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YWCA Toronto is the leading national publisher of the Life Skills Training manuals, widely acknowledged as essential resources for the group facilitator in any context. With nine english volumes, the core New Dynamics theory text, and five french volumes, let YWCA Toronto help create the essential library for the professional facilitator. Life Skills manuals take you from warm up to specialized group lesson plans. Each volume provides you with practical, step-by-by-step content and format for leading groups on a variety of topics - warm ups, structured exercises, discussion questions, participant worksheets and background theory.

For further details, please click on one of the following publications.

new Life Skills volume

YWCA Toronto is pleased to launch a new Life Skills volume for life skills coaches, employment counselors and groups’ leaders working with people with disabilities. Volume 9 - Employability for People with Disabilities is an employment manual that addresses the unique needs of people with disabilities wanting to enter, remain or succeed in the world of work.

Volume 9 provides instructions and communication tools that can be used to model and deliver employment related lessons and workshops to people with disabilities.

Learn how to take your client through a process that will increase their self-awareness and provide motivation for learning new behaviours. For a sample lesson plan, click here.

discovering Life Skills publications

volume 1 - building groups and warm ups
volume 2 - Life Skills lessons on a variety of topics from self-esteem to goal-setting
volume 3 - Life Skills lessons on a variety of topics from problem-solving to stress
volume 4 - for special needs groups
volume 5 - Life Skills lessons on a variety of topics from listening to expressing feelings
volume 6 - communicating assertively manual & companion video
volume 7 - teaching employment groups
volume 8 - employability for youth
volume 9 - employability for people with disabilities

sample lesson
publications en français

Life Skills coaching theory

the new dynamics of Life Skills coaching - an updated manual of Life Skills theory -
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other publications

the action manual: lessons for psychodrama, sociometry and/or group process
Author: Liz White.

Publications Découvrons la dynamique de la vie

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