COURSE CODE: NSTP101b

Civic Welfare Training Service 1

The lessons on Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)Module
of the8National Service Training Program
(NSTP) include both lectures and practicum. The lectures are usually held at the university
| 1st Semester,
lecture hall and classrooms while the practicum S.Y. 2021-2022
is conducted at the adopted target communities.
The practicum includes activities from CWTS/LTS I that are related to community extension
Introduction
projects and services.
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Intended Learning Outcomes
 Identify one’s unique skills and talents;
 Reflect on daily experiences from a holistic point of view;
 Explain how values are being developed;
 Perform different activities for the development of self-learning

Topic 7:SELF AWARENESS AND VALUES DEVELOPMENT

References:
 National Development via National Service Training Program RA 9163 (CWTS 1) Sonia , Gasilla-de la Cruz
et al
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Self-awareness means knowing your values, personality, needs, habits, emotions, strengths, weaknesses,etc.
With a sense of who you are and a vision of the person you want to become, a plan for professional or
personal development can be created.

Self awareness and values development in socialization is very important. This will help one to develop a
unique personality in the society that s shaped by their personal traits.

1. Family and home environment

Child rearing practices

Child rearing can be both difficult and rewarding at the same time. The goal of every parents is to have your
child grow up to be responsible and resourceful adult in society.

2. Social environment

Social environment of the filipino is characterized by feudal structure with great gaps between the reach
minority and the poor majority.

3. Language and culture

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural
perspective. language is a tool is used to explore and experience our cultures and perspectives that are
embedded in our cultures.

4. History

We are the product of our colonial history,which is regarded by many as the culprit behind our lack of
nationalism and our colonial mentality. Colonialism developed a mind set in the filipino which encouraged us
to to think the colonial as superior and more powerful.
 5.the educational system

Aside from the problems inherent in the use of foreign language in our educational
system, the educational system leads to other problems for us 7a people.

6. Religion

Religion is the root of the Filipino optimism and its capacity to accept life's hardship .
However religion also instils in the Filipino attitude of resignation and pre occupation
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with the afterlife. we become vulnerable also to being victimised by optimism ,
oppression, exploitation, and superstition.

7.the economic environment

Many Filipino traits are rooted in the poverty and hard life that is the lost of many
Filipinos.

Our difficulty drive us to take risks ,impel us to work very hard , and develop in us the
ability to survive.

Poverty, however,has also become an excuse for graft and corruption,particularly

among the lower rungs ofnthe bureaucracy.

8. The political environment

The political environment is characterized by a centralization of power. Political power

and authority isnconcentrated in the hands of the elite and the participation of most
Filipino often is limited to voting in elections.

9. Mass media

It means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience.

It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general
public.

The most flatform for media are newspaper, magazine ,radio, television and the latest is
the internet.

10.leadership and role models

Filipinos look up to their leader as their role model ,political leader are the main
model,but all other leader serves as a role models as well.thus, when our leaders violate
the law or show themselves to be self-serving and driven by the personal interest,when
there lack of public accountability there is a negative impact on the Filipinos.

ON VALUES OF GIVING

1. LOYALTY AND DEPENDABILITY

-refers to loyalty to family, to employees, church, country, schools and to other

institution/organization.

2. RESPECT
 -it refers to the courtesy, politeness, and manners.

3. LOVE

-it means individual and personal caring that goes beneath and beyond loyalty and
respect.

4. UNSELFISHNESS AND SENSITIVITY

-this means being more extra-centered and less-self centered.

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5. KINDNESS AND FRINEDSHIP

- refers to awareness that being kind and considerate is more admirable than being
tough and strong.

ON VALUES OF BEING

1. HONESTY

-this must be practiced with other individuals, with institutions, with society and with self.

2. COURAGE

- this means daring to attempt difficult things that are good.

3. PEACEABILITY

- this means calmness, peacefulness and serenity.

4. SELF-RELIANCE AND POTENTIAL

- this means individuality awareness and development of gifts and uniqueness.

5. SELF DISCIPLINED AND MODERATION

-it refers to physical, mental and financial discipline.

6. FIDELITY AND CHASITY

- refers to the values and security of fidelity within marriage and of restraint and limits
before marriage.

6 Core benefits of personal development

Personal development is an often used but rarely explained term. It is about investing in
yourself so that you can manage yourself effectively regardless of what life might bring
your way. Personal development allows you to be proactive. Rather than wait for good
things to happen, you get out there and make them happen.

You may not always achieve your objective, but you will experience a richer and more
rewarding life when you commit to pursuing your own objectives. Making that
commitment to personal development is the first step on the path to personal fulfilment.

Personal development is an often used but rarely explained term. It is about investing in
yourself so that you can manage yourself effectively regardless of what life might bring
your way. Personal development allows you to be proactive. Rather than wait for good
things to happen, you get out there and make them happen.

You may not always achieve your objective, but you will experience a richer and more
rewarding life when you commit to pursuing your own objectives. Making that
 commitment to personal development is the first step on the path to personal fulfillment.

6 Benefits of personal development

The following are 6 of the most important benefits of a personal development mindset:

1. Self-awareness

Personal development begins with self-awareness. You get to know who you really are;
your values , beliefs and the purpose you wish to pursue. True fulfillment can never
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come from chasing other people’s dreams. If you want to achieve lasting happiness, you
need to design your life based on who you are. Then you can chase your own goals and
objectives. When you are chasing your own goals, there is as much pleasure to be
derived from the journey as there is to be derived from reaching your destination. Self-
awareness is the first fundamental step in the personal development process.

Each day, you receive information about what you want from life but if you are not
aware, these messages slip by without you even noticing them. A great opportunity for
learning and self-improvement is lost. It would surprise some people to learn how many
coaching clients I have spoken to who have told me they have no idea what they want
from life. They have spent their life missing the feedback and messages, which would
lead to their own personal development.

You might be wondering how these messages are delivered. The answer is that they are
delivered in the form of feelings and contrast. Each day you encounter things which you
feel bad about. You don’t like something or, you don’t like a situation the way it currently
is. Imagine if you took the opportunity to ask yourself questions such as:

If this is not how I like it; how would I like it to be?

As this is not what I want; what do I want?

If this situation was the way I wanted it to be; how would it look, sound, feel?

Given all the resources I needed to change this; what changes would I make?

How would I behave if I did have this skill/trait? e.g. confidence.

By asking these questions and, others like them, you get clearer about what you really
want from life.

2. A sense of direction

Once you have raised your self-awareness, you are clearer on the things you wish to
achieve from life.

Decision-making becomes a lot easier. Tasks which used to take a great deal of your
time, no longer make it onto your to-do list. You now realise that they do not move you
towards your objectives and therefore are not worthy of your time.

This is where many people make a major mistake with goals. They see goals as
something extra that you add to your life. You find time to work on your goals when you
have everything else done. When you set goals this way, you think you are going to
make your life bigger and better by adding more to it.

What really happens is that you make your life smaller by overloading yourself with
things that you don’t really need to be doing.

If goals are set properly, they reduce your workload and improve the quality of
 everything you do. The real magic of goals and personal development is not just that
they tell you what you need to be doing.

Just as importantly, if not more so; they tell you everything that you should not be doing.
The biggest mistake in personal development is trying to do more. If you want to
improve, the real key to success is to do less and, do it better.

When you have a clear sense of direction, you can eliminate anything which does not
take you in that direction. When you have done that, you can use the 80/20 principle to
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identify the vital few things which take you in that direction with the greatest speed and
least effort.

3. Improved focus and effectiveness

With personal development comes clarity. Even with an improved sense of direction,
there will always be multiple tasks looking for your attention. As your personal
development improves, prioritization becomes much easier. You are clearer on your
objectives and you can quickly identify which task will give you the best result with the
resources available to you at that moment.

Improved focus and effectiveness comes with knowing and playing to your strengths.

One of the biggest obstacles to focus is distraction. Distraction mostly happens because
you don’t see the great difference between the benefit you will derive from the activity
you should be doing and the one you are distracting yourself with. Therefore, you work
better when there is a deadline looming i.e. the benefit of meeting the deadline becomes
much clearer and the problems caused by the distraction become just as apparent.

Being committed to personal development helps you to become more focused. It helps
you to resist distractions without needing to have deadlines constantly looming. Because
having too many deadlines can lead to too much pressure and stress. Pressure and
stress also arise from feeling the need to be perfect; as if you only get one go at
anything.

Personal development is a continuous journey. With each step, it becomes easier to see
the true value of each activity. The following are just some of the reasons why you get
more focused as your personal development progresses:

The most important activity will stand out like a sore thumb, while the activity with little or
no value will be just as apparent.

You also start to enjoy the important tasks more because you can see what they are
leading to it is easier to get yourself working because you realise that you can always
improve on what you have done but, you can never improve on what has not been done.

Personal development allows you to see each task, project and activity for its true value,
making it easier to do what you need to do.

4. More motivation

When you know what you want to achieve, it is easier for you to see the benefits of
taking action. Even when the task ahead is not enjoyable; if you can see a clear benefit,
you are more motivated to take the necessary action. There is truth in the old adage

‘Where there is a will there is a way’ .

With strong personal development, you develop the necessary will.

Once you accept that personal development is a continuous journey and, you commit to
 that journey; you realise that each day you will become a little clearer about what you
want.

As you become clearer about what you want, you start to see how achieving your goal
will improve your life. You can visualise the benefits you will experience. This is what
builds the will to accomplish the goal.

This is where your most powerful motivation comes from.

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One of the biggest obstacles to motivation is the overwhelming size of the goal. There
just seems to be so much to do that you feel like you can never achieve it all. And if you
don’t feel like you can achieve it, how can you get motivated to get it done? The answer
is that you really need to understand the truth about goals.

The end goal/dream is just the culmination of a process so, you don’t need to motivate
yourself for that. You only need enough motivation to take the next action.

As you progress further with your personal development, you see that the real goals are
the actions you need to take each day. You are confident that each action you complete
will take you closer to the end goal /dream so, you don’t need to worry about that.

You just focus on what you need to do next and, get that done. Then, you move to the
next task.

Occasionally, you check to see what progress you are making but, most of the time, you
are only focused on what you need to do next.

5. Greater resilience

There will be tough times in life. When these tough times occur, you need to have the
skills and attributes to deal effectively with them. Personal development cannot prevent
bad things from occurring but it will help you deal with them when they do. You will have
greater confidence, resilience , personal and interpersonal skills to cope with any
eventuality.

So far, I have spoken mainly of the positives associated with personal development.
However, personal development cannot make all your life experiences positive. There
will always be times when bad things happen.

Many times, these events will happen due to circumstances beyond your control, Other
times, you will screw up and create a bit of a mess for yourself – congratulations on
being human!

When you understand personal development, you learn that you can change just about
any circumstance in your life. If you can’t change the circumstance, you can change
your attitude towards the experience which makes it less unpleasant.

Knowing all this allows you to stay calm, composed and in control when a crisis strikes.
You can then determine the best course of action to take. This allows you to minimize
the damage caused by the negative experience.
 Reference:

https://www.coachingpositiveperformance.com/6-core-benefits-personal-development/
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