Inculcating Life Skills amongst Rural Youth:
A
7-Days' Workshop by The
Transformers Value Creators
The workshop was conducted by the Nehra
Yuva Kendra Sangathan, Pinjore at the Gram Sachivalya, Bhoria Village, District
Pinjore with the main objective to develop life skills amongst the rural youth
with participants from 10 different villages across Pinjore and Kalka.
This workshop was further facilitated by
The Transformers Value Creators, a nationally renowned life skills training and
knowledge enterprise. The Transformers have been associated with the NYKS since
last 2 years, wherein a number of workshops and training sessions have been
organized in the past as well for their Zonal Directors, DYC's, NYV' s and
Rural Youth.
The first day of this one week workshop on
Life Skills, primarily emphasized upon instilling confidence amongst the youth
by promoting self awareness and self motivation in which more focus was laid
upon understanding one's own strengths and talents and boosting their morale to
become more expressive and confident to share and discuss. This all was induced
amongst the participants through different daring activities to unleash their
hidden or real potential and sensitizing videos to facilitate students find
their objective or goal and collaborate it with their strengths.
The second day was all about understanding
one's own emotions, with emphasis upon valuing and managing emotions. On this
day, participants were made to understand and realize their different emotions
and related stimuli or response to each emotion. They were also enabled with
the skill of prioritizing and making choices crucial for their age and stage of
life. Participants were also sensitized
with the need to respect and value one's own emotion along with other's
emotions.
Third day was all about anger management,
where students were instilled with the sensitivity of the ill effects or the
irreparable or permanent damages caused due to excess anger. Thereafter, the participants
were facilitated with ways to control and manage anger through elaborate
discussions and brainstorming sessions. Furthermore, the participants were made to do
various role plays which were based upon different themes provided to them, so
as to understand how to respond or react to different crucial or problem situations.
Fourth Day was completely focused upon
understanding the various life skills and their importance in life to have a
balanced life and be success oriented. Participants were given different
simulative situations where they had to express their individual ways to
respond so as to have a deeper understanding of the need and role of various
life skills in different circumstances. Participants were also instilled with stronger
self realization for the need to overcome their weaknesses and boost their
strengths by developing life skills.
Fifth Day was to develop positive thoughts
and ideas by promoting creative and critical thought process for which the
participants were involved in various energizing and engaging activities so as
to instigate new ideas and ideologies. As a part of this session, the
participants were also made to understand the various mindsets and different
types of natural intelligence and ways to instill creative intelligence.
On the sixth day, the participants were
enabled with very important skills of goal orientation and managing time. The
participants were made to complete different time bound tasks individually and
in groups to understand the importance of time and being focused towards their
goal. As a part of this session, the
participants were also sensitized with the adverse impact of being distracted
and loosing valuable time.
On the seventh day, i.e. the last day of
this workshop, the participants were instilled with the importance and need of
the girls to be educated and most importantly for both the genders to progress
collectively. As a part of this session, to further evoke sense of
responsibility amongst the participants, they were emphasized upon the dire
need to stay away from addictions in life.
At the end of the seventh day, the
participants were made to fill a questionnaire, so as to evaluate their
complete 7-days of learning. Finally, the workshop was concluded with a formal
closing ceremony, wherein the participants were rewarded with a participation
certificate and were also acknowledged in front of their parents.
