Activities For Building Self-Confidence

These activities recognise that self-confidence and self-esteem are interrelated. They can be used to create a programme for developing self-confidence in young people and include ways to help them: 

• Learn to focus and concentrate 
• Pay attention
• Learn to speak up for themselves
• Acknowledge what they have already learnt
• Accept praise and appreciation
• To accept and give compliments and criticism
• Speak openly about their strengths
• Acknowledge achievements
• Gain an awareness of their strengths
• Build on existing models
• Think about role models
• Increase powers of observation and memory
• Take control
• Focus on the good things in their lives. 

Ages: 11-16

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