Learning Lab - LifOpps

Learning Labs

"Learning + Do + Lead"

Learning Labs Include:

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Certain skills are required so as to take advantage of your Life Opportunities and to enhance your overall success. Depending on your individual circumstances and goals, those skills can significantly vary in both skill identification and importance.

The skills offered by LifOpps are not all inclusive but rather identified skills needed by many Inquisitives.

These are the skills that can make your goals achievable, to help you eliminate your self doubt, and show your support team that you know how to be successful. None are hard to learn but do require you to commit to and practice them. The more you proactively practice, the quicker you will see the results.

Learning Labs

Learning Labs are setup to teach the skills but even more important, to do it in a memorably fun environment including having the lab participants begin practicing the skills. Over 75% of the lab time is devoted to the lab participants practicing communicating in a variety of ways. Those practices are patterned after normal life situations so the participants can relate to them and more easily remember and utilize their new skills after the lab is completed.

Those normal life situations are created by the participants themselves in a variety of role playing exercises. In many labs the participants are encouraged to identify challenges in their own lives that may make it difficult to embrace the new skills. Then they, along with other group members, will devise ways that the skills can work including how to surmount those identified challenges.

This format, while probably better in person, still works great in a remote Zoom format. Use of breakout rooms, keeping everyone's video on with the participate showing in the video, etc can still create a challenging environment that will foster real absorption of the skills. LifOpps focuses on the goal of having the participants really embrace the skills, thinking about them, practicing them and truly incorporating them into their everyday lives.

Benefits of the Communicating with Confidence Learning Lab:

Overcome Fear & Anxiety
Improve Communications Skills
Increase Creativity & Critical Thinking
Build Social & Emotional Relationships
Involvement In School
Research Validated Instructions

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Intelligence quotient (IQ), experience, training, study, etc are all factors to performing in an academic or occupation. However Emotional Intelligence (EI) (also refereed to as Emotional Quotient (EQ)) can be the difference between average and excellent performance.

It is amazing how many of us think we are emotionally aware but our friends and co-workers may not have the same impression. In fact studies have found that more of us who think we are emotional intelligent aren't then those of us who are actually emotionally intelligent.

Being emotionally intelligent can be a predictor of academic and/or professional success (American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2006 June15; 70(3):69). It is also connected to skills that can directly relate to success. Skills such as team leading, perseverance, communication, perceived has having empathy and many others.

We have all been there, running out of time! It may be studying time, fun time, time for chores, going out or whatever. But it always seems that we run out of time for things that are important to us.

But did we really run out of time? Or did we lose time to activities that are not that important to us. Did we even realize what activities took our time?

Time management is an on going effort and imperative for success. You will be amazed how much time you have available and how much more you can get done when you manage your time. And you will still have the time for what is important to you.

Many times academic performance is directly related to the the amount of time you spent studying. But wouldn't it seem plausible that if we increase our study efficiency the amount of time we need to spend would either go down or our performance would improve?

How many times have you set down to study and your mind is everywhere but on what you are trying to study?

Do you have a dedicated place, at least at a specific time each day, to study? Do you study at the same time each day? Have you developed a routine that always leads to studying? Where is your phone? How many times do you glance or pick it up? Is your mind settled on the task at hand?

These are just a few of the points that are made, demonstrated and practiced by the participants, in the Effective Study Skills.

Though this can be a tricky subject, picking the right friends can be a significant help to success. This is especially true during high school years. The difference between having friends that hold you back and friends who help you expand and grow is massive.

When walking into a new class or occupation, do you think about looking around for the good to great performers. Then figure out who you might be able to collaborate with to raise both of your performances.

Usually this workshop is offered with other workshops. It sometimes is offered on its own and takes two hours.

Benefits of the Communicating with Confidence Learning Lab:

Overcome Fear & Anxiety
Improve Communications Skills
Increase Creativity & Critical Thinking
Build Social & Emotional Relationships
Involvement In School
Research Validated Instructions