The Center for Living and Learning’s vocational trainees are learning about different communication concepts in this month’s vocational lessons, including listening accurately, body language, tone, starting conversations and assertiveness. They are practicing these skills and how they can be applied in the workplace to build co-worker communications and morale, and enhance teamwork and problem solving. In mental health lessons, the trainees are learning and practicing distress tolerance skills. Distress tolerance is the ability to manage actual or perceived emotional distress. These skills help build tolerance muscles in order to be better equipped whenever crises occur.
The trainees continue to enjoy the arugula artichoke dip they make in cooking group with fresh arugula grown in our garden. In art group, they are painting designs in bold hues with the saturated colors of acrylics. And in reading group, they are learning about the use of dialect and colloquialisms in character and theme development as they read Mark Twain’s short story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”
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The Center for Living and Learning is a private non-profit Residential Treatment Facility housing adults who experience severe and persistent mental illnesses. We provide 24-hour residential care and job training in a therapeutic environment with emphasis on the highest level of functioning and independent living. Learn more here.
