Topic 2.

PROMOTION
OF
LIFE SKILLS

By Apila, J @2018
 THE CONCEPT OF LIFE SKILLS

What is a skill?
A skill is the ability that a person has to
do something well. Or
A skill is the ability of an individual to
apply his/her mental and physical power
to control the environment.
What are Life Skills?

Life Skills are abilities that a person has

to live well in the society.
Life skills enable a person to manage his
or her life properly and make it better.
Life skills include the ability to;-

– Understand oneself
– Build sound relationship with others
– Survive under difficult circumstances
– Act responsible and safe
– Solve problems
 TYPES OF LIFE SKILLS

There are three major types of life

skills;-
i. Individual life skills
ii. Social life skills
iii. Effective decision making life skills
 LIFE SKILLS

INDIVIDUAL LIFE SOCIAL LIFE EFFECTIVE DECISION

SKILLS SKILLS MAKING LIFE SKILLS

1. Self Awareness 1. Critical thinking

1. Forming healthy relationship
2. Copying with stress 2. Creative thinking
2. Forming friendship
3. Copying with emotion 3. Decision making
3. Peer resistance
4. Assertiveness 4. Problem solving
4. Empathy
5. Negotiation
6. Effective communication
 1. INDIVIDUAL LIFE SKILLS

These are skills that enable an individual

to understand him/herself well in various
ways.
 ASPECTS OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE
SKILLS
Aspects of individual life skills include;-
i. Self awareness
ii. Copying with stress
iii. Copying with emotion
iv. Assertiveness
 A. SELF AWARENESS

Awareness is the ability of a person to

know or understand something.
Self awareness is the ability of an
individual to understand him/herself
better.
Self awareness include;-

- Understanding your emotions and

feelings.
- Understanding your strengths and
weaknesses
- Knowing who are you, where you are,
why and where are you going.
 B. COPYING WITH STRESS

Stress is a mental, emotional or physical

tension or pressure. Stress can be caused by
events like examination, death, divorce, or
any serious problem.
Copying with stress is the ability of a person
to control his or her emotional tension when
the problem occurs.
 C. COPYING WITH EMOTIONS

Emotion refers to the strong feelings of

fear, love, anger, shyness, disgust and the
desire to be accepted.
Copying with emotion is the ability of a
person to control and manage his or her
strong feelings and actions.
 D. ASSERTIVENESS

Assertiveness is the ability of an

individual to know what he or she wants
and why and be able to take necessary
steps to achieve it in the right way.
Note:

Assertiveness leads a person to self-

esteem. What is self-esteem?
Self-esteem is the act of having belief
and confidence in your own ability and
value.
 2. SOCIAL LIFE SKILLS

Social Life Skills refer the skills that

enable a person to understand and live in
peace and harmony with others.
ASPECTS OF SOCIAL LIFE SKILLS

The following are some aspects of social

life skills.
i. Forming healthy relationship
ii. Forming friendship
iii. Peer resistance
ASPECTS OF SOCIAL LIFE SKILLS

iv. Empathy
v. Negotiation
vi. Effective communication
 A. FORMING HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIP
Relationship refers to the way people
interact and behave toward each other.
Relationship can be between children,
neighbors, peers, students, teachers and
parents.
 A. FORMING HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIP
Being able to form healthy or positive
relationships enables one to know how to
behave properly in each relationship.
 B. FORMING FRIENDSHIP

Forming friendship is the ability of an

individual to make friends with people
who he or she can share activities, ideas,
joy and sadness.
This life skill enables an individual to
prevent loneliness.
 C. PEER RESISTANCE
Peer Pressure is a social influence or pressure
on somebody to adopt a type of behavior,
dress or attitude in order to be accepted as
part of a group. Or
Peer Pressure is the strong influence of a
group especially of children on member of
that group to behave as -
 C. PEER RESISTANCE

everyone else does.

Peer pressure can be positive or negative.
What is peer resistance?
Peer resistance is the act of an individual
to take control of his or -
 C. PEER RESISTANCE

her life by resisting or opposing negative

influence from the others.
 D. EMPATHY

Empathy is the ability to understand

other people’s feelings and to feel
concerned about their problems.
Empathy enable us to share problems
with our friends, neighbors, school
mates, workmates, teachers and so on.
 E. NEGOTIATION

Negotiation is the ability to agree on

issues without undermining or going
against one’s principles.
Negotiation helps us to solve conflicts in
our society.
F. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Communication is the act of transmitting

and receiving information
Effective communication is the ability of
a person to communicate with people
according to their mood, age and
background.
 HOW TO USE SOCIAL LIFE
SKILLS
We can use social life skills in;-
i. Forming good relationship with
other people
ii. Making good friends
iii. Showing empathy
 HOW TO USE SOCIAL LIFE
SKILLS
iv. Exhibiting peer resistance
v. Displaying effective communication
vi. Solving problems
3. EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING
LIFE SKILLS
Effective Decision Making Skills are
skills that enable a person to make good
decisions.
 ASPECTS OF EFFECTIVE
DECISION MAKING LIFE SKILLS
The following are aspects of effective
decision making life skills;-
i. Critical thinking
ii. Creative thinking
iii. Decision making
iv. Problem solving.
 A. CRITICAL THINKING

Critical Thinking is the ability of a

person to develop a deep understanding
of something.
Critical thinking helps us to come up
with good ideas or ways of solving
problems.
 B. CREATIVE THINKING

This is the ability of thinking and come

up with a new ideas and new ways of
doing things.
Creative thinking helps people to come
up with solutions that other people never
thought of.
 C. DECISION MAKING

Decision making is the ability of making

the best choice out of many available
options.
In life it is important to think about the
consequences before making a decision
 D. PROBLEM SOLVING

This is the ability of making a choice and

act on it.
Problem solving helps a person to make
decisions and implement them.
 SOURCES OF LIFE SKILLS

People learn life skills from different

sources including the following;-
i. Family
ii. Neighbours
iii. Friends
 SOURCES OF LIFE SKILLS

iv. School
v. Society
vi. Religion
vii. Mass media. E.g. radio, television,
newspapers, films and movies.
 CONSEQUENCES OF NOT
APPLYING LIFE SKILLS
Failure to apply life skills can lead to
problems. Some those problems are;-
i. Improper choice in our decisions
ii. It may lead to bad behavior
iii. It may lead to conflicts
 CONSEQUENCES OF NOT
APPLYING LIFE SKILLS
iv. It may lead to poverty
v. Lack of empathy
vi. Poor leadership
 IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS

Life skills are important for making life

better as follows.
i. It helps to make proper decisions in
our life. E.g. choosing a good
friends, subjects or combinations,
career, husband and wife and so on.
 IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS

Life skills are important for making life

better as follows.
i. It helps to make proper decisions in
our life. E.g. choosing a good friend,
subjects or combinations, career,
husband and wife and so on.
 IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS

ii. It helps to develop good behavior

iii. It promotes peace and love among
people
iv. It helps to responds effectively to
social problems. E.g. divorce, death,
examination pressure, etc.
 IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS

v. It helps to understand our

environment and the way of fighting
with them.
vi. It helps to maintain peace and order.
E.g. through negotiation.
EXERCISE

Write “T” for the true statements and “F”

for the wrong statements.
1. Life skills are abilities that make a
person live well in the society
_______
2. Individual life skills enable -
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a person to understand others ____

3. Self awareness is the ability of a
person to know what he or she wants
______
4. Formation of friendship is not -
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a part of social skills _____

5. Social skills give an individual the
knowledge and ability to live
according to the needs of the society
_____
EXERCISE

Fill in the blank spaces.

6. _________are the ways people
behave and relate to each other.
7. The ability of a person to resist
negative influence from others is
called ___________
EXERCISE

8. The ability of an individual to

understand and be concerned about
other people’s problems is called
_____
9. The ability of a person to
communicate with others while -
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considering their mood, age and

background is called ________
10. _________ is the ability to agree on
issues without undermining one’s
principles.