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To develop human potential!
School of Life Skills
The School of Life Skills (SLS) implements and evaluates life skills programs in different ages and contexts. SLS is based on the work produced by the research group Adaptation, Performance, and Human Development. Este grupo faz parte do Cento de Investigação em Psicologia, da Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, integrando a Unidade de Investigação Saúde, Bem-estar e Rendimento.
Life Skills
Life skills encompass human potentialities that can be stimulated through systematic training or that are developed "implicitly" from people's everyday experiences, allowing human adaptation to changing events.
For example, people may learn to set goals in order to keep motivated for a given activity, but this life skill can then be used in other areas, helping people to remain motivated in daily life. (See more)
Today, there is no doubt that life skills and psychological factors exert an important role in human development and in the performance of individuals, teams, and organizations. These effects are transversal to different contexts (e.g., business, sports, arts, health, and education).
In fact, life skills training can be an excellent proposal when the objective is to enhance people's abilities, be it at the individual level (e.g., how they manage their time), the interpersonal level (e.g., how they relate with others), or even at the group and organizational levels (e.g., how they work as a team).
Contrary to popular belief, these skills are sensitive to specific training and do not only stem from each person’s personal, professional, and social development opportunities throughout their lives. That is, if the goal is to stimulate and consolidate life skills in each individual, team, and organization, then the implementation of intervention programs is critical.
The maximization of life skills learning depends on the existence of the training plans that are adapted to each situation and duly evaluated in terms of efficacy.
The School of Life Skills seeks to answer this challenge!
If you believe that psychological factors can be improved and that life skills training can be an asset, then we will be very happy to work with you!
Our interests
- Learning, automation, and generalization of life skills by each person, team, and organization!
- Stimulating individual, group, and organizational potentialities!
- Challenging personal limits!
- Testing and evaluating life skills training!
How we work
1. Evaluation
4. Transference
2. Learning
5. Evaluation
3. Automatization
6. Monitoring
What you can achieve
- Data about your life skills!
- Individualized consulting from specialized professionals!
- Learning and acquisition of life skills!
- Developing individual action plans essential to personal and professional success!
- Individualized monitoring during the implementation of life skills in real life situations!
Efficacy
The projects developed by the SLS are implemented within a logic of "action-research" through collected indicators that allow the efficacy of the intervention to be tested. The evaluation indicators are collected before and after the intervention.
Target audience
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Highlights
Comunicação: Abordagens Comunicacionais
De acordo com o Modelo da Eficácia da Comunicação (Gomes, 2019), a abordagem comunicacional positiva depende de uma crença otimista e […]
Compreensão da Adaptação Humana ao Stress: Exemplo em Contexto de Pandemia Parte 2
Na parte 1 desta série, explorámos o primeiro grande fator do Modelo Interativo de Adaptação ao Stress (Gomes, 2014), exemplificando-o com […]
Efeitos Fisiológicos do Stress
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University of Minho - Portugal
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