Remodelling Desire2Win Mindset Transformation (MT)

21 Aug

Desire2Win Mindset Transformation (MT) is renewing the model and content to become more interactive, intentional and intuitive in exploring the components needed to provide an impactful emotional health and well-being workshop.

Desire2Win's youth transformation will now have five themes connecting the emotional health components to frequent issues that impact young people's lives daily. It will incorporate spiritual enrichment not for religiosity but to build character, overcome limiting beliefs, challenge moral values and principles, and improve the quality of life.

What is Emotional Health?

Emotional health involves how you think and feel about your sense of wellbeing and your ability to cope with life events. A healthy emotional disposition also considers how you behave and respond to situations and relationships. Much of emotional ill-health stems from the entrapment of past events that resurface in your conscious mind, making them appear present.

Why is emotional health so important? Because it governs your thinking, which is the mechanical drive of everything you do.

What are some of the characteristics supporting good emotional health?

Having good self-esteem, self-worth and confidence
Ability to build resilience
Helping others
Being able to cope with change.
Personal development and reaching your full potential
Being able to talk to someone about your feelings.
Saying no without feeling guilty
Being aware of what positive relationships look like
Feeling contentment in your own space
Being aware and able to decode negative emotions.
Cultivating healthy habits
Recognising your strengths and weaknesses
Recognise when your thoughts are feeding your emotions
A few challenges that make a healthy emotional state difficult to reach

Not having the ability to:

Express the way you feel.
Know when to ask for support.
Understand why you have sleepless nights.
Understand why you feel anxious or distressed.
End unhealthy friendships.
Say no.
Communicate effectively.
Recognise negative thought patterns and the lies you tell yourself
Stop repeating poor patterns of behaviour
Deconstruct the false stories buried in the subconscious mind

Emotional health is sometimes confused with mental health. The question is, is there a difference?

'... mental health is associated with a person's overall wellbeing.' This involves logical decision-making, organising and using your memory, and having the ability to reason. Having a mental ill health condition can also cause someone to display irrational behaviour.

Emotional ill health is living within your thoughts and being unable to separate your thinking from your reality. Remembering a burdensome event or a past traumatic experience, grief, and disappointment can trigger you to become emotionally unstable, which can lead to outbursts of anger, sadness and withdrawal that can then lead to isolation.

Emotional health allows you to manage your mood, feelings, thoughts, and behaviour, putting you in control of your daily lives.

Both mental and emotional ill health are interchangeable and will profoundly impact a person's overall wellbeing.

What are ways you can manage your emotional health?

Before you access resources, you need to know the difference between emotional health and mental health and identify the cause or the triggers you may be experiencing so you get the appropriate help to manage yourself. However, where your emotional health is not a huge issue, there are ways you can support yourself holistically.

Here are a few things you can do:

Focus on Positivity
Connect yourself to a community that will build you up
Make sleep a priority
Take regular exercises (remember baby steps can create quantum leaps)
Be grateful even for the small things
Set boundaries for yourself and others around you
Prioritise your time so you can manage your responsibilities
Treat and pamper yourself, visit a spa centre or take a relaxing bath
Take up an interest that you desire and stick to it

Desire2Win (MT) themes include all the positive elements of Emotional Health and Wellbeing.

The Development and remodelling of the Desire2Win MT Initiative

Returning home to the UK in 2022 and finding an overwhelming number of children and young people derailed and in a desperate state of mental ill health was heart-wrenching, and the mental labelling was insurmountable. Mental health issues escalated post-pandemic [COVID-19].

It became clear that the Desire2Win MT content needed updating to provide a well-informed emotional health and wellbeing program.

We needed to study and work with vulnerable children to ensure that we understood the current issues, concerns and desires and were inclusive.

Changes and inclusions to Desire2Win MT Initiative

We intend to provide more interactive training, allowing participants to explore their thoughts and feelings to focus on managing poor patterns of behaviour that produce emotional pain. Desire2Win MT will provide a therapeutically led environment to support participants where mental labels have eroded their confidence and emotional stability.

Mindset transformation for advancement allows participants the space and opportunity to recognise the limiting beliefs that prevent them from becoming the best version of themselves.

Being inclusive is central to Desire2Win MT. We are keen to include any group, individuals, and community-based assemblies capable of completing 7-week focused training. The themes act as scenarios, allowing young people to explore and connect with everyday situations and openly express their emotions for maximum impact. Our constructive parenting theme is designed to improve parent-child relationships.

We are open to discussing specific locations and groups with funding bodies and collaborating with organisations that can benefit from our service as an additional part of their enterprise.

Henry Ford's quote, 'What the mind conceives and believes the mind will achieve,' emphasises that when you believe, you can achieve. However, being inclusive from Desire2Win MT's standpoint means allowing those who may not believe but are willing to take risks for their emotional health and well-being. One of Desire2Win MT's ethos is led by Truth, and the key to this element is to reframe and reset, turning negatives into positives.

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