3.4.6 LIFE SKILLS

The World Health Organisation (WHO) published the document 'Life skills education in schools' in 1993, which contains a list of all those skills (abilities, competences) that one needs to learn in order to relate to others and to cope with the problems, pressures and stresses of everyday life.

The basic idea is to help each boy or girl acquire that knowledge, those ways of being that will help him or her become a person, a citizen, a responsible worker, a participant in social life, capable of taking on roles and functions autonomously, able to cope with the vicissitudes of existence.

These are 'social and relational skills that enable young people to deal effectively with various situations; to relate with self-esteem to themselves, with confidence to others and to the wider community (from family, school, group of friends and acquaintances, to the society they belong to, etc.).

The 'core' of 'life skills' consists of the following skills and competences:

Emotional awareness is the basis for good self-awareness and consists of being able to recognise the emotional signals of one's body and to name the emotions one feels that 'inform' us about our preferences, tastes and needs.


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