Staying alive is not so easy for many people. Learning to talk about these basic concerns in life matters more than we may know. We create a platform for the conversations to begin. We also teach the differences in “WANTS” and "NEEDS".

While discussing Staying Alive, we go beyond the basics, but not overlook the basics, include everything from hygiene, health, food and shelter, and going all the way to suicide prevention, depending on the age and needs of those learning. We help people find the resources they may need too.

Staying Alive is a wonderful place to begin teaching about the needs we share in life; however, the needs do not have to be taught in order. We can be flexible in the order we teach.

We start with looking at what love means to each person. Then we explore loving our self, as we are now. Loving our self is so natural, easy, and simple for some people, but not everyone. We need to be sensitive to where each person is at the time.

Learning to love ourselves may take professional help and healing of past trauma. Be sensitive to where each person is at the time.

Then we explore where we belong, and where we may want to belong. This includes friendship skills, communication skills, and letting our self be loved and learning to love others in healthy ways.

We can also explore the importance of secure, healthy “attachments” as children and how this impacts us throughout our lifetime.

We start with defining freedom personally and within the community. We explore what boundaries are and why they matter.

Is freedom something to take for granted, or is it a responsibility, or even a choice?

What we bring, like fears, life experiences, phobias, addictions, and our core beliefs, can enhance our ability to understand freedoms and boundaries, or limit and undermine our ability to enjoy freedom and set healthy boundaries.

No worry, we can change! We can learn and grow.

What kind of boundaries are needed in life at home, school, work, and the community? Discovering our freedoms and boundaries, learning to set them and use them can be life-changing too.

We often have more power than we realize in life. It is easy to sometimes feel powerless and even start to feel like victims. Children can learn about power and grow in their understanding in time. Knowing we are powerful can change how we live.

A seemingly simple thing we all do and sometimes do not realize, is self-talk. We can underestimate the power of our self-talk. We can use cognitive work to help us identify what we say to ourselves and change it if needed.

There are so many layers to our power, including our curiosity, willingness to learn, our awareness of our self and others, beliefs about who we are at the core, and much more.

We can explore ways to develop power through dance, music, art, writing, increased self-confidence, education, meditation, and countless other ways.  

Yes, we all need fun! How do you define fun? What exactly is fun for you?

Becoming curious about options for having fun can be exciting and open doors for new relationships too. We can increase our awareness of freedom, boundaries, and power through having fun. We can learn about others and increase our acceptance of others too. Diversity can be explored in interesting ways when we are willing to learn about what other cultures and generations do for fun.

Can you see the other needs also reflected in fun? Learning to have fun can enhance the ways we meet the other needs too.

Imagine enjoying more fun in life at any age.