Habitual over-apologizing shrinks people. Students especially are trained to be agreeable — to soften every ask, to apologize for taking up space — and it costs them opportunities they never even see themselves losing.
A workshop built around a simple inversion: apologize less, do more. Exercises swap reflexive apologies for clear asks, practice small acts of initiative, and reframe “bad choices” as learning opportunities — because there are no bad choices, just information you didn’t have yet.
Run as recurring sessions; building a facilitator’s guide so it can run without me in the room.