Finding the Real Me
Program Overview:
- Duration: 12 weeks
- Session Length: 60 minutes
This course allows you to reflect on your current life and push for more.
We embrace what you have learnt, how you have learned, what you can learn more of and how to use your new self to take on whatever life throws at you.
If you want to prepare for a major change in your life then this is the course for you.
This is a very powerful course and not one for the faint hearted. Graduates leave the program with a sustained level of confidence, self belief and a whole lot of positive attitude towards themselves.
Finding the Real Me – 12-Week Course.
Week 1: The Big Question – Who Am I?
- Reflective journaling: Who have I been told I am?
- Identity inventory: social roles, job titles, personality labels.
- Exercise: Write your “About Me” from three different points in your life.
Week 2: The Many Faces of Me
- List your “Me’s” from different situations (e.g., at work, with family, alone).
- Introduce the concept of adaptive selves vs. authentic self.
- Activity: Create your “Me Map” (visual representation of your different selves).
Week 3: What Do I Want – Really?
- Explore core values vs. surface wants.
- Guided exercise: The Five Whys to go deeper into your desires.
- Reflection: Whose voice is shaping what I want?
Week 4: What’s In the Way?
- Identify internal blocks: fear, guilt, shame, doubt.
- External blockers: expectations, culture, family dynamics.
- Journaling: What parts of myself have I silenced?
Week 5: When and How Did I Split?
- Explore moments of self-betrayal or role-shifting.
- Write a timeline of when the “switches” happened.
- Activity: Letters to your past selves.
Week 6: The Masks We Wear
- Which “Me’s” are performance-based vs. authentic?
- Exercise: What do I gain/lose from each mask?
- Reflection: Where do I feel most at home?
Week 7: How Do I Switch Between Selves?
- Conscious vs. unconscious switching.
- Activity: Write the triggers and cues that cause you to switch.
- Practice: Visualization of switching off autopilot.
Week 8: Creating the Foundation Words
- Collect words from each “Me” that reflect who you were trying to be.
- Group similar traits and values.
- Build a personal “Word Cloud” that represents your core.
Week 9: Integration – Who Is the Real Me?
- Review your Foundation Words.
- Explore which parts feel true, powerful, outdated, or imposed.
- Write a “True Me Manifesto.”
Week 10: Designing the Path Forward
- Align your values and Foundation Words with future actions.
- Create personal guiding principles or a decision filter.
- Visualization: A day in the life of the “True Me.”
Week 11: Practicing Authenticity
- Choose 2 situations to show up more authentically.
- Script your ideal response and body language.
- Journal: How did it feel to lead with the True Me?
Week 12: Sharing the Real Me
- Reflect on the party speech scenario (speaking in front of others).
- Practice sharing a short story about the journey back to your real self.
- Celebration: Write a letter to your future self to be read in 6 months.
