A Lifelong Learning Approach

Our Philosophy

At Life Skills IQ, we believe that lifelong Learning is the key to unlocking one's potential. That's why we strive to make high-quality psycho-education materials and training accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or financial situation.

What is Lifelong Learning?

Lifelong learning is the continuous, voluntary pursuit of knowledge for personal or professional reasons throughout one's life. It encompasses formal settings like courses and informal methods such as self-study, and it is essential for adapting to a changing world, enhancing career prospects, and maintaining mental and personal well-being. This continuous process is driven by curiosity and a proactive mindset to achieve goals and enrich one's life.

Lifelong Learnings Importance in Therapy

Promotes a growth mindset: Embrace challenges and see learning as a continuous process rather than a fixed endpoint.

Cultivates curiosity: Be open to new information, ask questions, and actively seek out new experiences.

Enhances Goal Setting: Define both short- and long-term goals to guide your learning.

Gets people outside their comfort zone: Try new things or take existing skills to the next level to encourage growth.

Learn More Effective Skills: Replace old, ineffective life skills with ones that meet your personal and professional aspirations.

LSIQ Mental Wellness and the Learn, Unlearn, Relearn Model

Book cover for 'The Life Skills IQ Test' by John Liptak with practical intelligence quizzes.

Phase 1 - Learn: Examine Situation and Self

In this phase, therapists assess the life skills problem component for strengths and shortcomings. For example, if traumatic thoughts keep re-entering a client's consciousness, which life skills does the client need to strengthen? See the Life Skills Curricula link for information about reproducible life skills resources.

The therapist attempts to understand what has occurred to people as they confront the future. Determine what needs clients are unable to meet. This inability to meet Maslow's needs is what causes the person to become "stuck." There are three* key characteristics:

1. Unexamined Life: Explore clients' life situation and the strengths and challenges of their life skills.

2. Repetition Compulsion: Examine the reason why clients keep reliving negative events in their lives.

3. Unhealthy Habits: Discuss why clients keep repeating negative behaviors and expecting different results.

* See John's Best-Selling "The Life Skills IQ Test" book for more information.

Phase 2 - Unlearn: Disregard Ineffective Life Skills

In this phase, therapists help clients to acknowledge and accept the need for change:

Recognize that your current knowledge, habits, or life skills is outdated or no longer effective.
Accept that letting go of old life skills is necessary for growth and flourishing.
Challenge the old information and skills.
Seek out new information and different perspectives.
Question the assumptions that support your old life skills and habits.

Phase 3 - Relearn: Learn Effective Life Skills to reach Goals

In this phase, therapists help clients learn new life skills, try them out, and turn them into habits:

Therapists identify the life skills necessary to reach goals. See the LSIQ Curricula link for all of John's reproducible workbooks that incorporate a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy component.
Therapists teach and model critical life skills that enhance client strengths and bolster shortcomings.
Therapists help clients invest their newfound wisdom to create value for themselves and others.
Therapists reinforce the new life skills:

Replace the old habit: Repeat the new, correct behavior until it becomes the new automatic response.
Be patient: Understand that unlearning is a gradual process, and you may occasionally revert to old habits. Please don't see it as a failure, but as part of the learning process.
Mind your environment: Be conscious of the situations and information you consume, and try to avoid triggers that encourage the old habit.
Reward yourself: When you make progress, acknowledge it with a reward to reinforce the new behavior.

For Information About Life Skills IQ Training

If you would like information about John's Lifeskills IQ Training, don't hesitate to get in touch with John at jjliptak1@verizon.net

John has provided training and research services to the Romanian Public Education System, the Scottish Highlands Development Corporation, Jamaican Business Development, and the Hong Kong Government.

To Order Life Skills IQ Test

If you would like to order John's best-selling book that started the Life Skills IQ phenomenon, please go to Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Life-Skills-Test-Self-Quizzes-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B001JK9C7W