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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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…

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.