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

26. QUESTIONS?????
??

27. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!