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- 2. Important Life Skills! Knowing yourself – SWOT Analysis How value and belief systems help to understand yourself and navigate relationships with self, family, society and nature Myths and misconceptions clarifications Understanding boundaries of behaviours – acceptable and not acceptable How to become a responsible adult –Tips for life
- 3. Helps you to reflect on your thoughts, words and actions How to think better to make informed decisions Helps problem solving, think creatively Empathy - how to think putting yourself in others shoes, Helps you to become an effective speaker for effective communication How to think positively so that you can handle and cope with stress, negative emotions, loss and trauma. Leading to assertiveness , better self image and self esteem
- 4. Understanding your self - strength, weakness, desires, likes, dislikes, etc. To understand that we are feeling To be able to express and respond without reacting!
- 5. Leading to social skills – how to have better interpersonal and intra personal relationships in a community, society, world to be a responsible individual, and citizen – to be assertive, confident and to have a healthy self esteem.
- 6. Empathy- emotional quotient – EQ – how to understand other’s better – their needs, desires, feelings, etc – to imagine what life is like for other people. Run the risk of being self centred or selfish without empathy. Our life is not lived in isolation - we live in society, surrounded by people and living among them harmoniously – with family, friends, relatives, strangers, etc.
- 7. Creative thinking – thinking and generating new ideas, concepts, flexibility in thinking, originality in thinking, what others have not thought of and elaborations – extending or building on other’s ideas. Creative solutions overcome imaginary limitations and help to deal with real limitations.
- 8. Critical thinking – analyze information, situations, people and worst case scenarios in an objective manner – analyze from all angles. Help us to access and understand behaviours related to our value systems, peer pressure and media
- 11. Belief An acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. Value(personal) Principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgment of what is important in life leading to a firm mental decision Ethics(external) Ethics refer to specific rules and actions, or behaviors guided by external factors like society, classroom, school authorities, office code of conduct, etc. Morals(personal intentions) Refer mainly to guiding principles which shapes a persons idea of right and wrong.
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- Life skills are thinking skills…at a personal level –how to reflect on your thoughts, words and actions - how to think better to make informed decisions, problem solve, think creatively and critically, how to think putting yourself in others shoes, how to think and speak for being an effective speaker/communication, how to think positively so that you can handles and cope with stress and emotions and loss and trauma. All leading to assertiveness and better self image and self esteem Leading to social skills – how to have better interpersonal and intra personal relationships in a community, society, world to be a responsible individual, and citizen – to be assertive, confident and to have a healthy self esteem. Self awareness – understanding the self, strength, weakness, desires, likes, dislikes, - to understand that we are feeling the stress or trauma or pressure..Important for social skills – interpersonal relationships and empathy. Empathy- emotional quotient – EQ – how to understand other’s better – their needs, desires, feelings, etc – to imagine what life is like for other people. Run the risk of being self centred or selfish without empathy.Our life is not lived in isolation - we live in society, surrounded by people and living among them harmoniously – with family, friends, relatives, strangers,etc. When we understand ourselves and others better, we are able to communicate our desires, wants to others more effectively – to express and share our thoughts and perspectives, what we want to say, our beliefs our values what we act, etc. At the same time, we are able to get others to understand us and what they say, convince, persuade and influence others to our way of thinking or acting, get their support, acceptance, etc. Empathy can help us accept others more easily – transgenders for eg, whose who have lesser than us, to improve social interactions, from other societies and cultures, etc, be able to help or assist others who need help, especially those people who are not “accepted in society” –mental disorders, challenged children, HIV patients, drug addicts, alcoholics. Critical thinking – analyse informations, situations, people and worst case scenarios in an objective manner – analyse from all angles. Help us to access and understand behaviours related to our value systems, peer pressure and media Creative thinking – thinking and generating new ideas, concepts, flexibility in thinking, originality in thinking, what others have not thought of and elaborations – extending or building on other’s ideas. Decision making – making decisions based on information, alternatives, thinking through pros and cons, advice of others, planning through the consequences, to make a well informed decision that one does not regret later even if the decision is wrong. Problem solving – deal constructively with problems in our lives. Acceptance, intentions and expectations to avoid stress, frustrations to avoid mental tensions and physical strains. Effective communication – RWLS – Reading writing listening and speaking skills – Listening and speaking – Ability to express ourselves well through RWLS - positive expressions – don’t forget, don’t drop it, no I wont do it, You are hopeless, careless fellow, handwriting . Don’t go into the good and bad comments. Make children aspire to do better. Don’t compare. Interpersonal relationships – To relate positively with all around us with whom we interact with. Don’t compare, don’t go good and bad in your comments. Important for personal and mental, emotional wellbeing of students. To maintain good relations with everyone who are our support system. The ability to end relartionships constructively… eg… if one is committed to marriage, then they have the right to say no till the end as it is a question of their life time relationship with one person. Coping with emotions – recognizing and understanding our emotion and others – anger, hurt, dissapointment, frustration,feeling revengeful, harmful in thought, word and action…etc Eg in school – the bully and the shy person. One student who does not stand up and answer in class,… Every action has an equal and opposite reaction . How our emotions affect us , our behaviour, attitude and relationship with the self and others. How it affects health. How to cope with our emotions, - moving away from it, deep breathing, changing our lifestyle, learning how to relax. Coping with stress -
- They are thinking skills
- When we understand ourselves and others better, we are able to communicate our desires, wants to others more effectively – to express and share our thoughts and perspectives, what we want to say, our beliefs our values what we act, etc. At the same time, we are able to get others to understand us and what they say, convince, persuade and influence others to our way of thinking or acting, get their support, acceptance, etc. Empathy can help us accept others more easily – transgenders for eg, whose who have lesser than us, to improve social interactions, from other societies and cultures, etc, be able to help or assist others who need help, especially those people who are not “accepted in society” –mental disorders, challenged children, HIV patients, drug addicts, alcoholics.
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- Exercise 9 dots… Connect all the 9 dots straight without lifting the pencil. Join all the dots using 3 /4 lines only. Challenge them to think harder.
- So many decisions in our lives…some small, some big, each one having a different impact on our lives.