Who Am I? – My Identity Exploring ourselves through an examination of our Personality , Multiple Intelligences, True Colours, and Core Values

What makes up your identity? Combination of personality, abilities, strengths, weaknesses, interests, and values Continually shaped by every experience Never final Ultimately a mystery Composed of millions of bits of information What makes up your identity?

Why is it important to develop a sense of who you are? Helps us make better choices College Career Family Helps us deepen and develop our relationships Gives us a greater appreciation for ourselves and others Self-esteem: an understanding of our own worth and an attitude of cherishing ourselves Why is it important to develop a sense of who you are?

Starts with a Sense of Self Who am I? self-concept - beliefs How good am I as a person? self-esteem - worthiness self-efficacy - accomplishments Starts with a Sense of Self

Factors Influencing Sense of Self Past behaviors and achievements Others’ perceptions Parents Siblings Peers Own perceptions about achievements and comparisons to others Factors Influencing Sense of Self

Development of Sense of Self Infancy view self as a distinct individual ability to imitate others Early childhood autobiographical self language reflects self: I, me, mine Describes self by physical characteristics & interests overconfidence, high self-esteem Development of Sense of Self

Development of Sense of Self Middle childhood describes self in physical and psychological terms aware of strengths and weaknesses self-esteem generally high compares self with peers structures self-esteem into different competencies academic social physical physical appearance Development of Sense of Self

Development of Sense of Self Early adolescence (Where you are leaving!) belief in imaginary audience belief in personal fable self-esteem drops begin to use abstract values to describe themselves social comparisons continue Development of Sense of Self

Development of Sense of Self Late adolescence (What you are moving toward / arriving at !) develop a more complex understanding of self, with contradictory descriptions identity develops over time identity diffusion foreclosure moratorium identity achievement Development of Sense of Self

Digging a little deeper… All of the above play a part in the formation of you as an individual. Over the course of the next week we are going to dig a little deeper and find out more about who you are. We will do this by examimng…

Our Multiple Intelligences Multiple Intelligences is a theory about Human Intelligence developed by Howard Gardner. It theorizes that while we all learn a number of different ways we tend to have strengths. Knowing these strengths can be incredibly helpful to our own individual learning processes.

Our True Colours True Colors is a personality profiling system created by Don Lowry in 1978.[It was originally created to categorize four basic learning styles using the colors blue, orange, gold and green to identify the strengths and challenges of these core personality types. According to this personality temperament theory, everyone's personality consists of a combination of all four colors, with the dominant two colors representing the core of a person's personality temperament.

Our Personality - Myers Briggs The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self- report questionnaire claiming to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions. The MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is based on the typological theory proposed by Carl Jung, who had speculated that there are four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking – and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time.

Our Core Values Core values are governing principles that help you make rational decisions consistently in your daily life. When we stick by our core values we tend to make decisions that our beneficial to us and we tend to be happier. Core values is start with the defining of your identity; including your strengths, weaknesses, preferences and long-term ambitions and then lead you to what our deemed your core values.