them
Emotional Reasoning
What are the facts
Overgeneralization
Find the exceptions and the differences
Mental Filter (only seeing the bad)
Look for the good
Personalization and Blaming
What parts were out of your control?
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14. Compassion
Compassion defined
Developing compassion for others
Developing self-compassion
Creating a compassionate world by modeling
compassion
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15. The Shoulds
The tyranny of should
How should affects your self esteem
Challenging and revising your should
Can, will, cannot, choose not to
Atonement and guilt
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16. Handling Mistakes
Reframing mistakes
The problem of limited awareness (context)
Your mistake-success ratio
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17. Responding to Criticism
The myth of reality
Reality is everchanging
Now two people share the exact same reality
Responding to criticism
What does criticism mean about you?
About the situation?
About that other person?
Take what is useful and leave the rest
Why are suggestions or feedback not useful?
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18. Asking for What You Want
Needs vs. wants
Wants inventory
Creating a win-win
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19. Goal Setting and Planning
What do you want
Prioritizing goals
Making your goals SMART
Making a commitment
Blocks and un-blocks to achieving goals
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20. Core Beliefs
Identifying Core Beliefs
I am…
What core beliefs do you want your children to have
about themselves?
Developing new core beliefs
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21. Improving Self-Esteem
To improve self-esteem, you must
Change the way you feel about yourself (i.e. change
your feelings about your self-evaluation)
Focus on your strengths
Aim for effort, not perfection
Decide if some of the “ideal” characteristics are
important to you
Change yourself
Likely there are some areas in which you want to improve
Make a plan to tackle them ONE at a TIME
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22. Improving Self-Esteem
Make a list of positive affirmations and add one new
one each day
When you find a fault in yourself, remind yourself of
three positive qualities
Do not minimize your accomplishments. Take credit
where credit is due.
Surround yourself with people who are positive and
encouraging
Instead of complaining about faults, take positive
action
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23. Improving Self-Esteem
If there is something you feel "bad" about that is
impossible to change, then add a new, positive
quality.
Do a good deed every day
Make changeable, specific attributions for
negative events
Patience-- changes do not happen overnight
Accept your fears and work with and through
them. Nobody is perfect.
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24. Improving Self-Esteem
Evaluate whether you hold yourself to a higher
standard than you hold everyone else.
Do you think you are that much better than everyone
else, or do you just need a reason to beat yourself up?
Manage your inner critic
Focus on what goes well for you.
Caring about what people think about you is
good. Worrying about what they think is
pointless.
Aim for effort rather than perfection.
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25. Improving Self-Esteem
View mistakes as learning opportunities.
Remind yourself that everyone excels at different
things. Stop comparing other people's strengths to
your weaknesses.
Use insecurities to your advantage.
Recognize what you can change and what you
can't.
Take pride in your opinions and ideas
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26. Summary
Self esteem begins in childhood
It is imperative to help people separate strengths
and weaknesses from who they are
Self loathing and rejection contributes to
dysphoria
Part of self esteem development includes
Values identification
Understanding wants vs. needs
Addressing cognitive distortions
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27. Self-Esteem
by McKay and Fanning
Provides a wealth of activities and tools that
are simple to implement for self-help as well
as for group activities.
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