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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 Self-Confidence and Personal Goals section features projects that explored the importance of self-confidence and goal-setting for maintaining mental health.
The Self-Confidence and Personal Goals section features projects that explored the importance of self-confidence and goal-setting for maintaining mental health.
Rabiaa Barboucha, Rosemary Atieno, and Samantha Zehner
Rabiaa Barboucha, Rosemary Atieno, and Samantha Zehner
The topic of our final project is maintaining mental resilience and personal growth through setting personal goals and boosting self-confidence. The strategy involved in this topic is by learning how to set attainable and appropriate goals but are still challenging and promote growth and confidence in your life. The key to this technique is self-honesty and balance. A tool to help set these goals and be successful is by following the word SMART which we went over during the program and journaling our hopes and goals.
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Sofia Khedidja Chelali, Sarah Radwan, Yostina Khalf, and Sierra Fox
Sofia Khedidja Chelali, Sarah Radwan, Yostina Khalf, and Sierra Fox
The topic of our project is self-confidence. An effective strategy that can be used to promote confidence is self-care. Due to the various factors that contribute to self-esteem, it is important to promote physical and mental care. A self-care routine is shown in improving your view about yourself. Reading is important and it opens our eyes to a lot of things. You can read books that improve your image about yourself and books that give you many options you can choose from to continue a successful life.
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Salma Shawky,
Nour Mustafa,
and Aya Lazaar
Salma Shawky,
Nour Mustafa,
and Aya Lazaar
Self-confidence is one of the most important qualities that a person should acquire to reach whatever he wants in life. Therefore everyone needs to focus on believing that he is capable of achieving his goals before moving to the next step which is working hard in order to make it happen. Our final project is mainly about how to boost your self-confidence by self-care, journaling, and defining your own goals.
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Asmaa Abo-Fatma, Raghd Elsayed, Sajida Rida, and MaryRose Wainaina
Asmaa Abo-Fatma, Raghd Elsayed, Sajida Rida, and MaryRose Wainaina
Research has found that participation in voluntary services is significantly predictive of better mental and physical health according to an article published in BMC Public Health journal. Because volunteering is an idea that is worth spreading, we are going to raise awareness of it on social media platforms and share the volunteering opportunities with our communities so that we can benefit as many people as we could.
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Dina Medhat, Fatma Al-Sawaf, Hana Yasser, and
Annabella Ritter-Pleitez
Dina Medhat, Fatma Al-Sawaf, Hana Yasser, and
Annabella Ritter-Pleitez
A lack of self-confidence is a big barrier to reaching personal goals. Without a sense of security and trust in themselves, young women doubt themselves. The stereotypes of women often contribute to this lack of confidence, as well as family life, cultural and religious beliefs, and school. And without self-confidence, no one will be able to reach their personal goal. Thus, our team has decided to use the strategy of writing and friendship to help combat these issues.
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Nourhan Atres (Nora Fahmy) and Dina Ashour
Nourhan Atres (Nora Fahmy) and Dina Ashour
Self-confidence is a positive attitude about one's skills and abilities. It implies that you accept and trust yourself and that you have a sense of control over your life. You are aware of your strengths and weaknesses and have a favorable self-image. You can set reasonable objectives and goals, speak assertively, and manage criticism.
Low self-confidence, on the other end, may cause you to question yourself, be passive or submissive, or have trouble trusting others. You may feel inferior, neglected, or easily offended. Depending on the circumstances, you may or may not feel confident in yourself. For example, you may be quite confident in some areas, such as academics, while lacking confidence in others, such as relationships.
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Zeinab Mohammed Awadallah, Shourouk Mohamed Abd El-lah, Shahd Nooh, Omnia Ali, and Rana Kabardy
Zeinab Mohammed Awadallah, Shourouk Mohamed Abd El-lah, Shahd Nooh, Omnia Ali, and Rana Kabardy
Many people with low self-esteem have a hard time celebrating themselves because they don’t focus on their achievement but focus on everything they did wrong while working on it. You may also compare your work with others and their fields which can bread feelings of inadequacy even if you are talented and ambitious and you know that but still lack the confidence to realize your goals.
The solution is to learn to celebrate yourself.
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Malak Ahmed Saad, Rewan Elbebawy, Ryan Yutan, and Sophia Hernandez
Malak Ahmed Saad, Rewan Elbebawy, Ryan Yutan, and Sophia Hernandez
The topic of our project is self-confidence and setting personal goals. Self-confidence has to do with being able to trust yourself in the things you do, trusting your thoughts and actions. Personal goals have to do with setting certain expectations we have for ourselves and trying our best to reach them.
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Tasneem Hessian, Walaa Saber, Yara Ahmed Mohamed, and Hager Hasan
Tasneem Hessian, Walaa Saber, Yara Ahmed Mohamed, and Hager Hasan
The strategy is to stop comparing yourself to others and set your personal goals . comparing yourself to others is the major cause of failure and depression. Our strategy will help in maintaining a productive healthy well being.
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Afaf Kamel, Nourhan (Mazin) Ahmed Samy, and Naima Rahman
Afaf Kamel, Nourhan (Mazin) Ahmed Samy, and Naima Rahman
When you learn from your mistakes, you build more and more information layers to help you in the future. Every time you fail, you can learn and try again. This not only builds our mental resilience but our emotional resilience too.
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Alae Labhal and
Ilinca Drondoe
Alae Labhal and
Ilinca Drondoe
Knowing your Worth is a step forward when talking about emotional intelligence. Feeling loved and useful around people helps in confronting hard situations, bullying, failure, judgments. Just because when you know your purpose, you realize that your failure/situation is a part of the whole humanitarian experience and you're not abnormal. Thus you don't blame, hurt or disqualify yourself.
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Carol Gamil, Habiba Imad, Natasha Alnawaiseh, and
Mariam Saber
Carol Gamil, Habiba Imad, Natasha Alnawaiseh, and
Mariam Saber
The strategy that we prefer to use is to write down our goals and surround ourselves with positive people that can affect our choices and motivations, like trusted adults or supportive friends, so that they will encourage us to achieve our goals, give us advice and motivate us. You can apply this strategy by choosing your trusted community wisely, like friends or classmates.
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Esraa Khalifa
Esraa Khalifa
Self confidence and personal goals:
Start with the small tasks that you were avoiding and make a to-do list of everything you want to do during the day. For example: cleaning the house, calling a friend you haven't spoken to in a long time, etc. You will love it more than before.
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Afaf Ouardi, Banen Emad, Haneen Majeed
Afaf Ouardi, Banen Emad, Haneen Majeed
Our strategy is “Reflecting on our Accomplishments”. We’re moving so fast through our lives that it’s easier than ever to miss out on some of our smaller but still significant successes. We’re often so busy that we don’t give a second of our time to think about how far we’ve come. But remembering our successful memories, thinking about our accomplishments, no matter how small/big they are, and being proud of them no matter what we had achieved in a day (even if it was washing the dishes) helps strengthen our self-confidence.
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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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