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Self EsteemThe Essential Ingredient for the Artist, the Teacher &
the Learner
Self Esteem• This presentation is designed as an introduction for a
course to be held next year.
• Offer a specific definition of self esteem.
• Offer the idea that the principles of self esteem are at the heart of effective education.
• The importance of attending to your own self esteem in your chosen artistic discipline and teaching practice.
• A look at how traditional models of education contradict the principles of self esteem.
The importance and value of defining terms
Defining Terms• Artist - a person who expresses him- or herself through a
medium
• Education - The ‘leading out’ of an individual’s potential (from the latin educare)
• Love - The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth
• Self-esteem - is our experience of being competent to cope with the challenges of life and feeling deserving of happiness.
Implications of My Definitions
• The notion of the ‘self actualised’ human being and the term ‘artist’ are synonymous.
• To choose to be an artist is an act of love
• To educate is to love
• Possessing a healthy degree of self-esteem is an essential element of success in self expression, love and the nurturing of those values in others.
Self Esteem
Self-efficacy – competence, feeling of being able to adequately face challenges of life, self trust and confidence in one’s own mind. Sense of control over one’s life as opposed to being a passive spectator or victim of events or circumstances. (efficacy = ability to achieve desired result)
Self Esteem
Self-Respect – feeling worthy or deserving of receiving love from others, entitled to happiness, comfort in asserting thoughts, wants, and needs.
Why We Need Self Esteem
We depend for our survival and our successful mastery of the environment on the appropriate use of our consciousness; our life and well-being depend on our ability to think.
Why We Need Self Esteem
The right use of our consciousness is not automatic, is not “wired in” by nature. In the regulating of its activity there is a crucial element of choice—therefore, of personal responsibility.
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The Six Pillars of Self Esteem
1. The practice of living consciously
2. The practice of self acceptance
3. The practice of self responsibility
4. The practice of self-assertiveness
5. The practice of living purposefully
6. The practice of personal integrityNathaniel Branden - Psychotherapist
1930 - 2014
The practice of living consciously
Knowing how to use your awareness to determine what exists; to process information that you take in through your senses. To set your own purpose and values and act in accord with them.
The practice of self acceptance
The refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with oneself. It entails accepting every part of ourselves; our body, our thoughts, our emotions, our actions, and our dreams.
The practice of self responsibility
You are responsible for the achievement of your desires, your choices and actions, the level of consciousness you bring to your work and relationships, your behaviour with other people, how you prioritise your time, for the quality of your communications, your personal happiness, for accepting and choosing the values by which you live, and for raising your self-esteem.
The practice of self-assertiveness
Self-assertiveness means honouring your wants, needs, and values and seeking appropriate forms of their expression in reality. It is the willingness to stand up for yourself, be who you are openly, to treat yourself with respect in all human encounters. It is also your refusal to fake or change who you are to be liked. To practice self-assertiveness is to live authentically, to speak and act from your innermost convictions and feelings.
The practice of living purposefully
To live purposefully is to have goals and to take action towards achieving them. To be productive on a regular basis. “Productivity is the act of supporting our existence by translating our thoughts into reality, of setting our goals and working for their achievement, of bringing knowledge, goods, or services into existence.” What am I trying to achieve? How am I trying to achieve it?
The practice of personal integrity
Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs – and behaviour. When our behaviour is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match, we have integrity.
The Six Pillars of Self Esteem
1.The practice of living consciously
2.The practice of self acceptance
3.The practice of self responsibility
4.The practice of self-assertiveness
5.The practice of living purposefully
6.The practice of personal integrity
The Trivium Grammar = Input = Knowledge.
Logic = Processing = Understanding. Rhetoric = Output = Wisdom.
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The Principles of Thought (Living Consciously)
Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols.
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Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols. • The principles of grammar - general grammar - are
rooted in the way the human mind works.
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Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols. • The principles of grammar - general grammar - are
rooted in the way the human mind works. • It deals with all substances, quantities, qualities,
actions and relationships.
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Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols. • The principles of grammar - general grammar - are
rooted in the way the human mind works. • It deals with all substances, quantities, qualities,
actions and relationships. • We receive input through our senses, we combine this
data into a coherent body of knowledge.
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Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols. • The principles of grammar - general grammar - are
rooted in the way the human mind works. • It deals with all substances, quantities, qualities,
actions and relationships. • We receive input through our senses, we combine this
data into a coherent body of knowledge. • Answers the questions: Who? What? Where? When?
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Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols. • The principles of grammar - general grammar - are
rooted in the way the human mind works. • It deals with all substances, quantities, qualities,
actions and relationships. • We receive input through our senses, we combine this
data into a coherent body of knowledge. • Answers the questions: Who? What? Where? When? • General grammar specifies the rules of grammar, the
rules of how we determine what exists.
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Grammar• Is the art and science of inventing and combining
symbols. • The principles of grammar - general grammar - are rooted
in the way the human mind works. • It deals with all substances, quantities, qualities, actions
and relationships. • We receive input through our senses, we combine this
data into a coherent body of knowledge. • Answers the questions: Who? What? Where? When? • General grammar specifies the rules of grammar, the
rules of how we determine what exists. • Special grammars would be specific languages and the
terms that describe a specific subject, e.g. playing the guitar, cooking etc.
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking • Answers the question: Why?
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking • Answers the question: Why? • The principles of logic are used to eliminate
the contradictions within the body of knowledge assembled in the grammar stage.
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking • Answers the question: Why? • The principles of logic are used to eliminate
the contradictions within the body of knowledge assembled in the grammar stage.
• Logic is required because we are error prone.
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking • Answers the question: Why? • The principles of logic are used to eliminate
the contradictions within the body of knowledge assembled in the grammar stage.
• Logic is required because we are error prone.
• “The exercise of logic is the absolute precondition of a person’s successful achievement of any value.”
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking • Answers the question: Why? • The principles of logic are used to eliminate
the contradictions within the body of knowledge assembled in the grammar stage.
• Logic is required because we are error prone. • “The exercise of logic is the absolute
precondition of a person’s successful achievement of any value.”
• Based on the Law of Identity.
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Logic• Is the art and science of thinking • Answers the question: Why? • The principles of logic are used to eliminate
the contradictions within the body of knowledge assembled in the grammar stage.
• Logic is required because we are error prone. • “The exercise of logic is the absolute
precondition of a person’s successful achievement of any value.”
• Based on the Law of Identity. • Specifically Aristotelean logic.
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Rhetoric• Is the art and science of persuasion/communication/
demonstration.
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Rhetoric• Is the art and science of persuasion/communication/
demonstration. • Answers the question: How?
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Rhetoric• Is the art and science of persuasion/communication/
demonstration. • Answers the question: How? • Is not a process as such but a demonstration or
explanation of the processes of grammar and logic.
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Rhetoric• Is the art and science of persuasion/communication/
demonstration. • Answers the question: How? • Is not a process as such but a demonstration or
explanation of the processes of grammar and logic.
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The Rhetorical Triangle
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Trivium - Summary• Grammar - Asks the questions: Who? What? Where?
When? Is the primary means of ordering reality as perceived by the senses. Can be described as a ‘body of knowledge’, a ‘data set’, or ‘input’.
• Logic - Takes the assembled grammar, looks for and eliminates contradictions within it. Asks the question, why? Can be described as ‘understanding’, or ‘processing’.
• Rhetoric - Answers the question: How? It demonstrates the the processes of grammar and logic through speaking, writing and taking action. It can be described as ‘wisdom’, or ‘output’.
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Final Thoughts• Integrating the principles of self esteem and the trivium will have a direct,
positive impact of any area of your life to which you apply them consistently.
• The successful achievement of any value will involve the application of the above, in some way.
• So, attending to these principles in your work - or deepening your innate understanding of them - has the potential to dramatically increase the value of your work, the enjoyment of it and the impact it has on others
• I believe that these principles are among the essential elements of a true education, individual subjects are like a ‘carrier wave’ for them; widespread understanding of them could literally change the world
• Conventional education ignores, or directly contradicts much of these principles, the damage wrought can be undone through diligent application of them to one’s own life.
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