PVCC Promotes Student Academic Success and Retention with College Success Courses

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PVCC PromotesStudent Academic Success and
Retentionwith College Success Courses

• Counseling and Personal Development Division

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Three Student Stories
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Mastering Creator Language The Language of
Responsibility
Purpose To practice language that supports
responsible choices which have an impact on the
outcomes of our experiences.
VICTIM TALK
CREATOR TALK
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RESPONSIBILITY MODEL
Stimulus
Inner Critic
Choice
Inner Guide
Inner Defender
Victim
Creator
Response
Response

• Blaming
• Complaining
• Excusing
• Repeats behavior

• Seeking Solutions
• Takes action
• Does something new

Result(s)
Result(s)
Seldom achieves goal(s)
Often achieves goal(s)
Victim language
Creator language

• Theres nothing I can do.
• I have always been that way.
• I cant..
• I have to.
• I should.
• Ill try
• I quit.

• Theres always something I can do.
• I can choose to be different.
• I can
• I choose to
• I will
• Ill keep going.

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Language of Responsibility Victims and
Creators see the world very differently. As a
result, they use different vocabularies to
represent their reality. In other words, you can
tell a Victim and a Creator by their choice
of words. Directions Translate the
Victim language into Creator language for the
items listed below
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• What would you say are the differences in the
  beliefs that Victims and Creators have about
  themselves? People? World?
• What do you think is the difference in the
  results created by Victims and Creators?
• What is the life lesson here?

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Reflection from CPD150 students at PVC

Since August, Ive learned more about myself. I
have learned that success has different meaning
for everyone. I feel I have a better grasp of my
future now. I have discovered motivations and I
have really mastered self-management and if I am
off course, I know how to fix it. I have
rewritten my scripts, now I feel that nothing can
hinder my success. The most important thing that
I have learned and applied to life is, thinking
like a creator. This has helped me out a lot.
A. Reed
An area I want to continue improving in is
discovering self-motivation. I think that if you
can motivate yourself that you can do anything.
You need to believe in yourself. I have found
out a lot of things about myself. I rely too
much on other people and I need to get things
done on my own. I learned about positive thinking
and how much it can actually help. J. Puschak