Building Skills For Life

Arete staff and coaches work directly with participants empowering and guiding them to improve executive functioning and practicing skills needed for independent living, careers and academic life.

Improving executive functioning is central to monitoring behaviors, focusing attention, and responding to emotions. These tools support organization, initiation and follow-through of goal oriented behavior.

Executive functions include basic cognitive processes such as attentional control, cognitive inhibition, inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility.

Participants receive real-time support in challenging situations helping to cement new patterns of being while putting to use new skills, tools and mindsets.

Skills Include:

• Setting Goals and Making Plans

• Identifying and Prioritizing Tasks

• Organizing, Initiating and Sustaining Effort

• Managing Time Wisely

• Self-regulating Technology Use

• Creating Goals That are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely

• Focusing Attention on Tasks Through Completion

• Self-monitoring Patterns of Behavior

• Managing Frustrations and Modulating Emotions

• Developing Schedules for Maintaining Clean and Tidy Living spaces