Unfortunately, there’s an entire culture that is built on the idea that women need to be “fixed”, or that we innately lack confidence. This is the confidence cult or culture we live in. We’ll explore why the business of self-improvement is disproportionately directed at women, which, you guessed it, ends up hurting our confidence. We will explore the internal influences on our confidence, such as the inner critic. Lastly, we’ll discuss the external hurdles to our confidence, namely, gendered expectations and the unequal household division of labour.

Join Professor Maja in this unique and energizing workshop to learn the truth about confidence. Let’s dismantle the idea that women innately lack confidence and need to be fixed. You’ll walk away with a new understanding of confidence and strategies to buffer the social and personal forces that so often hurt our confidence.

Join Professor Maja and learn:

• How and why the self-help industry disproportionately focuses on women’s “lack of confidence.”

• How the internal factors of as self-criticism and rumination hurt our confidence.

• How external factors such as the household division of labour and gendered expectations negatively impact women’s confidence.

• Strategies to address both internal and external factors.