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7 life skills

7 Life Skills is a methodology, training, mentoring and coaching program originally designed for education institutions and teachers to help them better connect with their students as well as helping them in finding their identity and mission in life. Through practical classes that are tested in many countries from Europe to South Africa, teachers and students would go through a journey of self-discovery to find their talents, connect with their dreams and motives, finding better ways to communicate and collaborate with people around them as well as finding creative solutions to challenges that facing them. Furthermore, they would be equipped with tools to boost their resilience and persevere in maintaining the newly acquired skills. 
 
7 life skills is a holistic program that is designed and tested for over 2o years in practice. It has been used by many people coming from different backgrounds. It touches all parts of personality and helps participants to take charge of their own life and make permanent changes on their own lives and lives of the students they teach. At the same time, it helps individuals to be better team members and help teams to grow their performance. 
'To unlock your own unique personality
​is an incredible important achievement' 
William Esper 
7 Life Skills was developed and tested in practice
​by Michel Linthorst
'Be yourself, everyone else is taken'
Oscar Wilde 
DISCOVER
who you are
who you want to become
and what you are good at
LEARN
skills with which
you can shape your dreams
and solve your problems
DO
what makes you happy
​be successful in your own way
MAKE
the difference for yourself
and the world around you
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over
Richard Branson 

WHOM for 

- Education
  • Higher, primary, secondary and special education. Youth care and other educational child organizations
  • To empower students, pupils and teachers. And adults in general.   
  • Pupils and students who are finding problems in education, who have difficulty with concentration and motivation
  • Children who have developed behavioral problems
  • Groups with a lot of unrest or bullying
  • For teachers and mentors who want to work from a positive and inspiring approach and who want to guide their pupils or student
- Companies, (aid) organizations and teams
training courses are tailor-made. Vision development, team building, study days, collaboration and communication
- Young people and adults
coaching, study and career issues, family training, personal development
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
then he will think all his life that he is stupid. "
Albert Einstein
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    If a child cannot learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way the child learns!

    Goals 

    7 Life Skill has the following (educational) goals, among others:
    • Empowering students, pupils and teachers 
    • Strengthen concentration, motivation and behavior
    • Strengthening connections & learning to work together
    • Increase self-confidence & self worth
    • Strengthen resilience & persistence
    • Discovering dreams, goals and motives
    • Career development and career and study choice
    • Group and team development
    • increasing learning capacity and performance and opportunities
    • Strengthen proactivity and solution-oriented thinking
    • Increase autonomy
    ​

    PREVENTION

    7 Life skills are often used in situations where problems have arisen. The method is increasingly being used as a positive approach to prevent behavioral, concentration and motivation problems, stress, burnout and dropout in primary and secondary education.
    "If we were to do everything we can really do,
    then we would be literally amazed at ourselves. "
    Thomas Edison
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    THE 7 SKILLS
    off THE INSPIRING TEACHER

    Author Michel Linthorst provides the tools that every teacher needs.
    His directions, tips & tricks help the teacher
    to get the best out of themselves and the student. '
    Jelle Jolles, University Professor of Neuropsychology. Author "The Teenage Brain.

    'A must-read for every teacher who wants to make a difference. It helps you develop the qualities and skills to become an inspiring teacher
    To which your students will regularly think back in their later life.     '
    Joke Middelbeek. General director primary school group SWTS Amsterdam
    'Our job as teachers is not to prepare kids for something 
    our job is to help kids learn to prepare themselves for anything' 

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    TRAINING COURSES ABROAD
    "A lot of talented, brilliant and creative people think they can't do anything because what they are good at in school was not really seen as important or even stigmatized."
    Ken Robinson
    7 Life Skills has provided training in the Netherlands, Belgium, England, South Africa, Germany, Sudan and Ghana.
    7 Life Skills has recently partnered with an education training agency in the UAE 

    reviews

    'By working with 7 Life Skills we saw a lasting change in teachers and students. The exercises are simple and can be used at any time. '
    ​Petra Maillou, Head of special needs education

    BLOGS

    Michel Linthorst writes blogs based on his own experiences, observations and conversations with colleagues