CORE LIFE SKILLS

1. SELF AWARENESS Recognition of ourselves Who am I?

2. COPING WITH EMOTIONS Recognizing our own emotions and those of others How do I feel? What do I feel? Basic four emotions 1.What makes you happy and how do you cope? (H) 2.What makes you sad and how do you cope? (S) 3.What makes you angry and how do you cope? (A) 4.What frightens you and how do you cope? (F)

3.COPING WITH STRESS Recognizing and finding out the sources What are stressors? Where do they come from? What increases them? What decrease them?

4. EMPATHY Ability to imagine what life is like for another person, even a situation that we may not be familiar with What do you think? 1.A teenager feels when humiliated? 2.Your student feels when scolded? 3.A colleague feels when not given the opportunity you have?

5. DECISION MAKING Is about going constructively through with decisions about lives Write the most difficult decisions you have ever made in your life: 1.When you were a child before 12 years old: How did you come up with such decision? 3.When you were a teenager: How did you come up with such decision?

6. PROBLEM SOLVING Deals constructively with problems in our lives Significant problems that are left unresolved can cause mental stress and give rise to accompanying physical, emotional, social and even spiritual strain strains. ProblemsSolutions

7. CREATIVE THINKING It contributes to both decision making and problem solving by enabling us to explore the available alternatives and various consequences or our actions or non-action. It helps us to look beyond our direct experience, and even if no problem is identified, or no decision is made, creative thinking can help us to respond adaptively and with flexibility to the situations of our daily lives. ProblemsSolution ASolution BSolution C

8. CRITICAL THINKING Is ability to analyze information and experiences in an objective manner. It can contribute to positive living by helping us to recognize and assess the factors that influence attitudes and behavior, such as values, peer pressure and the media If I doThe mostly consequences are Solution A Solution B Solution C

9. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION It means we are able to express ourselves both verbally and non-verbally, in ways appropriate to our cultures and situations. Means beings able to express opinions and desires, but also needs and fears. What is it that I want/ need to convey? What results do I see as a result of conveying this? When expressing your thoughts and feelings what communication methods to you usually employ to get your desired results?

10. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP SKILLS It helps us to relate in positive ways with people we interact with. Means being able to make and keep friendly relationships, which can be of great importance to our mental and social well-being. Also mean keeping good relationship with family members, which are an important source of social support. Being able to end relationships constructively. List down people in your lives and rate the quality of relationship with them. (1 lowest and 5 highest). Examples: friends, family members, neighbors, strangers, colleagues, etc...

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