Online: Tired of being a perfectionist?

What will I learn?
In this learning journey, you'll learn how to recognize and how to overcome perfectionism. When people strive for perfection, they're scared of making mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. It's just that one person has less of a problem with it than another. You'll learn that striving for perfection is not always something negative. Working diligently, being decisive, and daring to assume responsibility can lead to impressive performance. In addition to positive perfectionism, we distinguish between two types of adverse perfectionists: the struggling and the failing perfectionist. In both cases it's about setting the bar so high, that at a certain point you can't live up to it. Whatever you do, you're never satisfied with your results.

In this course on dealing with perfectionism, you'll learn ways of dealing with perfectionism more effectively so that it's less of a problem for you. Your uncertainty will also decrease. You'll learn to view situations systematically by gaining insight into your thoughts and their impact. The main goal of the RET method is change yourself by changing your thoughts. External influences can cause stress, but you're the most decisive factor with regard to your stress. The basic principle is: it's not the situations themselves, but the way you think about them, that determines how you feel and how you behave. You'll find out exactly how it works in this course.

What will I do?
Everyone's a perfectionist to some extent. We all have certain adverse perfectionist elements. Finding out exactly what you struggle with can help you a great deal. As soon as you know, you can also change. Real change, naturally, requires practice. That's what you're going to do in this learning journey. The more you challenge yourself and practice, the better the result. In this learning journey you'll learn to guard against the pitfalls: feeling responsible for everything and everyone, putting things off or not finishing them and feeling stressed out. You'll be practicing the RET method in 'real life', so that you'll be able to cope better with stressful situations. You'll be introduced to the basic principles, learn all about the basic emotions, and how they come into play in RET. We will also discuss the related basic terms that play a major role in practice.