Study Guide G04 ~ Life Skills
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UNIT 1: Personal and social well-being LEARNING AIMS After completing this unit, you should be able to do the following: • Identify, investigate and appreciate your own personal strong points. • Identify successful and less successful experiences. • Turn less successful experiences into positive learning experiences. • Show respect for your own, as well as other people’s bodies. • Apply appropriate strategies to avoid and handle conflict situations. INTRODUCTION Personal and social well-being is about learning how to lead a healthy, happy, successful life. In this unit, you will learn how to identify your strengths as well as those of others. It is important to know what your strengths are, so that you can use them to reach your goals. It is also good to know about your weaknesses, so that you can work on and improve them. It can even become one of your strengths! We must respect our bodies. We must nourish our bodies with healthy food and strengthen it with physical activities. It is also important to respect other people’s bodies. You may never do anything that makes someone else uncomfortable. Lastly, we will look at conflict, and how you can avoid or handle it. Everything is set out below to make it easier to understand: Personal strengths • Identify own and others’ strengths. • Use strengths positively. • Read about role models and successful people. Respect for own and others’ bodies • How to groom and respect your own body. • How to respect other people’s bodies. • Read about grooming and respect for the body. 10
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