Insight

Within ‘Insight’, we take students’ learning about themselves and their identities and explore the research and frameworks that show how beliefs and thought patterns impact behaviour – and equally how they can be challenged and re-framed.

Self-efficacy – so critical for self-leadership – is the belief in one’s capacity to take the action needed to achieve goals. This belief powers individuals to persist and successfully face challenges. For this reason, we engage students in exercises that encourage them to recognise their helpful beliefs as well as the skills and strengths that have helped them to accomplish goals in the past. In so doing, we build their metacognition.

Alongside this learning, we guide students towards developing the understanding and skills that are critical to emotional regulation. This is core to emotional intelligence and we encourage the practices underpinning self-compassion. In this way, self-efficacy is supported and developed.

Working in small groups and pairs, the students will ‘map’ differences in simple and visual activities (for example, by adapting Erin Myer’s Cultural Map) and discover and explore how connections are made, discover default identity scripts and learn how to bring “flow” into their lives. We will also explore the concepts of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness and “flourishing”.