Family Life Skills Learning Center
Learning to Live......Learning to Love
WHAT IS LIFE SKILLS?
The Life Skills Learning Center is a place where adults and youth attend gender separate classes to be taught valuable life skills from the "Learning to Live, Learning to Love" curriculum. Whether you are in an abusive relationship, experiencing marriage problems, trying to break patterns of the past, or are a troubled teen, Life Skills can help. Life Skills does not do couples counseling, but educates individuals and couples in the areas of domestic violence and relationship abuse.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that exists to reach out to the hurting. We want to help individuals break free from the behavior that can cause strained, broken, or abusive relationships. We seek to turn negative patterns around and to teach skills to promote growth. We teach individuals the reasons for behaviors without placing guilt or blame, showing each individual dignity and respect as they go through the healing process. How did Family Life Skills originate? Without the help he needed, his marriage of sixteen years ended, but the abuse continued in subsequent relationships. In 1982, a life-threatening event occurred and forced Paul to ask for help, knowing that he could face 15 to 20 years for attempted murder. Through a domestic violence group, Paul found some answers, but not the understanding that drove his search. Why did he hurt the ones he loved? Why did he behave the way he did? Why did he have so much anger and rage inside? Paul began searching for those answers on his own and has spent over 18,000 hours in research and over 30,000 hours personally facilitating groups for victims and perpetrators of abuse. http://www.lifeskillsintl.org/
Dr. Paul Hegstrom, Founder of Life Skills, was an abusive husband and father. Paul lived the first forty years of his life without understanding why his behavior was reactive and his anger so fierce. He could not communicate or identify his feelings. Paul knew that something was wrong, but still lived in denial. His counselors had all the labels, but Paul needed more; he needed SKILLS to CHANGE his destructive behavior.
Who needs Life Skills?
Men-Women-Couples-Singles-Parents-Anyone
The Learning Center teaches life skills to the aggressor and brings the aggressor to accountability. Life Skills teaches the victim of spouse abuse her value and gives her the skills to break the repetitious cycle, helping them rebuild their lives and improve their self image. "Fine-tuning" for any marriage takes place for any who attend. Learning the effects of childhood on adults; and becoming healthier adults ourselves, helps us to become better parents.
For the single person, skills are taught to break the patterns of the past and find a balance in new relationships.
Life Skills Learning Centers provide tools in helping clients learn to rebuild their lives and improve their self-image. The goal of Life Skills is to help each individual increase their capacity to function in relationships and where possible to offer hope of reconciliation.
Painful memories that are unresolved from our childhood cause reactive behaviors in our adult life and will destroy our potential for happiness and success as an individual. This damages our ability to have healthy relationships, and many times we sabotage our careers. All of which causes anger within, leading us to express our anger in a negative manner. Everyone gets angry at some point and time. Expression of this anger in a healthy manner is important to resolve differences and grow. Without the proper understanding, anger is often expressed in unhealthy even violent ways.
The Learning to Live, Learning to Love curriculum teaches skills for all areas of life, providing tools to build healthy relationships with your loved ones and everyone who touches your life.
The Life Skills International "Learning to Live, Learning to Love" curriculum and contents of this web site are copyrighted materials.
HOW WE DO IT...
CLASSES:
Family Life Skills offers a program, which meets weekly. Men and women meet separately in a group atmosphere.
Call to enroll now NEW CLASSES begin October 4, 2009.
For more information, please call 641-203-0481
or email at larich@familylifeskillslearningcenter.com.
The curriculum will help any individual gain life-changing skills in:
- Anger Management
- The 15 Types of Emotional Abuse
- Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
- Love and Family Bonding
- Managing Stress
- Breaking the Bonds of Shame
- Developing Trust
- Establishing Roots for a Healthy Family
- Profile of the "Silent Knight" & His Victim
- Mother/Son Relationship
- Respecting Self and Others
- Defining Domestic Violence
- Taking Responsibility
- Communications
- Male/Female Differences
- Awareness & Processing of Feelings
- Learning to Forgive
- Accepting Responsibility
- Building Lasting Relationships
- Lack of Parenting
- Father/Daughter Relationship
The issues that people deal with in their relationships are issues from childhood that should have been dealt with long before their first date.
Life Skills believes each person's issues are their own, and need to be resolved individually. We each need to take responsibility for our own behaviors.
