Health and Wellbeing
Self-Esteem: Helping Teens Find Purpose & Belonging
A teenager with more than one thing that makes them feel good about themselves is far harder to knock down.
- 54 minutes
- 10 modules
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Help a teenager build several pillars of self-esteem, not just one
- Give specific, sincere compliments a teenager will remember
- Use the Ikigai framework to start conversations about purpose
- Challenge perfectionism and treat failure as a 'first attempt in learning'
- Help a teenager find people they belong with, offline or online
About this course
Some teenagers pour everything into football, exam grades or how they look. That works until the injury, the bad result or the falling-out, and then there's nothing left holding them up.
You can help a teenager build a sense of who they are that can take a knock. Help them find more than one pillar for their self-esteem. Tell them, specifically and in writing, what you think makes them brilliant, because they often don't know. Try Ikigai, a Japanese idea about where what you love meets what you're good at, as a way into talking about purpose. And help them find their tribe, the people they fit with, online if not nearby.
A good share of it is about you too, from how you talk about your own achievements to whether they see you beat yourself up over a mistake or laugh and learn from it.
10 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 9 min
What kind of role model do you want to be?
- 9 min
What makes your child brilliant?
- 7 min
Multiple pillars of self-esteem
- 5 min
Helping your teen to find their Ikigai
- 5 min
The curse of perfectionism
- 8 min
Learning to fail
- 8 min
Finding a tribe
- 5 min
Aim low to fly high
- 2 min
Wrap up