Courses of personal development. The Best Exercises for Personal Growth Training

Hello, dear readers of the portal "". Wishes come to my mail about topics that are most interesting to people, and recently I have been asked questions about why trainings are needed personal growth. Today I want to present to your court an article called " Personal Growth Training". Now these trainings and coaches have simply flooded the Internet; hundreds and thousands of "professional trainers" offer their services, and I want to offer you my vision and attitude to these courses.

So, pour tea into a large mug and make yourself comfortable, now there will be the whole truth about personal growth trainings... It is known that personal growth trainings appeared in the middle of the last century in the USA. Gradually, all activities spread throughout the world, and reached Russia in the early 90s. At the beginning of its existence (and in most cases even today), the action on the human mind occurs according to a certain, sometimes with variations, pattern:

  1. To humiliate a person, showing the insignificance of his existence before training
  2. Give a gracious chance to show that a person is still good for something

The whole concept of personal growth training lies in the fact that the so-called “emotional swing” effect arises - first a person is convinced of his failure, the fallacy of his worldview - he lived all his life differently (how is he still alive?). Against the background of this pseudo-aggression, against the background of public humiliation - any insignificant compliment causes greatness and boundless trust in the coach. The next stage is praise and as a gift - a chance to "become a man." Often a person will be politely explained that the environment needs to be changed, that those close people who are with him are dragging him into the swamp. So there are two ways - either to part with this environment, or to bring them into training, for enlightenment and payment for services (in fact, this is the goal of personal growth training). Reception is called - involvement.

You can't refuse. What can you achieve if you can't complete a simple task. You're a loser. There are "profitable" offers - you bring 10 friends, and your training is free and forever. Or pay for the course, and you can take a friend (girlfriend, dog) with you to the training. As a result, everything closes on multi-level marketing, the financial pyramid of happiness. Full of happiness from enlightenment, with an unnatural gleam in his eyes, a person runs to invite his friends and relatives to the training. Everything, the circle is closed.

The training program is usually divided into courses - basic, advanced, VIP. Amazing understanding of the financial capabilities of the client. For better assimilation of the material, the mandatory offer of additional courses. Continuous brainwashing plus group work. In a team, it is much easier to complete the task of hugging 30 passers-by, begging for alms, or selling a vacuum cleaner to the first person you meet for a million rubles. There are many fantasies - you can change into a prostitute (homeless person) and take public transport at rush hour.

And here you will find the most interesting. With constant mental stress, the nervous system malfunctions. Depression, neurosis - a logical continuation of "personal growth". Well, a significant, sometimes up to several thousand dollars, “weight loss” of the wallet.

Special signs

An acquaintance, a friend, or maybe a close relative comes running to you. He reports that he went through an amazing training, that this training is a must for anyone who wants to become a successful and financially free person. And you need to go right now, not later.

At the training, you will certainly meet several dozen “lucky ones” who will share with you what successes they have achieved after the training and show you the way to the cashier. At this moment (if this has not happened before), you just need to run, since the words “I will think about it” or “another time” will cause at least indignation. There has long been research that personal growth training leads to zombies.

coaching

From English. coaching- training, training. Coaching is an enhanced form of training, as it is aimed at one person. There is no critical attitude to what is happening due to the high workload of the coach. The result is an unsupported increase in self-esteem, neglect and superiority over others. In contact with reality, it can cause a nervous breakdown, which will force you to turn to a coach (trainer, teacher) again.

Typical statements of personal growth trainings.
  • Become successful with us!
  • It's your choice!
  • Career growth cannot be achieved without training!
  • Do you want to participate in the training? Do you want to become successful and rich?
  • We ourselves spend many dollars a year on our education, and we will give it to you almost for free!
  • I don't know how it works, but it works!
  • The world is kind and bright!
  • Life without personal growth trainings is simply UNTHINKABLE!!!
  • Your fate is in your hands!
  • join a sect

What is not hidden in most trainings is that nothing new is told on them. Almost any normal person already knows all this. But, supposedly such a powerful motivating push is only here.

back side

Trainings are different. There are trainings without the context “100% success, 200% guarantee”. Have you ever wondered who conducts the training? Psychotherapeutic training aimed at developing personal qualities, are carried out by specialists - psychotherapists or psychologists, often in a specialized institution and often absolutely free of charge. Coaching is not streamlined, and no one asks to bring friends to save them.

Life after training

Having clearly understood that now he is a leader, a person begins to change his life and environment.

  • Throws a girl (guy) - (I'll find myself better!)
  • Without fear, he takes on work that he simply cannot do. Later it turns out that a task that was difficult to carry out under the supervision of a coach cannot be done on your own.
  • Attempts to pull over the role of leader in the team. Such behavior usually causes nothing but surprise, irritation or a smile.
  • The consequences of long-term stress affect: hysteria, depression, problems in communicating with the environment. The traumatized psyche is filled with false attitudes.
  • Lies about their achievements, fear of revealing the "terrible truth."
  • Inventing your own methods of liberation from the "shackles of civilization."

conclusions

  1. The human psyche is a very subtle substance.
  2. It is not possible to make a leader out of any person.
  3. Tasks and methods, often from a textbook on "shock therapy", there are no halftones - either a person will forever get rid of his complexes and phobias, or after the stress he has experienced, he will drive the problem far inside. Consequences are possible in the distant future.
  4. The creators of Nazism also wanted to "improve" humanity.
  5. Work to improve your personal qualities is not limited to three days of the main course and not even a week of VIPa.
  6. It will take more than one year to develop social skills in natural situations. Without regular practice in natural settings, short-term results and theory are useless and dangerous.
  7. Most of the effects of personal growth can be obtained without paying a penny.
  8. Self respect. How can a person feel about himself who is ready to throw his “I” into the trash can in three days?

It seems to me that the harm of personal growth training is very obvious. Again, this is my opinion based on personal experience and the experience of my friends, therefore I do not pretend to be the truth in the first person. If you have been touched by this topic, please leave your opinion in the comments!

Self-development. Everyone understands this word differently. For someone it is to master new profession and start earning big paychecks. Someone will consider it self-development that they read several books in one week. The third will be proud that he was able to reach a new level in computer game and brag about the fact that he is engaged in his self-development.

BroDude has its own opinion on this matter, which is not surprising, because every day we are engaged in our self-development, work on ourselves, improve ourselves and develop new personal qualities. In the bottom line, self-development is filling your consciousness with new knowledge and skills, and the prefix itself means that you achieve this yourself, without the help of experts. This, by the way, is much more productive, because you have to delve into the essence and thereby get more information. It's not for you to sit in a lecture playing on your phone. Self-development is impossible without your desire, which means it allows you to concentrate on gaining knowledge.

Where to start? Of course with online courses to improve your skills. Luckily there are a lot of them now. We have selected a few, which we will now discuss.

1. Fundamentals of programming

It is easy to predict what the future of programming will be. It has already arrived. Now it is impossible to imagine an advanced personality without a smartphone or computer. Social media, numerous useful services, even the coffee maker is programmed for the morning and will make a cup of coffee at exactly 7:00.

Even if you are a humanist and decided to hastily skip this item, then take your time. Of course, programming requires knowledge in mathematics and even in physics. But now there is no longer the way of writing programs that people used ten years ago. Now there are a huge number of handy tools that highlight, suggest or even correct your inaccuracies in real time.

One of the most useful courses on this subject is from Geekbrains. This is exactly what you need at the initial stage of acquaintance with this profession. Even a beginner can find a lot of interesting things for himself. If you doubt that you will succeed in the end, then do not worry, everything is free. It will be more offensive not to try and regret it for the rest of your life.

The course lasts one and a half weeks and includes 3 lessons of 2 hours, each of which talks about the specifics of various nuances. After completing the course, you will receive a coveted certificate with a seal. As a bonus, you will have access to all the videos of this course, and you will also write your first program, which you can show off among your friends!

2. Marketing basics

All the products that surround us will not be sold and make a profit without a properly built marketing plan. Cannot be created New Product without thinking about its promotion and advertising.
If you create the new kind chocolate that will be of high quality, and at the same time cost 10 times cheaper, then you will not sell it if no one knows about it. Without proper advertising, you can burn out even with a brilliant idea. In the market, it is important to present your product correctly, and that is why marketers are now worth their weight in gold. Good specialists generally priceless.

It is safe to say that these courses will not be in vain for you, and you will not waste your time. Marketing is not all the knowledge that you will receive if you want to develop yourself. There is programming, design, and project management.

By the way, when we went to the Netology website, we found a nice promotion. Its meaning lies in the fact that when passing one course - you will receive the second as a gift. The promotion is valid until August 15th. Really nice. If you don't like marketing, learn design. The meaning of self-development lies in this - the constant search for new knowledge.

3. Basics of Speed ​​Reading

The flow of information that now surrounds us is truly enormous. Often our brains can't even handle the mass of text that enters your brain during the day. If you calculate the time it takes just to read the information, then you will understand that it is spent on a huge scale. Considering that time is the most valuable resource that we possess, it is necessary to protect it with special care. That's what speed reading courses are for. They are aimed at the thesis study of information and the selection of the most important points, discarding the so-called "water", which just takes your precious time.

An average person reads at a speed of 200-250 words per minute on average, while the brain is able to perceive about 500 words in the same period of time. As a result, we spend almost 2 times more time on the assimilation of information than we could.

Courses on accelerating the perception of information are very popular lately. One of these is Legentas. After passing it, you will be able to increase the speed of your reading in those same two times and work several times faster. More precisely, spend twice as little time perceiving information. What is this, if not self-development?

The freed up time can be easily spent on improving more necessary skills. Think about how much you spend reading a typical article and divide that time by two. Now calculate how much time during the day you can save. You can spend it with benefit and self-development will be much more productive.

4. English course in real life

Globalization is in full swing. One of the connecting components of this very process is the English language. It will allow you to get more high paying job, go on vacation to any European country and just understand this world a little more than others.
There are a huge number of methods by which people learn English. Some claim that all you need is a desire, while others that you need to go to an English-speaking country and live there for at least six months. We are sure that before rushing to extremes, you need to prepare yourself and acquire the basics. Without them, you will not be able to master any business. First you need to determine your level of language proficiency. To do this, there are many tests that will determine your knowledge and give you a characteristic. Next, you need to decide on the method of study. The right thing to do is to try several at once - audiobooks may not suit you, but you will learn English easily by watching series with subtitles or in another interesting way. You need to start somewhere. No other way.

RealStudy. Here you can get training exactly at the level that corresponds to your knowledge. Simply put, if you are just starting to learn a language, then you will start from the very basics. If you have determined that your level corresponds to a higher one, then you can start training immediately from the third or fourth level. Luckily there are six of them.

There is nothing wrong with starting with the first, to understand that you have outgrown it and move on to the second right away. This will not only help you repeat the knowledge you already have, but also amuse your pride, which is directly related to inspiration for conquering new knowledge. This course has many advantages - more than 230 video lessons, more than 300 dialogues for speaking practice and more than 1000 useful tasks.

5.TED

Nothing so inspires self-development as a good example of a person who has achieved considerable heights in life. We're looking at successful people and try to come up with excuses. We assure ourselves that they did not achieve their success themselves, they were helped, they were promoted. And you, without connections and funds, are not able to invent something or come up with a new product. It's all nonsense. Numerous life stories prove that more than half of successful and famous people have achieved success through self-development. Indeed, when you listen to or watch the performances of successful people, you want to believe that you are no worse, you just need to believe in yourself. It's inspiring, trust me.

If you know at least the basics in English or have completed the course we suggested above, then you need to go to the world-famous TED project for inspiration. Here you can watch the performances of people who have something to tell. You won't copy a single success story. You don't think new iPhone and you won't create a new TESLA. But this does not mean that you cannot be inspired by the stories of people who were able to achieve certain heights.
At TED almost every day there are interesting and instructive lectures.

Personal development trainings differ from instrumental trainings (trainings of specific skills) in that they provide knowledge and develop tactics, strategies and skills that increase personal potential: helping to better solve life problems and used in a wide range of situations, increasing the capabilities of the individual in more than one narrow area and many areas of life.

Personal development trainings are held both in the personal field and in the business field. For example, "The Art of Communication" or "Management of Emotions" are rather trainings of a personal plan, personal topics, and trainings " Public performance”, “Goal Setting”, “Leadership Development” and “Stress Management” are rather business-oriented trainings. Training "Logical text analysis", which develops thinking, can be attributed to both business and personal fields. But all these trainings are personal development trainings.

Personal development training and psychotherapy

Personal Development Trainings and Personal Growth Trainings

These are quite different things, but in practice few people distinguish between them. Even experts call them, confusing, and so and so. But to be precise, growth occurs only by itself, while development can be produced.

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7. The information collected allows sending to the email address and mobile phone number specified by the Client, information in the form of emails and SMS messages via communication channels (SMS mailing) in order to conduct a reception for the provision of services by the Group of Companies, organize the educational process, send important notices such as changes to the terms, conditions and policies of the Group of Companies. Also, such information is necessary for promptly informing the Client about all changes in the conditions for the provision of information and consulting services and organizing the educational and admission process for training in the Group of Companies, informing the Client about upcoming promotions, upcoming events and other events of the Group of Companies, by sending him mailings and information messages, as well as for the purpose of identifying a party under agreements and contracts with the Group of Companies, communication with the Client, including sending notifications, requests and information related to the provision of services, as well as processing requests and applications from the Client.

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CHUDPO "MOSCOW BUSINESS SCHOOL - SEMINARS", legal address: 119334, Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 38 A.