Description:

This workshop is a must-have for everyone at the university, regardless of your role, experience, and level you work at. Before you can lead others or even lead the organisation, you have to start by leading yourself, which is an ongoing journey of self-discovery. Self-awareness is about connecting with yourself, your values, your needs and your sense of purpose in the workplace so that you can perform to the best of your ability. It’s about understanding how this impacts you and others around you. Taking time to understand yourself will positively influence how you engage with others, resulting in a more harmonious, compassionate and fulfilled experience in the workplace.

Learning outcomes:

1. Explore the importance of self-awareness as the foundation for all leadership and the benefits of deepening connections with yourself in the workplace, whatever role you do!

2. Learn and practise mind-body tools to help you pause, notice and name body sensations, emotions and thoughts in a variety of real-life situations at work in order to inform appropriate and constructive action

3. Experience self-regulation tools and techniques, which involve embodied deep listening (self and others) and emotional resourcing to enhance self-efficacy

PRE-SESSION ACTIVITIES 

 

Please, complete the following brief activities before attending your session.  

1. Set your timer to 5 minutes and write a paragraph where every sentence starts with ‘I am…’

You will not have to read it out loud or share the full contents of it with anyone during the session (unless you want to!).

2. What is your own definition/understanding of the following terms?

• Self
• Awareness
• Self-awareness
• Self-leadership

Just write down a few words as they come to your mind when you read the terms.

3. Briefly answer the following questions:

What brings you to this session about Self-Awareness?
In one word or phrase, what do you expect to take away with you?

4. Creative Writing Exercise (if time in the session)

Feel free to do this prior to the session. If we haven’t got enough time to do it in the session, this can be a post-session activity.

Set your timer to 8-10 minutes and write a short dialogue between you and your chosen fictional character about something you care about (and perhaps concerns you) at work. It can be a real or hypothetical ‘problem.’

Again, you will not have to read it out loud with anyone (unless you want to!).

The dialogue may contain information on:

• The setting
• The problem/concern/project
• How you feel about it (sensations, feelings, emotions, cognitions)
• The outcome/ action