Advanced certification and degree programs. Advanced learning programs for midlife and older adults exist throughout the land, providing thousands of adults every year a rite of passage from one LifeLaunch to another. Some of them involve only evenings or occasional weekends. Some use distance learning techniques such as computers, telephone meetings, and regional conferences so that students can remain at home and at work while engaged in serious study. Life skills refer to your general human abilities to sustain relationships, be an effective parent, manage conflict, travel, and feel at home in the world.
Life skills are abilities like listening, speaking, writing, negotiating, and meditating.
Today's world has many technocrats and executives who have outstanding behaviors in their specialized fields, but who haven't learned the basic human skills for managing the microsystems of their own lives. It's never too late to learn life skills, and to claim your personal competence. Psychotherapy often performs the function of teaching personal life skills, and helps adults get anchored within their own true abilities and values. Churches, adult education, and other community organizations have learning programs, trips, and training for learning basic life skills. Some adults discover these skills through shortterm commitments in volunteer service roles in the community, or working with the Peace Corps or any of the many worldwide service organizations.