Life Skills

| Building Confidence |

Assertiveness Training
This Togetherall course provides skills training on effective communication in relationships and the workplace, teaching you how to give and receive criticism and balance passive or aggressive communication to better connect with others.

Going Beyond Your Comfort Zone (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses the benefits of new experiences, how to cope with a new environment, and how better to strengthen your mindset in order to achieve a positive outcome.

Self Awareness (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses what ‘self awareness’ means and how to improve it.

Self Belief (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses self-belief, how it shows up in life and how to make it more positive.

| Managing your Money |

Blank Monthly Budget Planner (Worksheet) 
This downloadable PDF is a worksheet to help you plan a monthly budget.

Monthly Budget Planner Living at Home (Worksheet) 
This downloadable PDF is a worksheet to help you plan a monthly budget if you are living at home.

Monthly Budget Planner Living away from Home (Worksheet) 
This downloadable PDF is a worksheet to help you plan a monthly budget if you are living away from home.

| Mindset |

Discover Mindset (DCU Course)
This course explores the growth mindset, how to apply it to your studies and strategies to deal with challenges and set-backs.

Developing a Growth Mindset (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Mindset course, this short activity explores how developing a growth mindset can support you during your DCU journey. 

Feedback and your Mindset (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Mindset course, this short activity explores the role of feedback in developing a growth mindset. 

Leaning into Change (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Mindset course, this short activity explores how developing a change-oriented mindset will help you navigate inevitable changes in your studies, life and career.

Overcoming Setbacks and Failures (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Mindset course, this short activity explores how you can learn from failure and setbacks in order to achieve goals and build resilience.

| Problem Solving |

Problem Solving (Course)
This Togetherall course provides a structured approach to problem-solving, teaching you to identify issues and find effective solutions or coping strategies, with an Action Planner to help ensure success.

| Strengths |

Your Wheel of Life Self Assessment Tool
This link is for a self-assessment tool to help identify areas of life where you would like to achieve balance.

Courage (Podcast) 
This audio podcast offers suggestions to help you consider your next step, when you are faced with a challenge. 

Strengths (Podcast) 
This audio podcast features a conversation around identifying strengths.

Strengths (VIA Self Assessment)
This link to a free VIA scientific survey of character strengths to help identify your greatest strengths.

| Self Efficacy |

Discover Self-Efficacy (DCU course)
Explore how you can increase self-efficacy for life at university and identify what areas of your life you are confident and not so confident.

Learn Through Communication and Feedback (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Efficacy course, this short activity explores the knowledge, skills, and abilities that will increase your academic self-efficacy.

Learn Through Evaluation of Thoughts and Feelings (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Efficacy course, this short activity examines how thoughts and feelings can influence our confidence and performance.

Learn Through Observing Others (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Efficacy course, this short activity explores learning by observing other's actions and behaviours.

Learn Through Past Success (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Efficacy course, this short activity explores reflecting on past successes to build confidence. 

| Self Reflection |

Discover Self-Reflection (Course) 
This is course you will understand critical self- reflection in the context of learning as well as identify the role of critical self-reflection during transition stages.

Benefits of Critical Self-Reflection (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self-Reflection course, in this short activity you'll learn that as you go through the various stages of transition, critical self-reflection can offer invaluable support to overcome challenges and reach a stage where you can fully engage in the university experience.

Strategies for Reflection (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self-Reflection course, in this short activity you'll learn that there isn’t one magic formula to reflect. It all depends on individual preferences, whether you prefer reflecting out loud or writing, with others or alone. 

Student Transition (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self-Reflection course, this short activity covers the reality of transitioning to college and introduces you to the concept of reflection and the barriers to reflection experienced by students.

Why Reflection is Important (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self-Reflection course, in this short activity you'll learn that Critical self-reflection has many benefits, whether you practice it during your education, within the workplace or for personal reasons. It can help you to focus on planning for future experiences.

| Time Management and Organisation |

Beating Procrastination (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Management course, this short activity will help you to learn some practical strategies to help you beat procrastination and manage your time more effectively.

Discover Self Management (DCU course)
This course will help you to apply strategies for getting, and staying motivated, and to organise and plan your time and study environment.

Getting Organised (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Management course, this short activity explores effective tools and techniques to get and stay motivated.

| Understanding Motivation |

Ebbs and Flows (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses how motivation can fluctuate and ways to get back into your rhythm and re-engage, in order to get the best out of your university life.

Getting Motivated (Course Section)
Part of the Discover Self Management course, this short activity explores effective tools and techniques to get and stay motivated.

Goal Setting (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses goal setting as a motivation technique that is used to achieve a goal.

Meaning and Purpose (Podcast) 
This audio podcast explores the idea of purpose, the role it plays in education and how it can enrich life at university as well as the future.

Motivation (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation and self regulation and identifies strategies to increase your motivation when you need it most.

Values (Podcast) 
This audio podcast discusses how values can be a powerful tool when approaching major crossroads in life or to help getting back on track.