The problems of modern students' self-knowledge and self-education are highlighted in the article. The author studies the possible ways of gaining the experience of self-discovery at the lessons of World Сulture by the high school students. We give methodological comments of the author's lesson "Self-portrait: the search for yourself or a dialogue with the audience."

Keywords:self-experience, students' creative self-determination, developing space of world culture lesson, value-semantic outlines and methodical bases of grafic self-portrait.