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!
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 rodpaynter@iname.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 my Masters Thesis. It provides theoretical support and practical
recommendations for including spirituality in one's Life Skills practice.
Leadership
As A Spiritual Practice describes
some of the current thinking in leadership theory and how I see it reflected in
my 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.