LIFE SKILLS

“The abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life“

Life Skills

“Life skills are essentially those abilities that help promote mental well-being and competence in young people as they face the realities of life”

Like Skills offers wonderful new ways of looking at life and encourages one to be authentic.

FOCUS AREAS OF LIFE SKILLS

• Health and social events,• Prevention of drug use,• Sexual violence,• Teenage pregnancy,• HIV/AIDS prevention,• Suicide prevention, etc

• 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

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

PROBLEM SOLVING

Helps us to deal constructively with the problems in our lives

DECISION MAKING

Following constructively with decisions about our lives.

Creative thinking is simply finding new, improved ways to do anything

How to strengthen creative thinking ability?

Believe it can be doneHere 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

CRITICAL THINKING

The ability to analyze information and experiences in an objective manner.

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.

SELF AWARENESS• Recognition of ourselves• Of our character• Of our strength and weaknesses• Desires and Dislikes

WHO AM I ?

Self-awareness

Self-management

Self-esteemSelf-

confidence

Better Self-awareness leads to better self-management

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.

EMOTIONS

Recognising our emotions and those of others, being aware of how emotions influence behaviour and being able to respond to emotions appropriately.

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“.

DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?

DO YOU REMEMBER NOW?

KEVIN CARTER

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

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

QUESTIONS???????

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!