SELF-RESPECT
What is it?
The knowledge of one's own worth, valuing one's self;
pride
It embraces more than just what your parents and
teachers expect of you
Where we have respect, we avoid degrading,
insulting or injuring, and we treat every one and every
thing with consideration
SELF-RESPECT
• show respect for views with which you disagree
and speak in a non-threatening way
• To create open, trusting relationships with fellowmembers of the community
• Respect invites respect… Disrespect invites
disrespect
• Mutual respect allows a person to respect others
and to practise self-respect
PERCEPTIONS AND SKILLS
The 7 Significant Perceptions and Skills
to cultivate self-respect
7 WAYS TO IMPROVE
SELF-RESPECT
1. Personal Capabilities
• “I am capable.”
2. Relationships
• “I contribute in meaningful ways and I am
genuinely needed.”
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SELF-RESPECT
3. Power over your own life
• “I can influence what happens to me.”
4. Intrapersonal skills
• “I understand and can relate to others’ emotions”
o
The ability to understand emotions, to use that
understanding and develop self-discipline and selfcontrol and to learn from experience
7 WAYS TO IMPROVE
SELF-RESPECT
5. Interpersonal skills
• “I am a team player.”
o
To work well with others through communicating, cooperating, negotiating, sharing empathising, and most
of all, listening.
6. Systemic skills (affecting or connecting to the whole of something)
• “I am responsible and honest.”
o
Being able to respond to the limits and consequences
of everyday life with responsibility and integrity
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SELF-RESPECT
7. Judgmental skills
• “I can assess situations and act accordingly.”
o
Being able to use wisdom and evaluate situations
according to values
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
Comment
Do you just do the bare
minimum for what is asked of
you or do you put in your
best effort because you want
to be the best that you can
be?
“Am I worth the effort?”
or “I want to respect
myself and I want
others to respect me. I
am worth the respect!”
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
“I can’t do this!” or “I can
learn to do this!”
Comment
Whatever I believe in, it
becomes true because I
expect it to be true and so
behave in a way that will
make it happen.
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
Do you capitalise your own
name?
Eg. John vs john
Comment
By capitalising my own
name, it shows I respect
myself and that I am
important.
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
Comment
“This is too difficult!” or “This “Am I worth the effort to do
is difficult but it will be
this?”
beneficial for me.”
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
You do things to hurt
yourself or do you
consciously avoid things
known to damage a
person’s body or mind.
Comment
“Do I care about what
happens to me or my mind?”
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
Comment
Most of the time, you would
“Do I care only about having
rather have fun than growth or fun or in being a person of
vice versa.
high quality?”
TEST FOR SELF-RESPECT
Action / Choice
You spend most of your free
time watching TV/videos or
doing things that will help you
in your overall growth as an
individual?
Comment
“I just want to be entertained.”
or “My future is important to
me and I want to be wellprepared for the rest of my life
and be the best that I can be.”
References
• www.eps.vic.edu.au/iande/posdis
• http://home.earthlink.net/~bmgei/educate/docs/
motivate/respect/respect2.htm
THANK YOU!