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 ‘ Believe in yourself
Think for yourself
Be creative
Start your own business
Have a set of values to live by
Be responsible
Build good relationships
Be the best you can be
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Dream big dreams
Become leaders and entrepreneurs
Meet the challenge of the future

‘How?’

School leavers routinely hear sentiments like these, but they are
rarely shown how these skills are developed.
Who are You? is a lifeskills course that helps young people to develop
skills that can bring about positive change in themselves and in their working,
social and personal relationships. It simplifies and makes useful recent
findings in psychology, self-development, business training, neuroscience and
physiology, so that young people can get a practical appreciation of how they
can develop personal values, draw the boundaries and take charge of their
thoughts, feelings, behaviour and well-being.

Who are You? includes wisdom from African leaders and intellectuals, to
provide learners with role models they can strongly identify with.

Who are You? is a self-study workbook that can be run as a facilitated

course. We are also able to train facilitators and develop customised
programmes for tertiary educators and organisations employing school
leavers and new employees.

If you are as convinced as we are that our youth need strong

foundations on which to build a prosperous future for themselves and their
community, please get in touch.

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 Why ‘who am I?’ is such an important question
By exploring the question in an engaging, creative way, we
become aware of the limiting ways in which we often see ourselves. If
we see ourselves in limiting ways, we set ourselves up for a limited life
experience. We discover that what we say about ourselves is usually
what other people have said to us – how do they know?
If we don’t know who we are, it‘s very difficult to know what makes
us happy and fulfilled. When we see ourselves in narrow, limiting ways,
we imprison our talents and potential making it very difficult to act on our
hopes and dreams.
We discover that we have power over the way we think, speak and
the stories we tell about ourselves. In using this personal power, we can
consciously choose that which empowers us.
When we have a strong sense of self, we become better at making
choices that benefit us. If we know who we truly are, we become more
flexible - it’s easier to see ourselves in new, empowering roles. It helps
us to take charge of our lives, so we benefits ourselves and everybody
around us.

Who Are You? Course Overview

The self – who are you? | Sensation, Perception | Language and
metaphor | Storytelling, thinking and reality – ‘the story of my life’ |
Storytelling and healing – narrative medicine | Power, influence, culture and
change? | Definitions of ‘success’ | Homework for this part of the course
engages a timescape and a storytelling exercise

Who do you want to be? | Principles of manifestation using the Medicine

Wheel - start with the dream and make it real. | Knowing what you want;
having a dream | Defining ‘success’ and understanding the rules and
patterns of success | Game of Life – playing the ‘game’ using Rules, Roles,
Rituals, Language, Values, Goals, Style and Resources | Relationship
Management | Creating your own identity | Change, ritual and edutainment
| Memory, language, thinking and learning

This course has been run in organisations and educational institutions

with excellent feedback and results. The authors are experienced commu-
nications and educational media developers, having developed life-skills
courses used by the National Department of Education in South Africa. The
course is interesting, rewarding, engaging and, most of all, FUN.

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More About Who are You Life skills for Africa
Who are You? is a cutting edge Life Skills course that enables participants to
answer this vital question about identity and self-value with power and integrity. It also
provides useful tools to enable participants to take up roles when they need to be flexible
and creative. These are vital skills for entrepreneurs and for organisations who require
multi-skilled people, able to fill many different roles.
Who are You? was selected by CIDA City Campus as their official Life Skills
programme resource.

Who should attend? The course is designed for those with a Grade 12 literacy
level. The course is intended to expose participants to key life skills enabling them to lift
their own performance and experience of the world to a different dimension.

How does the process work? The process is a combination of facilitated

sessions and homework assignments and exercises which participants need to complete
in their own time. Assignments are designed to be enjoyable and engaging and to lead
participants into experiences of insight and self-discovery.

The course is available as:

• A customised train-the-trainer / facilitator programme for tertiary educators,
organisations employing school leavers and employees who have never
satisfactorily answered or been asked the question
• A 5 day, focussed residential programme (preferably residential)
• A part-time process in which each participant has to engage for 2 hours per
week plus homework exercises of 3 hours per week.

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Who Are You? is designed to meet the requirements of the following
South African NQF (National Qualifications Framework) NQF Level 2-3
Unit Standards:

• 8977 Evaluate literary texts

• 8974 Engage in sustained oral communication and evaluate spoken
texts
• 8561 Function in a team
• 8559 Plan and conduct research
• 8556 Interact orally and in writing in the workplace
• 8553 Operate in a business
• 7873 Manage one’s own development
• 7784 Communicate in a business environment
• 13947 Motivate a team
• 13940 Demonstrate knowledge and application of ethical conduct in
a business environment
• 13547 Motivate a team
• 117497 Apply basic business principles
• 114598 Demonstrate an understanding of an entrepreneurial profile
• 114589 Manage time productively
• 110021 Achieve personal effectiveness in business environment
• 10386 Investigate the possibilities of establishing and running a
small business enterprise (SMME)
• 10385 Develop a business plan for a small business
• 10144 Identify, suggest and implement corrective actions to improve
quality
• 10135 Work as a project team member
• 10021 Instil in myself a personal marketing culture
• 10015 Identify customers of the business.

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dealing with deep levels of stress and
anxiety.
Published 30/11/2006 The CIDA Life Skills Programme is aimed
at those students who have managed to
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pass matric but whose grades require
The building is to house several of CIDA’s
improvement for the students to be
academic programmes and CIDA’s newest
suitable candidates for further tertiary
innovation, the Life Skills programme is
education at CIDA City Campus or
already situated within the building.
elsewhere.
“We are most grateful for this major
The event was attended by hip-hop mogul
contribution from Anglo American in
Russell Simmons as well as members
donating this building which we have been
of the Oppenheimer family who were
using since 2005,” said Dr Taddy Blecher,
instrumental in donating the building.
CEO of the campus. “The Life Skills
programme which is housed within has Archive: Education
run two pilots and is a proving particularly
successful as a special access programme
for youth from historically disadvantaged
background.”
The programme came about through
CIDA’s partnership with several orphan
care organisations. While considerable
effort and resources are going into the
battle to help AIDS orphans and at-risk
youth meet their basic physical needs,
little effort is going into building their
positive emotional future with the critical
education and skills development required.
This programme is a gateway into tertiary
education.
These students have excellent potential of
becoming powerful assets to society.
The programme gives intensive self
development, numeracy, literacy and
entrepreneurial skills to open new
opportunities for those that attend. It
contributes significantly to improving
students’ confidence and sense of hope for
the future.
The programme makes use of the
Consciousness-Based Education
approach that CIDA has been successfully

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