Region IV-MIMAROPA

SCHOOLS DIVISION OF OCCIDENTAL MINDORO

Municipality of Sablayan
SABLAYAN NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL

QUARTER 1, MODULE 1:
KNOWING AND
UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
PREPARED BY:
JANICE B. BARANDA-TAN, RN, LPT
 At the end of this module, I can:
• Explain that knowing myself can make me accept my
strengths and limitations and deal with other people
better
• Share my unique characteristics, habits, and
experiences.
• Appreciate and value myself
“Knowing oneself is the beginning of wisdom”. This
renowned quote is often attributed to Socrates. But
what exactly do you benefit when you know and
understand who you are? When a person has a self-
knowledge, he understands his strengths and
weaknesses, his passions and fears, his life’s desires
and dreams. This means he is aware of his
eccentricities (peculiarities) and idiosyncrasies
(habits), likes and dislikes, tolerance and limitations.
The person knows his purpose in life (Doherty, 2017).
LESSON 1: DEFINING THE CONCEPT
OF THE SELF
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 LESSON 1:
DEFINING THE CONCEPT
OF THE SELF
 Definition of “SELF”
is the union of these elements

Identity of a
person
constitutes your physical
Body attributes, your health and
and your posture and poise makes up your character or
personality and essentially
distnguishes you from others
the way you think and how you
perceive things around you
Thoughts
affect how you feel about them
and bring about sensations. Sensations that
constitutes
individuality

you experience prompt Feelings

you to act and behave the or Emotions
way you do
 WHAT IS SELF-CONCEPT?
• Imagine yourself looking into a mirror. What do
you see? Do you see your ideal self or your actual
self? Your ideal, or imagined, self is the self that
you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will
possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor
or some other worldly figure. Your actual self,
however, is the one that you actually see. It is the
self that has characteristics that you were
nurtured or, in some cases, born to have.
SELF-CONCEPT 
• The construct that negotiates these
two selves. In other words, it
connotes first the identification of
the ideal self as separate from
others, and second, it encompasses
all the behaviors vetted in the actual
self that you engage in to reach the
ideal self
SELF-CONCEPT 
• Behavioral scientists often assert that
the self-concept is the sole perspective
from which one can understand an
individual's behavior because it
includes all the dimensions of the self,
including how one looks (self-image)
and what one knows (self-knowledge),
and the ways in which these exist for
others (fulfilling the ego).
WHAT IS THE ACTUAL SELF?
• The actual self is built on self-
knowledge. Self-knowledge is
derived from social interactions
that provide insight into how
others react to you. For
example, you are about to meet
someone for the first time on a
date. You are well dressed and
you introduce yourself with a
smile on your face. However,
your date meets you with a
frown and declares, 'I don't
want to see you!'
• At first, you think about the frown and wonder
whether his or her reaction has anything to do with
you. But, the mention of 'you' in the comment tells
you that this does have something to do with you.
So, you reflect on your past behaviors and
encounters, trying to figure out if you've met this
person before and if you did, what exactly sparked
his or her reaction
• At this point, you are
reflecting on your actual self
derived from your self-
concept, and you attempt to
re-align this self with this
surprising meeting on the first
date. Conversely, if your date
greeted you with a smile and
said, 'It is so good to see you,'
then you would not
experience this discrepancy.
Instead, you would feel self-
assured with your actual self
intact.
 SELF-CONCEPT

SELF-IMAGE IDEAL SELF

SELF-ESTEEM
 WHAT IS THE IDEAL OR
IMAGINED SELF?
• The ideal self is the self that you
imagined to be on that first date.
You thought about the context to
your self-knowledge and imagined
how the date would see you. It did
not go as expected, which gave
rise to the conflict between your
actual and imagined self. If it did
go as expected, your actual self
would have matched your ideal
self in this moment in time of your
life.
• SELF-IMAGE or how you see
yourself. Each individual's self-
image is a mixture of different
attributes including our physical
characteristics, 
• personality traits, and social roles.
Self-image doesn't necessarily
coincide with reality. Some people
might have an inflated self-image of
themselves, while others may
perceive or exaggerate the flaws
and weaknesses that others don't see
• SELF-ESTEEM or how much you value yourself. A
number of factors can impact self-esteem, including
how we compare ourselves to others and how others
respond to us. When people respond positively to our
behavior, we are more likely to develop positive self-
esteem. When we compare ourselves to others and find
ourselves lacking,
it can have a
negative impact
on our self-esteem.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF
CONCEPT

• Displays uniquely with each person.

• Vary from very positive to very negative.
• Carries emotional, intellectual, and functional
dimensions.
• Changes with the context.
• Changes over time.
• Influence the individual’s life (Delmar
Learning, n.d.)
 Dear Self,
ACTIVITY 1: A LETTER FOR MYSELF
This activity aims to gather some of your thoughts and
feelings about who you are and how you perceive yourself. In
this activity, the concept of self-actualization will also be
introduced.
Self-actualization refers to the achievement of your potential
through creativity, independence, and an understanding of the
real world.
Instruction: Write a letter for yourself, and you need to be
totally honest since no one else will be able to read it. You
can write whatever you’d like in this letter to your future self,
but you may want to add in things that describe you today
(e.g., height and weight, current friends, favorite music and
movies, special things that happened to you this year).
LESSON 2: IDENTIFYING
YOUR STRENGHT
AND
WEAKNESS
• What am I good at?
• What have others complimented me about?
• What have others had to help me with on more
than one occasion?
• Which projects and tasks seem to drain my
energy?
• Which projects have I spent
hours on without getting
tired?
• What are my hobbies,
and why do I like doing?
 WHAT ARE YOUR STRENGTHS?
• You don’t have to be a superhero to have
super powers. Everyone has strengths. In
fact, knowing your natural talents, skills,
abilities and personal accomplishments
will bring you one step closer to choosing
a major. Many career counselors
recommend choosing a
major that uses your
strengths.
• Some strength makes tasks feel almost
effortless such as good eye-hand
coordination, reasoning skills or
understanding information. Other strengths
can be developed and improved over time,
like learning to budget your money or to
solve everyday problems. Skills often require
some form of instruction and practice such as
desktop publishing or applying geometry.
The point is that you can continue to acquire
and build your skills throughout your life.
Strengths can involve skills, qualities and personal characteristics:

• Creativity • Problem solving

• Enthusiasm • Reading
• Honesty • Social studies
• Humor • Sports
• Kindness • Strong work ethic 
• Leadership • Math
• Listening  • Open mindedness
• Originality • Organization
• Perseverance • Teamwork
• Writing
 • Those attributes that
you will have
difficulty in doing.
Letting other people
LIMITATIONS identify your personal
limitations is better
than identifying them
Impulsive
on your own.
Aggressive Indifferent
Cynical Insensitive
Everybody has
Arrogant
Naive Negative
Fearful Bossy Chaotic Irresponsible
limitations, humans
Rude
Greedy Close-minded Lazy are not perfect so it
Complaining Moody Passive is a normal thing
Selfish
Hesitant
Vague
Ignorant Controlling Stubborn
Impatient
• Self- awareness starts with
assessing yourself while
INTROSPECTION is your
ability to reflect and think
about your own thoughts,
feeling, and actions.
• Essential in understanding and
improving yourself
• Listen and accept positively
feedback you get from others ,
as well as their opinions about
you
• Feedbacks: Positive and
Negative criticisms
 JOHARI WINDOW
What is Johari Window?
• Generally, it is believed that we have in a group
based on our perception of others. And that is
why to improve communication in a group it is
important to develop the perception of an
individual in the group.
• Johari window model is based upon two things
– to acquire the trust of others by revealing your
information to them and by learning about
yourself through feedback by others
 KNOWING ONESELF
Must grow with deeper understanding of what makes
you happy, how you relate with your surroundings, give
importance to your strengths, limitations, and even you
soft spots.
Takes a lot of Doesn’t happen in
courage an instant
and guts
Get acquainted
It takes with people that
mindful effort inspire and
and a lot of motivate you to do
time doing it better
Tasks and jobs you can and cannot do must
be known to you
ACTIVITY 2: MY STRENGHTS AND MY
CHALLENGES
Strengths are the things I am good at, challenges are the
things I need to work on. List and illustrate your strengths
and challenges.
MY STRENGTHS MY CHALLENGES
REFLECT UPON
ACTIVITY 3: MY JOHARI WINDOW
KNOWN TO SELF NOT KNOWN TO SELF

Arena Blindspot
KNOWN TO “Open self” “blind self”
OTHERS

NOT KNOWN TO Façade Unknown self

OTHERS “hidden self”
 ACTIVITY 4: WHO AM I?
Draw symbols that would best illustrate your thoughts
and feelings about who you are. Work silently and finish
your tasks within 15 mins.
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THANK
YOU!