School of Social and Political Science

Description

In this short two-hour workshop we will explore how to build your confidence and resilience as a professional person both during your university studies and in the workplace. As well as discussing the nature of confidence the workshop will explore concepts such as:

• The role of personality and personal background in social interactions
• Understanding our own natural confidence equation (a little)
• Understanding the importance of ‘mindset
• Understanding the comfort-stretch-challenge/panic model
• The role of digital media in supporting or undermining our level of confidence
• Introversion and extraversion as a way of understanding our responses to social situations
• Narratives of success and failure: the stories we inherit and try to live by or revolt against
• Understanding confidence as a process and as a situational experience
• How to build resilience and develop pro-resilience and ‘anti-fragility’ (Taleb)
• How not to take things too seriously, make mistakes and learn with humour

The workshop will focus on situations where confidence or the appearance of confidence is essential or desirable like presentations, interviews and work situations where we need to negotiate our rights and responsibilities with good self esteem.