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

2. Introductions Ice 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 Let’s look at 3 aspects of confidence:
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: Be active:
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!!!!!!!