Life skill lecture by amanjit singh dhillon iii
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The document discusses life skills and their importance for dealing effectively with everyday life challenges. It defines life skills as abilities that promote mental well-being and competence, especially for young people. The key life skills covered are health/social issues prevention, communication, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, relationship building, self-awareness, stress/emotion management, and empathy. Each skill is further explained, with a focus on how skills like communication, problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking help navigate everyday problems and decisions.
Life skill lecture by amanjit singh dhillon iii
- 3. LIFE SKILLS
- 4. Life Skills “The abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life“
- 5. “Life skills are essentially those abilities that help promote mental well-being and competence in young people as they face the realities of life”
- 6. Like Skills offers wonderful new ways of looking at life and encourages one to be authentic.
- 7. FOCUS AREAS OF LIFE SKILLS • Health and social events, • Prevention of drug use, • Sexual violence, • Teenage pregnancy, • HIV/AIDS prevention, • Suicide prevention, etc
- 8. • Communication skill, • Problem solving, • Critical thinking, • Creative thinking, • Decision-making, • Interpersonal relationship skills, • Self-awareness building skills, • Empathy, • Coping with stress, and • Coping with emotions
- 9. COMMUNICATION SKILL • Includes verbal non-verbal communication • Active listening • The ability to express feelings • Give feedback • Presentation skills • Public speaking skills • Negotiation and refusal skills • Assertiveness skills to manage conflicts, etc
- 10. PROBLEM SOLVING Helps us to deal constructively with the problems in our lives
- 11. DECISION MAKING Following constructively with decisions about our lives.
- 13. Creative thinking is simply finding new, improved ways to do anything How to strengthen creative thinking ability? Believe it can be done Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done. Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do
- 14. CRITICAL THINKING The ability to analyze information and experiences in an objective manner.
- 15. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP SKILLS Are social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people Helps us to relate in positive ways with people that we interact with.
- 16. SELF AWARENESS • Recognition of ourselves • Of our character • Of our strength and weaknesses • Desires and Dislikes WHO AM I ?
- 17. Self-awareness Self-management Self- Self-esteem confidence Better Self-awareness leads to better self- management
- 18. STRESS MANAGEMENT About recognising our life stressors and the sources of these in our lives, then we can choose to act in a way that controls our stress levels.
- 19. EMOTIONS Recognising our emotions and those of others, being aware of how emotions influence behaviour and being able to respond to emotions appropriately.
- 20. EMPATHY The ability to think what life is for another person, even in a situation that you may not be familiar with. The ability to "put oneself into another's shoes“.
- 21. DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?
- 23. DO YOU REMEMBER NOW?
- 24. PULITZER PRIZE 1994 DURING SUDAN FAMINE That picture depicts a child crawling towards a UN food camp located a kilometer away The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it KEVIN CARTER
- 25. IT DOESN’T END HERE… No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken Three months later Kevin Carter committed a suicide due to depression