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Photo Credit: From Usbin Women Initiative

An Ongoing Empowerment framework for secondary school girls in Kwara State

There are two reasons we don’t have what you want in our lives

1. We don’t know what we want

2. We don’t have the tools to manifest it.

We need to discover these four things:

1. Awareness: - Where am I now?

2. Vision: - Where do you want to go?

3. Transformation: - What do you need to change to get there?

4. Growth: - What is my next grow

What we need is to:

1. Shift from pathology to vision

2) Shift from static to organic growth (growing edge)

3) Integration to self awareness & behavioral change/desired outcomes

SHIFT FROM PATHOLOGY TO VISION

Shift from pathology to vision is just like seed to weed where seed is the outcome and weeds are the obstacle

It's like shifting from problems to solution

from impossible to possibilities

from obstacles to outcome

from old beliefs to new beliefs etc

When you shift from what is not working for you, you will definitely achieve your dream

- Where you place your attention is where growth happens

To see the growing edge of a seed you have to watering the seed & clear the weeds

you have to focus on your vision, when you focus on the vision, your solutions are defined by your imagination which is (possibilities). You have to work with challenges in a visionary way.

- Have vision, focus on it, use the vision to pull you forward

- Pathology is what is not working for you, it's like be in a stagnant mood, i.e not moving

SHIFT FROM STATIC TO ORGANIC GROWTH (GROWING EDGE)

Static is like a stagnant point while organic growth is like seeing yourself growing or reaching a point. Anything that is growing has a growing edge where the new growth is occurring. Let's transform it into natural worlds to lives as human beings. To be fully alive we need to focus our attention on the growing edge in our life.

- Growing edge:- When you see your growing edge what do you think is your becoming.

- First question that come to your mind is

• Where am I now? Your present situation

• Where do I want to go? thinking that there is no hope for you

• What do I need to change to get there?

• What is my next growth step?

If you have being empowered maybe by some agent giving you training on several skills like vocational skills or any hand works & you are using that skills to build yourself, or you study hard to achieve your dream you will be able to face your challenges, you are no more waiting for somebody to feed you or taking care of you then you can survive on your own.

- You have reached your next growth & can continue with your life without any challenges. So, in growing edge, you must keep growing, the moment you are taking one step after the other, then you should be at peace

Even in harvesting, we don’t harvest at the same time, so that is life, the most important thing is that you must keep growing.

- So seeds are your hand work while you have to focus on it

- Weeds are challenges & Obstacles that comes to your way

- You must shift, don’t dwell with what is not working for you.

INTEGRATION OF SELF AWARENESS AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE/ DESIRED

Self-awareness is just like self-discovery, ability to recognize and understand one’s own thoughts, feelings, behaviors and overall identity. Be conscious of yourself, strength, weakness, values, belief etc.

Mental Clearing

Identify those old beliefs, replacement new beliefs

1. Where do you want to be?

2. Who do you want to be?

3. What do you need to change to achieve your aims?

Principal of Vision

1. You have old belief, I am useless

2. New belief, I am strong.

3. I am successful, I have all it takes to do it.

- Know what you want and look for it

- Be specific, clear those limiting beliefs and replace with new beliefs

Principles of Manifested

- Clarity Intents: - Clearly define what you want to manifest

- Be specific and detailed about your goals desire, and intention.

- Creative thoughts, positive mindset cultivates optimistic thoughts and beliefs

- What you belief is what you create

By having all these you are there already!


An empowerment framework from Usbin Women Initiative

  • Girl Power
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Human Rights
  • Education
  • Leadership
  • Youth
  • Global
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