SELF AWARENESS & PERSONAL ENLIGHTENMENT

with Professor Mike George

Module Description

Both awareness and enlightenment are not taught to us in any formal way. Yet, Self Awareness and Personal Enlightenment are the foundations of sustained personal development and the cultivation of management and leadership competences. They are the red threads that run through time and stress management, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution and self managing change. This module provides the insight, wisdom and understanding required to build and sustain both as they provide the basis of an ongoing plan for personal growth and development.

Learning Outcomes

This module includes the following learning outcomes:

• Understanding the significance of awareness
• Connecting the basic principles of authentic time management
• Understand, manage and prevent stress
• Developing greater emotional intelligence
• Why conflict arises and how to dissolve it
• Ways to respond more effectively to change
• Clarifying personal purpose, vision and values
• Clearly identifying the steps required to sustain personal development

Preliminary Tasks

Find three people and interview them with the following questions:

1. Whatdoespersonaldevelopmentmeantoyou
2. Whatarethethreethingsyouwouldliketodevelopwithinyourselfifyouhadtheopportunity?

Research and define the meaning of the following terms:

1. Self
2. Awareness
3. Thought
4. Consciousness
5. Personality
6. Feeling

Answer the following questions personally:

1. Whenpeoplechangewhatdoyouthinkitiswithinthemthatchanges?
2. Whydopeoplefindithardtochange–listthreereasons?
3. Whatarethreethingsyouwouldmostliketochangewithinyourself?