Kinder to yourself
Self-compassion and motivation under pressure.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Resilience, Wellbeing and Adaptability
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
The voice in your head is part of your resilience toolkit, whether or not it helps. Drawing on Kristin Neff's research, this module sets out the three components of self-compassion and what each replaces, why self-compassion is neither self-pity nor lower standards, and why the inner critic misleads. It links self-compassion to Seligman's explanatory style and offers practical tools, including the self-compassion break. Most organisations already use rewards, recognition and objectives, often without the research behind them. This module sets out Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory and its three basic needs, the difference between controlled and autonomous motivation, and Martin Seligman's PERMA model of wellbeing, then reads the two together. Morningstar's self-management model shows the three needs holding an organisation together at scale.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Describe Neff's three components of self-compassion and distinguish self-compassion from self-pity, excuse making and lowered standards.
- Explain why harsh self-criticism undermines learning and use four questions to examine your own inner voice.
- Apply the self-compassion break and the friend test after difficult feedback, a decision that did not work out, or a public mistake.
- Explain Self-Determination Theory's three basic needs and identify what it looks like when each goes unmet.
- Distinguish controlled from autonomous motivation and assess how monitoring, process and reward can undermine autonomy.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 11Self-Compassion and the Inner CriticThe voice in your head is part of your resilience toolkit, whether or not it helps. Drawing on Kristin Neff's research, this module sets out the three components of self-compassion and what each replaces, why self-compassion is neither self-pity nor lower standards, and why the inner critic misleads. It links self-compassion to Seligman's explanatory style and offers practical tools, including the self-compassion break.36 min
- 12What Really Motivates Us Under Pressure: Self-Determination Theory and PERMAMost organisations already use rewards, recognition and objectives, often without the research behind them. This module sets out Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory and its three basic needs, the difference between controlled and autonomous motivation, and Martin Seligman's PERMA model of wellbeing, then reads the two together. Morningstar's self-management model shows the three needs holding an organisation together at scale.39 min
Keep going.
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- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
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When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
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