World Economic Forum and LifeLab

World Economic Forum and LifeLab

At LifeLab, we are aware that the children of today will shape the world of tomorrow, hence our motto “Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World”. We teach children to think for themselves by enriching their life skills at problem solving, whatever the nature of the problem....
LifeLab©: Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World

LifeLab©: Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World

LifeLab©, an outstanding in-school program, teaches youth to listen to self and others, taking responsibility for their actions, learning critical and creative thinking, social and emotional capabilities. The program develops essential self-management skills. It helps...
Growing turtles

Growing turtles

As our students finished Term 3, we asked them to think back to the start of the year. One of our first lessons had them building a little turtle with their LifeLab© LEGO® kit by following the instructions that we had given to them. 7 months later, the students are...
Empathy Busy Bees

Empathy Busy Bees

Angela Pezzano and I have been keeping busy in the LifeLab©, developing and delivering this program to Primary School aged children. It aims to build skills of resilience in children, help them to find strategies to solve the problems they have in their daily lives,...
When we hear voices…

When we hear voices…

When we are parenting our children or educating our students, we greatly influence their development, sometimes consciously, sometimes involuntarily. We take on the role of people who know and think we know what to do with the methodology whereas if we put these...
Screen freeze on empathy

Screen freeze on empathy

‘Glitches’ didn’t always exist in our vocabulary.  As we’ve been working and learning remotely much more recently due to COVID-19, we’ve experienced these on our screens and seen our faces in frozen poses we’d rather forget. Do we perhaps notice the glitches with...