The Life Garage

Name: The Life Garage
Rating: 3.7 (8 reviews)

Build your toolkit for life

Created byDr David Wood

Last updated 5/2023

English

What you'll learn

Identify the skills, concepts and tools needed to live life well.
Practice a variety of communication tools designed to improve your quality of life
Develop an awareness of the individuality and ongoing commitment to development required to live life well and with authenticity.
Explore the boundaries of life improvement DIY.

Course content

8 sections • 74 lectures • 57m total length

Introduction1:16
Introducing the core concept of The Life Garage and access to the core printable materials.
Content1:38
Like car DIY, but for life.
Introducing wellbeing DIY - My story1:21
Learning to live life well.
Tools and working facilities for life1:00
Developing your toolkit and garage space.
Workshop safety0:46
Self-help boundaries and the importance of others.
Planned maintenance0:49
Setting a personal maintenance schedule.
Section quiz

Section introduction and learning objectives0:21
Introducing the core concept, key tools and learning objectives.
Core skill1:24
An overview of the core concept for this section.
Core skill - Introduction0:18
Introducing positive acceptance.
Core skill - Theory0:09
Defining personal responsibility.
Core skill - Why is it important?0:21
The importance of seeing what we can change.
Core skill - How do we build our life mechanic skills?0:14
The importance of practice.
Exploration: Exercise 1 - Using our strengths0:23
Discovering our strengths.
Exploration: Exercise 2 - Where are the boundaries of your influence?0:12
Focusing on the influence you have.
Tools 1: The SELF coaching model1:41
Introducing the SELF coaching model
Tools 1: The SELF coaching model explained1:00
Exploring the SELF coaching model
Tools 2: Control and its limitations1:37
Introducing the concept of control and its limitations
Tools 2: Control and its limitations explained1:11
Exploring the concept of control and its limitations
Section quiz

Section introduction and learning objectives0:19
Introducing the core concept, key tools and learning objectives.
Core skill2:06
An overview of the core concept for this section.
Core skill - Introduction0:24
Introducing the importance of individuality
Core skill - Theory0:25
Understanding how we need to be attentive and intentional to become ourselves.
Core skill - Why is it important?0:16
The importance of growing as ourselves.
Core skill - How do we learn to flourish?0:07
Introducing our two key tools to refocus.
Exploration: Exercise 1 - Learning to pay attention0:23
Exploring how focus changes experience.
Exploration: Exercise 2 - Setting our intentions0:14
Looking for opportunities to practice the characteristics you desire.
Tools 1: Practical mindfulness2:10
Introducing the concept of practical mindfulness
Tools 1: Practical mindfulness explained1:00
Exploring the mindfulness concept.
Tools 2: The individuality of happiness2:10
Introducing the tool of knowing our own happy places
Tools 2: The individuality of happiness explained1:15
Exploring the idea of the 'good life'.
Section quiz

Section introduction and learning objectives0:18
Introducing the core concept, key tools and learning objectives.
Core skill1:58
An overview of the core concept for this section.
Core skill - Introduction0:13
Introducing the importance of relationships.
Core skills - Theory0:20
Contrasting interdependence with co-dependence.
Core skills - Why is it important?0:18
Exploring the importance of our relationships for contextualising us.
Core skills - How do we achieve interdependence?0:11
Identifying the skills needed for interdependence.
Exploration: Exercise 1 - The dependent-independent spectrum0:18
Exploring the dependent-independent spectrum.
Exploration: Exercise 2 - The impact of co-dependency and interdependency0:04
Exploring the challenges and benefits of becoming more co-dependent and interdependent.
Tools 1: Assertiveness1:37
Introducing the tool of assertiveness
Tools 1: Assertiveness explained0:35
Exploring the tool of assertiveness
Tools 2: Setting boundaries1:42
Introducing the importance of personal boundaries
Tools 2: Setting boundaries explained1:01
Exploring the tool of setting boundaries
Section quiz

Section introduction and learning objectives0:22
Introducing the core concept, key tools and learning objectives.
Core skill1:50
An overview of the core concept for this section.
Core skill - Introduction0:22
Introducing the idea of habits.
Core skill - The usefulness of habits0:21
Considering the benefits of habits
Core skill - Changing habits0:22
How do we change habits?
Exploration: Exercise 1 - Identifying our habits0:04
Habit audit
Exploration: Exercise 2 - Renewing our habits0:03
Identifying habits to develop
Tools 1: Understanding the behaviour chain1:55
Introducing the behaviour chain
Tools 1: The behaviour chain explained0:44
Exploring the behaviour chain
Tools 2: Designing healthy habits1:35
Introducing the idea of designing healthy habits
Tools 2: Designing healthy habits explained0:44
Exploring how to design healthy habits
Section quiz

Section introduction and learning objectives0:17
Introducing the core concept, key tools and learning objectives.
Core skill1:51
An overview of the core concept for this section.
Core skill - Introduction0:32
Introducing the concept of practical hope.
An example – Living with a terminal illness0:24
An example of the practical nature of hope.
Characteristics of hope0:07
What does hope look like?
Exploration: Exercise 1 - Identifying your natural gravitation0:03
Identifying your optimism / pessimism levels
Exploration: Exercise 2 - Gains and losses0:09
What do we have to gain and loose through optimism and pessimism?
Tools 1: The Change-Influence-Accept (CIA) model0:54
Introducing the change-influence-accept model
Tools 1: The Change-Influence-Accept (CIA) model explained0:15
Explaining the CIA model
Tools 2: Learning to look after ourselves1:09
Introducing self-care
Tool 2: Learning to look after ourselves continued0:11
Planning self-care
Section quiz

Section introduction and learning objectives0:20
Introducing the core concept, key tools and learning objectives.
Core skill1:54
An overview of the core concept for this section.
Core skill - Introduction0:42
Introducing the rule for life
Exploration: Exercise 1 - Identifying your current patterns0:09
Current patterns audit
Exploration: Exercise 2 - Reinforcing your current patterns0:14
Reinforcing patterns
Tools 1: Creating a rule for life1:43
Introducing the rule for life
Tools 1: A rule for life explained0:50
Exploring the rule for life
Tools 2: Finding fuel for the journey1:28
Introducing maintenance for our life journey
Tools 2: Finding fuel for the journey explained0:30
Exploring finding fuel for the journey
Section quiz

Requirements

No prior experience required, just an open mind and a willingness to work on change. You will explore everything you need to know.

Description

The Life Garage is based on the concept that people service their cars as a regular activity regardless of how well they are working, so why not their life?

Comprising six central concepts, theoretically grounded in psycho-social theory and positive psychology, but presented in a non-technical practical way, The Life Garage will provide you with an opportunity to develop the tools you need to become your own life mechanic and help tune up your life.

The simple idea at the heart of The Life Garage is that most people who own a car think nothing of signing up to a regular package of maintenance and servicing, but that few of us do the same thing for our own lives. For a car to run well, and not breakdown, having a planned and regular servicing and maintenance schedule are critical.

The Life Garage takes this concept and translates it into the world of everyday living. Well-being doesn’t need to be for people who have broken down (struggling with life). It also doesn’t need to be just for those who like meditating, yoga, and vegan food (although there is nothing wrong with those things). Because the word well-being can have some of these associations for people, and therefore put some people off, at The Life Garage we prefer to talk about living life well. The Life Garage is designed to take some of the best psycho-social principles for living life well and make them relevant for all.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who is interested in living life well and likes the idea of developing a service pack and tool box for life maintenance and improvement as they might in relation to maintaining a car.

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Course content

Introducing the Life Garage6 lectures • 7min

Becoming your own life mechanic12 lectures • 9min

The flourishing self12 lectures • 11min

Relational living12 lectures • 9min

Changing habits11 lectures • 8min

Practical hopefulness11 lectures • 6min

Growth for life9 lectures • 8min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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