
Meet instructor Gail Wilson and the team as they introduce manipulation, blending psychology insights with fun, practical, bite-sized lectures available for lifetime access.
Write out your definition of manipulation through a quick exercise, then compare it with its actual meaning to deepen understanding and awareness.
Explore how manipulation seizes control from others using the marionette metaphor, and learn to set boundaries and reclaim decision making to avoid having your strings pulled.
Explore the psychological definition of manipulation, how it changes thinking, behavior, and perceptions, and the deliberate, underhand tactics manipulators use. Identify reinforcement, punishment, and silent treatment.
Explore common manipulation techniques, from lying and denial to guilt trips and shaming, and learn to recognize patterns, confront manipulation, and regain personal control.
Identify key personality vulnerabilities that fuel manipulation, such as disease to please, need for external approval, and low self-reliance, and learn to address them.
Apply the rain model: recognize, allow, investigate, nurture, to manage negative emotions from manipulation, sit with feelings, investigate causes, and nurture self-kindness, reinforcing internal locus of control.
Guided meditation teaches recognizing the trance of unworthiness, cultivating self-compassion through breath, body awareness, and tender inward love to heal self-judgment.
Identify the problem and analyze the manipulation by the boss; develop, evaluate, and select solutions, then implement an action plan with follow-up to stop manipulation.
Unpack the motivation behind manipulation by explaining what's in it for me, the drive for power and control, and the fear and low self-worth that fuel it.
Learn to disarm manipulation by recognizing it, identifying your vulnerabilities, acknowledging aggression, and enforcing firm no and clear boundaries to retrain manipulators.
What Is Manipulation?
This insightful Psychology course will teach you that Manipulation is the exercise of harmful influence over others. People who manipulate others attack their mental and emotional sides to get what they want. The person manipulating — called the manipulator — seeks to create an imbalance of power, and take advantage of a victim to get power, control, benefits, and/or privileges at the expense of the victim.
Manipulation can happen in close or casual relationships, but they are more common in closely formed relationships. In a way, everyone can manipulate others to get what they want. But manipulation is defined as any attempt to sway someone’s emotions to get them to act or feel a certain way.
Manipulators have common tricks they’ll use to make you feel irrational and more likely to give in to their requests.
This course will alert you to these tricks.
Signs of Manipulation
You will learn that Manipulation can happen in many forms but quite basically Manipulation is an attempt to undermine your rational thinking.
Being able to identify manipulation is a large part of putting an end to it. Manipulation can take a toll on your own emotional well-being.
On this course you will do practical exercises to identify the signs of manipulation in your own life.
Personality Vulnerabilities.
You will also learn how you are vulnerable to manipulation and develop an action plan to set boundaries and take back control of your life.