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Personal Transformation Psychology - Building Assertiveness (Udemy.com)

You'll learn mental strategies and practices to be resilient and change your identity when becoming more assertive

Created by: Vasco Patrício

Last updated March 2026

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What you will learn

  • You'll learn the key psychological principles for making a change in terms of being more assertive and defending yourself
  • You'll learn about mental techniques to more effectively change your conditioned responses and behaviors, finding new productive alternatives
  • You'll get to know useful techniques for when you are not feeling motivated, or when an obstacle is preventing you from continuing
  • You'll draw key distinctions in terms of your mindset, your outlook on life, relationships with others, and other key areas for your development

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Course Description

In this course, we are going to cover the psychology of your transformation towards becoming more assertive. This is a course that is not that focused on the actual techniques and practical skills, but the mindset. In other words, if you already know what you have to do logically, but for some reason, you can't get yourself to do it (maybe it's your emotions, maybe you don't deal well with setbacks, or others), then this is the course for you.

Our goal with this course is to cover the psychology of personal transformation. In other words, how to get you to change your behavior. We will be exploring three main phases:
- Definition (knowing what your specific goals are, your timeline, making a decision);
- Executing (actually starting to draw boundaries, having the right mindset and supporters, among other things);
- Resilience (knowing how to properly discharge negative emotions, as well as change your state when you find yourself in a negative one);

The course contains multiple techniques related to psychology, behavior change, and other areas, all applied to help you become more assertive, speaking up more and defending yourself when others try to abuse your time.

By the end of this course, you will know how to cultivate the necessary habits and behaviors to become more assertive in the long-term, not being derailed by obstacles, and always performing at your best.

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Instructor Details

Vasco Patrício

I have what could be considered an unconventional background as a coach. I don’t come from psychology or medicine. In fact, I come from tech. I created two tech startups that reached million-dollar valuations, backed by the MIT-Portugal IEI startup accelerator, afterwards becoming its Intelligence Lead.


After years of coaching and mentoring startup founders on talent management, emotional management, influence and persuasion, among other topics, I started being requested by executives and investors, like venture capitalists, with more complex, large-scale problems.


After years of doing executive work, I started specializing in coaching asset management professionals. With the signing of my first fund manager/CIO clients, I started adapting my performance and influence techniques for purposes such as talent management for PMs and analysts, fundraising from allocators, effective leading a team, and properly assessing talent for compensation/promotion/allocation increases.


I currently provide performance coaching and influence/persuasion coaching for executives and asset management professionals, mostly but not limited to purposes like managing people, leading and closing sales/capital commitments.

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Reviews

4.2

210 ratings on Udemy

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By Tamara Evans on 7/21/2025

It is a good matc

By Patrick HAUSER on 4/15/2025

Good for me, as I've had this experience before.

By Natalie Amos on 5/31/2024

The specific techniques offered was quite detailed enough to guide me on a clear path in helping me know I can achieve certain results. Some of the concepts were new to me. Conditioning myself to win has motivated a personal decision to change, assessing where I am currently at and taking required actions in order to move forward. Thank you.

By Ramiro Rodriguez on 5/18/2024

It is great!! I have been learning a lot. Thank you.

By Anonymized User on 12/12/2023

I liked the fact that the course was broken down into sections with the questions being throughout each module. Makes it easier to digest and come back to.

By Moataz AbdRabo Anwar Abdu Hemedah on 12/31/2022

The material is useful and to the point.

By Santino M. Rivera Sr. on 10/31/2022

so far so good. I am hard on myself sometimes and feel stagnant at other times, just want to keep moving forward in life and be successful along the way

By Mark Richards on 8/2/2021

Very fluid and "clean" instruction, speaking type. I like the examples

By Carolyn Bonney on 2/10/2021

Great course. It's similar to the other personal transformation ones by the instructor - same essence - but with a different focus, this time on being more assertive. As this is a more psychological type of change, the course fits this purpose much better than, say, the one for weight loss, and it gives you all the techniques to succed. Very happy with it so far.

By Vongai Hobwani on 2/6/2021

So relevant to my line of work.

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Overall Score : 84 / 100