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ACCI’s Cognitive
Lifeskills Courses are designed to take advantage of the latest knowledge on how
people learn, retain information and change. The program …
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Is based on active and
interactive learning that incorporates cooperative and experiential learning.
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Uses real life examples as it follows two families, one functional, the other highly dysfunctional.
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Focuses on both cognitive and
affective domains –- one to challenge, the other to build confidence.
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Appeals to the right side of
the brain where most retention and learning takes place.
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Has synergistic qualities,
meaning what comes out is greater than what went in.
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Is based on a process rather
than outcome; skills learned can be transferred to other tasks in life.
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Answers aren’t given but
rather explored; each student takes responsibility for
his/her own learning.
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Information is better
retained because it is given both visually and orally; it also involves personal
experiences.
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Demonstrates how to get rid
of unwanted feelings and behaviors by identifying the thinking that is causing
those feelings and behaviors.
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Helps individuals understand
that many of life’s problems are based on perceptions, not reality, and
identifies what will make them happy.
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Instructs how to quickly take
life from a negative to a positive by changing distorted thinking while not
necessarily changing environments.
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Teaches self control, and social,
coping, emotional and lifelong living skills.
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Offers hope and helps to
overcome discouragement. Demonstrates options in life and how to start a pyramid
of happy, productive people.
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Learning is further
enhanced through group games and activities, role playing, skits, discussions,
homework, problem solving and other techniques ACCI has found useful over the
years.
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