Life Skills - Skills for Life
All children are born with the desire and the ability to learn. Children learn best
through hands-on experiences and self-discovery, rather than through direct Instruction.
Children learn best when the learning is self-initiated, arising from their own
curiosity and interests, rather than imposed on them. These are some of the principles
on which the life skill workshops are formulated upon. Each of these workshops are
group counseling sessions that create a platform to sensitize children about various
issues, and enables them to think and take responsibility by acting appropriately.
Children are free to voice their opinion, debate, agree and disagree, introspect
and while doing these they relate. They relate to problems around them, they relate
to peers, they relate to environmental issues and they relate to their own emotions
better.
Life skills training workshops aim at comprehensive synthesis of many successful
strategies, that students master over a period of time and use them to cope with
daily life situations. These sessions are designed to offer students high energy
activities that teach, entertain, and prepare students for the rest of their lives.
These hands on skills training is about learning to learn. Each element of these
workshops contributes to the overall adjustment of the child with himself, with
his peers, with his parents and with the environment at large leading to his success.
These early year exposure and practice is imperative for internalizing the core
values we want our adolescent to operate from.
Good Attitude addresses issues of empathy, compassion and care for peers
and for society at large. It highlights the importance of respect in everyday interactions.
Suitable for class V & VI.
Learning to respect addresses problems of teasing, name calling, isolating
peers by sensitizing about stereotypes, biases and prejudices against communities,
religion etc, setting stage for global outlook. Suitable for class VI and VII
MIND MAPPING Learn innovative ways to enhance memory by understanding how
the mind stores and retrieves information. Suitable for class VII and VIII
EFFECTIVE READING Skills Introduction to four gears of reading and build
insight into speed reading techniques. Helps students to be able to comprehend and
learn better. Suitable for class V and VI
ART OF WINNING for young adults focuses on the most important skills a person
can develop the Problem-solving and decision-making skills. The session evolves
around the idea that making good decisions and having the ability to solve problems
can make you a good leader. Suitable for class VIII & IX.
Goal setting Helps students to balance task and time and introduces them
to successful strategies of capable students. Suitable for class X, XI & XII.
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Some of the workshops that had participation of students from age group 9 years to
18 years over the year were as follows :-
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Assertive SMART
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Learning to Care
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Empathy and Compassion
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Anger SMART
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Appreciating differences
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Listening SMART
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Disagreeing Amiably-conflict resolution
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Team versus group
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SMART study skills
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Nurturing children to a large extent is giving them hope, believing in their dreams
and empowering them with life skills that would enable them to realize their dreams.
As a counseling psychologist I have learned with them skills for life and believe
in their dreams !
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