LifeSkills

LifeSkills Training and Education at Camp Pendleton offers various workshops including the following:

• Parenting
• Financial Management
• Stress and Anger Management
• Understanding personality differences

Workshops

Four Lenses:  This workshop discusses how to improve your interpersonal skills, as well as, communicating with others in a way that fosters mutual understanding and acceptance. The principles discovered in this workshop will provide the empowerment needed to improve personal relationships.

Who Moved My Cheese?:  Moving beyond the fear of change, this innovative workshop will provide skills necessary to better handle the ever-changing environment of the military through enhanced awareness and removing obstacles that prohibit positive change and successful reintegration.

7 Habits of Highly Effective Military Families:  As military families deal with the added stress of relocation and deployment, this workshop provides solutions and the framework for applying universal, self-evident principles that enable family members to communicate more effectively about their problems and resolve them successfully.

Elder Care:  This workshop focuses on emotions and responsibilities of elder care and offers coping skills.

Family Care Plan:  This workshop discusses the purpose and terminology, the roles and responsibilities of those involved in family care planning while active duty personnel are deployed or during unexpected circumstances. The last portion of this workshop will provide the opportunity to prepare a scenario based personalized Family Care Plan.

Family Disaster Plan:  This workshop primarily covers the scenarios of wild fires and earthquake disasters as related to Camp Pendleton’s geographic location, however the planning topics are applicable to any type of disaster. The last portion of this workshop includes developing a personalized Family Disaster Plan.

Prevention Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP):  This one-day workshop helps couples communicate and connect more effectively. Participants learn proven techniques such as:

• Relationship risk factors
• Communication danger signs
• Safety and structure in communication
• When forgiveness isn’t easy