ENHANCING LIFE SKILLS
RESOURCE PERSON
Apurva Tripathi is a gold medalist from Delhi University and completed her Masters in Development Studies from The Graduate Institute in Geneva. She is currently working as the Director of Education and Research in Udaya Public School, Ayodhya. She has been a keynote speaker for various organisations, notably The YP Foundation and TARSHI. Her work focuses on Mental Health, gender sensitisation and psychological resilience Email: [email protected]
HOW ARE YOU FEELING?
WHY?
What are Life Skills?
DEFINITION
Life skills are behaviors that enable individuals to Any skill that is useful in adapt and deal effectively your life can be with the demands and considered a life skill challenges of life
Life skills are often taught in Life skills can vary from the domain of parenting, financial literacy through either indirectly through the substance-abuse prevention, observation of the child, or to therapeutic techniques to directly with the purpose of deal with disabilities such as teaching a specific skill autism
Life skills touch upon issues that are:-
Real: they actually affect people’s livestopical
Sometimes sensitive: they can affect people on a personal level, especially when family or friends are involved
Often controversial: people disagree and hold strong opinions about them
Ultimately moral: they relate to what people think is right or wrong, good or bad, important or unimportant in society.
Decision-making The World Health & problem-solving Resilience and Organization in coping with Creative thinking emotions & coping and critical 1999 identified with stress thinking the following core
Communication cross-cultural Assertiveness and and interpersonal equanimity areas of life skills skills Self-awareness and empathy
How does training in life
skills beneft young people ?
It enables them to It helps them to make a positive develop self- contribution by confidence and It gives them a developing the successfully deal voice at school, in expertise and with significant their community experience they life changes and and in society at need to assert challenges, such large their rights and as bullying and understand their discrimination responsibilities
UNDERSTANDING EMPATHY
What Empathy Is
Empathy is the capacity Having empathy can The English word to understand or feel include having the empathy is derived from what another person is understanding that there the Ancient Greek word experiencing from are many factors that go empatheia, meaning within their frame of into decision making and "physical affection or reference, that is, the cognitive thought passion" capacity to place oneself processes in another's position
What Empathy Isn’t
Empathy isn’t the same as sympathy
Being empathetic Empathy may not does not mean be about feeling lowering your sorry, but it is expectations about feelings
Types of Empathy
Compassionate Cognitive Empathy Emotional Empathy Empathy
Compassionate Cognitive empathy is Emotional empathy is empathy is what we basically being able to when you quite usually understand by put yourself into literally feel the other empathy: feeling someone else’s place, person’s emotions someone’s pain, and and see their alongside them taking action to help perspective Emotional empathy is Compassionate Cognitive empathy is also known as empathy is the type of ‘empathy by thought’, ‘personal distress’ or empathy that is usually rather than by feeling ‘emotional contagion’ most appropriate
TEACHING WITH EMPATHY: WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
The first step is helping
teachers understand why
empathy must be an integral
Perspectivepart of any classroom Putting and aside taking school judgment
Trying to understand the student’s feelings
Ways to Show Empathy for Students Who
Learn and Think Differently
These self- Feeling PerspectiveIt helps them Putting aside advocacy and understood and takingstay motivated, judgment self- supported is increases self- determination especially awareness, and skills lead to important for encourages better outcomes students who them to Trying to in employment learn and think advocate for understand the and post-school differently themselves student’s life feelings
The Four Parts of Empathy
Perspective Putting aside taking judgment
Trying to Communicate understand the that you student’s feelings understand
9 Competencies for Teaching Empathy
Planting Seeds of Empathy
Rather than a one-dimensional trait, empathy comprises nine teachable competencies
Each competency is suitable for students from kindergarten through high school (as well as adults) and can be taught
To be able to see the world as others see it
1. 3. Emotional Moral Literacy To 2. communicateIdentity To understand our another person’s Perspectiveunderstanding feelings of that person’s Taking feelings
Planting Seeds of Empathy
4. 5. Moral Self- To be able to Imagination see the world Regulation as others see it
To communicate To understand our another person’s 6. understanding feelings Practicing of that person’s feelings Kindness
Planting Seeds of Empathy
9. 7. 8. Growing Collaboration Moral Changemakers Courage
To communicate To understand our another person’s understanding feelings of that person’s feelings
REFERENCES
What are Life Skills? | https://nutspace.in/
What are Life Skills and why we teach them? | https://www.britishcouncil.gr/
Empathy | https://www.wikipedia.org
Types of Empathy | https://www.skillsyouneed.com/
The Four Qualities of Empathy | https://www.conversationagent.com/
Nine Competencies for Teaching Empathy | http://www.ascd.org/
Teaching With Empathy | https://www.understood.org/
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