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we're delighted to share our participants' final projects, where they share a mental resilience strategy they learned during the exchange. The final project for MERGE is a collaborative effort to build a mental health resilience strategies website that participants can share with members of their communities. Each team built an entry introducing a stress-relief technique or strategy through text, images, audio, or videos to explain their technique.
we're delighted to share our participants' final projects, where they share a mental resilience strategy they learned during the exchange. The final project for MERGE is a collaborative effort to build a mental health resilience strategies website that participants can share with members of their communities. Each team built an entry introducing a stress-relief technique or strategy through text, images, audio, or videos to explain their technique.
The resilience through network section features projects that covered topics including mental resilience, the role of friendship support networks, and role models.
The resilience through network section features projects that covered topics including mental resilience, the role of friendship support networks, and role models.
Hana Essam
Hana Essam
The final project is about the strategy of meditating and how to apply this strategy on our communities. Meditation is taken into account as a kind of mind-body medicine. Meditation can produce a deep state of relaxation and a tranquil mind. Meditation can allow the brain to decrease attention to unwanted responses of irrelevant environmental stimuli and reduce the Stroop effect.
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Raniya Fenniri
Raniya Fenniri
The strategy that I suggest to help build emotional resilience is gratitude journaling. It is basically a journal where you reflect on things that you are grateful for on a regular basis, so I try to keep that habit every night in order to focus more on the positive aspects of my life. Getting my thoughts on paper helps me focus on what is happening right now, and build up resilience against negative situations.
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Laila Sayed,
Callie LaValle, and Aditi Mungale
Laila Sayed,
Callie LaValle, and Aditi Mungale
Emotional resilience is the ability to emotionally cope with a crisis. Often times, young girls are not taught how to deal with a crisis or stressor in their life which causes them to struggle with emotional resilience. There are many important coping methods to build emotional resilience such as meditation, journaling, mindfulness exercises, reconditioning our thinking patterns, etc.
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Hoda Magdy and
Rawan Abdelaziz
Hoda Magdy and
Rawan Abdelaziz
In recent years, scientists have begun to develop “mental exercises” to improve brain function and hopefully stave off the decline in mental capacity that we often associate with aging. These exercises are of special interest to millions of people approaching old age, for whom developing memory problems, particularly dementia, is of great concern.
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Eva Anderson,
Navya Dronamraju,
and Nhi Nguyen
Eva Anderson,
Navya Dronamraju,
and Nhi Nguyen
The strategy we’ve chosen is decatastrophizing and meditation/self-reflection, which includes releasing your emotions, journaling, or talking about emotions in another way. This strategy can be applied whenever feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or simply in need of a break to feel and let it out. This strategy is very important to apply in order to not be dragged down by emotional weight and carry it with you.
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Nafahat Al Gourshi, Rihabe El Houmili, and Ariana Perez
Nafahat Al Gourshi, Rihabe El Houmili, and Ariana Perez
Exercise of Positive Affirmations for women in front of a mirror focusing on body positivity to say three things you like about your body, personality, and attitude on a daily routine when you wake up in the morning. Affirmations are positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. When you repeat them often and believe in them, you can start to make positive changes. Self-affirmation may also help to mitigate the effects of stress.
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Selen Qarajeh and
Ikram Atchany
Selen Qarajeh and
Ikram Atchany
Resilience is a combination of inner strengths and external support. Research shows that our brains are wired to connect and mirror the behavior of others, so by taking advantage of our brain’s basic drive we can use the stories of role models to develop and maintain mental resilience as storytelling evokes a strong neurological response
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Menna Allah Hussin and Raneem El Saidy
Menna Allah Hussin and Raneem El Saidy
Everyone needs a friend or someone to talk to or be the shoulder they lay on, but not everyone has the ability to make those friends so they tend to keep those problems and challenges they face in their own minds tell they reach a bad end with depression and anxiety so by this way and using those strategies we could guarantee that everybody even if he was shy or not will be able to express himself clearly and solve the problem he faces with the use of modern technology.
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Sagda Kamel and
Afnan Ammar
Sagda Kamel and
Afnan Ammar
We believe that the best of friends is yourself. When we are able to love, respect, and understand ourselves, we will also be with our friends. We hope that this strategy will be published because it contains the most important axes that lead to good mental health
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Basma Yahia and Shahd Tamer
Basma Yahia and Shahd Tamer
In our point of view, one of the strategies that can be used, and on which developing friendships depends to a very high degree, is accepting other people's differences. Culture, religion, and language are different because, really, this is a fundamental pillar of friendship and relationship building.
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Reka Suranyi
Reka Suranyi
My final project is about healthy friendships and making sure your relationships are healthy for you. Throughout MERGE we learned about mental health strategies, female empowerment, and coping mechanisms. The one topic that really stuck out to me was building friendships and making sure the friendships you were building were healthy. We learned ways to identify a strong friendship and make sure it is healthy for you.
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The MENA-USA Empowering Resilient Girls Exchange (MERGE), implemented by Global Ties U.S., is supported by the Stevens Initiative, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by the Aspen Institute. The Stevens Initiative is also supported by the Bezos Family Foundation and the governments of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.
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