This is a certificate for a two-week seminar class taught by the creator of the three levels of self-awareness. The class was given at The New School in NYC and the instructor was a writer and poet who also has a PhD in counseling and teaches at New York University. The class was given on the topic of the three levels of self-awareness.
There are three levels to self-awareness. In order to understand how these levels are related to you and your daily life, it’s helpful to understand that you can only achieve one at a time. The first one is called “core self-awareness,” which is just the knowledge that you have the ability to think and act rationally.
The second is called cognitive self-awareness, which is the ability to reflect on your decisions and how you feel. The third is called affective self-awareness, which is the ability to feel things and your emotions.
The last one is called metacognitive self-awareness, which is the ability to observe yourself and your actions and to understand them as being based on your thoughts and feelings.
If you didn’t know this would be a course, you would think this is a lot of math. The first two core self-awareness concepts are pretty self-evident, but the third is the hardest to understand.
Learning self-awareness involves understanding yourself a little more, and being able to say things like “I feel sad about my brother’s death” is really easy, but to really understand how you feel and to know how to change your moods is a whole lot harder. This course is about both of these things.
One of the things I do a lot with my clients is to help them feel better about themselves. Knowing themselves a little better helps them feel as though they are on the right path. To do this, people will often do a couple of simple things.
One thing I do is take a more personal experience and help the client work through it. For example, one of the easiest ways to improve my clients mood is to allow them to tell me their stories. For example, one of my clients told me about how he was a huge fan of the band Nirvana. I then asked him if he was a fan of his band, and he said no. I asked him why, and he said “I felt that way too.
This is an excellent method. A lot of the time, people will tell me the stories they think are the most interesting of all the stories they have. However, most people have no idea what is really interesting to them. By giving this person a chance to tell me the story of their life that is interesting to them, I will help them work through more of it.
A big problem in this situation is that people (especially new people) who want to get into the teacher’s degree programs can feel so lost that they need to be guided. They don’t know where to begin and what to do, and many end up just giving up. This is where having a teacher’s certificate is a big help.
