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Writings -
A collection of writings related to Life Skills
Below are online renderings of some writings
related to Life Skills. For those who prefer to read hard copy, you can receive
by email any or all of these as Word documents, which are much more amenable to
printing than are the online versions. Send your request to info@calsca.com. Otherwise, use the links
below, and read on!
The
Invention of NewStart Life Skills by Stuart Conger, former Chairman and
Executive Director of Saskatchewan NewStart.
Stuart writes about the early days of Life Skills and how it was
developed from theory to practice.
Social
Inventions
by Stuart Conger. A book that Stuart
wrote and is now revising. Stuart wishes
to use NewStart Life Skills as his real-life example of his theory of social
innovations. His article The
Invention of NewStart Life Skills is the beginning draft of the NewStart
story, from course to profession. Stuart
writes:
While I was at Saskatchewan
NewStart I saw the need for a life skills program and asked Ralph Himsl to form
a team to develop the course. When I saw how well it was working out I then
hoped that it would be adopted by many organizations as a course for their
students or clients. But more than that happened. I am thinking of Life Skill
Coaches creating their own organizations, provincially and nationally, and
engaging in mutual support not only through meetings but also with the CALSCA
website and listserv. Furthermore there has been the creation of companies
dedicated to teaching life skills.
I should very much like to
use the example of how one social invention, Life Skills training, can lead to
the creation of companies, a professional organization and a recognized
profession.
I would be very grateful if your readers
could give me their stories.
Please send any and all of your tales of Life
Skills history to Stuart at Stu.conger@sympatico.ca. Another way to contribute to his research is
to cc your info to info@calsca.com to help
construct a Life Skills timeline, which is an ongoing CALSCA project.
Blended Learning –
Classroom with On-line by Beverley Walters.
Beverley posits that a combination of classroom and on-line
learning models provides an efficient and effective educational experience for
learners, with the added value of increased learner accessibility to programs.
Principles and Practice of
Experiential Learning for Adults is an excerpt from
Beverley Walters’ Masters thesis. It provides
scholarly support to NewStart theory.
A
Saskatchewan NewStart Bibliography is made up of scholarly works and
source documents directly related to NewStart Life Skills. Please send additions to the bibliography to info@calsca.com.
The Place of Small Group Development in
NewStart Life Skills is a literature review that connects the literature
of small group development with NewStart Life Skills theory and practice.
Introducing
Spirituality Into NewStart Life Skills is Rod Paynter’s Masters Thesis. It provides theoretical support and
practical recommendations for including spirituality in one's Life Skills
practice.
Evaluation of a Saskatchewan
NewStart Life Skills-based Coach Training Program is Rod Paynter’s
Doctoral thesis.
Leadership As A Spiritual
Practice describes some of the current thinking in leadership
theory and how Rod Paynter sees it reflected in his Life Skills practice.
Connections Between Spirituality
and NewStart Life Skills Three connections between spirituality and
NewStart Life Skills are suggested:
1. Life Skills, in its
support and encouragement of personal growth, is involved with supporting and
encouraging spiritual growth.
2. Life Skills invokes
the exercising of spiritual intelligence when problems of right and wrong are
resolved and when decisions about moral courses of action are made.
3. NewStart Life Skills,
in order to come into line with current leadership thinking, needs to pay attention
to spirit.
How Coaches Might Introduce
Spirituality Into NewStart Life Skills explores rationales
for indirect, emergent, and direct methods of bringing awareness of
spirituality into the circle.
I - Thou and NewStart Life
Skills discusses the seminal spiritual/relational concept of I -
Thou in the light of NewStart theory and practice.
The Trainer, by Brian Chudy, describes qualities and abilities of a Life Skills
Coach Trainer. Brian is a longtime Manitoba coach /
coach trainer / trainer of trainers.