Self Concept & Saving Yourself Workshop
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an idea for women in early recovery to grasp hold of saving themselves and digging deep to find their Self Concept
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Self Concept & Saving Yourself Workshop
- 1. Week 3 Self Concept and Saving Yourself
- 2. Quiet Moment Check In Who Am I activities Lifeboat Activity WIRE Toolbox
- 4. Name Feeling Use 7 feelings chart to help identify emotions Last use 12 step meetings? What happened? Who attended a meeting? If you did not attend both meetings • Did you think about it? What prevented your attendance? What can you do differently this week?
- 5. Question One – Think back to when you were about ten years old How would someone who knew you at that age have described you?
- 6. Question Two: Think of three things about yourself now that answer the question, Who am I? Here’s the hard part None of your answers can refer to your work or relationships (roles) such as wife, girlfriend, mother, daughter, lover or partner. See examples (next slide)
Editor's Notes
- To help women to answer the question "Who am I?" Understand the difference between performing roles (what they do) and genuinely understanding and expressing themselves as individuals. Understand and personalize the metaphor of the lifeboat.
- The quiet time activity this week is practicing the progressive relaxation that participants learned last week. Practice will develop a feeling of competence with the exercise. Learning a new skill can be stressful. Mention that any change creates natural levels of tension, which resolves itself as we begin to feel comfortable.
- Introduce participants to the Seven Emotions or Key Feelings chart. Alert them to the expectation that they will use a “feeling word” or description of emotion during check-in. Differentiate between describing an emotion and a thought or opinion. Tell them to include a report about their alternative recovery activities (probably 12-step meetings) during check-in.
- This activity consists of two sets of questions, designed to stimulate clients’ thoughts about their own identities. Many times, a recent self-image is a “party girl”, or other much less flattering self-concepts. A solid self-concept is rare. Make notes to yourself about concepts that emerge for each client. These can be valuable for later reference. The questions begin on a more superficial, historical note, then gradually become more current and personal. Be prepared to answer the questions yourself, to provide a model of appropriate level of detail and disclosure. Suggest participants describe themselves as if someone else (i.e., a relative or a friend) who knew them well at a certain age was the one doing the talking. Usually this has the effect of revealing similarities and differences between participants. The remainder of the questions delve gradually deeper and become harder to answer. Give them explicit permission to take as much time as they need to answer the questions. Give examples of how answers should be a description of who they are as a person and not the role that they have. Sometimes it is helpful to do some group brainstorming about usual roles that women play in our culture. For instance, none of their answers can refer to the kind of work they do or relationships that they have, like a wife, mother or daughter. The counselor should make an example of the kinds of things that would describe themselves as a person. Give participants a few minutes first to write down ideas. Reassure them that they only need to come up with three things.