Bloomster Course: Exploring You: A Journey to Self-Awareness

Course Overview

Learn the fundamentals of self-awareness and its practical applications. Meta-cognition, or "thinking about thinking" is integral to practicing self-awareness. This introductory course serves as an introduction to the concepts surrounding self-awareness, as well as its importance. Learners will delve deeper into their personal thoughts and emotions through engaging modules and reflective exercises. They will gain valuable insights and understanding of their own mental processes, thereby laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of themselves and their interactions with the world.

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Introduction to Self-Awareness

We follow a group of middle school students embarking on a summer camp adventure in the mountains. Each student has unique characteristics and they are brought together by their shared desire to discover themselves. Let's join them as they navigate the complexities of late childhood and early adolescence.

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Introspection

The campers have begun the process of basic Self-Awareness. They are now looking deeper into what makes them who they are: What motivates them, their goals, the influences and relationships in their lives. Let's see how this is going.

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Emotional Intelligence

As the campers delve deeper into the Self-Awareness journey, they have begun to recognize their emotions, feelings, and thoughts. They are learning to consider how these interact and how to recognize negative aspects and replace them with more positive coping skills.

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Self-Acceptance & Reflection

The campers now enter the final module for this introductory Self-Awareness course. Their focus during this time is understanding we are all perfectly imperfect, how to embrace themselves and others and remain safe in the knowledge they have sovereignty over their own person.

Meet the Course Creator, Dr. Kymberli Barker

Dr. Barker is the single mother of two fantastic grown young men, and they are her priority in life. She holds degrees in biochemistry, math, forensics, and psychology. She is a consultant and a professor at multiple colleges, teaching with the Citadel, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and local community colleges in psychology, criminal justice, and neuroscience. Her specializations are police, the US Military, and first responders. Her personal focus is child advocacy. She developed the Guardian ad Litem/(GAL)/CASA program for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is tribally and state sworn as a GAL. Dr. Barker also coached middle and high school sports and misses her days as a fitness instructor. She lives at the beach with her newly adopted puppy and they both love playing in the water. Her favorite thing is being a mom.