Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “life skills”
November’s Life Skill is “Health”. HALO invited Kelli Jones to join us to speak at our monthly staff meeting. Kelli took a holistic approach to health, focusing on mind, body, and spirit. Kelli talked about the importance of prioritizing sleep to let your body heal. Creating a bed time routine is helpful to let your body know it is time …
This month we’re focusing on “respect” as our July Life Skill. Three-time All American Pole Vaulter, Vera Schmitz, talks about respect and what that has meant in her own life. Vera began talking respecting others from her experiences as a member of a team. She stressed the importance of respecting the group’s energy. At a particularly difficult practice, those who …
This month’s Life Skill is “perseverance.” On Tuesday, June 5th, HALO invited Jeff Albright to join us and speak at our monthly staff meeting. Jeff started out by talking to us about how dysfunction is everywhere. He said we are all tempted every day by so many things, but every temptation you avoid increases your ability to avoid the next …
School’s out and that means summer programming is about to start at our Kansas City Learning Center. We have a lot of exciting workshops planned and maybe a few surprises throughout the summer. Check them out below! June The life skill of the month is “perseverance” and we’ve planned activities that demonstrate the ability to keep going, pushing through doubt …
HALO Founder Rebecca Welsh writes: “Living with intention is a way of life for me that came about after I had a stroke 3 years ago. I realized at the age of 35 that I may not actually be on this earth forever. So my management of my time became my top priority. Time management is not just about setting …
Last weekend, HALO Founder Rebecca spoke at INDULGE KC, an all-day event dedicated to finding your inner warrior. Along with women from the Kansas City community, Rebecca went through a series of workshops and workouts focused on finding balance and inspiration. She also took to the stage to talk about HALO and how her stroke three years ago affected her …
Being a leader means not asking people to do things you wouldn’t do, and always leading from the front. Sometimes it can be painful to be a leader, because it’s your job to take some hits so those below you don’t. Humility is often the easiest way to demonstrate your respectfulness to those you are leading but ,as with anything, …
At the HALO Learning Center, youth practice a different life skill each month through creative projects. A quote about our monthly life skill is posted for the youth to see, to start a discussion at the beginning of each workshop. We ask them to give a definition, or in some cases an example of this skill in their own life. …
This month our workshops focused on building perseverance, a skill many of our children possess without even knowing it. Our goal was to strengthen their awareness of this trait and create projects that build upon the skill. These projects could then serve as an example for their own personal lives. One of our favorite projects from the past month, sewing, …
HALO’s life skill for April is time management, and we were lucky enough to have Jefferson City Mayor Carrie Tergin squeeze us into her schedule to speak at our monthly staff meeting and tell us the secret to wearing many hats. Tergin has been the Mayor since 2015, and before that she served six years on the Jefferson City, Mo. …
