Health and Life Skills

The Gift of Self-Esteem

This popular and powerful television series is now available in VHS format. Although the series was developed for First Nations communities, the content is applicable to all communities. The narrator, a Cree woman, discusses techniques and strategies for achieving balance in life and improving self-esteem. Adult literacy students and educators can use the videos as a springboard for discussion about self-esteem. A facilitator's guide is also available for the series. (Each video is 26 minutes.)

Video 1: Achieving Balance in Life - Order Number: 4-1671 This introduction to The Gift of Self-esteem discusses the key ingredients to creating
balance and harmony in one’s life.
Video 2: Five Principles to High Performance - Order Number: 4-1672
This program explains universal principles and how people can successfully apply them to their lives.
Video 3: Unlocking Your Potential - Order Number: 4-1673
Viewers will learn how to recognize and overcome learned fears. The program will explain the importance of a positive attitude, the key to unlocking your potential.
Video 4: Taking Charge of Your Life - Order Number: 4-1674
Recognize the critical link between the acceptance of responsibility and the feeling of being in complete control of your life. Foster high self-esteem through taking responsibility.
Video 5: Managing Your Emotions - Order Number: 4-1675
Acquire key insights to positively transform the way you view yourself and others. Short-circuit negative emotions, especially anger, and achieve peace and clarity.
Video 6: Releasing Your Brakes - Order Number: 4-1676
Commit to freeing yourself from guilt and unworthiness. Learn and practice the power of forgiveness, plus key assertiveness techniques that will give you peace and personal power.
Video 7: The Worry Buster - Order Number: 4-1677
Here is a powerful technique to free yourself from fear and worry, creating peace of mind, clarity, and sound sleep. Learn the factors that predispose people to worry and how to neutralize them.
Video 8: The New Mental Diet - Order Number: 4-1678
Start each day proactively and maintain a proactive attitude. Keep your mind focussed and directed until your new behaviour becomes a habit.
Video 9: Rapid Learning Techniques - Order Number: 4-1679
This program explains how the brain absorbs new information best and how to use rapid learning techniques to accelerate the acquisition of new knowledge.
Video 10: Five Keys to Goal-setting - Order Number: 4-1680
Learn the fi ve key concepts in goal-setting and how to create action plans to accomplish these goals.
Video 11: Seven Steps to Goal-achieving - Order Number: 4-1681
Learn how to clarify your goals, prioritize them, and set deadlines. Develop greater persistence and remove self-made and third-party obstacles.
Video 12: Developing a Success Personality - Order Number: 4-1682
Observe the links between your self-esteem and the way you make others feel. Eliminate destructive criticism and learn about the boomerang effect in human relationships.
Video 13: Parenting - Order Number: 4-1683
How do children learn to be self-reliant and self-responsible? How do they learn to love and respect themselves as worthwhile? In this program, you will learn the secrets of successful parenting to build confidence, courage, and self-esteem in your children.

Stress Management

Channing L. Bete
Readability: Grades 5 - 6

Students who feel anxious, frazzled, or just worn out will appreciate Stress Management. This handbook includes dozens of useful tips for reducing stress. Students will benefi t from the practical activities on identifying warning signals, responding to stressors, positive thinking, negative self-talk, keeping a journal, and committing to change. (31 pp.)

Grass Roots Press
Order Number: 4-1650 $9.95

Working Through Grief

Channing L. Bete
Readability: Grade 6

Working Through Grief can be used with students who have recently lost a loved one or experienced a loss. It provides information on the grieving process and ways to work through it. Students will also learn about common myths that might get in the way of healing. (31 pp.)

Grass Roots Press
Order Number: 4-1652 $9.95