Dear Readers! TODAY is the last day you can purchase the Life Skills E-Handbook for $13.00 ( £8.99). TOMORROW it will go up to $25.00 or £16.50. There will still be the option to get the book for free (for those in low resource settings who cannot pay) but we will be requiring much more information and some engagement from those who apply to get the Life Skills Handbook for free so our payment will be in your time! If you have been thinking about getting the Life Skills Handbook then now is the time before the costs go up!... Continue reading

So this is the VERY LAST CHANCE to purchase the LIFESKILLS HANDBOOK at the old price. This book contains 61 sessions that you can use IMMEDIATELY with children Continue reading

Our new Life Skills site on the Wordpress Platform is almost ready. Before we all migrate over to this new site I wanted to let you know that the Life Skills Handbook has been revised and the price will be going up from $13.00 to $25.00 (Thats £8.99 to £16.50). There are not too many changes but we have more costs to cover with the new site. So Buy The Life Skills Handbook Now! Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 61, Endings and Beginnings, Moving On Continue reading

This is an excerpt from Life Skills Handbook: Activity 60, Endings and Beginnings, My New Network Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 59, Endings and Beginnings, My Timeline Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 58, Endings and Beginnings, Where Am I Now? Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 57, Endings and Beginnings, Making A Stronger Me Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook is: Activity 56, Thinking About Being a Parent Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our lifeskills handbook: Activity 55, Thinking about long term relationships Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 54, Coping with Emotions, Breaking The Cycle Of Hurt Continue reading

This is a single activity session plan from our Life Skills Handbook, a book available in digital format (only). There are 61 activity sessions in this book. Click here for more information on the book and how to purchase it. Purpose of activity To understand how fear works To explore how to control their fears and where their courage comes from Life skills: Coping with Stress & Emotion, Creative thinking, Critical thinking Steps 1. Before the session, ask a volunteer to stand outside the room and bang on the door at the signal. 2. Ask the children to close their... Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 52, Coping with Emotions, Stress Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 51, Coping with Emotions, Attack and Avoid Continue reading

Dear Lifeskills Community, I am very pleased with the growth of this community we are over 2000 strong! What pleases me the most is to know that with just this little contact that we have I am in some small way encouraging you in your important work to promote Lifeskills. Many of you already know that, at the moment my main work is with the UK Charity, Children for Health which I founded and now run as its director. There may be some of you who are involved with or interested in health education or health promotion and in particular... Continue reading

This is an excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 50, Coping with Emotions, Emotional Pressure Continue reading

An excerpt from our lifeskills handbook: Activity 49, A Stronger Me, Preparing For The Unexpected Continue reading

An excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 48, A Stronger Me, Resisting Pressure Using SWISH! Continue reading

Excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook, Activity 47: Goal Setting, Reaching The Goal Continue reading

An excerpt from our Lifeskills Handbook: Activity 46, Goal Setting, Setting Short Term Goals Continue reading

An excerpt from our Life Skills Handbook: Activity 45 Goal Setting, Returning To The Tree of Life Continue reading

Youth and Life skills Advisor At World Vision, The Education and Life Skills team is seeking a passionate candidate with a background in action learning models and preteen/teen children to do the following: Lead the development of the life skills area for the EDLS team Lead the development and expansion of the life skills CoP Direct the on-going development and refinement of the Positive Adolescent Development framework of best practice models. Serve as the representative for WVI at global and interagency consortia Identify themes from EDLS and other sectors and themes involved in applied life skills programming relevant M&E best... Continue reading

Please share your stories with us and with our readers. Help us reach our target of 20 stories by the end of October 2013. There is a bonus gift for every good story! Continue reading

It was lovely to meet one of my regular readers in Bangkok a couple of weeks ago and great that she finds the content useful for her projects and programmes in Armenia! Id love to have a few more stories about how your life skills programme is transforming the lives of the young people with whom you work. Please keep sending in the stories and it does not matter if you are using our life skills materials or not! This is a big and growing community who have recognised the value of life skills as part of transformational development. The... Continue reading

As those of you following our work over at Children for Health will know - I love lists and especially lists that are collections of things that are really important. Yesterday at the Street Child World Cup Summit in Cambridge, Neil Prem, an inspiring speaker, introduced the session on Social Enterprise and Leadership with a list of 7 things to tell young people and here they are! You are not a mistake - there is a purpose you are here to fulfill You are fearfully and wonderfully made - JUST AS YOU ARE There is something out there that only... Continue reading