Dimapur, January 19 (MExN): Capacity building of youth on life skills was conducted at Resource Centre, Prodigals’ Home, Dhansiripar, Dimapur from January 12 to 14. The participants numbering 40 were present for the programme.
NYK, Dimapur John Makhabo in a press release stated that NYK, Nagaland is conducting few programmes on Life Skill for the youth in all districts. This capacity building of youth, he said, focuses to help young people translate knowledge, develop appropriate attitudes, behavior and inculcate values that would help them acquire the ability to reduce exposure to specific risk factors and augment protective factors. This in turn would help in the instillation of responsible behavior towards improved lifestyle, he added. The training was held with special reference to coping skills on emotion, stress, and conflict resolution which are immensely important for the youth today.
The topics dealt during the training sessions were Personality development, What is Life Skills, Self-Awareness and Empathy building skills, Decision Making and Problem Solving skills, Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking skills, Effective Communication and Interpersonal Relationships skills, Coping with emotion and stress and conflict management skills.
The resource persons who animated the training programme were John Makhabo, DYC, NYK, Kohima and Lohrii A Maheo, lecturer.
