What We Do
Life Skills Learning Centers provide tools in helping clients learn to rebuild their lives and improve their self-image. The goal of Life Skills is to help each individual increase their capacity to function in relationships and, where possible, to offer hope of reconciliation.
Painful memories that are unresolved from our childhood cause reactive behaviors in our adult life, and will destroy our potential for happiness and success as an individual. This damages our ability to have healthy relationships, and many times we sabotage our careers. All of this causes anger within, leading us to express our anger in a negative manner.
How We Do It
Classes
Integrity Life Skills is a psycho-educational experience that features the curriculum: "Learning to Live, Learning to Love" written by Dr. Paul Hegstrom, the Founder of Life Skills International. The curriculum will help any individual gain life-changing skills in:
- Anger Management
- The 15 Types of Emotional Abuse
- Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
- Love and Family Bonding
- Managing Stress
- Breaking the Bonds of Shame
- Developing Trust
- Establishing Roots for a Healthy Family
- Profile of the "Silent Knight" and His Victim
- Mother/Son Relationship
- Respecting Self and Others
- Defining Domestic Violence
- Taking Responsibility
- Communications
- Male/Female Differences
- Awareness and Processing of Feelings
- Learning to Forgive
- Accepting Responsibility
- Building Lasting Relationships
- Lack of Parenting
- Father/Daughter Relationship
Our CEO | |
 Heidi Hegstrom (Stupavsky) |
Heidi (Hegstrom) Stupavsky is the daughter of Dr. Paul and Judy Hegstrom, Founders of Life Skills International...Read More... |
Our Executive Director | |
 Leray Glendenning |
Leray has been a part of Life Skills International for over fifteen years. He has been trained as a facilitator for Life Skills and has served as the Executive Director of two Life Skills Centers. He has also worked with the court systems in providing services for court-ordered clients... Read More... |
Founder | |
 Dr. Paul Hegstrom |
Dr. Paul Hegstrom, Founder of Life Skills, was an abusive husband and father. Paul lived the first forty years of his life without understanding why his behavior was reactive and his anger so fierce. He could not communicate or identify his feelings. Paul knew that something was wrong, but still lived in denial. His counselors had all the labels, but Paul needed more; he needed SKILLS to CHANGE his destructive behavior... Read More... |
Professional Objective | |
 Paul and Judy |
To establish learning centers for the purpose of teaching life skills to individuals with unacceptable behaviors, to begin the process of developmental reconstruction, to bring change personally and to develop family relationships by developing character and maturity in the individual. |