Confidence training

Confidence training

       Gaining self-confidence is a big deal

Most of the wiki articles on the subject tend to be too intellectual for most. Rather I choose to remind the readers of ways that are already routinely used to instill self-confidence in people who simply have not been challenged "that" way before. Along the way technical skills are learned, often for life.

Some obvious training already goes on.  Here's a list to provide ideas.

1)  School sports, both individual and team

2)  Ropes courses, including rappelling.

3)  Slide for life over water. Learning  human water-proofing.  High diving and jumping

4)  Outward Bound and similar commercial courses

5)  Orienteering, where mental training meets physical training and challenges

6)  Military training in general. Shooting  weapons,  land navigation, and parachuting are three obvious examples of self-confidence being gained as part of training

7)  Flying  in all forms, to include gliding. Sailing counts, too.

8)  Most scout training, especially camping skills and first aid training

9)  Hands-on training, like car repair, plumbing, and carpentry

10)  Home economics, like cooking, balancing a check book, and clothing repair

11)  Kayaking and canoeing, including how to "read" fast water and negotiating a falls

12)  Boot camp for "wayward" children

13)  Any kind of safe weapons training, like commercial or by a relative

14)  Working on a Farm. Working with Farm Animals. Saddling and riding  a horse

15) Find a low income job

If this list sounds like one that probably handles about everybody,  I would suggest that might not be the case for many of us.....unless we get the training we think we still need, and at about any age. Said another way, getting this kind of experience and confidence training often benefits the recipient for the rest of their life. Now some of it is dangerous, so pay attention to all the safety training that usually goes along when its appropriate.

One can argue that having done the skill once shows an individual that they can do it later, if they either have to, or want to. Skills training  and self-confidence training get close to each other in these kinds of cases.

 

Team building courses are a different subject, discussion, and list, by the way.