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WSP 214: ALLYING WITH YOUR INNER CRITIC: Strategies for Transforming Negative Self-Talk
A Stanford Continuing Studies Fall Course with Carolyn Foster
Two Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 2011
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Do the things you say to yourself hold you back? We often fight a running battle with a destructive inner voice that judges our thoughts and actions. Paradoxically, this voice stems from messages received early in life often from well-intentioned parents and teachers who wanted us to fit in and do well. Instead, these judgments imprison our creative potential. We fear to take risks, imagining failure, rejection, or ridicule.
The answer lies not in trying to do away with the voice’s judgments but in decoding and diffusing the anxiety behind them. Once we understand and befriend this part of ourselves, we—not the Critic—are in charge. This workshop will offer proven techniques to reshape the harsh Inner Critic into a constructive discerning ally. You can learn to think strategically without the static of self-criticism and act confidently without self-sabotage. Interactive exercises, writing, and discussion will allow students to adapt theoretical material from psychology and neuroscience into practical techniques customized for their own situations.
A Stanford Continuing Studies Fall Course with Carolyn Foster
Two Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 2011
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Do the things you say to yourself hold you back? We often fight a running battle with a destructive inner voice that judges our thoughts and actions. Paradoxically, this voice stems from messages received early in life often from well-intentioned parents and teachers who wanted us to fit in and do well. Instead, these judgments imprison our creative potential. We fear to take risks, imagining failure, rejection, or ridicule.
The answer lies not in trying to do away with the voice’s judgments but in decoding and diffusing the anxiety behind them. Once we understand and befriend this part of ourselves, we—not the Critic—are in charge. This workshop will offer proven techniques to reshape the harsh Inner Critic into a constructive discerning ally. You can learn to think strategically without the static of self-criticism and act confidently without self-sabotage. Interactive exercises, writing, and discussion will allow students to adapt theoretical material from psychology and neuroscience into practical techniques customized for their own situations.
TO REGISTER: Go here on the Continuing Studies website (www.continuingstudies.stanford.edu) for course WSP 214. Classes fill fast!