BREAKING
BELIEFS
creates safe spaces for young people to allow their vulnerability and step into their power.
Our vision and mission
The vision of Breaking Beliefs is to build a South Africa full of resilient, responsive young people who inspire and support their communities.
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We do this by creating safe spaces where young people are supported through deep listening and gentle enquiry to be open and vulnerable and cultivate their aliveness, creativity and strength.
Why Breaking Beliefs?
South Africa needs resilient, responsive young people who inspire and support their communities; creative agile young entrepreneurs who fire up the economy; courageous connected young people who protect and preserve our life-giving environments.
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But, for many young people, South Africa is an unequal and hostile landscape of shifting obstacles and challenges. Challenges that choke their vibrance and aliveness:
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Spiralling youth unemployment. Poverty. Crime. Gender violence. Anger. Depression. Anxiety. Hopelessness.
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There is very little psychosocial support for the young people who desperately need it to overcome these challenges and tap into their full and very rich potential.
What is
Breaking Beliefs?
Over the past 6 years we have refined an intervention that is agile, resilient, sustainable and scalable. Our offering includes one-on-one coaching, self-development workshops and online courses. We train community coaches and facilitators to spread our way of working to where it is most needed.
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The Breaking Beliefs intervention works at the deepest level, the level of consciousness and mindset, to bring about meaningful and lasting change.
Equipped with tools to actively shape and build their futures, participants learn to:
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identify and break down limiting beliefs and associated behaviours that keep them stuck
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communicate and connect deeply with others
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contact inner strength and self-worth
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creatively solve problems
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boldly take responsibility for their own lives
The Breaking Beliefs approach explores:
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the negative influence of the inner critic
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resultant loss of personal power
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feelings of worthlessness and anxiety
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fear of candid communication
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inability to focus on the present
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underdeveloped emotional intelligence
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lack of mindfulness
How do we work?
Our methodology offers an innovative solution to the limiting mindset that pervades South African society, especially evident in our young people. It is particularly focused on school leavers and unemployed youth trying to find their first step on the ladder towards a successful career. Since it is our youth who will be responsible for driving the change towards a more equitable and economically sustainable South Africa, it seems logical that the focus around mindset should start with them. Young people respond incredibly well to this work since their minds and belief systems are more open to change. They have a greater interest in investigating who they are and learning about themselves. This view is supported by much of the current work on the neuroscience of beliefs.
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Our coaching and workshops create safe spaces of deep listening and gentle enquiry where vulnerability and openness is welcomed. Participants are introduced to meditation, heartfelt communication and other mindfulness-based techniques designed to cultivate aliveness, creativity and resilience.
Who we are. Meet our board members.
Robyn Humphries
Maphiri Malebe
Lisa Garson
Please donate
We have been running this project as a group of volunteer coaches and trainers offering community workshops and individual coaching over the past 4 years. We are now a registered non-profit company awaiting PBO status which will enable us to attract the seed funding we need to expand our offering to many more young people.
Please support us by donating so that we can spread this initiative as widely as possible. South African youth are currently facing an unemployment rate of close to 70% - one of the highest in the world. Your donation will help these young people to connect to their worth and their power. Anything will help.
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A whole-hearted thank you from the Breaking Beliefs Team!
