Life Skills is a course which helps people to develop skills in dealing with and coping with daily living situations. Participants learn and practice problem solving skills to gain more control of their lives.

Some of the important life skills are:

• Decision making

• Problem solving

• Creative thinking/lateral thinking

• Critical thinking/perspicacity

• Effective communication

• Interpersonal relationships

• Self awareness/mindfulness

• Assertiveness

• Empathy

• Equanimity

• Coping with stress, trauma and loss

• Resilience

Life skills curricula designed for youth, kids and some people with the low function in their lives often emphasize communications and practical skills needed for successful independent living as well as for developmental-disabilities/special-education students