Enhancing Self-Esteem: Tools for Personal Empowerment

Course Overview

Do you realise your true potential? Or are you holding yourself back? 

Gain a better understanding of the magnificence of who you are and use this course to build positive self-esteem.

The Enhancing Self-Esteem micro-credential gives you a framework and practical structure to gain a deeper understanding of your self-esteem.

In this 6-week course, you will explore the concept and theories of self-esteem. Investigate factors impacting self-esteem both theoretically and practically through personal reflection.

Determine which methods and strategies you can employ to enhance your self-esteem and that of those around you. Your thoughts, life experiences, emotions and self-concept play a great role in how self-esteem manifests and influences your choices and behaviours. This means you are shaping your life with every action you take.

This course will guide you on a journey of critical thinking and self-reflection where you can explore the context of your self-esteem and consider various strategies to enhance it.

Time commitment per week

An average of 10 – 13 hours weekly.

Is this course for you?

If you want to understand how your self-esteem developed, what factors have affected it, and how you can build positive self-esteem – then this micro-credential is for you.

Dates

• Class of 2025 May: 12 May – 22 June
• Class of 2025 August: 11 August– 21 September
• Class of 2025 October: 6 October – 16 November

There are no online classes. Course content is released on a weekly basis allowing you to work through course material, and meet weekly targets, at a time that is most convenient to you.

Certification

Upon completion, you will receive a digital certificate of competence and badge. Your certificate and badge can be shared on 100+ social media platforms, allowing you to share your achievement with a single click.

Credential Type

This course has been reviewed by the OpenLearning team to ensure quality academic learning within the Malaysian and Australian credentialing framework.

An OpenLearning OpenCred is a type of credential that can stand-alone, or interact with a formal qualification. OpenCred courses are market-leading online courses that prepare learners for the future of work.

This course has been designed and developed by experts in the field of psychology. The Enhancing Self-Esteem: Tools for Personal Empowerment micro-credential is for anyone needing to upskill in this area and offers 40 hours of learning and assessment.

Learners study online with peers and receive robust academic content while acquiring practical industry-relevant skills.

OpenCreds

Completing this course leads to obtaining an OpenCred.

• 40 hours of learning
• OpenCred classification: Pathway

Stackability

Stack specified combinations of micro-credentials and they can be recognised as equivalent to a module within the Bachelor of Applied Social Science Degree at SACAP.

Motivation Mastery: Unlock Potential & Achieve Goals can be stacked with Enhancing Self-Esteem: Tools for Personal Empowerment and if you meet the minimum entrance criteria, you can enrol for the Bachelor of Applied Social Science Degree and apply for module exemption.

What You’ll Need

• Access to Microsoft Word
• Google Chrome (recommended)
• Stable internet connection

What You’ll Learn

Over the course of six (6) weeks, through videos, readings and discussions, you will explore the following topics:

• Week 1: Identify key concepts and terminology related to self-esteem.
• Week 2: Critically reflect on the factors that can impact one’s self-esteem.
• Week 3: Describe strategies for working with the inner voice, disarming the inner-and-external critic in protecting one’s self-esteem.
• Week 4: Accurately assess your self-esteem using eminent reflective strategies with the aim of defusing painful thoughts and being compassionate towards the self.
• Week 5: Identify the prominent theoretical perspectives on self-esteem and the corresponding strategies that could enhance your self-esteem.
• Week 6: Summative Assignment

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify key concepts and terminology related to self-esteem.
• Explain how self-esteem is developed.
• Describe the effects that self-esteem has on an individual.
• Analyse where your self-esteem is now.
• Recognise the factors that impact one’s self-esteem.
• Investigate the role of parental support, involvement, and parenting style on early self-esteem development and how it directly influences self-esteem in adult relationships
• Evaluate the implications of low, medium, and high self-esteem.
• Identify how social influence, relationships, gender, culture, and stage of development affect self-esteem.
• Engage in a process of critical reflection around your own levels of self-esteem, considering the factors that impacted them.
• Discover the nature of our internal dialogue.
• Investigate the impact of the internal versus the external critic’s role on one’s self-esteem.
• Identify strategies for working with the inner voice, disarming the inner-and-external critic in protecting one’s self-esteem.
• Describe the impact of cognitive distortions on self-concept.
• Identify strategies that can be used to transform these distortions.
• Explain the role of self-compassion in relation to one’s self-concept.
• Recognise the significant role of thoughts in one’s level of self-esteem.
• Differentiate between the prominent theoretical perspectives on self-esteem.
• Examine the strategies and techniques that could be used to enhance self-esteem.

There are practical and self-reflective activities throughout the course to help you on the journey of self-discovery.

Each activity is carefully designed to enhance your learning and understanding of the content. This course is not purely academic, it has been designed to enhance your introspective journey and understanding of self.

During the course, you will create a portfolio of evidence, which you can use to demonstrate your knowledge of understanding of self-esteem and how to enhance it.

The Team

Our short course developers and assessors are expert practitioners. They have been selected for the breadth and depth of experience in their respective disciplines. The team loves sharing their knowledge and online learning expertise to help you get the most out of your learning journey.