Personal Development for Destitute Teens
The non-profit arm of holistic wellness brand Healing Earth, the Healing Earth Foundation has completed its 10-week Heal Your Life® personal development program with the teenagers at Vision Child & Youth Care Centre in Lansdowne.
Heal Your Life® workshops and seminars are based on the principles of the book, You Can Heal Your Life®, by Louise L. Hay and have been attended by many thousands of people worldwide. Healing Earth Foundation Director Lara Potgieter is a certified Heal Your Life® workshop facilitator (trained through Heal Your Life® International).
The basic Heal Your Life® philosophy is:
• What we think about ourselves becomes true for us
• Everyone is responsible for everything in their lives — the best and the worst
• Every thought we think is creating our future
• Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings
• The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences
• We can change the thoughts we think
The Healing Earth Foundation team spent its time at Vision Child & Youth Care Centre emphasizing that the workshops were all about the importance of each of the participants as individuals – the way they are, the key influences and events in their lives that have brought them to where they are now, and the way they would like their lives to be.
Vision Child and Youth Care Centre is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the aid of children who have been orphaned, abused, abandoned or left destitute. The aim of the centre is to provide these children with a safe and stable environment, along with giving them the tools they need to succeed.
Established in 1991, Vision Child and Youth Care Centre currently accommodates 50 residents between the ages of one and 23 years old.
The ultimate aim of the centre is to help heal the hurts and abuse of the youths’ past and establish their self-confidence in order to prepare them for re-entry into the community. The Healing Earth Foundation’s Heal Your Life program was thus a perfect fit.
Now that the Healing Earth team has completed the personal development program with the residents, they are conducting Yoga4Kids® classes with the younger residents. They are continuing their Heal Your Life® work at Holy Cross Child & Youth Care Centre, IHATA Shelter for Abused Women & Children, and Young in Prison South Africa.
For more information on the Healing Earth Foundation, visit http://www.healingearth.co.za/healing-earth-foundation/